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WILLIAM BREWSTER,I EDITORS,
SAM. G. WHITTAKER,
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THE LADY'S YES.
BY ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING,
"Yea I" I answered yon last night ;
"Not" this morning, sir, I say!
Colors seen by candlelight,!
Will not look theca= by day.
When the tabors play'd their best,
Lamps above, and laughs . below=
Lone me sounded like a jest,
or fit for No/
Call tile false or call me free—
Vow, whatever light may shine
• man on thy face shall see
Anx grief fur change on mine.
Yet the sin is on us both—
'Time to dance is not to woo—
Wooer limit makes fickle troth—
Scorn of one tireoi ls on you
Learn to win a lady's faith—
Noltle so the thing is high
Bravely, as for In and death—
With a loyal gravity.
cad her from the festive boards;
Point her to the starry skies;
Huard hoe, by your truthful words,
Pure from courtship's flatteries.
By your truth she shall be true—
Ever true, as wives of yore ;
And her l'av, once said to you,
Shull he yes for evermore.
Voliti cat.
COL. FREMONT.
'rho Philadelphia Inquirer speaks in
conciliatory tone of the candidate of tho
Republican Convention. It says :
Colonel John C. Fremont has been no-
initiated as the Republican candidate for
the Presidency. He is comparatively a
young men, hut his name is familiar as
household words everywhere throughout
the country, in consequence of his expedi
tions over the Rocky Mountains, and the
domitablo courage, the untiring zeal, and
the disinterested chivalry that he displayed
on several occasions. Ills life has been
one of adventure, and many of its incidents
are fraught with the highest elements of
romance. Ills nomination for the first of
fice in the country, and by a convention
embracing so much intelligence and patri
otism. indicates an extraordinary degree of
confidence in his character and ability . He
is no hackneyed politician, but is fresh
from the ranks of the people. It remains
to be seen how his nomination will be re
ceived by the masses. We are willing to
accord to Colonel Fremont ninny rare final.
ides both of head and heart ; but in order
to be s. *'stud at the couiing campaign,
the entire Opposition should unite, and in
effecting such a union, the ellorts of the
good and the wise throughout the land,
..thould be cal tic. - ..tly directed. Perbeamie u
and conciliation are 'therefore absolutely
necessary. The feeling and opinions dull
branches of the opposition must be respec
ted and consulted. This untiring zeal
with which the friends of Colonel Fremont
have, from the first urged his nomination,
cannot but be regarded as a good sign.—
But it must appear to every sensible mind,
that kindness and goodwill are absolutely
essential under the circumstances, and that
the friends of other candidates already no.
initiated in opposition to the existing Na
tional Administration, must be treated with
a4l possible delicacy and consideration.--
The great aim of the conservative voters of
the Union, should be to secure a thorough
union of all who are adverse to the tjinein
nati Platform, and thus a signal triumph
at the polls.
HON. W. L. DAYTON
W ILLIAM L. DArreN, the nominee for
the Vice Presidency, is a favorite son of
Ne v Jersey. lie stands among tho fore
t. men of the Union in ad the qualities
that constitute high character :and he has
given proofs, under circumstances that ad
mitted of no misconception, of his integri
ty, fidelity and capacity us a statesman.—
New Jersey has reason to be proud of her
many distinguished sons, but among them
all, whether of the past or the present, no
one is more entitled to her affectionate re•
Bard than Judge Dayton. At the bar, on
the bench, in the public councils of his
State and the nation, he has proved hull
self competent to every duty he has been
required to perform, and has adorned eve
ry station lie has been called upon to fill.
In the Senate of tho United States, in its
better and brighter days, though among its
youngest members, he was eminent for the
soundness of his opinions, the cogent
clearness with which he gave them utter
ance, and the decorous manliness with
which he defendedthem against all attacks
no matter from what quarter they came.
Had no political revolution withdrawn him
from that body, he would to day have been
twang its acknowledged leaders ; and if
'ducted in the approaching contest, lie will
. .
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
The Committee on Resolutions, through
Hon. David Wilmot, Chairman, reported
as the principles and aims of the Republi
can party, the following platform :
This convention of delegates assembled
in pursuance to a call addressed to the peo
ple of the United States, without. regard
to pant political differences or divisions ;
who are opposed to the repeal of the Mie.
souri Compromise ; to the policy of the
present administration ; to the extension of
slavery into Kansas, and in favor of the
admission of Kansas as a free State; of re
storing the action of the federal government
to the principles of Washington and Jeffer
son, and for thupurpose of presenting can
didates for the offices of President and
Vice President, do resolve as follows :
Resolved, That the maintenance of the
principles promulgated in the Declaration
of Independence and embodied in the
Federal Constitution, are essential to the
preservation of our republican institutions,
and that the Federal Constitution, the
rights of the States, and the union of the
States shall be preserved.
Resolved, That with our republican fa
thers, we hold it to be a self-evident truth,
that all men are endowed with the inalien
able right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness, and that the primary object and
ulterior design of the federal government
wore, to secure these rights to all persons
within its exclusive jurisdiction ; that as
our republican fathers, when they Inid
abolished slavery in all our territory, or
dained that no person should be depfived
of life, liberty or property, without due
process of law, it becomes our duty, to
maintain this provision of the constitution
against all attempts to violate it for the pur
pose of establishing slavery in the United
States, by positive legislation prohibiting
its existence or extension therein. That we
deny the authority of Congress, of a terri
torial legislature, of any individual or asso
ciation of individuals, to give legal exis
tence to slavery in any territory of the Uni
ted States, while the present constitution
shall be maintained.
Resolved, Thnt the Constitution confers
upon Congress sovereign power over the
Territories of the United States, for their
governtnent, and that in the exercise of
this power, it is both the right and duty of
Congress to prohibit in the Territories
those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy
and slavery.
liesolved, That while the Constitution
of the United States was ordained and es
tablished by the people "in order to form
a more perfect union, establish justice, in
sure domestic tranquility, provide for com
mon defence, promote the general welfare,
and secure the blessings of liberty," and
contains ample provisions for the protec
tion of the life, liberty, and property of ev
ery citizen, the dearest constitutional rights
of the people of Kansas have been fraudu
lently and. violently taken from them ;
l'heir Territory has been invaded by an
armed force ;
Spurious and pretended legislative, ju
dicial, and executive officers have been set
over them, by whose usurped authority,
tyrannical and unconstitutional laws have
been enacted and enforced.
The right of the people to keep and bear
arms has been infringed; test oaths of an
extraordinary and entangling nature have
been imposed as a condition of exercising
the right of suffrage and holding office ;
The right of an accused person to a
speedy and public trial by an impartial ju
ry has been denied ;
l'he right of the people to be secure in
their persons, houses. papers and•efects,
against unreasonable searches and seizures
has been violated ;
They have been deprived of life, liberty
and property, without due process of law ;
That the freedom of speech and of the
press has been abridged ;
The right to choose their representatives
has been made of no effect ;
Murders, robberies and arsons have been
instigated and encouraged, and the offen
ders have been allowed to go unpunished,
glut all these things have been done
with the knowledge, sanction and procure.
went of the present administration, and
that for this high crime against the Consti
tuti,n, the Union and humanity, we ar
raign that administration, the President,'
his advisers, agents, supporters, apologists,
and accessories, either bijore or (Per the
fact, before the country and the world :
and that it is our fixed purpose to bring the
actual perpetrators of these atrocious out•
rages, and their accomplievs, to a sure and
codigii punishment.
Resolved ; That Kalish S Should be im
mediately admitted us a state of the Union
with her present free constitution, as at
" LIBERTY AND UNION, NOW AND FOREVER, ONE AND INSEPARABLE."
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1856.
and privileges to which they are entitled,
and of ending the civil strife now raging in
her territory.
"solved, That the highwayman's plea
that "might makes right," embodied in the
Ostend circnlar, was in every respect un
worthy of American diplomacy, and would
bring shame and dishonor upon any gov
ernment or people that gave it their sanc
tion,
Resolved, That a Railroad to the Paci
fic Ocean, by the most central and practi
cable route, is imperatively demanded by
the interests of the whole country, and that
the Federal government ought to render
immediate atm efficient aid in its construc
tion ; and as an auxiliary thereto, to the
immediate construction of an emigrant
route on the line of the rnilroad.
Resolved, That appropriations by Con
gress for the improvement of rivers and
harbors, of a national character, required
for the accommodation and security of our
existing commerce, are authorized by the
constitution, and justified by the obligation
of government to protect the fires and pro-
perty of its citizens.
Resolved, That we invite the affiliation
and eo-operation of men of all parties,
however differing from us in other respects,
in support of the principles herein declar
ed ; and believing that the spirit of our in
stitutions, as well as the constitution of our
country guarantees liberty of conscience
and equality of rights among citizens, we
oppose all legislation impairing their se
curity.
It Must be Met.
The issue of Freedom or Slavery is now
so prominently before the people that it
cannot further be avoided. A large and
influential party has boldly avowed its ad
vocacy of a sectional institution, and they
hove forced the issue upon the country
whether Freedom or slavery shall prevail.
This is rendered the more apparent when
we view the actions of men of different
parties, and sections of the Union. In the
slave State of Kentucky, the Hon. Mr.
Preston, formerly an influential Whig, has
joined in the advocacy of Buchanan, be
cause his party favors the extension of hu
man bondage ; while the Hon. Mr. Ham
lin, a prominent Democratic member of the
United States Senate, from the Free State
of Maine, rises in his seat, offers his res
ignation as chairman of the Committee on
Commerce, which he hail received from
the Democracy, and boldly announces his
determination, that, , cwhatever power God
had endowed him with should be exerted
in the coming contest in opposition to that
party, because he loved his country more
than he loved any party."
These are only individual instances.—
We could name many others, The Whee
ling Intelligencer, formerly a violent pro-
Slavery Whig, paper has joined in thosup
port of Buchanan because he favors their
views on this question. The Richmond
Enquirer boldly proclaims that it is the in
tention of the slave power to give every
Senator and Representative a stroke of the
lash for every word uttered in denunciation
of slavery. It cannot be postponed. The
free born sons of America must now buck
le on their armor and prepare for the con
flict if they expect to retain the fair inher
itance left them by their faithers. Arouse!
An Example for Young Men,
Col. Fremont has been the exclusive
architect of his own fortunes. His exam
ple must shine as a star to guide the youth
of our country in an honorable career,and
to teach them that success is more the re
sult of energy and private worth, than of
faintly influence. He was the protege of
the Ladies' Benevolent Society at Charles
ton, some members of which found the fa
mily in great need and aided them. Young
J. C. Fremont was discovered to have tal
ent, and by the interest of these same
ho became the beneficiary of a chari
ty scholarship in Charleston College, He
graduated there with distinction. having
shown decided mathematical talent. Sub
sequently, through the influence already
mentioned, Mr. Poinsoti was -induced to
get him an appointment as teacher of math.
ematies on board a national vessel; thence
he was transferred to the corps of Topo
graphical Eng,neers ; not very long after
ward married a daughter of Hon. Thomas
H. Benton, and began his brilliant and
rapid rise. Every one knows his subso
qiient history.
Fremont Ratification Meeting.
CINCINNATI,. June 24,
An immense meeting took place last
night to ratify the nominations of Fremont
and Payton. Thu numbers wore estima
ted at from eight to ton thousand. Edward
11. Mansfield presided, and the meeting
Was addressed by Caleb B. Smith, Chas.
Hamelin, Judge llundley and others. The
:lied to tli
Thirty• Fourth Congress.
WASIIINNTON, June 21
Mr. Colfax spoke upon the subject of
laws emanating from the Legislature of
Kansas, branding them as a code of op
pression, outrage and wrong which would
be disgraceful to the Legislature of any
State, as they are to the Gotlts and Van
dals who seek to tymnize over thee citizens
of that Territorry. He argues that some
of these statutes wore enacted in direct
contravention to the organic law and con
stitution of the United States, especially
to those provisions relative to the freedom
of speech and of the press,
Mr. Burlingame •defended Massachu
setts against general and specific charges
claiming that, in all that constitutes true
greatness, she is the first State and her
present performances superior to her past
recollections: He was sorry to find at
the head of her assailants the Presi
dent of the United Sums, who had delib
erately perverted history to eulogize the
South at the expense of the north, and.be
came the chieftain of sectionalism. Mas
sachusetts believed also with South Caro.
line, that the fugitiveslave law was un
constitutional.
Mr. Keitt asked Mr. Burlingame for
his authority relative to South Carolina.
Mr. Burlingame cited .the remarks of
the Charleston Mercury, which spoke of
the fugitive slave law as an infringement
of one of the most cherished principles of
the Constitution. In conclusion he refer
ed to Mr. Sumner's speech, the purity
and nobleness of its sentiments and the se•
verity of its strictures against tyranny.—
Mr. Sumner never had a personal enemy.
His character was as pure as the snow
which falls upon his native hills, and his
heart overflows with kindness for every
human being bearing the upright form of
man. He was an accomplished scholar
and a chivalrous gentleman. A member
of the house, who had taken the oath to
support the Constitution stole into the Sen
ate and smote him as Cain smote his broth
er.
Mr: Keitt—lt is false. (Much sense.
tion.)
alr• Burlingame replied that he would
not bandy epithets ; but he was responsi
ble for his own language only, and doubt-
less the gentleman was responsible for
his.
Mr Keitt—l am
Mr. Burlingame, after describing and
severely condemning the assault, asked.
“Call you that chivalry ? In what code
of honor did you get authority for that ?
If we are not to have freedom of speech
what is all this government worth? If
we ere to be called to an account by
some gallant nephew of some gallant un
cle for everything which does not suit their
sensative nerves, we want to know it ? If
the conflict is to be transferred from a
peaceful intellectual field, where honors
are equal and easy, we desire to know it?
The time may come when Massachusetts
may withdraw her representatives to her
own bosom when safety is not to be found
for them under the flag of their common
country. But while those representatives
are here, they will speak when and how
they will, uncaring for• the consequences.
If they are pressed too long and too far
they will not shrink from a defence of the
honor of the Commonwealth of Massachu
setts and the freedom of speech.
Mr. Keitt sought to obtain the floor,
which was awarded to Mr. Carlisle, who
declined to yield it.
Mr. Keitt gave notice that he should
on Monday reply to some points in Mr.
Burlingame's speech.
Mr, Burlingame was privately congrat
ulated by his friends.
Mr. Washburn, of Maine, urged the
necessity of a union of tho opponents of
the Administration and those adverse to
the extension of slavery in the territories.
He examined the platform of the Cincin
nati Convention in connection with the
principles and antecedents of Mr. Buch
anan, and with the doctrines of the Dem
ocratic party, concluding by saying it waQ
an inexpressible relief to emerge front the
dark and Roth! atmosphere reeking with
shames and wrongs, into the clear light
and healthful breezes of truth and liberty.
He spoke of Fromont as the standard bear
er of . freedom in this contest ; strong and
true man, Whose aim it would be to main
tain the principles of the Constitution and
bring bark the government to the policy
of Washington •and Jefferson.
'1 he House then adjourned.
11:7 President Pierce has the right,
name, for he will indeed Pierce the nation
well before he is done—"Pierec her thro'
with many borrows." And the i , flicials
under hint aro Piercing fellows—partial.
fatly where the treasury math aro to be
Pierced. 1t is a Pier,inA laonr,
The Political Sky is Clearing Up.
The programmes of the different par
ties are nearly completed ; and people
can now calmly and judiciously select their
candidates according to their principles.—
We say principles, for it would be unwor
thy of any American patriot to cast his
vote for any man for the high office of
President, on account of personal friend
ship or partiality, unless he believed that
his political principles would promote the
best interests of his country. To friends
to kindred, to neighbors, we may yield
much. We may surrender personal in
terests, and even personal consistency, but
we dare not sacrifice our country.
Hitherto, the question has stood between
Mr. Fillmore and the nominee of the Lo
co Foco party. We could never for a mo
ment think of supporting the nominee of
the present false democratic party, with
its principles ten fold worse than ever be
fore, whoever might be his opponent.—
This was our determination before the
nomination was made. Nor has the nom
ination (although of one of our respecta
ble neighbors,) changed our purpose. The
nominationwas accompanied by a platform
the most atrocious ever invented by hu
man depravity. A platform whose planks
are Slavery, Fillibustering, and Piracy;
bouud together with the cords and shack
les of human bondage, and cemented with
the blood of the murdered free men of
Kansas. •
On that platform, we grieve to say, Mr.
Buchanan has placed himself, with nimble
alacrity. Lost it.might shun the more
loathsome parts of it, he has distinctly an
nounced that he had stretched himself so
as to cover every inch of it. That he hug
ged the whole of it to his heart. Of course
this renders his support impossible to all
oonversative men—to all men who love
Freedom, and hate national robbery.
Mr. Fillmore was nominated, not by
by the whole American party, but by the
Southern Americans, and those who sym
pathised with them north of Mason's and
Dixon's line. With one of the principles
of the South American party we agree.—
Against another, perhaps the leading one,
we protest. Still had the choice continu
ed to be, between a candidate, some of
whose principles we condemn, we should
have preferred the former. Fortunately
we are left in no such dilemma. The
Northern Americans,—the Americans of
Freedom,—have concurred with the Re
publicans, in presenting the name of a
gallant enthusiastic and accomplished
Statesman—Col. Fremont; Modest as he
is bold—learned, but too retiring ever to
have aspired to that high place. Possess
ed of extraordinary executive ability, he
has been found incorruptable in every
transaction of his life. The descendent
of a Huguenot, who was driven from his
own country by religious persecution, he
is not likely to favor the indulgence, or
ascendency of that persecuting foreign
power. Reared amidst the horrors of the
'peculiar institution.' and having removed
from his native 'section' to enjoy the bles
sings of Freedom he seems a fit person to
hold the reigns of a Free Redublic.
We as American Republicans, or Re
publicans Americans, we care not which,
shall give our support to the man who u
nites both characters ; and who, if elected
will restrain the aggressions of Slavery,
and curb, within just limits, the danger
ous pretensions of a foreign hierarchy.
--
In this contest the lino will be drawn be.
tween Liberty and Slavery ; between the
Southern Oligarchy and their train bear
ers, the Northern Dough Faces, and the
sturdy, unyielding Freemen of the North.
—Lancaster Whig.
Fillmore and Buchanan.
The party friends of these two candi
dates for the Presidency, are engaged in a
newspaper war, at the South, to prove
which is the truest friend to slavery. Par
agraphs from the early specchs and writ
ings of both are produced by their oppo
treats, to show that the one or the other is
really an abolitionist. To this the effec
tive answer urged is, that these things
were said or written a long time ago, and
that sines then Mr. Fillmore has approved
of the fugitive slave act, and of the other
compromise acts of 1850, or that Mr. Buch
anan has been a uniform friend of the pe
culiar institution. This has always been
the custom in Presidential elections (or the
last twenty years or more, and it has beep
requisite for every national candidate to
prove himself an adherent of the preten•
sions of the South. From this has arisen
what Governer Ritner used to call '.the
base bowing of the knee to the dark spir
it of slavery." But as to any bowing to
Northern prejudices, it would puzzle any
one to find the evidence of it. It certain-
Boston Ratification Meeting.
Bos•roN, June 24
The Republican nominations of Fremont
and Dayton were endorsed last evening
by a mass meeting in Faneui‘ Hall. Gen
eral John S. Tyler presided, assisted by
Franklin Dexter and eleven other promi
nent citizens of all parties. There were
delegates present from all the neighboring
towns, and the Hall was packed at an ear
ly hour.
The Hon. Thomas G. Elliott, chairman
of the Massachusetts delegation to the
Philadelphia Convention, gave an account
of the doings of that Convention, which
resulted in the nomination of Fremont and
Dayton.
Eloquent and effective speeches were
made by Judge Hoar, Senator Hamlin, of
Maine, and others.
Resolutions were adopted fully endor
sing the nominations,
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, on in
vitation addressed the meeting. On taking
the stand he was received with n storm of
cheers. He said these shouts assume that
the spirit of the Puritan Fathers still per
vades the bosoms of thoir descendants.—
Within these hallowed walls, where the
infant form of liberty was cradled, we are
assembled to protect it now. Then it was
a revolution of force, now it is a revolution
by the ballot-box. [Cheers.] Theseshouts
shall carry dismay into the heart of every
Hunker Democrat in Massachusetts.—
[Cheers.]
The question is not that the South shall
be Abolitionized, but whether the whole
free North shall be Africanized ; not a
question whether the slaves of the South
shall be emancipated, but whether the
freemen of the North shall be made slaves, 1
and he who is not ready for such n ques
tion would have been a cowboy in the
Revolution. [Cheers.]
He characterized the Democratic party
as the negro party, and as more sectional
than all the Garrisonian Abolitionists in
the North. [Cheers ] The Republican
party, he said, was founded on a Constitu
aerial basis. Let the North unite and
stand by the principles of Washington,
Jefferson nod Adams, and they can bid de
fiance to all other parties in the Union.
A meeting was also held outside, of those
unable to gain admission, which was ad
dressed by nutnerous speakers.
The War in Kansas.
COL SUMNER AND TUE INVADERS OF
Karisas.—A correspondent of the Chien.
go Democratic Press writes concerning
the difficulties between the parties of
Brown and Pate, in Kansas, and how Col.
Sumner treated the invaders under Pute :
When Col. Sumner found Brown and
his prisoners, ho read to both parties the
proclamation of Gov. Shannon placing
the Territory under martial law. lie then
ordered Brown's party to go quietly to
their homes, and turning to Pate, said,
"What business have you here, sir?"—
Pate answered, "I am here by orders of
Gov. Shannon." "You are not, air," re
plied Col. Sumner, and ho further remark
ed, "I saw Governor Shannon yesterday,
and your case was specially considered,
and he asserts that you are none of his,
are not here by Isis orders and have no be.
siness hero.' You are Missourians all of
you, and when you crowed your State line
you trampled on State sovereignty. Now
go, sir, in the direction from whence you
came' and thus speaking, Sumner waved
Pate's party to leave. Pate not grateful
for being thus rescued from the hands of
"murderous abolitionists," turns round
and blackguards Col. Sumner, and it is
reported has been unkind enough to send
the Col. a challenge. It is also reported
tl.at a private to one of the Colonel's com
panies has taken up the matter, and gone
out with Pate to answer the insult offered
to his commander.
Goy. Shannon Plundering and insul
ting the Families of the Kansas Free Set
tlers.—James Kodpath, the Kansas Cor
respondent of the Chicago Tribune, in a
letter written from Lawrence, June 4th,
gives a minute account of a midnight at
tack upon the dwel ling of Mr. Walker,
a settler living between Topeka and Law
rence, by a guerilla party of ruffians, and
directly charges Shannon with the most
culpable complicity with the banditti. It ap
pears that warning of the intended check
had beets given, and, Mr. Walker being
absent, his friends had gathered to save
his property and family front injury. The
miscreants met with an unexpectedly warns
reception and were repulsed, and several
taken prisoners. They conles:e.l their
intention to burn the house and to hang
:11r. Walker. The next day Mr. Shan•
non made uo elibrt to arrest any of the
outlaws, but instead, warrants were issued
for the arrest of every uric know, to he of
. . . .
VOL. XXI. NO. 27
citet VisaJiang.
Extraordinary Surgical Operations.
It was necessary that the dangerous and
difficult operation for lithotomy should be
performed on Louis the XIV, and several
men afflicted with the like disease were
carried to the house of Louvois, the Min
ister, where the chief surgeon, Felix, oper.
ated upon them before Fagon, the physt•
clan of the king, Most of those operated
on died; and that the king might know
nothing of his dangerous condition, or of
the means adopted to insure certainty and.
safety in the cure, they were buried pri
vately, and by night. The operation was
performed successfully upon the king; but
Felix was so much agitated that a nervous
tremor settled upon him for life, and t.:
bleeding a friend on the day succeeding
that upon which the king had been so hap
pily cured, he disabled the patient irrepa
rably.
When Felip de Utre went in search et
the Omeguas, from Venzuela, he was
wounded by a spear just beneath the righ,
arm. A Spaniard, wha was ignorant of
of surgery, undertook to cure him, and De
Utre's coat of mail was placed upon an old
Indian, who was mounted on a horse. The
amateur surgeon then drove a spear into
the Indian's body, through the hole in the
armor, and his body having been opened,
(the spear being still kept in the wound,)
it was discovered that the heart was wain •
jured. Thus they assumed that De Litre'n
wound was not mortal ; and being treated
as if the wound was an ordinary one, he
recovered.
IVhon Henry H, of France was mortal
ly wounded by a splinter from a spear, in
tilting with Montgomerie, which entered
his visor and pierced his eye, the surgeons
for the purpose of discovering the probable
injury done to the king, cut off the head,
of four criminals, and thrust splinters into
their eyes, as nearly at the same inclination
as the fatal one had entered that of the
king.
Ambrose Pare's chapter on poisons, and .
his 'strange cure for a cut-off nose,"
which we give in the words of his trans/a
tor, Johnson, are remarkable ' , There
was a surgeon of Italy, of late years, who
would restore the portion of the nose that
was cut away thus : He first scarified the
callous edge"; of the maimed nose round a •
bout, as is usually done in the cure of
harelips. He then made a gosh or cavity
in the muscle of the arm, which is called
ceps, as large as the greatness of the per
Lion of the nose which was cut away did
require ; and into that gash or cavity so
made he would put that part of the nose so
wounded, and hind the patient's head to,
his arm, as it were to a pest, so fast that it
might remain firm, stable, and immovable,
and not lean or bo•v any way; and alma ,
forty days after, or at tltat time when he
judged tile flesh of the nose was perfectly
agglutinated with the flesh of the arm, clea
ving fast to the nose, he cut away sufficient
to supply the detect of that which was lost,
and then he would make it even, and
bring it, as by licking, to the fashion and
form of a nose, as near as art would per
mit ; and in the meantime he did feed his
patient with panados, jellies, and all such
things as were easy to be swallowed and
digested."
"Pop goes the Weasel,
"Pop goes the weasel" has beccme the
chorus of a thousand snatches of song but
not one of a thousand who sing it, ever
heard its origin. But its parentage is
as easily traced as that of an English bar•
onet. A famous Methodist preacher, by
the name of Craven, was once preaching
in the heart of Virginia, and spoke as fol
lows :
“Here are a great many professor, of
religion to-day. You are sleek, fat, and
good looking, yet something me the matter
with you. Now you have seen wheat to
the eye, hut when you weighed it you
found that it only came to forty-five or per.
haps forty eight pounds to the bushel,
when itshould be sixty-three pounds.--
Take a kernel of that wheat between your
thumb and finger, hold it up, squeeze it;
and—pap goes the weevil. Now, you
good-looking professors of religion you are
plump and round, but you only weigh
some forty-five or forty-six pounds to the
bushel. What is the matter ? Ali ! when
you are taken between the thumb of the
law and the finger of the gospel, held up
to the light and squeezed out ; pops the
ivhiskey bottle !”
i'ront "pop goes the weevil' . to "pop
goes the weasel," the transition is ptiv •
elir Old Huntingdon county js good