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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.
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