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The. Coiistilutioii and Fortifiers.
“;Thg only work which -the
Consti tu tion"does id regard to foreign
ers is to proscribe; we repeat it lor
the word is so unfashionable now -a
days that wheu used it ought to be
cmphasized—TO UKOsCKiUE, The Con
stitution. lias but five clauses touching!
the subject, hour of them are imhib- i
Hory, and the other simply permissive, j
There isno guaranteeing clause, what- j
ever. We must be pardoned for re
calling the very language of the Con
stitution, for this progressive genera
tion is fast losing sight of even the
plainest features of that document:
Section 5, Article 11, of the Con
stitution, sayS —
“No person, except a natl'kal horn \
citizen, or a citizen of the United {
•States at the time of the adoption of!
this Constitution, shall be eligible .to !
the office of President.”
That is proscription.
Section 8 <*f ArttcTe' XTI. of the
-CVriistitution says—
“ No person Constitutionally ineligi
ble to the office of President, shall be
eligible to that, of Vice President of
the United States.’'
That is proscription.
Section 8 of Article f. says
“ snau oe senator who
shall not have attained the age of thir
ty years, and been nine tears a cit
izen of the United States.”
That is proscription.
Section 2 of Article I. says—
“No person shall be a Kepresenta
tive who shall not have attained the age !
of 'twenty-live years, and been seven
YEARS A CITIZEN.”
That is proscription.
These are disabilities imposed upon
foreigners after they have been made
citizens. Put more than this the Con
stitution leaves it discretionary whether
to make them citizens at all. It sim
ply confers the power, simply permits.
Section 8 of Article I. says — 1
“Congress shall have power to es
tablish a uniform rule of naturaliza-!
lion, and uniform laws on the subject !
of bankruptcies throughout the United
States.”
Nothing whatever obliges Congress
to exercise this power, or restricts its
range in either direction when if is
exercised. Congress may require two
years previous residence, as was re-,
quired by the act of 1760; or five
years, as by the acts of 1705 and 1802 ;
or fourteen years, as by the act of
1708; or twenty-one years as is now
demanded ; or it may withhold natu
ralization entirely. The question is
purely one. of expediency. It is ab
surd to talk of constitutional rights or
constitutional guarantees in connection
with it." —Courier & Enquirer.
Hear limiting.
The following singular means of cap
turing or killing the bear is said to be
frequently practiced by Russian peas
ants, who cannot easily procure fire
arms. As is well known, the bear has
n fondue** for honey, and will track
his way for * great distance to where
the wild bee* have filled some hollow
tree. , Their sting cannot hurt him,
and they and their stores are entirely
at his mercy.
In a forest known to contain bears*
*>.c hunters examine all the hollow
5 trees, til! they discover * wild bee
hive. A branch of the tree is then
chosen, directly over the hole; if there
be no such branch a peg is driven into
the trunk. To this peg a-strong cord
is fastened, and to the end es the cord
a heavy »to*e or cannon ball is sus
pended, at about a half a foot from the
ground; the bear in his researches
comes upon the treasure of honey.-
The pendulous barrier obstructs 'and
•incommodes him a good deal; lie is
an irritable brute—in such cases one
of the most irritable as well as stupid
in the forest.
He begins by shoving the stone or
weight aside; but itpresses against his
head, and he gives it a slight knock to
free himself from the inconvenience.
It recoils a moment and he receives a
slight lapt* on the ear.
His temper is roused, and lie amain
nushes off the hard and heavy mass',
but more violently; he gets rather a
severer blow on the side of the skull,
on its return. ’
lie pecomes furious, and with a pow
erful jerk sends the roek swinging
•it way. c
The pendulum cannot be the first
to tire of this game; and it is a game
in which the blows, arc felt 61 1 one
side exclusively.
J he bear alone suffers, and the point is
tliat he seff rs as much by the strokes
ne gives; as by those lie gets. Jle
tab's double punishment, if is very
retaliations are all against himself';
and for every furious push which
makes his skull ache, he receives an
immediate equivalent, whieh makes it
ache again.
t At last his rage is unbounded; lie
hugs the block; lie strikes it; lie
bites it; but whenever he would
thrust hi- head into the hive, back on
his ear falls the obstruction, against
whieh neither Iris terrible hug. nor the
blows of his paw are of any avail.
The brute, is maddened. ' ife faces
-li is arrange*find pertinacious tormentor,
and once more makes it rebound from
'hi# skull. But back;it swings like a
’curse, which returns upon the head
from which it started. The- bear falls
'exhaite^'under these reiterated
blows; one/more violent than another;
•and if he be not dead, the hunters,'
who have watched Jiis- singular con
test front thgif hidden, place- soon tffp'
patch him-. ' y
.
It is common to speak of thus; whom,
a flirt has jilted as her victims, 'This,'
: »s a grave error. Her ,rsal viet'm is
the man whoui she accepts. This re
minds us of a simile we saw somewhere:
A coquette ’is a. ips<s from wliie.h every
lover plucks a leaf—rtlm’.thorn, remains
for her future husband.’
Governor iHulon on Duelling.
■ "PIT If
I’IiOM HIS LATE MESSAGE.
q&ir ' .■ w * • u 1 :
A prominent ami besotting evil of
the times is the practice of duelling,
whichfVcqueutly shipwrecks the peace
of families, and dc»siroys*t.he lives ot
useful members of society: In these
eases false notions of honof are array
ed against the dictates of morality, the
prescriptions of Jaw, and the 'injunc
tions of religion. The extermination
of this modern hydra has been found
more difficult than the physical hydra
of antiquity. The severity of penal
inflictions has been rendered nugatory
by the want of certainty; and chi vat
ic folly has prostrated the most sacred
considerations. The failure of past
preventives ought not to deter from
the application of new expedients, i f
public opinion is unable to arrest this
aggravated evil, the arm of the law
ought to be stretched forth, lull of ter
ror and replete with punishment. The
most effectual prescription heretofore
applied, was the requirement of an
oath from every person entering into
office that- lie would not be concerned
in duyllmg; but this having been abol
ished! by the new constitution, other
measures must be pursued. As most
duels lake place out of the State, might
it notihave a preventing effect, to di
rect ajl magistrates to make strict in
quiry' into the charges and in their
Uw.-ciion to Imprison tlrcr-trftbnder, un
til notice can be. given to the executive
| of the state in whiah the .crime was
committed, so that lie might make the
constitutional requisition for their being
delivered up for punishment? And if
a homicide of this character is perpe
trated, may it not be advisable to con
sider it so in the state where the per
son dies, as well as in that where the
wound was indicted? Most ducks are
brought to a fatal termination by the
misconduct of seconds, who, in the
confidence of self-security, and in the
headlong career of demented quixot
ism, close the door against reconcilia
tion ; and they ought, therefore, to be
visited by exemplary punishment, es
pecially in challenges ending in duels,
and when homicides have taken place
out of our jurisdiction. What is now
adjudged only a misdemeanor, or a
breach of the peace, ought to be deem
ed a felon v ;py] subjected to .punish
ment in our state prisons. And, by
such energetic measures, it is earnestly
to be hoped that this disgraceful evil
and liigli-handed offence may be ex
pelled from our country. —1888.
An Egyptian Lady.
She wore, first, a chemise of some
thin, white material, with loose sleeves,
embroidered round the-edge, hanging
over her hands ; then a large, pair of
crimson silk trowsers, so long and
wide, that they entirely concealed her
bare feet; then came a garment like
the Turkish a/i cm*, descending to the
feet before, hanging in a train behind,
and opening at the sides, with long
sleeves open from the wrist to the el
bow'. and foiling back so as to display
those of, the chemise beneath. This
dress was made of crimson damask,
and embroidered all round the edge
with black braiding, and was confined
—not at the wrist, but over the hips—
with an Indian shawl, wound two
or three times round, and Lotted be
fore. The last Was a jacket, reaching
only to the waist, with half sleeves,
made of exceedingly rich stuff of
dark blue silk, embroidered all over,
in a running pattern, with gold, and
edged with, gold braiding and buttons.
Three large silver amulet-cases, con
taining charms, were hung over the
shawl-girdle.
The head-dress is the prettiest part
of the Egyptian costume and Sofia’s
was exceedingly rich. Her hair was
divided into twenty or thirty small
braids, hanging over her shoulders, to
the end of which arc affixed three silk
cords strung with gold coins of various
sizes. Two rows of gold coins, as
large as half-crown pieces laid close
together, encircled her forehead; and
at each temple depended smaller
ones, with an agate ornament in the
middle. The back of the head was
covered with a small Egyptian Ecz s
ornamented with a large Ckoors of sol
id gold and bound on by a handker
chief of embroidered crape. She wore
two lecklaces of large gold coins,
thickly strung together, and each in
dividual piece of money depending
from a massiTc ornament in lh» form
of a fish; one of these necklaces was
long, and the other just encircled her
throat; and between them was a
string of beads of Egpvtian agates, as
large as birds’ eggs, and strung togeth
er with golden links. Her ear rings
were of gold filigree, in the shape of
flowers ; and her bracelets—of which
she wore several—of massive gold and
silver. "We computed that she car
ried about three hundred and fifty
pounds on her person, in coins alone,
without including her other orna
ments.—-Mrs. Homer's Pilgrimage
The Washington correspondent of
the Baltimore Snn learns that “ the
joint commissioner now in London for
the adjustment of claims of the citizens
of either country on the other, have
rejected all the claims of the citizens
made on account of damage's sustained
by detention of Keizurc of American
vessels supposed to be engaged in the
slave trade ; and also all claims for slaves
wrecked oh British Islands and dischar
ged by British authorities as free.”
The Claim for indemity for slaves set
free by the* authorities of Nassau, on
the occasion of the vessel on which
they were on board being driven into
that port by stress of weather, was de
fended by Mr. Webster in an admira
ble paper, on the ground that the flag
of the United States covered tflifeir prop
erty iif every part of the world, and
that the .principle did not lose its force
and application when property in slaves
w jus parried by stress of weather into
the port of a friendly pow*r. The
Southern Suites will hear of the above
decision with surprise if not iiidigjv
t ion.—.. I lUinlfy Intelligencer.
Disquietude,
|)i\ ph aimers says: “If the most
anxious and unhappy men in the
world were examined as to the ground
of their disquietude, it would be found
in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases
out of every otic thousand, that the
provision of this day was not the
ground of it. They carry their irnag
in’at-ibns to a distant futurity, and fill
it up with the spectres of melancholy
and despair. What a world of unhap
piness would be saved, if the things
of this day, its duties, employments
and services were to all hearts,
and the issues of the’ future committed
m quietness to God, trusting that when
the day comes the provisions of the
day will come along with it.”
The scriptures say “sufficient unto
the day is tlio evil thereof”—and fur
ther, t hat “one thing is set over against
another,” and a thoughtful person can
derive comfort from these considera
tions. If every day dotli have its care,
hath not every care its day?”
We are too prone to shun the pres
ent moment, and not enjoy it, when
in fact that time is all we claim as our
own. We look forward for more sat
isfaction than this present day affords
to us, and backwards to bemoan past
time as having been more agreeable,
when the truth is, that when this past
time was present time, it found us in
no better temper for favorable think
ing ot rnjnymPTit, than now. The
trials and temptations' of that period
are made dim by distance, but its viv
id recall will show at once the futility,
not to say the wrongfulness, of com
plaint while passing through our pres
ent day.
The wind is tempered to the shorn
lamb, and many having passed through
affliction will, if candid, admit that
they found it true then, but, inconsis
tently think that the next trouble will
find them unprepared to withstand the
blow. Our Father in Heaven has more
kindly disposed of his gifts, and in
more equal proportion, than any earth
ly father has the wisdom, however
strong the will, to do.
Live Within Your Means. —We
don’t like stinginess. We don’t \[\~p c
economy, when it comes down A rags
a n 'l starvation. Yv e have no s3-mpa
ihy with the notion that the poor man
should hitch himself to a post and stand
still, while the rest of the world moves
forward. It is no man’s duty to deny
himself every amusement, every luxu
ry, every recreation, every comfort
that lie may get rich. It is no man’s
duty to make an iceberg of himself,
to shut his eyes and ears to the suf
ferings of his fellows, and to deny
himself the enjoyment that results
from generous actions, merely that he
may hoard wealth for his heirs to
quarrel about. But there is an econo
my which is every man’s duty, and
which .is especially commendable in
the man who struggles with poverty—
an economy which is consistent with
happiness, and which must be prac
tised if the poor man. would secure in
dependence.
it is almost every man’s privilege,
and it becomes his duty to live within
his means; not up to, but within them.
Wealth does not make the man, we ad
mit, and should never be taken into
the account in our judgement of men;
but competence should always be se
cured when it can be, by the practice
of economy and self-denial to only a
tolerable extent. It should be secur
ed, not so much for others to look
upon, or to raise us in the estimation
of others, as to secure the conscious
ness of independence, and the con
stant satisfaction which is derived from
its acquirement and possession.
The Human Systeih.
How few are in the habit of reflect
ing upon the skill arid wisdom dis
played in their formation. In the hu
man system arc 415 bones, each hav
ing, 40 distinct intentions, or functions
to fulfill; 256 muscles, and each of
them having 10 different intentions.
Besides the tendons, ligaments, nerves,
veins, and glands of the body, ihere
are not less than 1,500,000 membran
ous cells connected with the lungs;
More than 200,000,000,000 pores in the
skin, through which perspiration is
constantly flowing, and above 1,000,-
000,000 scales which compose the cuti
cle skin of the body. There are also
the compound organs of life—the brain,
the heart, the liver, the spleen, kidneys,
the intestines, the organs of sense,
with their varied connexions; the
blood, the bile, the lymph, the saliva,
the chyle, &c. &c.
The astonishing ramification of the
nerves and veins through the system
may be gathered from the fact, that the
least puncture, though made by the
smallest possible instrument (the sting
of a gnat, for instance) will draw
blood and produce pain—a pi’oof that
both nerve and vein have been struck.
Rev. N. M. Crawford. —We learn
from one of the Trustees of Mercer
University, that this gentleman has
been unanimously elected President of
that Institution, and that he has ac
cepted the appointment. — Allah. Intel.
Sad OcoiniKENOK.— Mr. Israel Jones,
a clever and respected citizen of this
county, came to his death on Monday
last, in a very sad and unexpected man
ner. While engaged in his business
on the farm of Capt. A. S. Wingfield,
where lie was employed as an overseer,
lie skipped down to examine the foot
of afmule, that gave indications of
lameness, when a pistol, which lie had
in li is breast pocket, fell to the ground,
fired rind discharged its contents into
his breast,immediately in the region
of the heart. A messenger was im
mediately despatched for medical aid,
but lie expired a few minutes after the
occurrence of dip sad accident. Mr.
.Jones, we boll eve," was a native of
NoHliJaroflna, and lyad resided but a
short time in this'enunty.
The above is another of the many
eloquent; commentaries upon the prac
tice of carrying deadly weapons.—
Wilkes Pmniblicqh. j
Prayer of Joseph, Efiperor of Ger
many.
The Emperor was a Freemason, and
the following was his beautiful'prayer
—truly masonic—which we extract
from an old work, under the title of
“Joseph’s Praver-book.” • A spirit of
unbounded charity, which is the es
sence of true religion, breathes through
the whole
Oh thou eternal, iueouiprihensible
Being! who art the fountain of mercy
and the source of love ! thy sun lights
equally the Christian and the Atheist;
thy showers equally nourish the fields
of believers and infidels; the seed of
virtue is found even in the heart of
the impious and heroic. From thee 1
learn, therefore, that diversity of opin
ion does not prevent thee from being
a beneficent father to all mankind.
Shall I, then, thy feeble creature, be
less indulgent? Shall I not permit
my subjects to adore thee in what man
ner they please? Shall I persecute
those who differ with me in point of
thinking? Shall I spread my religion
with the point of the sword ? Oh,
•thou! whose mighty power and ineffa
ble love embrace the universe, grant
that such erroneous principles may
never harbor in my breast. I will try
to be like thee in all that human effort
can approach infinite perfection. I
will be as indulgent as thou to all
whose tenets differ from mine; and
all unnatural compulsion in point of
conscience shall be banished forever
from my kingdom.
Where is the religion that does not
instruct us to love virtue and detest
vice? Let all religions, therefore be
tolerated. Let ail mankind pay their
worship to thee, thou eternal being!
in the manner thou thinkest best. Hoes
an error in judgment deserve an. ex
pulsion from society? And is force
the proper way to win the heart, or
bring the wavering mind to a true sense
of religion? Let the shameful chains
of religious tyrany be. parted asunder
and the sweet bonds of fraternal duty
unite all my subjects forever! lam
sensible that many difficulties will ap
pear to me in this bold attompf and
that jnost of tliem. will be thrown in
my vfo.y by those very persons who
style themselves thy ministers.; but
may thy almighty power never forsake
me !
Oh, thou eternal, incomprehensible
Being! fortify ray holy resolutions
with thy love, that I may surmount
every obstacle, and let that law of
our divine master, which inculcates
charity and patience, be always im
pressed upon my heart. Amen. — Cedar
17 x l ley 11 r eeJcly lin i es.
The Know Nothings.
If the reader will cast his eyes over
the list of Know Nothings in the dif
ferent States, lie will find that those
who are notorious as its leaders are
also notorious as abolitionists, with in
coiy;:d-;rable exceptions. Every mem
ber of Congress elected by the Know
Nothings, exclusive of some anti-Ne
braska Democrats, is also pledged to
the abolition plan of admitting no
more slave States —of a repeal of the
fugitive slave law—and the restoration
of the Missouri compromise line. It
is so in Maine. It is so in Massachu
setts. It is so in New Jersey, Pennsyl
vania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michi
gan, and 'Wisconsion. Even in New
York, where Seward ism took ground
against the Know Nothings, the Know
Nothings have not elected a single na
tional man to Congress, but the re
verse. To strengthen this array of
facts, it is only necessary to state that
the leaders of this order are all noto
rious for their hostility to the South.
j How many of those now in session at
Cincinnatti, apart from a few' southern
Whigs, who are always ready to unite
with factions to put down the Demo
cratic party, are the allies of the Abo
litionists? Take the new Mayor of
Philadelphia, who is the ablest and most
powerful enemy of Southern men in
the State of Pennsylvania, take the
new 'governor of Massachusetts, Mr.
Gardiner, who unfurled the flag of
Know Nothingism and Abolitionism at
the same time ; but the roll might be I
indefinitely extended. Such is the !
New York Herald’s national party.
The organization which is to protect
the rights of the States, based upon
the idea of assailing the citizen ! The
organization which proclaims and ex
ults in the most violent intolerance, to
be put forth as the champion of those
constitutional guarantees which are
based upon the broadest principles of
civil liberty and national union!—
1 Vash. Union.
Another Cure for Hydrophobia.
Mr. Guy Richards, of St. Andrews,
L. 0., writes to the editors of the New
York Observer the following remedy
for the bite of rabid animals, which
are much more numerous there than
in any other country, and the persons
who have used it have never been
known to suffer from such bites. Mr.
Richards says, “ I am acquainted with
si»x persons who were bitten from eight
to fifteen years ago, by dogs that were
abundantly proved to be mad, from
the fact that animals bitten immediate
ly after, died with every symptom of
hydrophobia;' but by the use of this
remedy are yet m perfect health.” The
receipt is as follows :
“ Take three table’spoonsfull of oys
ter shell lime, powder it and sift' it
through a piece of book muslin. To
this add a sufficiency of egg to give
it a consistency something like soft
douch, —fry it in a little fresh butter
or olive oil. Let the patient eat this
cake in the morning, and abstain from
food and drink at least six hours. This
dose repeated for three mornings in
succession, isiig.aH cases sufficient. ’
As it may beisatislaetory to know
something of, the character of the wri
ter, I beg leavef6 refer 3*611 to Charles
11. Caste), Esq., cashier of the Cdity
Banle, Montreal.
Yours with respect,
Grg RfiiA,KDS.
The mischievous liars are those who
keep just on the verge of truth. j
0 j
Lagidi BiE.u.r~
tha 4617 up
on a sign on a beer shop, the words: j
“ Hear fo||sa!;',” remarked. I wonder if
that inan’i Bear is his!own bruin T'
lie re is one equally as good, which wi>
find in the Table” of the
“ Pioneer, or California Monthly Maga
zine “ A ludicrous scene occurred a
short time since on one of our most fre
quented wharves. It seems some hir
sute hunter bad captured a huge griz
zly bear up among the mountains some
where, and intent upon'‘realizing’ some
thing out of him, had duly caged him,
brought him to the city and placed him
on exhibition, in a room Opening,
wo will say, upon Pacific wharf. Over
,j 1 j
the door he posted in conspicuous let
ters, ‘the legend,’ (as Phoenix six
would have it,) ‘ Large Pear —the
largest ever caught—admission 50
cents.’ An unsophisticated jaw-boned,
long-legged, lank Pike county man,
fresh from the mines, (excessively ver
dant—and matter-of sact —and inde
pendent, witliall,) in shuffling down
the street, read the sign and thought
he’d like to look at the critter.’ So he
paid his admission fee and, after satis
fying his curiosity, went on his wav.
r i'he day after, one of our German fel
low citizens opened the very next
room to that where bruin was exhibi
ted. and posted over Ids door a sign on
which was printed in huge capitals,
‘Lager Pier.’ Our Pike county friend
Sauntered long-leggedly down the
street, soon afterwards, and thunder
struck when he read the new sign, ‘ La
ger Pier ! said he, ‘ Larger Pear ?
why, dog darn that other fellow’s eyes
—he said his'7l was the largest bear
ever ketehed—l’ve been swindled l 1
and, as wrathful as Achilles, he made
one rush for bruin’s exhibition room,
swept in like an ugly thunderbolt, re
gardless of admission fee, and, without
one word punnneled our worthy
friend the hunter, almost to death, and
uttcrlly “cleaned him Out. :!
Magnanimous Revenge.-The Lon
don Movitiiig_ jiflverltser, in speaking of
the expected visit ol Louis Napoleon to
the court of Great Britain, and his in
stallation as a knight of the Garter,
says :
“ The insignia of the Emperor of
Russia as a knight companion of this
most noble and ancient order, consis
ting of the banner, sword, mantle, and
hemlet, retains its position over one of
the stalls in the Chapel Royal of St.
George, but it will be no doubt be re
moved before the Emperor of the
French is installed a knight compan
ion of this order. Whether Sir Charles
Young, as Garter-King-at-Arms will
quietly remove the disloyal knight's insig
nia, or whether, according to ancient
custom, as described Asemole, they
will be thrown into the choristers
beyond the precincts of the castle, is
not yet decided ; but wo believe it lias
been determined to remove the insig
nia of 'the recreant knight to make way
for those of her Majesty's illustrious ally,
the Emperor Napoleon 1 11.'
If the British cannot pull down the
flag of Nicholas at Sabastopol, and
humble bis pride at Cronstadt, they
can at least sweep away the insignia of
distinction which they urged him lo ac
cept while their guest, and which he is
not there to protect. Trifly a sneaking
retaliation* YYc wonder which will en
joy most heartily the sweets •ol re
venge—the Enlish Court, in thus pun
ishing a “ recreant knight,” who accep
ted their urgent entreaty, or Louis Na
poleon, who compels them to bestow
the same up on him at the cost of deep
humiliation to themselves ?— Buffalo
Democrat.
Washington Gossrp.—A Wash
ington letter in the New York Her
aid says :
In diplomatic circles here there is a
new solution of the question, “ Why
did Louis Napoleon deny Pierre Soule
admission into France ?'’ It is this :
Napoleon 111, having heard the report
that Mr. Soule was the natural son of
Napoleon the Great, feared that our
minister (this report being true) might
set himself up for the French throne.
Knowing that Mr. Soule possessed
great influence with the people and
revolutionary leaders throughout his
empire, he looked upon him as a dan
gerous rival for the imperial honors,
and self preservation dictated the or
der forbidding him his dominions.—
The Emperor himself has the reputa
tion of being a natural son, which places
him behind Mr. Soule in his claims up
on the throne —the one presenting him
self to France as the son of the great
Emperor, and the other only as the
“ nephew of his uncle.”
Very Good.—We can enjoy a good
joke occasionly, even when perpetra
ted at the expense of the “ unterri
fied democracy.” Here is one which is
“ too good to be lost. 11
A New Test.— A capital thing
that was of A. E. Bell, of lonia, who
by the way never said a bad thing in
liis life. A knot of democratic politi
cians were collected after the Conven
tion of Kalamezoo, on Thursday, when
the subject of State officers came up,
and the name of Sullivan, of Cass
county, was mentioned in connection
with ihe office of Attorney General.—-
The peison, who recommeded him was
asked, “ what kind of a man is he ?”
Oh, first rate fellow, was the answer.
“ A good lawyer, a perfect gentleman,
and an upright, honest man” Hold on
there, said Bel!, “ we want no new tests
introduced into bur party.”
The PpEi?s Repudiated by the
.Catholic clergy.— The New York
Mhtjfor says:
The late lloman Catholic Council in
this city came to the conclusion that
the tconnection between the church
and their self-constituted oracles should
be publicly severed ; and tlkft when
am organ was to be recognized, it
should be placed in charge of com
petent theologians, and confined with
in the strict limits of theology. Such
sheets as ns the Freeman’s Journal,
the Celt, the Boston Pilot, the Irish
American, and Brownson’s Be view
will, under this decision, be secular
ized.”
p The Death of Randolph,
Randolph, in fast declining ncalth
reached Philadelphia, whither he went
to take passage from that port, lie
was too late for the Liverpool packet.
He exposed himself to the inclemency
of the weather, took cold) which ag :
gravated his disease and hastened its
| fatal termination. He was put to bed
—his death bed—in bis lodgings at
the City Hotel. The idiosyncrasies
which had, of late years, especially
marked his demeanor, distinguished
the last hours of his life; Pie.sudden
bursts of petulance which disease
'wrung from him ; the affecting kind
ness and tenderness which disease could
not wholly take from him; the ram
blingconversation in the intervals of
acute suffering, in some passages us
brilliant as ever—the last gleams of
the sinking lamp ; the groan mgs of re
morse, which a review of his past life,
Git the bar of a stern self government,
drew from his contrite heart; the fer
vid prayer ; the hesitating hope; the
trust qualified by self-condemnation
in the Saviour, whose name he profes
sed ; the concluding act, ere the cur
tain fell upon the last scene of earth,
when, propped up by pillows, he call
ed witnesses to his confirmation of his
will, providing for the freedom and
support of his slaves, and the last con
scious words, which fired his eyes and
braced his sinking frame, as, speak
ing'of this connection, he laid his skel
eton hand strongly upon the shoulder !
of his faithful servant John, and said 1
with emphasis—“especially for this j
man.”
And then —this last charge upon
his conscience off-—his mind wandered
away to the light, and the scenes, and
the friendships of the Early Day;
and, the muttcrings of ihe voice grow
ing gradually fainter, as he passed on
into the thicker shadows of the Dark
Valley, the fluttering pulse stood still,
and John Randolph, of Roanoke, was
numbered with the dead!—(June 2d,
IbJB, aged sixty.)
They carried him back to his solita
ry home, and buried him—in death as
in life, unsocial and isolated—in the
forest of Roanoke. In the soil of the
| Virginia he loved so well, they laid
the corpse of her fathful and devoted
[ son. They left him to rest, after the
long fever of his troubled dream of
life was over, in an humble and se
questered graft, beneath two stately
pines. There let him sleep on! The
gloom of their shade, and the melan
choly sighing of the wind through
their doughs, are fit emblems of the
life which was breathed out in sadness
and in sorrow. — Baldwin's Party Lead
ers.
“Roanoke,” the residence of him
who made its name as familiar as his
own, did not derive that name, as is
perhaps generally supposed, from the
river so called. The latter, as every
body knows, or may know, by looking
at the map of Virginia, is formed by
thejuctionof the Dan and Staunton,
which unite, notin Charlotte, the home
of Mr. Randolph, but in the adjoining
county of Mecklenburg, which form
ed no part of his Congressional Dis
trict. The plantation upon which he
resided was situated upon the rivulet I
Roanoke, a tributary of the Saunton.
And from that — the rivulet not the
river—he doubtless gave to his home
stead the name which he always wrote
immediately after his own— “ John
Ran dolph, Roanoke.”
Ages of Animals, —A bear rarely
exceeds twenty years; a fox fourteen
or sixteen; lions are long lived; Pom
pey lived to the age of seventy. The
average age of cats is fifteen years; a
squirrel and hare seven or eight years;
rabbits seven. Elephants have been
known to live to the great age of four
hundred years. When Alexander the
Great had conquered one Poms, King
of India, he took a great elephant,
which had fought very valiantly for the
king, named him Ajax; dedicated him
to the sun, and then let him go with
this inscription: “Alexander, the son
of Jupiter, hath dedicated Ajax to the
sun.” This elephant was found with
this inscription three hundred and fifty
years after. Pigs have been known to
live co the age of thirty years; the
rhinoceros to twenty. A horse lias
been known to live to the age of sixty
two, but averages twenty-five or thirty.
Camels sometimes live: to the age of one
hundred. Stags are long lived. Sheep
seldom exceed the age of ten. Cows
live about fifteen years. Cuiver con
siders it probable that whales live one
thousand years. The Dolphin and
porpoise attain the age of thirty. An
eagle died at Vienna at the age of four
hundred and four years. Havens fre
quently reach the age of four hundred.
Swans have been known to live three
bundr.:d years. Mrs. Pallerton has the
skeleton of a swan that attained the
ago of two hundred. A tortoise has
been known to live one hundred and
seven years. —/Scraps from \ataral i
History.
Singular Geological Fact. —At
Modena, Italy, within a circle of four
miles round the city, whenever the
earth is dug and the workmen arrive
at the distance of. sixty-three feet, they
come to a bed of chalk which they bore
with an auger, five feet deep. They
then withdraw from the pit before the
auger is removed, and upon its re
traction the water bursts up Ayith great
violence, and quickly fills the well
thus made; the supply of water being
neither affected by rains or droughts.
At the depth of fourteen feet ale found
ruins of an ancient city; houses, paved
streets, andymasonic work. Below
this again is a layer of earth, and at
twenty-six feet walnut trees are found
entire, with leaves and walnuts upon
them. At twenty-eight feet soft chalk
is found, and below this, vegetables
ancbL’C 'S. .. .
A Doctor’s Advice.—A phy'siciau
called on an old woman down east
when the following brief dialogue en
sued :
Oh dear doctor ; -my back is so
llime L can neither set nor lay /”
I lien Madam 1 would suggest the
propriety of roosting.”
1
■ • w and b. au a :
• love m its hour of,purity and j,,, j
; cence—how mysteriously it ethorabvj
| every feeling, and concentrates every
i wild bewildering impulse of the }uff.
love—holy mid mysterious love! it •’
the garland spring of life, the poetry </'
Nature. Its song is heard in the ni ( p
huts of the poor, as well as the gore •
ous palace outlie rich—its flame cm
bellishes'the solitude of the forest and
the thronged haunts of busy life,’ and
its light imparts brilliancy to every
heart, no matter what may be its cob
dition.
Love-*— pure and devoted love—can
never change. Friends may -'forget us
—the riches of this world may . soar
away, but the heart that loves will cling
the closer, as loud roars the storm, and
amid the wreck of the tempest, it will
serve as a “beacon to light us on to
safety and happiness.
Love is the music,and unseen spell
that softens the wild and rugged ten
dencies of human nature- —that linger.-
about the sanctity of the fireside, and
Unites in closer union the affectu ns of
society: and the soul that loves Inly
will love forever. Nor like the wav b
of the ocean, nor traced in sand, is th.>
image impressed upon a loving heart.
No, no—but will remain unbroken
and unmarred —it will burn on und •-
faced in its lustre, amid the quick rush
of the tempest cloud—and when our
fate seems dark and dreary, then will
love seek shelter in her own hallowed
temple, and offer as a sacrifice, her
vows and affections.— Monumental Lit
erary Gazette.
"Will the Doctors explain Tins.
—Some time in the early part of last
Spring, the writer was at the house of
a neighbor whose daughter was a see
ing medium. Whilst sitting together
and conversing on the spiritual phe
nomena, the daughter exclaimed ; “0
mother! Aunt 'has just come
in, and brought a little collin with a
child in it. Ask her whose child it is,
said the mother, She did so, and was
told that it was the youngest,child of
the mother’s youngest brother, who
lived six orseven hundredmilesdislanl.
j The spirit informed the medium that the
j child was then alive and well, but that
jit would die in a short time. Some
■j two months after this the writer called
there again, and they informed him
that they had just received a letter
from the father of the child, announ
cing its death There were several
other persons present at the time when
the medium saw the coffin and the child
brought in, whose names can be had
jby one who wishes to make inquiry
i and the family, whose name we will
1 communicate verbally to inquirers, will
; satisfy any one that the letter 7 as re
! ceived at (lie time specified.
Now, if these kneclogians or the
| toe-snapper of the New York National
I Democrat, can bring such cases as this
j within their philosophy, it will be bel
ter worth propagating in France.
(Age of Progress.
*Tliis aunt lias been dead for many years.
“I wish to furnish you with an item
in regard to a bov of twelve months,
with whom I was acquainted in Mil
waukie a year or two ago. He was
rather backward in the acquisition of
his mother tongue; and at the age I
have mentioned, could only articulate
“Pa,” “Ma,” and a few other words
of one syllable, among which was the
word “whoa!” learned from his father
I while riding with him in the family
j carriage. His father was a very.pious
i man, and somewhat tedious in saying
grace. One day at dinner, the little
; fellow felt more than usually impa
j tient to lay hold of the good things
; smoking before him, and when the
; blessing was about half pronounced,
| exclaimed to his father, in a tone quite
: mandatory for an infant, “ Pa, whoa!”
| The effect upon all at the table was com
ical in the extreme; and the sober pa
rent performed the remainder of his
duty with an evident relaxation of the
facial muscles, and with no disposition
to restrain the inevitable merriment of
his guests. I doubt whether a more
expressive saying in a few words ever
issued from the lips, of a child." Ex
actly : and how often would -A children
of a larger growth,” in churches, at
public meetings, or in listening to long
“graces” at private tables, say “whoa!"
if they were as simple, honest, and di
rect as their little brethern!”
The following character of the Hus
sions, as given by a Turkish inn-kcep
er, was published many years ago in a
“Journal of a Visit to Constantinople.'’
There has been no “love lost” between,
the two'nations since thirty years ago:
“Havinglanded at Buyukdcro, with
many of the English, we went to the
hotel, a clean, comfortable, well fitted
house, with a good cook and good
wines. It was very laughable to hear
{the landlord execrating the liussians.
“ ‘They never spend a penny ; stin
gy fellows, who would eat a tallow
candle down to the very end, and leave
not a drop for the waiter! He wished
to Heaven,’ he said, ‘that they were at
the bottom of the Black Sea, with the
English lleets anchored above them.
Then,’ £aid he, ‘we should see the por
ter-corks fly, the tables swim with grog,
cigar-boxes burst their cedar sides, the
cook roast all day, and I should be
happy in the general scramble ; but
alas! there is no such luck nowa
days !” ’
It one were to judge from the de
scription, given in' the English and
French reports from the seat of the
present war on the Danube and ports
of the. Black Sea, of tlie food which is
seyved out to the Russian troops, the
Turkish Boniface’s picture is not at all
over-colored.
A Western editor complaining that
he could not sleep one night, summed
up the causes. A wailing babe of
seventeen months—dog howling un
der the window—a eat in the alley—
a colored serenade at the shanty over
the way —a toothache, and a pig try
ing to get in at the back door! Door
fellow i
