I s 0 I ! Y-A li M THE BLESSINGS OF GOVERNMENT, LIKE THE DEWS 0? HEAVEN, SHOULD EE DISTRIBUTED ALIKE UPON THE HIGH AND THE LOW, THE RICH AND THE POOR. 4 JfETF SERIES. EBENSBU11G, SEPTEMBER 7,' 1854.- VOt. I. NO. 50. TBRM8: THE DEMOCRAT & SENTINEL, is publish ed every Thursd:iy morning, in Ebcnsburg, 'Cambria. Co., Pa;, at $1 50 per annum, if paid in advance, it not $2 will be charged. ADVERTISEMENTS will be conspicuously in serted at the following rates, viz : 1 square 3 insertions, $1 00 Every subsequent insertion, 25 1 square S months, $ 00 i " 6 r, 00 " " 1 year, 12 00 " col'n 1 vcar, 25 00 1; " " " " ' 50 00 Business Cards with one copy of the Demockat & Sentinel, per year, 5 09 grlrrt -JJorfri. THE AMERICAN FLAG. BY J. B. DRAKE. When freedom from her mountain height, Unfurled her standard in the air, She tore the azure roles of night. And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dies The milky baldric of the skies, And stripped its pure celestial white, With streakings of the morning light; Then, from his mansion in the sun, Mho called her eagle bearer down. And gave into his mighty hand, "l'be sj lubol of her chosen land. I.jestic monarch of the cloud, ' Who rears aloft thy regal form, To hear the tempest trumping loud, And see the lightning lances driven. When strive the warrior of the storm. And nils the thunder-drum of Heaven. Child of the Sun ! to thee 'tis given To guard the banner of the free ; To hover in the sulpher smoke, To ward away the battle-.stroke ; And bid its Llendings shine afar, Like rainbows on the cloud of war, The harbingers of victory ! Flag of the 1 rave I thy folds shall fly, The sign of hope and triura h high .When speaks the signal trumpet tone, And the long line comes gleaming en.- Ere yet the life-blood, warm, and wet, lias dimmed the glistening bayonet, Each soldier's eye shall brightly turn To where thy sky-born glories bum ; "And as his springing steps advarce." Catch war and vengeance from the gh nee. And. whtn the canuon-mouthiugs 1 iiid leave in wild wreaths the battle shroud, . ii l'gt'sry r-aeres rise mid fa'I, Like shoots .if dame ou midnight's psdl, ,Theu hhall Ihy meteor gianees gl nv, . Then cowcrnigTocs slia:i fall beneath Each grlrnt nu that strikes below, That lively messenger of death. .Flag of the sea ! on ocean's wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the bravo. When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round each bel'ied sail, And frighte ne-d waves rush wd.dy back, Before the breiadside's reeling rak, T!ach dying wanderer of the s-a IShall look at once to Heaven and thee; And sniile to se-c thy sp!eud l fly, In triumph o'er Lis closing eye. .Ylzz f the free heart's, hapeand heme ! i'.y angel hauLs to Vale given ! Thy" starsLave I t ti e wekin dome. And all t! v hr.es were b r : in Heaven. Forever float that standard shu t! W1itc bnatl.V the f. that Wis lcf.re u. With Freedom's so;! lx-neath our f et. An 1 Freedom's banner streaming o'er us? 3tii5ffllanifOU0. The Rattles of the Nile and Trafalgar. LV ALVHOXsT. I)K LA MARTIN E. Bonaparte embarking at Toulon an expe ditionary fere-c, on board the most f nuidaLle fleet that had navigated the Moe'itrrranean since the Ousades, left the English ministers in doubt a. to the object he Lul i i iev. Did lie propose to pass the straits and attack Groi.t Britain in one of her European islands, or in the Indies? Was it his intent ion to seize Constantinople, aud from theme to dictate to Kussia and to Austria, and to command the sens rf Europe ? Lord St Vine-cut, the. ad miral in chief command of the naval forces of England on the coasts e.f France, Italy anl Spain dared not abandon the blockade of Ca dis and the French ports ; lie therefore dis patcbeel Nelson, a the bravest and mcst skill ful of his lieutenants, to watch, pursue, and, if possible, destroy the French armament. Nolson, successively reinforced by sixteen tail of the lino, hoisted bis flag in the Vun ijvard, and hastened after the enemy without anv certain indication of their course. After touching at Corsica, already left behind by Bonaparte, and examining the Spanish peas, he returned to Naples on the 10th of Janua ry, 1708, discouraged by a fruitless search, and in want of stores end ammunition. While there, the reports of the English consuls in Si cily apprised him of the conquest of Malta bv the French, with the subsequent departure of the fleet as soon as that island was reduced and directed his thoughts toward Egypt. : The intrigues of Lady Hamilton, animated by her double attachment to the Queen and to Nelson, obtained from the court of Naples, notwithstanding their avowed neutrality, all the supplies necessary for the-English squadron before they resumed their dangerous cruise. In a few days Nelson was ready to put to sea ; be touched at Sardinia, coasted the shores f the Peloponnesus, searched the Levant in its full extent, dispatched small vessels to look into the road of Alexandria, where the French had not yet appeared, traversed the Egyptian ca, sailed along one ride of Candia, while the Republican fleet passed by on the other, came close to Malta, vainly interrogated eve ry ship or boat coming from the Archipelago, learned that there was already an outcry gainst him at home for his dilatoriness or incapacity (accusations which redoubled his anxiety), exclaimed against the w inds, crowded additional sail, braved continual tempests, and finally, on the 1st of August, at early dawn, discovered the naked masts of the French fleet at anchor in the Bay of Abukir, six leagues from Alexandria, and close to the mouth of the Nile. Bonaparte had already disembarked the army and marched across the desert toward Cairo Admiral Brueys commanded the fleet, which consisted of seventeen large men of war, four frigates, and a great number of lighter vessels. Every instant he expected the appearance of the Eng'idi squadron. His superiority in the number of ships and weight of metal, in the equalized quality of bis crews, would, under any other circumstances, have induced him to seek an encounter with Nelson in the open sea, and dispute the sovereignty of the Mediterranean. But naval battles are subject to casualitie.s, which the positive in structions of Bonaparte and the objects of the expedition forbade him to encounter. The French fleet, at once the support and arsenal of the land army, cons'ituted the sole base of their operations The destruction of this fleet deprived them of their only means of communication and hope of sueeor. They hael no other bridge between France and Egypt. To expose the ships, therefore, to be elestroyed in open sea. would be to betray at one blow the army they had transported, and the country that expected their return Bruyes, after fruitless attempts to enter . the inner harbor of Alexandria, w hich was not then supposed deep enough to receive vessels of so much draught of water, determined to moor his fleet in the Bay of Abukir, the sand banks of which he had fortified. Six vessels at anchor, ranged in a concave crescent, ac cording to the sweep of the shore, were sup ported on one flank by the little island of Abukir, a natural fortress armed with c:mon, on the other, by an advanced arm of the bay. They formed so many immovable citadels, presenting their broadsides to the sea. Their combined force might be brought to bear upon each single ship of the advancing ennemy ; unattackable from the land side, according to the conviction of Brueys, this line of defence gave to a naval battle the solid impregnabili ty of a rampart of fire. At two. 1'. M., on the 1st of August, the French Admiral, apprised by signal of the api mrtnee of Nelson in sight of the Egyptian coast, recalled every sailor of bis crew on board. He ordercel two brigs, the Alcrte aud R'lil'.ciir, which elrew little water, to re connoitre the English fleet within cannon shot, then to seek refuge in the bay over the shoals, hoping that the leading vessels of the pur suing enemy would follow their exact course, and run aground in the mouth of the Nile. But Nelson was well aware of these dangers, aud escaped the snare. Without bestowing any attention on the brig, he advanced in order of battle agaii si the head of the French dine, as to direct issault upon the c ntre of a petition. Then varrying a little from bis course, without sounding, hesitating, or firing a shot he passed between, the moorings of Bruyes and the islet of Abukir in full sail, with half his squadron, leaving only the Cul-lvth-n behind, 'which went aground on the sand-banks. As l.i- ships, cleared the pas sage, they anchored successively in rear of their opponents. The remaining half divid ed, ami ranged up on the outer side in front of the French vessels, who were thus attack ed simultaneously en both flanks, and the thunder of a double lire poured int th'ir im movable hulls. The F;en ii fleet tLuidcpriv ed, by the error of tbxir chief, of the protcc tion fiey expected fr;m the land, and with out ti e power of motion by being at anchor, j saw sit once the disaster that awaited them. Nothing remained Lut to pe.ish gloriouslv,- and to envelop in their own destruction. as many of the enemy's ships as possible. They proved themselves w o. thy of their fate. Com mando J still W the brave warrie rs of the lie volution, they raised then selves to the level of ancient he roism, and prcscntetl another S'amis, to which to li ng was vat. ting but the jie.5ince of Then ist elo! Tie Sparttttc the Franhl a, the Oiimt, the Tenant, re spoi.d "d eai the right and left to the double broad.des of the English severe-fours, strewed ths d.-cks of Nelson vith sla'tered masts ai d j-nrcs, with dead and wounded sailors. Victory was less the jrize of naval superiority than the fatal mistake of engaging at anchor The French marine never con quered more gloriously than they now sub mitted. Every single ship became a Ther mopylae for the combatants fought no longer f r victory, but for death On every deck the captains, the officers, the gunners fell suc cessively at their posts, aud left nothing to the English but lifeless bedies and enormous fu neral pile's. Admiral Bruyes , severely wt uaded by an early uircharge of grape-shot remained erect on the poop of his fag-ship, surrounded by the remains of his stall", and invoking death to cover his misfortune. A cannon ball cut bini in two, still with bis dy ing bands he exposed the action of those who would Lave carried him below. "No, iioV he exclaimed ; "a French admiral ought to die upon bi epuarter-e'eck." His flag-captain, the noble Casa-Bianca, fell a moment after on the body of his chief The Orient, de prived of her commander, still fought as if her own accord. Nelson fell, wounded in the head of a splinter, the blocd covered his face and the skin of his forehead falling over his remaining 03, plunged bini in total dark ness, which for a moment he conceived to be the harbor of death. Confident of the victory, but believing hurt to be mortal he summoned the chaplain of the Vunqmird, and charged him to deliver his remembrances to bis family. A moment of terrible and anxious silence pervaded the ship while the surgeon probed the wound. A cry of joy burst from every mouth when they dec lared that it was only superficial, and that the conrjueror would be preserved to his country. Night had fallen for about three hours, but wa- unheeded in the fury of the combat nnd the rotlccted light of the cannonading. The French ships Were fcileueed tne by one, for want of hands to man the guns. They drifted from their cables toward the shore," or foun dered on the rocks. The Orient, in flames above, still fired from her lower decks, ready to be consumed in the impending conflagrat ion, hastened and excited by the freshening of the night breeze. The English ships ceased to respond, and retired to a distance to escape the vortex of the inevitable explosion. Capjtain Dupetit-Thouars. commanding the Tomurnt, never slackened his fire for a mo?nent at sight of this disaster. He no longer fought for glory cr life, but for immortality. One arm carried off by a cannon shot, and both legs broken by grape, he called upon his crew to swear never to strike his flag, and to throw his body over board, that even his remains might not be come captive to the English The Tonnnnt, as well as the Franklin, covered with the bod ies of their officers, became, in a short time, little better than floating corpses. The increasing flames of the Orient served to iignt tne entire oaj7, covered with the. re-: lies of battle. The sailors of this vessel fiunr themselves from the port-holes into the sea, and clung to broken masts and yards in the, hope of floating on shore. They implored their commandant, Casa-Bianca, who was covered with wounds, to allow them to save him. Whether he was unable to move his shattered limbs, or was stoically determined not to sur vive the loss of his shij, Casa-Bianca rejected their entreaties. They wished at least to pre serve his son, a noble 3-outh of twelve years old, who had been induced, by affection for his father, to embark with him. The brave boy embracing the bedy of his parent, resisted their prayers and elforts, aud preferred death in the arms of him who had given him life. The catastrophe, whicli now approached rapidly,eompel!ed the generous sailors tojleave the melancholy group. The Orient blew up at eleven o'clock, with an cxphsion which made the land of Egypt tremble to llosetta, and with a burst of flame that long illuminat ed the surroun ling horizon Her masts, spars rigging, timDors, and cannon, fell down in a storm of fire into the bay, like fragments from heaven, bursting in a counterblow among tlie human combatants The rising sun discov ered nothing in the Bay of Aboukir but the hulls of stianded or burning vessels scattered at the mercy of the heaving swell. The fleet of Nelson himself, dismasted, and almost without sails, could with difficulty move away from the scene of action. Two of his ships, which had sustained little damage, secured the spcils of the night. Several French captains ran their vessels aseore, and burnt thei, to prevent their falling into the hands of the con querors. The French army, from ttat mo ment, became prisoners in the Egypt they had conquered. The subsequent capitulation of of that army may be considered the second victory of Nelson Fortune refused to give all to a single nation To one she assigned the land, to the other sea. This victory of Nel.-cn is admitted by the French historians who witnessed it to have been the most complete that had ever been won at sea nince the invention of gunpowder. I la was indebted for it to his bold attack., and the iu m bdity of the fleet of Brueys. The heroic defense of that fleet at anchor, shows how they would have fought had they been under sail. They were not beaten, but immo lated ? in their sacrifice they bore with them thousands of their enemies, and obtained for the French navy respect equivalent to the glory of victory. Nelson, after returning thanks to the God of battles, otcipied c'ghtjen days in the re pairs of h!s squadron before he was r ady to put to sea. Fast-s:iil'n vessels carried hoaie intelligence of the triumph. Soareclr curod of his wour. !, I.c ivturftivi TO 'Naples to" enjoy his victory in the delirium of love. The royal fim:ly, restored to confidence, received him in the bay as a savour, and conducted him in joyful proeession to the palace Lady Ilamil t n, overpowered by emotion, fainted in the boat, and was carried inanimate to his feet. SKETCH E3gF IUCH KEN. STEPHEX GIRARD. I cannot let this opportunity slip by with out saying something of another mercantile celebrity of the United States, vix : Stephen Girtrd. This man was born in a village near the banks eif the Garonne. He was the son of a peasant, and had left his ow n country as a common sailor. Ilaviug gradually risen to the post of second mate, he came as such to Phi ladelphia, where he remained and opened a tavern on the banks of the Delaware for such of his countrymen as were engaged in the West India trade, particularly that with St. Domingo The revolution in St. Domingo caused an emigration which continually brought him fVesh cut m2rs and having built some'small vessels to bring his fugitive coun trymen away in safety from the island, he bar tered flour and meal for cofi'ee, until his capital, which had been searccly worth mentioning at first, gradually increased, and enabled Mm to build larger vessels, aud extend his spirit of enterprise in all directions. His frugality bor dered on avarice. Sailor's fare was to him the best, and the freighting of vessels his favorite pursuit. The success which attended his exer tions at length became unexampled; for ho ne ver lud his ships insured, but .always choist skilful and experienced captains, thus saving himself the heavy expense of taking out insur rance policies, and continued acting on this principle, gradually increasing his capital more and more, until it had finally swelled to an enormous amount. Illiterate, as a French common sailor must needs be, and scarcely able to write his own name, he called all his ships after the great authors of his native coun try, and thus enjoyed the sensation of behold ing the American fhig waving about a Mon tesquieu, a Voltaire, a Helvetius, aud a Jean Jacques Kousseau. His ships, which he was in the habit-of tending successively to the is- land Mauritius, at that time Iho Tsledc Franej to Calcutta and Canton, nnd each of which cost from forty to sixty thousand dollars, brousht back cargoes worth from one to two lundred thousand dollars to Philadelphia, and thence to Europe, particularly to Messrs. Hope et'Co., at Amsterdam, and were never iusur eid. Remarkable good fortune attended all these enterprises. Until the vear 1815, not One of his ships was ever lost or captured It ;vill be easy to form an idea of the amount of Kapital accumulated by this saving' of iusur iince premiums, when one reflects that the lat ter went as high asTrom ten to fifteen, and "jven twenty per cent. ' Girard's right band man was a countryman t? Lis, liatjed iioberjeot, who. however, had received his mercantile education entirely at ITambursr under the tutelage of Professor Busch. This Iioberjeot was the only man whom he now and then, and only now and then, took ipto his especial confidence, and he worked in the house of Girard for a respectable, yet very moderate salary, during the lapse of twenty jears, frequently something was said about increasing it, but nothing of the sort was ever lone Iioberjeot, w ho had some desire to le taken care of in his old age, resolved to let his atron know that if he elcsired to keep him any onger, he must take that matter iuto serious onsideration, and give him a handsome sum, hat he might put aside and turn to good ac ount. Girard a little nettled by this, replied that he would give bun ten thousand dollars, ut llobertjeot demanded sixty, lie was told to wnt until the next day, when, without hear- tng another word iu relation to the matter, he received what he asked for sixty thousand dollars. i Magnanimous as Girard could be in many things, he was, on the other hand, equally pretty in many others. Of his numerousela lives in France, who were all poor peasant folks, he would never hear a syllable mention ed. When some of them upon one occasion ventured to cross the ocean and visit him in Philadelphia, he immediately sent them away again, with a trifling present. In one particu lar instance he exhibited unusal hard hearted ness. His captains had received the strictest orders not to bring either strange goods, pas sengers or letters back with them. One of his ships was returning from Bordeaux. Through another which had hurried on before it, he learned that it was conveying him some re lations of his as passengers; "he instantly 6cnt to New Castle, on the Delaware, where the ships coming from sea usually touch, an orler j to the captain, forbidding hiln to land any f passengers, but no remain at that point until j another had been procured to take :e them back to Bordeaux, when he might come up to Phi ladelphia with his cargo-Tha captain was then replaced by another person Jiei however, made an exception in favor of two tlleCeS, the orphaned daughters of a brother who had died in poverty. He allowed these girls to come to him, and gave one of them permission, along with some twenty thousand dollars, to marry the brother of General Lallemout, who had emigrated to America upon the restoration of the Bourbons, after the battle of Waterloo.ln ! his will be lequeathed to the other an equal j sum. JOI1M JACOB ASTOR. The argument which Parish had ma e use of with 3Ir. Gallatin, for the purpose of pro cur'n pern i-si n to send out ships in ballast, t i bi ing back : u ns of money from abroad that were due iu the United States, had found favor in the eyes of a man who bad distin guished himself from the mass of German emigrants by his important successes, his edc cuktive spirit, and great wealth, and had won a certain celebrity. This man was John Jacob Astor, the founder of the American colony of Astoiia, on the northern coast of the Pacific Ocean, which has been so graphical ly7 and picturesu ly described by the pen of Washington Irving. Astr was born at lleidelburg, where the original name of his family is said to have been Aschtor, and had come to New York as a farrier's apprentice. His first s.vlngs, that is to say, the wages he got in the peltry warehouse, for beating out and Prenarin? bear, doe and other skins, he ! invested in the purchase of all kinds of xel- I try, bear, mink and rabbit skins, which he got from the Indians, who at that time wan dered about the s'reets of New York, and so soon as he had collected a certain quantity, he sent them to Europe particularly to the Leipsic fair. There he traded them off for Nuremburg wares, cheap knives, glass beads, and other articles adapted to traffic with the Indians on the Canadian frontiers, and took them himself to the latter points, where he again exchanged them for furs of various kinds As he has often told me, from his own lips, he carried on this traffic untiringly for twelve long years, going iu person, alter nately, to the Canadian frontiers, and then to the Leipsic fair, and lived all the while, as he had ever been accustomed to do, humbly and sparingly. At length he had managed tobrina; together a considerable capital, and gradually became a freighter of ships and fitted out out expedi tions to the the northwest coast, to trade with the Indians of Nootka Sound for furs. An other circumstance contributed to the increase of his means. "At the peace concluded in 17S3 between England and the revolted pro vinces the thirteen United States, many acres of laud in the State of New York city, were voted by Congress to the German soldiers who had fought in the American army. The latter were chiefly Hesse Darmstadters. Meist of died in tha coarse of the year, without having them succeeded in converting this property into money ; but the relatives an 1 heirs they left behind them in Germany did not forget these little inheritances. Upon the occasion of a visit made by Astor to Heidel berg in later years, most of the parties last referred to, as inheriting the allotments of the deceased German soldiers, and residing in Heidelberg, united, and made cur friend erder to fealiie, if possible, from: tne-ir hitherto us; ltrss acres. But the hop :d-for increase of the lulue of this property w;.s. en t'le w hole, ra'her f slow in coming, and the heirs w t ntd money, ! quick and ready money.- Astir having beu ! applied to on this score, told them that, iu order to get ready money, they mr.tt reckon ! up the real present value the cash itself. and not any imagiued value of the land, an i that only through p retty consider;.! le S Kri fiees could they get cash for thesi-m There upon the parties advised vith caeh other, and finally Astor received peremptory orders to sell, without further delay. Unknown speculators were found, the proceeds were small, but the heirs got what they wanted money. At the prescat ilay, mauv of these pieces of ground are among the most valuable and most important in the city, and have gradually passed through Astor's into other hands ; the unknown speculator's, howcer, have faded from the memory of everybody. Astor, at the moment of the embargo, was in the possession of several millions, so that he was able to give his son, William B. Astor, who was educated at Gottingen, the magnificent hotel on Broadway called the "Astor House," which cost the sum of $S0O,00O. , ' The permission, procured by Parish to send out ships in ballast, to bring home silver, had given Astor the idea that the same privilege might be extended to vessels despatched for the purpose of briugiug home the amount of debts due abroad in goods. With this view he went to Washington, and there, under the pretence that he had an important depot of teas at Canton; obtained the desired permis sion to send a vessel thither in ballast. This step, however, was only the forerunner of an other one. Astor, in reality, owned no depot of teas at Canton, and hence it simply came to this, that he would, according to the usual custom, send money thither to purchase the article. iThe exceptional favor of sending schooners in ballast to Vera Cruz, which Parish had up to this time enjoyed, but which was now gra dually extended to other vessels, whose desti natiem was not to bring back gold and silver values, but goods on American account, suf ficiently showed that, under certain circum stances, there was no indisposition to grant free exit to ships in ballast for a particular object. And now arose another point, name ly, whether empty vessels which, however. had silver on board, could be regarded as in ballast The precious metals are. in most countries, net looked upon as wares, although m some tuey are so classined. It was not exactly advisable to bring on a discussion of the question whether the expor tation of silver in otherwise unladened vessels should depend upon it or net. The query was, whether a foreign creditor who had come to collect the moneys owed him by American merchants, would be permitted to take the funds really thus received back with him. Iu Washingto i there appeared to be every disposition to allow this.- Now, it was well lmown in the northern ports of the United States, that the leading native merchants of Canton nas never Hesitated to accorJ tneir regular correspondents, returning year out and year in from the United States, certain credits, whiedi amounted to considerable sums. Upon this Astor based his plan. He hunted up, among the Chinese sailors, or Laecars, on the ships lately arriving from China, a fel low suited to his purpose, dressed him as a Mandarin, and took him with him to Well ington , w here he had to play the part of the Chinese ere litor, under the name of llong Gua. or K'a.-Hoiu. No one elreamed of sus pecti the MtUiiiaiiu's identity, and Astor pushed hij scheme safely through. The 3-'J0,OU0 be sent to Canton were expended there in tea and other Chinese articles, and within a year aferwards rtiurned in that shape to Astor's hands, aud were used by him to excellent accounts. A stroke of ski .1 had been achieved whote morality no one in the United States doubted for a moment. Astore has left a fortune of about 12. '', Oi'tt, chiefly to his only son. IPs mini was incessantly buied with the inc-roas s of his resources md had no other directions. lie vas compelled, by- physical iiiSrii.it 3, to repair to i aris, where he eould avail himself of the skilful assistance of Baron Dcpuytren. The latt-.r thoroughly restored him, and ad vised Lim to ri !e every day. lie frequently took occasion himself to accompany his pa tient 011 these rides. One lay and this anecdote I have from the Baron's ow n mouth when riding, be appeared by no means dis posed and at length I)upuytren declared that he must be suTering from some s-'crct pain or trouble when he would not sjm ak. He j ressed him and worried him, until finally Aster loos ed his tongue: "Look ye, Baron," he said, "how frightful this is! I have here in the hands of my banker, at Paris, about 2,000, 000 francs, and cannot manage, without great eflbrt, to get more than 2 per cent per an num on it. Now, this very day, I have re ceived a letter fromi my son in New York in forming me that there the best acceptances are from 1 to 2 per cent per mouth. Is it not enough to enrage a man ?" C7A young lass went to a camp meeting, and came back full of the revival w hich they had, anl did nothing the following week, but sing : "Shout, shout, we're gaining ground !" She had the tune so pat, that all she said was but a continuation of that song, and not uufrequently the rhyme was too long for the tunc. Old Jowel slipped in and took a bone off the table, and just as be was making for the door, she sung out : "If yoiu don't go out I'll knock you down, Halle, hallelujah! You nasty, stinken, flop-earei hound, O, glory, hallelujah !" tC?A bill has passed the English Parlia ment clo.-ing beer-shops ru the SahLath. their legally authorized attorney, in t fealiie, if possible, frour their hitherto WaLiEgtcn vs. Kno-T-Nothingisi. . In the Know-Nothing joumrl-" we find one of the prini-iples which they profess, se4t down -ihus: "1 he-doctrines of the revered Wash ington tiul Lis compatriots.' Perhaps it would be well enough fa briefly tc-U the sincerity of this assumed devotion by comparing the act ions of the' Know-NotliLigs with the conduct of Gen. Washington. K tiow-NotLiugism declares that i.r foreigner or member of a cer tain sect should be srx-tcd with an official po sition, V.';;shii;gt.:i, if our memory serves us, appointed LafaycUe, Kosciusko, and Ha milton, all of vh tin w ire of foreign birth, ALd the former of whom belonged to the proseriud church, his most favored ai 1-de-caiL.ps. If had been blett "with the wise counsels of Judges Ce.urad and Poihck, of course he would have known better than to trust in such important positions such dangerous men. When he came to form his cabinet he se lected Alexander Hamilton, who was born in one of the West Indi;i Islands and who never saw this o-ouiitry until be was about sixteen years of age, one of his prominent advisers. He cheise as another Jefferson, oneof whose proudest boasts was that he was the author of the Virginia Statute guaranteeing religious liberty, in which Know-Nothingism is at tacked in direct terms by such sentences as "that our civil rights have no dependence on our religieius opinions more than our opinions in physic or geometry," and by the provision that "all men shall be free to profess and by argument to n ainta'n their opinions in mat ters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or aJTect their civil . powers." lie also appointed at a later day Charles Lee, who had heeu born in England, an Attorney General, so that it is evident he did not approve of the Kuow-Ncthing tests, but chose for the highest stations when he deemed them the fittest persons, not only "foreigners," but members of the proscribed sect, and those who like Jefferson, made at tachment to the great principle of religious liberty a corner stone of their political creed. ' Anybody but a Know-Nothing can therefor plainly see that instead of their principles be ing in accordance with the doctrines of the "revered Washington and his compatriots," they are in direct contradiction to them. Amusing Dialogue. " The following dialogue occurred in an edi tor's sanctum iu England. A distinguished editor was in his study. A long, thin and ghostly visaged gentleman was announced. With an asthmetic voice, but in a tone of ci vility, for otherwise the editor would have transfixed him with a fiery paragraph, the next morning, the stranger aaid "Sir, your Journal of yesterday contained false" information "Sir, your journal of yesterday contained false information." "Impossible, sir, but tell me to what you allude." "You said that Mr. M. had been tried " "True." "Condemned." "Very true." "Hung." "Most true." "Now, sir, lam the gentleman myself." "Impossible." "I assure you, it is a fact, and now I hope you will ecntradh t wht you have alleged." "By no niet ns, sir." "How w hat do you mean ? You are de ranged." "It maybe so, sir, but I will not do it. "I will complain to a magistrate." "As you please, but 1 never retract. The most that I can do for you to announce that the rope breike and that you are now in per fect health. I have my principles, sir, I never deceive." C7-A Goon One. The Editor's table of the Knickerbocker has the subjoined anecdote: A young . tri ntlenian, a member of our col lege, was expelled for the crime of drawing young ladies up to hL room at night and let ting the in d w 1 in the morning, by mcars of a rope, and a basket arranged from his window. A great deal of gosippiug conversation was the consequence. The following colloquy oc curred between two young ludies: "Jane, do you really believe that students draw girls up to their rooms?" Certainly, my elear : and more than that, I know they do." "How ?"' "Well, I was going by the college one morning: it whs just before light; 'twas very early iu the n.o-. ning : and I heard a noise in the direction of one of the e-ollgo buildings. 1 looked that way; and a.spbtlnas I see you now, 1 saw a gill in a basket about halfway from a three-story window to tie ground ; and just then the rope broke, ani down I came 1" "Oh ! Jane?" HAIN. It is refreshing to read of rain, if we are depriv ed of seeing and feeling it and here is ome of th prettiest things in print : "Yet there's something very swe?t In the sight When the c rystal currents meet In the dry and dusty street And they wrestle with the beat In their might! While thev seem to hold a talk With the bt n al ng th? w; lk. And remind them of the rule. To 'keep cool.' Sleeping in tte Moonlight A young man, Ulonging to the 2d 111. In fantry, stationed in Tampico, lay down in front of his tent, perfectly well, with the moon shinina directly in his face, and having been on guard the night before he slept wmndly until morning. When he attempted to rise he was nearly blind, his checks were puffed out to twice their usual &ize, his eyes wer nearly closed and surrounded with circles of almost jet black, presenting a terrible sight. It w&h a full week before be entirely recovered. ; i I i ( r J 1:1 1 i W: t ; '' 1:1 i J i.Ji i 1 ; 'if h:1 J. 1 i 1 1 M t )
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