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CONGRESS.
Washington, Feb. 28, 1839.
In the Senate Ur. Buchanan made a re- j
port on the Maine and New Brunswick difficul
ties. JH denies that the British Government
has any jurisdiction over the disputed terri
tory, and maintains that it was expressly
stipulated that neither party should exercise
jurisdiction. The report concludes with res
olutions asserting the rights of the United
States and the State of Maine; but declares
that in case the Governor of New Brunswick
withdraws his troops, and Maine persists in
keeping hers there, then Maine is not entitled
to the protection of Ihc Government
In the House, the Committee on Foreign
Affairs, to which had been referred the Mes
sage of the President of the United States in
relation to the difficulties between Maine and
the Province of New Brunswick, made a re
port of a very important character, accompa
nied by a Bill in substance ns follows: The
tirst section authorizes the President to resist
any attempt of Great Britain, by arms, to ex
ercise exclusive jurisdiction over that part of
the territory of Maine which is in dispute, and
to employ the naval nnd military forces of the
United States, and such portions of the mil
itary ns he inny deem it ex|»edient to bring in
to service. The second section provides, in
case of actual invasion, or imminent danger
tHereof before congress can be 'convened to
raise a provisional force of twenty regiments,
consisting of riflemen, cavalry, artillery, and
infantry. Third section, to put all the naval
force in commission. Fourth section, to bor
row millions of dollars, upon certificates
of stock redeemable for five years, at five per
vent. Section five provides for an outfit for n
succial embassy to London, to co-operate with
the resident Minister there, ami urge a prompt
settlement of the boundary question. The
subject, after some discusssinn, was referred
to the Committee of the Whole on the state
of the-Union, and made the special order of
the day for to morrow, to take precedence of
all other business.
The bill making appropriation for the pro
tection of the Notnern frontier was taken up
uml read a third time and passed.
The bill for the suppression of Indian hostil
ities for 1831), was next considered. The ques
tion being on its final passage, n long debate
arose on a motion made by Mr. Bell, to amend
the bill by providing compensation for the loss
of horses in the Florida war. The amendment
was finally agreed to. By the aid of the previ
ous question, the bill as amended was read a '
third time and passed.
March 1. !
In the Senate, to-day, a letter was received
from Mr. Kendall, the l’ost Master General, re
plying to a resolution of the Senate of this day,
nsking why the information called for on the j
12th instant had not been coinm'inicutcd to the ;
Senate. “In reply,” he says, “I have the honor!
to state, that the only reason I have to give 1
why it has not been before communicated is,
that it was not ready.”
Mr. Tallmndge pronounced the answer dis
respectful. Mr. Sevier moved a resolution re
questing the President of the IJ. S. to dismiss
Mr. Kendall, but it was modified to read its
follows:
Resolved, That the letter of the Post Master
General stating, &c. is considered by the Sen
ate as disrespectful to this body. This was n
greed to 38 to 5.
The following resolution was also adopted,
31 to 5.
Resolved, That said letter with the resolution j
to which it purports to be an answer, be laid be
fore the President of the U. S. for such action
as he tuny deem proper.
The Senate took up Mr. Buchanan's Reso
lutions relative to the Maine difficulties, and
they were supported by Mr. Buchanan, and Mr.
Clay, of Kentucky, but objected to by Mr.
Williams of Maine, as insufficient.
In the House the hill from the Com. on For.
Affairs was debated till the hour of recess, by
Messrs. Kennedy, Logare, Biddle, of Penn.; j
Howard and Evans—nil of whom supported the i
hill, except Mr. Biddle. He prononneed it to
be a war measure—a declaration of war.— j
lie said it certainly pledged us ton declaration 1
of war in case the British persisted in clearing j
nnd asserting jurisdiction in the disputed terri
tory. lie went into an argument to show that
onr government had acquiesced for years in
this Britislfclnini to jurisdiction, notwithstand
ing what might be said now; and that the
British Colonial authorities had been in the
habit of practically exercising it. We put our
selves, he thought, completely in the wrong, by
taking the stand proposed in the hill and rejwri.
He contended against this proposition to go to
war upon an incidental point, leaving the great
ipicstion of right, to the territory, upon which
we would stand firmly'.
lie alluded to the discourteous character of
the war into which we were plunging our
selves—it might, and probably would, last tea
years, and desolate all our cities and destroy
our commerce, &c. He alluded to the expe
rience of the last war, which ended by a total
abandonment of all the principles in support of
which we appealed to arms, atul in the aban
donment of claims for commercial spoliations J
for 25 years.
Mr. Howard nnd Mr. Evans defended the
bill as a peace measure, and argued that with
out it, there must be war.
So, between the two, war we most have.
Mr. Biddle says, if the bill pass, there wil he war;
and others say, if it do not jwss, there will be
war.
v x t March 2.
Both Houses sat, last night, till a late hour
engaged upon the war question. The cxer
citcinent here is very great while at the north
it is said to be abating. Three fourths of both
Houses are ready to make war, in case the
British authorities should persist in enforcing
by arms an exclusive jurisdiction over one
foot of the disputed territory. - Furthermore
they are to bring the dispute to a close, in
which case the British Government should act
promptly, and without any more diplomatic
trifling, yield her wifounded pretentions to
tie territory in dispute. Such is the deter
mination of nine-tenths of the people of the
United States, north of us, and there is every
reason to believe that the people of the South
ern and Western Slates are equally ready to
appeal to arms, in support of the national honor.
Should the war be gone into, it will not stop,
until British rule is driven out of the Canadas,
nor until her footsteps shall disappear from the
vast regions of the North west, even though,
>r . * a y s > h might last for ten years,
na a war would give England possession of
lh pr eby, make her a dangerous
i _ i ur tutfia -wMahnn frontier ot theljTTiTin
it has heen suggested in the debate,
c* ’ “ n? th * t can nPVf ’ r happen. Britain has
" r " IV *' R ' ,rpre ' i na< T-. France and Russia
' tv ficteti’ so gross an act of
treachery and cupidity. But France alone,
with her superior naval power, and her superi
or skill :n engineering, would successfully re
sist the attempt.
March 3.
Both Houses of Congrees are in session.
They adjourned about 3 o’clock, t this morning,
and met again at ten.
The fVnr Bill, or rather the hill to author
i ize and enable the President to repel invasion
! passed the ffo'ise, last nitrlit, bv nearly an unan
imous vote, and was, immediately, and without
1 debate, unanimous h/ passed by the Senate.
The bill is a sufficiently strong and efficient
lone. The second section was stricken out;.
: hut, in lieu of it, provision was inserted, au
tl.ori/.ing the President, in case of an actual
I invasion or imminent danger thereof, to accept l
1 the services of Jifljj thousand volunteers. It al
so appropriates a million of dollars to forti-;
1 fictitious on the Northern frontier, in case the |
President deem them necessary. It also au
thorizes him to borrow ten millions of dollars;
to employ the army and navy of the United
Slates, and to send a special minister to En
gland. ‘
Mr. Howard, of Maryland, Chairman of the
Committee of Foreign Affairs, will, it is said,
receive the appointment of Special Minister.
There were hut six votes in the House, j
| against the engrossment of the bill. It will
show the British Government that there is a j
| determination, on the part of the people of this j
country, to maintain the right to the territo-I
rv in dispute, and to bring that dispute to a ;
\ close; and mav he the means of preventing a .
war between the two countries.
| The State of Maine, by her own rashness
and imprudence, may however, by possibility, j
1 put herself in the wrong. She may, without
w aiting for the termination of the negociation,!
and without respect to the admonition of the j
President, proceed to take possession of the i
disputed territory by force of arms, urul thus j
become the aggressor. In this case, I have
no idea that the United States will consider
themselves bound to go to war for the protec
tion of Maine. The right of making war is
in Congress, and if a State usurp it she must j
make the war on her own hook. It is clear i
enough that one State cannot drag the whole |
Union into war.
[From the National Intelligencer.]
Just before closing our paper \vc re
ceived from our Reporter a copy of the
! following highly important Executive Com
munication, which’ we hasten to lay be
fore our readers, leaving every one to form
his own judgement as to the hope it holds
out of a speedy and specific termination ,
of our diliicultics in Maine-
Washington, Fi;b. 27, 1831).
To the 1 louse, of Representatives of the
( nit id States:
I transmit to Congress copies of vari-'
ous other documents received from the |
Governor of Maine, relating to the dis
pute between that State atul the province j
of New Brunswick, which formed thei
subject oftny Message ofthe'JGth inst. and j
also a copy of a memorandum signed by
the Secretary of the United States and;
Her B ritanuic Majesty’s Envov Extraor
dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary near
the United States, of the terms upon
which it is believed all collision can be
I avoided on the frontier, consistently with
i and respecting the claims on either side!
As the British Minister acts without spe
! citic authority from his Government, it
will he observed that this memorandum
has hut the force of recommendation on
the Provincial authorities and on the Gov
ernment of the State.
I M. VAN BUREN.
M E MOHAN HUM.
Her Majesty’s authorities consider it
to have been understood and agreed upon
by the two Governments that the territory
in dispute between Great Britain and tlie
United States, on the Northeastern fron
tier, should remain exclusively under
British jurisdiction until the final settle
ment of the boundary question.
The United States Government have
not understood the above agreement in the
same sense, but consider, on the con
trary, that there has been no agreement
whatever for the exercise, by Great Bri
tain, of exculsive jurisdiction over the
disputed territory or any portion thereof,
but a mutual understanding that, pending
the negotiation, the jurisdiction then ex
ercised by either party, over small por
tions of the territory in dispute, should
not be enlarged, but be continued merely
for the preservation of local tranquillity
and the public property, both forbearing
as far as practicable to exert any authori
ty, and when any should be exercised by
either, placing upon the conduct of each
other the most favorable construction.
A complete understanding upon the
question, thus placed at issue, of present
jurisdiction, can only b arrived at by
friendly discussion between the Govern
ments of the United States and Great Bri
tain; and, as it is confidently hoped that
there will be an early settlement of the
question, this subordinate point of differ
ence can be of but little moment,
j It) the mean time the Governor of the
! Province of New Brunswick and the Gov
ernment of the Slate of Maine will act
■as follows: Her Majesty’s officers wilt
I not seek to expel by military force the
armed party which has been sent by
Maine into the district bordering on the
Aroostook river; but the Government of
Maine will voluntarily, and without need
less delay, withdraw beyond the bounds
of the disputed territory any armed force
j now within them; and, if future necessity
should arise for dispersing notorious tres-
I passers, or protecting public property from
j depredation by armed force, the opera-j
J tion shall be conducted by concert, joirit
jljLPr separately, according to agreements .
between the Governments of Maine and
; New Brunswick.
The civil officers in the service, res
pectively, of New Brunswick and Maine
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
| who have been taken into custody by the
opposite parties, shall he released.
Nothing in this memorandum shall he
construed to fortify or to weaken in
any respect whatever the claim of either
party to the ultimate possession of the
disputed territory.
The Minister Plenipotentiary of her
Britannic Majesty having no specific au
thority to make any arrangement on the
subject, the undersigned can only recom
mend, as tLey now earnestly do, to the
Governments of New Brunswick and
Maine, to regulate their future proceed
ings according to the terms hereinbefore set
forth, until the final settlement of the ter
ritorial dispute, or until the Governments j
of the United States and Great Britain,
shall come to some definitive conclusion ;
on the subordinate point upon which they
are now at issue.
JOHN FORSYTH, Secretary
of State of the United States of
North America.
II S. FOX,//. 11. M. Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plen
ipotentiary.
Washington, February 27,1839.
BORDER TROUBLES.
New York, Feb. 28.
From Maine. —Our intelligence from
the “seat of war,” this morning, amounts
to hut little. The dates arc from Augusta
to the 23th, and from the Aroostook to
22d inclusive. Mr. Jarvis has] divided
his force, consisting of about 700 men, in
to tlirce bodies, with one of.which he had
gone to the Fislt River, to look after tres
passers, while a second was to go down
the Aroostook to the mouth of the Little
Mad awaska, and the third to remain at
‘4No. 10.” The Britisli were exceedingly
quiet, in flic vicinity of the disputed terri
tory, and no attack from them was ex
pected.
Col. McLaughlin, the New Brunswick
warden, had concluded to give the parole
required of him, and was to leave Bangor
on Monday.
A gentleman from Woodstock had
brought information that Sir John Harvey
would take no decisive step, until after the
arrival of advises from the British minister
at Washington.
The Boston Daily Advertiser of the 28th
ult. says:—By the eastern mail of last eve
ning, we learn that the Maine army had
moved forward in the disputed territory
to the junction of Aroostook, and Little
Aroostook Rivers, this being a point
where the trespassers had been cutting
timber.
It was expected that the Maine troops
would proceed to the mouth of the Mada
waska, and there establish themselves.
■ It was reported that there were about
| 300 British regulars opposite the mouth
of the Aroostook, on the eastern side of
St. John. The number of this detacli-
I incut has been heretofore stated at 200,
consisting of tlie troops vvliiclt were in
j garrison at Frederickton. There will
| probably be no fighting at present.
New York, March 5.
The Eastern mail to-day brings us la
ter advices from the disputed territory,
;No man’s land. The most interesting
items lire herewith subjoined.
The Portland Argus of Saturday, con
tains the following advices from the Aroos
took:
It is stated here on the authority of a
gentleman direct from Houlton, who had
his information from one of Madam
subjects, that the detachment mentioned a
few days ago, as having heen sent for
ward to Fish River, were met by a gang
,of 50 Trespassers, well armed, and en
! sconced behind a temporary fortification.
: They offered no resistance however. Ele
ven of them, and all their teams were ta
ken. The rest of the interlopers took to
the woods and escaped.”
j 'l’lte Portland Courier, of Saturday eve
ning says: —
; “We learn from a gentleman direct
from the frontier, that things were in a
very quiet state and that the prevailing
opinion was that there would he no col
lision between the different powers, al
though the Provincial troops were mov
j ing towards the disputed territory. It is
also stated that provisions are exceeding
ly scarce in the Provinces.”
i A letter from Houlton, dated Feb. 28th,
says that the whole of the Maine force
had gone down the river, and were build
ing a fort near Fitsherhert’s. It was al
so stated that a regiment of 500 men had
arrived at the Madawaska settlement from
Quebec, hut they were ordered to New
Brunswick, before the outbreak.
An express passed through Woodstock
1 for Frederickton, with information that a
! company of volunteers, of 25 men, under
| Capt. George Btickmore, the surveyor
employed by Massachusetts and Maine,
had captured 5 men, 8 oxert, and 4 hors
es on Fislt river, and brought them into
camp.
I A gentleman from woodstock reports
that the militia are gathering on the fron
tier. Only 240 regulars were at Wood
stock, with 7 pieces of artillery.
Bangor, March 1,1839.
Letters have just come in by the Ex
press line of Videttes ten hours nnd twen
ty minutes from Houlton, a distance ol
120 miles, the Head Quarters of Gen.
| Hodsdon—one of them is from Col. John
| L. Hodsdon ofthe general’s staff’, and com
municates the important intelligence that
a regiment of 800 Fusiliers had arrived
at Halifax from Cork, and were ordered
to he at Frederickton on Wednesday last
and to proceed forthwith to the disputed
territory.
Col. Webster reports the arrival of 500
British troops from Quebec, at Madawas
ka village—having been ordered to New
Brunswick before the difficulties com
menced. This is all the news to night.
In the Massachusetts Legislature, on
Friday, March Ist, the first resolve, re
affirming the right of Maine and Massa
chusetts to the disputed territory, passed,
unanimously, yeas 29. The second, ap-J
proving the resolution of Jail. 24, and ■
the proceedings of Maine in preventing
depredations, passed 18 to 11. The third
resolve, denying the claim of Great Bri-1
tain to exclusive jurisdiction, passed 28 j
to 1. The fourth pledging Massachusetts
in all necessary Constitutional measures,
to co-operate with Maine, passed 2S to 1.
A correspondent of the Boston Courier, j
under date of Iloullon, Feb. 27th, says
there was then raging a violent snow storm,
which it was thought would impede the'
progress of the six or eight hundred mili
tia of Bangor on their march to Houlton.
The Portland Courier of Friday even
ing says—
“ Gov. Fairfield’s answer to Sir John
Harvey’s letter, in which Sir John Harvey
claims exclusive jurisdiction over the dis
puted territory, created something of a
stir at Frederickton; in less than an hour
after it was received, a special message
was on its way to Washington with des
patches to the British minister.
Henry Clay.; —The recent noble stand
of this distinguished statesman and gener
ous patriot, in defence of the South, the
Constitution and the Union has brought
down on him a torrent of denunciation and
vulgar abuse, from the rabid corps of abo
litionists. A correspondent has furnished
us with the following specimen of their
tnad-dog violence, directed in common a
gainst the great man of the West nnd the
great man of the South. [Charleston
Courier.
Compliment of G arrison, the arch-abo
litionist, to Henry Clay and John C.
C\ LllOt’N.
The Liberator (Garrison’s paper,) re
publishes Mr. Clay’s speech, and follows
it up with the Globe’s attack, which phi
lippic is approved by the Abolitionists.—
This is an item worth treasuring up in the
memory.
In order that our readers may see the
furious spirit of the Abolition organ to
wards Mr. Clay, we copy its remarks on
the speech.
Henry Clay.— The length of the speech
jof this desperate politician, profligate
statesman, and impudent slave-driver—in
addition to other articles which we have
lin type, and cannot easily omit—renders
I all comment in our present number im
practicable. Its sophistry is as contemp
j tilde as its morality is licentious and its
I spirit base. It is now certain that he can
i never he the President of the U. States!
[ O the ineffable meanness, the transcendent
impiety, the horrid inhumanity of that
enemy of God and of his race! As for
the exultation of that other man-monster,
John C. Calhoun, over this speech, can
any thing be more ludicrous or delusive?
We can assure that man that his joy will
!he turned into grief very shortly! The
i speech of Mr. Clay will bring the largest
; amount of grist into the abolition mill
i that we have ground for a long time!
Military Preparation. The hill
which has been reported in the House of
Representatives relating to the Boundary
Troubles authorises the raising of the
following troop:
10 Regiments of Infantry.
2 Regiments of Artillery.
2 Regiments of Riflemen.
1 Regiment of Cavalry.
The troops to be raised, if necessary,
and discharged if necessary, during the
recess of Congress —to enlist for five
years, and to serve for that time or dur
i tng the war, if war there should be.
The troops are to be a provisionary
army, to he employed by the President of
the United States to repel invasion. The
possession ol the disputed territory by
British soldiers, according to the claim
and determination set up by Sir John
Harvey, is to he considered an invasion.
Calacita, Till: Slave.— The parties in
this case met yesterday morning pursuant
to adjournment, at the Recorder's Cham
bers. The Recorder delivered a lengthy
opinion, the chief point of which, Itoivev
i er, was, “that persons held in slavery un
der a foreign Government, are under iho
laws of Congress, in fact, free on touching
the soil of tiie United States,” and the wo
man, Calacita, (present in Court) was de
clared free accordingly.
The woman was then informed that she
I could herself select whether to remain here
or return to her master. With much ap
parent joy she replied, that “Site had, in
Porto Rico, a husband, father and mother,
and kind master, and her choice was to
return to them again.” She then return
-1 ed to the charge of the infant Pepita.
[N. Y. Express.
Coroner’s Inquest. —A Coroner’s In
quest was held this morning over the body
of a man named Frederick Glysner. a
German, who was found dead last night,
with a knife sticking in his left breast, in
Pine-street, onejof the streets running from
West Broad to Fahm-strcet. The* Jury
came to the following Y’erihct: That the
deceased catno to his death by a stab from
a Dark Knife, inflicted by some persons
unknown.—[Savannah Republican.
Texas. —By the arrival at New Orleans
of the steam packet Columbia fromGalvis
ton, Houston papers of the 20lh ult. were
received.
Bexar was quite tranquil, and the trade
with the interior was rapidly increasing.
The disturbance in Mexico and the French
war had given rise to a very lucrative com
merce with Mexican settlers on the Rio
Grande.
The northern frontier of Texas is said
to he nearly in a tranquil state —and the
Telegraph says the planters in that quar
ter have little to apprehend from the in
cursions of the savages.
The Telegraph states that there are prob
ably 500 men in Houston waiting for em
ployment, and advises them to turn their
hands to agriculture. It says one man in
that way realizes 84,000 a year in raising
cotton, corn and potatoes. During the
last two years cotton has been worth from
50 to 70 dollars per bale, current money—
potatoes 2 to 83 per bushel, and corn 83
per bushel.—[Savannah Repub.
I TheHEnglish papers give the statement
of a distinguished officer, (Sir John Bar
row,) showing the comparative strength of
the British navy and those of France, Eng
land, America, Ac.
The English ships of the line are stated
1 to be 90, of French, 49; of Russia 50; U.
States, 15.
The English frigates number 93; French,
GO; Russian, 25; American, 35.
The English steamships of war, 12;
French, 37; Russian, 8; American, 1;
building 9.
<
j Upper Canada—Wholesale Condem
nation.—We learn through the Montre
! al Herald of the 21st instant, that one hun
dred and eighty persons have been sen
' tenced to dentil by two courts martial—
j 137 at Fort Henry, and 43 at London—
j the time and place of execution to he left
to the Lieut. Gov. and twenty four of the
| condemned recommended to the ‘merci
! ful consideration of the Lieutenant Gov
! ernor.’ Three persons tried before the
! court at Fort Henry, and one at London,
i were acquitted of the offence of which the
j rest were convicted—that of “having been
unlawfully and traitorously in arms n
gainst our Lady the Queen” —[Alb. Ar
gus.
Tiie new Jersey Legislature has
repealed the law to encourage the cul
ture of silk in that state. In a minority
report the following syllogistic argument
was used against the law.
Bread is the staff’of life; but Silk is the
pride of life.
It is more proper to furnish the staff" of
life, than to promote the pride of life.
Ergo, it is more proper to encourage
the promotion of Bread than of Silk.
This was considered equally as good if
not better logic than the celebrated syl
logism of Joe Miller, whereby he proved
; that a cat had three tails.
Texas vs. Duelling.— The grand jury
lof the county of Harrisburg in Texas,
■ his presented the savage custom of duel
ling. Speaking of the duellist, this pre
sentment says:
“We take the high and elevated ground
that a duellist is a murderer in every sense
! of the term, and deserves to have stamped
upon his brow, a brand black and burning
! is was placed by the Great Jehovah on the
! guilty (Jain. 11 is constant practice for the
J purpose ot making himself a proficient in
the use of weapons to be handled in deadlv
combat, fixes upon him the charge of mal
ice aforethought. He has not the excuse
| of the culprit arraigned at the bar for man
| slaughter, because the law does, as it ever
j must, make some allowance for the weak
ness of human frailty and the force of hu
man passions.”
Singular Contest — Battle with an En
gle.—Tuesday last was a very disagreea
ble day. The wind blew a hurricane, the
! driving snow filled the air and the weatli
!er was immensely cold. A young man
saw an eagle alight near the barn, in which
lie was at work, at the corner of Pin i
and South Division streets, apparently
fatigued and seeking shelter from the
storm, lie threw a little stick at the royal
bird and as that did not startle him, con
-1 ceived the hold idea of taking him alive.
With no other arms than those with which
nature had provided him, he advanced
towards the eagle, which immediately at
tacked him, striking at him with its beak,
wings and tallons. The young man de
fended himself with his fists, and the bat
tle lasted for ten or fifteen minutes, when
the eagfe flew off a short distance nnd
alighted. Again the youth advanced, and
again the eagle attacked him, with the
same result as before, and this was re
peated a number of times.
Ihe contest lasted three hours and a
half and the eqgle was finally secured with
out injury, and brought to the city. It
was a bald eagle of large size, measuring
nine feet from the tip of one wing to that of
the other. The young man was wound
ed in several places by the claws of the
| eagle, and received many severe blows
from its beak and wings. A number of
i times during the contest the eagle rose
in the air to a considerable height, and
then made a rapid descent at his face;
and he several times thought the “eagle
would “get the better of him.” When
he succeeded in capturing him they were
nearly a mile and a half from the place
where the contest commenced, and ha
was nearly exhausted from protracted ex
ertion. lie says he would not again will
ingly risk a similar battle.—[Buffalo Mer
.cury.
Discipline.— When Kiebkr was in E
gypt, he Unstained, during five hours, with
only two thousand men, the united efforts
of twenty thousand. He was nearly sur
rounded, was wounded, and had only a
narrow defile by which to escape. In this
extremity he called to him a chief de bat
talion, named Chevardin, for whom he
had a particular regard. “Take,” said he
to him “a company of granadiers, and stop
the enemy at the ravine; you will be killed,
hut you will save your comrades.” “Yes,
general,” replied Chevardin. lie gave
his watch and pocket book to his servant,
executed the order, and his death, in fact,
arrested the enemy and saved the French.
The Good of Wanting a Nose.—A
man who has lost his nose, says ail old
Scotch journal, has peculiar advantages;
he cannot follow his nose, but then he
cannot be poking it into every thing. He
cannot blow his nose, but then he saves
pocket handkerchiefs. He cannot be stuff
ed up in the nose, hut then he cannot take
snuff, which is, however, another advant
age. If he goes to sleep, you cannot
tickle his nose; and when lie is awake, he
cannot run his nose against a post. Let
him drink hard, he never will have a
red nose, and ever be exposed to the nick
name of nosey; and let him be as imperti
nent as he will, he may defy you to pull
his nose. ‘Sir,’ said a man to another
with a false nose, ‘l’ll pull your nose.’—
‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I shall put my nose in my
pocket.’
Laziness. —One fiery day, a farmer
went forth to his mowing lot, where he
had hired half a dozen hands to cut down
the grass. He came upon them suddenly,
and found them all lying down under an
apple tree. “Well!” said the indignant
farmer, “I’ll give an extra half dollar to
the laziest fellow amongst ye!” All jump
ed upon their feet to claim the donation,
but one man, who laid still. “Ah!” said
the farmer, “that fellow has won the mon
ey. Here, my lad, take the money.” To
which indolence answered, “Won’t yon
please put it in my pocket.”—[Boston
Times.
The Pastor’s Watch. —At this mo
ment a prison in France contains, for the
third time, a young .shepherd, whose sev
eral convictions have arisen from a most
curious propensity. In his eye the huge
silver watch of the pastor was the sum
mom bonum of human happiness. Night
and day were his thoughts fixed on his
ideal treasure; and the desire to possess
that jewel of his imagination grew to sucli
a degree that three several times was the
watcli found in the possession of the young
thief, who, when questioned, declared
that his attachment to tiie watch had
grown with his growth, from his earliest
years. Ilis first knowledge of the covet
ed treasure was in infancy, when the kind
pastor, in a pious visit to his parents,
held the watch to his ear that the sound
might attract; from that time, to all re
monstrances on the folly of his wish, the
only reply he ever made was, “I will
have it.” The good pastor has never
been a consenting party to his convictions,
and even went so far as to offer him a
new watch, much better than his own,
which he would not yield, it having be
longed to his father. Before the last at
tempt, the pastor said, “Wait a while, my
son. lam old—l shall soon go; then I
will leave you the watch;” hut the words
were useless: as usual the reply was, “I
will have it!”
Female Heroism. —lnstances of hero
ism in women have occasionally occurred
in modern times somewhat resembling that
ol the ancient Amazons. But there were
years and countries in which their warlike
spirit appeared with particular lustre: such
were the displays it made in the fifeenth
and sixteenth centuries in Hungary, and
in the islands of the Archipelago and
Mediterranean, when they were invaded
by the Turks. Among the striking in
stances of Amazonian conduct in modern
ladies, may be mentioned that of Jane of
Belleville, widow of M. de Clisson who
was beheaded in the year 1348, on a sus
picion of carrying on a correspondence
with England nnd the Count de Montford.
The lady, filled with grief for the death
of her husband, and exasperated at the ill
treatment which she considered him to
have received, sent off her son, secretly,
to London, and, when her apprehensions
were removed with respect to him, she
sold her jewels, fitted out three ships, and
put to sea, to revenge the death of her
husband upon all thq French whom she
should meet. This new corsair made
several descents upon Normandy, where
she stormed many of the castles; and the
inhabitants were spectators, more that*
once, while their villages were in a blaze,
of one of the finest womeu in Europe,
with a sword in one hand and a torch in
the other, urging the carnage, and eyeing
with pleasure all the horrors of war.
Petit has given it as his opinion, that
there is a great difficulty in governing
the women, even at present, though they
are unarmed and unpractised in war; it
cannot, therefore, he considered a sub
ject of regret, that the race of the Ama
zons has ceased to exist.
Maxims for Boys.—Be vicious and
you cannot he happy; be virtuous and you
cannot be miserable*
All good and great nten in the world
have been boys, and why should not all
boys become good and great men?
The man depends on the boy; the peace
of to-morrow on the actions of to-day.