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OTO COUNTRY AND OTO CAUSE.
When, under the earlier rulers of Rome,
the mistress of the then known world, had
acquired a power, at home and abroad, un-
equaled, and reached a degree of excellence,
and attained an eminence that no nation of
an anterior age could rival, nor yet the
genius of man, under a later, more cultiva-
ted and refined organizatigft presume to
challenge; the policy she pursued was to
some extent analagous, and in many res-
pects similar to the principles laid down
and inculcated by the American party of
the eighteenth century. Some, at the pe
riod of which we sptak, had extended her
eagles to the uttermost bounds of the ancient
world, wheresoever mankind had thrown
aside the mantle of barbarianism, in a de-
gree however so remote, the S. P. Q. R.,
the mete semblance of her pre-eminence and
power, streamed out upon the wind, and the
subsidiary world was content, and each
separate sovereignty was only too happy
to add but a single gem to the tiara of
brilliants thitt represented the dignity and
majesty of Rome. Yet, with this vast ac
cumulation of pówer and dominion, what
was the policy of Rome and the titular dig-
nitaries, that staked and played for king-
doms and croWns upOn tile vast political
chess-board óf the old world ? Was it ex-
clusive of foreign influence, or did it with
arins extended, welcome tó the imperial
gates the foreign interests, affinities and
affiliations that must sooner or later distract
and ultimately tear down and crust to the
earth the entire moral fabric of her inde-
pendence, the corner-stone of which, to-
gether with the chief pillars, and crowning
period of the whole, had been bequeathed
as an holy inheritance to Roman Sons by
Roman Sires? Let the shades of the
mighty dead speak from the tombs of the
Scipios—let Philosophy burst forth from
the urns of her sages; yea, let the recording
angel of the early past stand forth in judg-
ment, and the answer will be ominous—
the oracular response, prophetic of the de-
cay and downfall of Roman greatness.—
Then citizenship was the highest dignity
known at Rome, and none but the free sons
o&ths soil—the * natives to the manor born"
—were entitled to its privileges. Under a
later dynasty, Wc see the supremacy of
Rome meltmg away under an admitted right
of way to foreigners and foreign influence
We see tlié eYnisaries of distant powers in-
troduced into h'er midst—even iñtó the very
Seriáte—ánd eré We can realise the effect, Oír
calculate the result, Vrc are lost fá vág'ue
and indefinable speculations uptfri the supe-
rior brilliancy of that mightier ltirriinary
that shot for 'á while ¿thwart the political
firito'ámefct, ánd "even in the hour of its
meridtáñ splendor, sat in idarkness under
the 'combined influence of the lesser orbs
tfa&t its Own heat and light had warmed
into existence. Yet there are those whom,
with the light of the sad experience taught
in tT&e lessons of the past, still .fresÜi upon
their minds, will sit supinely gázing on the
heavens, will still cling to their éhállow pre-
text for inaction—the doctrine that this in-
fluence can never be rooted in the soil of
America, who are content to blind them-
selves to the startling fact that Europe is
pouring her worthless superabundance into
our midst, who would with the evidence of
past ages, in contradistinction to the ground-
less theory, still "hug to their bosoms the
delusion and flattering unction that there is
no need of fear. So thought the Eternal'
City, and so long as Romans were true to
Rome, so long her citizens wielded her
power; so long as she discarded all inter-
course with foreign powers, save as the
stronger to the wéákér, tfee Victor to the
vanquished, so long were the destinies and
and liberties of Rome preserved inviolable—
so long wás the Senate incorruptible, and
her best interests associated with the inter-
ests of the people; yet. when through the
political treachery and intrigue of her bril-
liant, but corrupt soils, she attempted to
alleviate the burdens imposed Üpon a subju
gated World, by granting privileges, that
hitherto had been the exclusive right and
heritage of her native citizens, she had but
scattered the sfeecí of discord in her midst,
and in striving to reconcile incongruous
elements and antagonistic interests, she biit
accelerated her own downfall, but added the
torch to the funeral pile Of her greatness
and power. So long, then, as Americans
rule America—so long its we preserve our
institutions untrameled by sectional policy
unbiased by the presumptiou.s intermedling
of foreign interests, and uninfluenced by the
insidious wiles of its hypocritical and religi-
ous superstitions and political chicanery, so
long will we continue to grow in greatness
and prosperity! . ,
The position of the several States interior
to, and coeval with the struggle for inde-
pendance. was mere subsidies to & pamper-
ed aristocracy, and imbecile ánd vascillating
monarchial powei, without a right to speak
in their own behalf, without a voice in the
legislative assemblies that wére convened at
the instance of a throne three thousand
miles away, or the ministry behind the
throne, to correct and control their destinies,
with scarce the right of petition for griev-
ances, and even that paltry privilege abridged,
retrenched and uncertain, by reason of the
one-man power of the king's prerogative, our
forefathers deemed their rights invaded,
they saw the poison under the wing of the
invidious power that must inevitably crush
them, and they banded their energies to
dash aside its withering influence, and with
we come to estimate and calculate the im-
mense issues at stake, the diversity- of sec -
tional and conflicting interests, the varied
and waring elements of discord so strikingly
manifest in the political eruptions that for
years have shaken to the centre the mater-
nal and substantial embodiment of our
Republican form of Government, that we
are enabled to arrive kt a just sense of the
crying demand for reform, and necessary
the aid of a just k§¿pvpr-rul}ng Providence | coraectives of these^ time-honored abuses.
i if * . • 1* . _ Á 1' J 1 If * 4 1% A 4- «V « /l A** 4 ll A 1\1 •%% <4 V* r\ l 1Í1TT aP f ll A W C A«f
avert the impending fate that hung above
and around them. They had petitioned this
same foreign power for redress of wrongs,
yet the iron heel of tyranny was upon the
breast of incipient liberty, and well for pos-
terity And the world it sought to crush its
very existence into the earth. Thus, under
circumstances the tíost trying, the dissever-
ance of all allegiance to prince, potentate,
and power, was completed, and consecrated
by our own Washington and his compeers,
was handed down to posterity as its richest
bequest; and yet, with the vast amount of
evidence in view, with the sanction of the
authors and framcrs of our independence, in
support with the wish of Silas Deane, and the
concurrence of the immortal Jefferson, ' that
seas of fire divided us from foreign shores,"
with the firm conviction of Jackson that it
was " time we had become more American-
ised," and similar sentiments from a host of
others, there are those among us who will
gravely argue ánd debate the constitution"
ity of any measure that is at all American
in its tendency, that in its teaching unfolds
and inculcates the Remedy for those evils:
the spectral shadows of which our wise fore-
fathers saw manifest fn the workings of our
government, ártd which, in the granted áftd
implied powers of Congress, they deemed
provided for, Yet with all the safeguards
and guarantees that an almost inspired Wis-
dom could devise, the political defences of
the country are nevertheless pregnable—
the barriers reared around our best inter-
ests vulnerable to the insinuating policy of
aggression, and it remains for Americana of
this enlightened age. in developing and
workirg out the manifest destiny of Ameri-
ca, to apply the correctives to this rapidly
increasing evil, for the Native American
•
party of the eighteenth century to invest
and throw around our civil and religious
liberties a nett work of defence a political
breakwater, as it were, to ward off the blow
of intriguing diplomacy, and to hurl back
the overwhelming waves of foreign influ
cnce. The,original confederation of thirteen
States was sufficiently guarded and wal'ed
in t>y constitutional guarantees, but still, in
the infancy of the Republic, the evil existed
in its embryo state, and growing with our
growth and strengthening with our strength
it must, ere long, undermine our liberties
and institutions, unless, indeed, some check
be presented to its increase.
After the struggle of the Revolution and
its result in the absolutism ánd.sundering
of all allegiance to the British Crown, the
interests of the Stitos were identified; and
for the better promotion of the general de
fence a community of feeling ensued, nor
had yet the spirit of- faction crept into our
councils, with millions of miles of unsettled
territory, the manifest destiny of the whole
country demanded an influx of emigration
and a laudable desire to promote the wel
fare of mankind, and in rendering populous
the vast primeval forests whose silence had
been unbroken, save by the tread of the
savage, or the cry of the wild beasts, to
secure other means of protection from the
foreign encroachment that their growing
wealth, prosperity and importance might
excite. Thus it was that the Oppressed and
downtrodden of etet-y nation were welcom
ed to our shores, to partake bf the free
privileges of our liberal institutions. Yet,
little thought our ancestors that they were
nourishing into & vigorous existence, the
germ of a power that wielded and extrciscd,
in after years, through the medium of the
ballot-box, that great palladium of our lib"
erty, must ultimately crushes; *nd slow
áre we to acknowledge it, we must " tell it
in Gath, we must publish it in Ascálon,"
that scarce eighty years of nationality have
rolled over us, and the hour is at hand that
without some check to its influence, the con-
templation of the result is fearful in the
extreme.
Fanned by the freezes óf the two oceans,
with a tract of country extending from the
thousand isles of the St. Lawrence to the
golden sinds of the Rio Grande, from where
the morning suii first gilds the Atlantic's
shore,, to where his parting ray falls in
splendor upon the blue wave of tho Pacific
so gigantic seems the destiny that, with
proper measures under American policy, the
future must iirifold, that the idea is too vast
for utterance, and we aré lost in the sub-
limity of its conception. t It is only then,
when we coqie to compare our present social
political and religious position with the
earlier demands of the .Republic, that we
can reconcile the strange anomaly that the
policy then suggested and dictated by pru-
dence, is now antagonistic and fatal to the
perpetuity of the blessings we enjoy, and
the liberty we hold by the indefeasible right
of a bloody inheritance. It is only when,
that under the blind 'policy of the present,
more than any previous Administration, so
vividly impress Upon us the necessity^of
action—determined and concentrated action.
The Democratic party would stifle the rising
fears of the people by pleading into their
ears, there is no cause for alarm. Yet we
cannot think that Americans will be longer
deluded into the support of a party so steeled
to the maintenance of every principle that
is at all. American—that professing to be the
grand conservative division of American
politics, would nevertheless tumble into
pieces, but for the " cohesive power of pub
lie plunder,'1 and the venal trade and traffic
in appointment to office and promotion, that
seems to manifest so blissful an ignorance
of the powerful influance of the foreign vote
at the polls; which same foreign vote, being
banded together, and subject to the control
of selfish leaders, has long since bccome the
lever for elevation to office, which, if longer
submitted to and encouraged, must result
in demoralizing the whole country, in cor-
rupting the sources of power, and rendering
into a mere matter of bargain and sale, the
right of suffrage, and the bállot-box into an
unmeaning mockery, where native born citi-
zens are voted nothing more, and in respect
of the right of suffrage, something less than
the ignorant foreigner, that by virtue of a
valuable consideration for the vote he has
no right to give, sells them to Popery and
slavery. With Fillmore again invested with
executive authority, and with the active co-
operation of the representative power, we
might again hope to see our institutions
restored to their original virtue—we might
hope repedamption from that direst cause
of our countrj', the power of an immense
foreign vote."
THE PIANO NUISANCE.
Ladies will think, at first sight, that this
isa strange juxta-position of words; yet
wc are sure that quiet papas and mammas,
will know very well what wc mean, when
we allude to the sometimes intolerable an-
noyance of having a neighbor in the next
house with a piano placed against the wall
of the quiet library or perhaps sleeping
room, banging away at scales and exercises
and grand young lady capricios, at all hours
of the day and night. It is worse than the
constant din of street cabs and omnibuses,
with all the street cries and noises in addi-
tion. It is quite impossible to read or think
under such circumstances; for the walls of
our city houses are such admirable conduc-
tors ol sound, that in a qqiet street every
note is distinctly heard If the music is
good, Jit is bewildering—if bad, distracting.
VVe see with pleasure, therefore, that the
Parisian builders arc introducing into the
new and beautiful dwellings going up in
every part of tho city, a contrivance for
making dead walls, by filling them in with
some non-conducting substances, and we
hope that persons about building houses
will take the hint. It will certainly be a
great improvement.
THE AMERICAN FLAG.
BY ISAAC MACtiELLAN.
The meteor flag of England,
The tri-color ot France,
Stream bravely to the tempest,
O'er ocean's gray expanse;
And 'raid the battles thunder,
And o'er the smoke of fight,
Have kept their country's honor,
Nailed to the top-mast height;
But the bold, brave flag of freedom
As peerless floats as they.
Nor veils to them its stars and stripe9,
In the bloody battle-day.
It waves o'er many a fortress
Along the Atlantic shore j :
Where breaks the surf o'er rocks of Maine;
Where Mexic billows roar;
It floats from many a rampart,
Far up Missouri's tide ;
O'er many a block-house fort that guards
Arkansas' turbid tide;
And many a grim Osage that hunts
Across the far frontier,
Ilath learned that banner to respect,
That noble flag to fear.
And far o'er Michigan's wild shore,
And Huron's yellow strand,
Where spreads the trackless wilderness,
Deep forests, wildly grand;
O'er many a white stockade it floats,
O'er many a guarded wall.
Holding the savage OttowayS
And Chippewas in thrall;
And far in utmost Oregon,
By broad Columbia's stream.
With beat of drum at morn and eve
Those starry emblems gleam.
Long may it float unsullied,
Long fan our father's grave,
The war-worn Continentals,
The bravest of the brave;
A t Yorktown was it steeped in gore,
. At Monmouth's deadly fight;
And scorched with flame and torn with steel
On Bunker's smoky height.
And while a freeman's arm may strike,
Or freeman's heart may beat,
Ne'er will that valiant banner
Be humbled in defeat.
A BEAUTIFUL THOUGHT.
It was night. Jerusalem slept as quietly
amid her hills as a child upon the breast of
its mother. The noiseless sentinel stood
like a statue at his post, and the philoso-
pher's lamp burned dimly in the recess of
his chamber.
But a dark night was now abroad lipon
the earth. A moral darkness involved the
natiotis in its benighted shades. Reason
shed a faiut glimmering Over the minds of
men, like the cold inefficient shining of a
distant star. ^ The immortality of man's
spiritual nature was unknown, his relatipns
to heaven undiscovered, a^d his future des-
tiny obsciired in a cloud of mystery. .
It was at this period, two forms of ethe-
real mould hovered over the land of Ciod's
people. They seemed like sister ángels
sent to earth on some embassy of. love.—
The one was of majestic stature, and in the
well formed-limbs which, her shadowy, dra-
pery hardly concealed, in her erect bearing
and steady eye, exhibited the highest degree
of strength and confidence.. Her right arm
was extended in an impressive gesture up-
wards, where night appeared to have placed
her darkest pavilion, while on her left re
posed her delicate <3pnij)¿n\on. in form and
countenance the contract of. the other, for
she was drooping, like a flower when mois-
tened by refreshing dews, and her bright,
but troubled eye scanned tho air with ar-
dent but varying glances. Suddenly a light
like the sun flashed out ,from the Heavens,
and Faith and Hope hailed. with exulting
songs the ascending Star of Bethlehem.
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A SIGHT OF AjGREAT MAN
Goethe, like many other celebrated men.
was annoyed by the visits of strangers. A
student ouce called at. his house, and re-
quested to see him. Goethe, contrary to
his usual custom, consented to be seen; and
after the student had. waited sometime in
the ante-chamber, he appeared, and without
speaking, took á chair, and seated himself
in the middle of the room. The student, far
from being • embarrassed, with this unex-
pected proceedipg,itook a lighted wax can-
dle in his hand, and walking round the poet,
deliberately viewed him on all sides; and.
setting down the candle, he drew out his
[If óür correspondent means that our
Jack can be beat jumping forward, we give
up, but if he wants the bet on jumping back-
wards, we stand the tobacco.]
Brother Crawford :—Hold this cracked
heel Tennesseean. If he can not beat Jack
Hamilton, or any of the Hamilton family
jumping. I owe you a. couple plugs of to-
bacco. ARKANSAW TRAVELER.
BY S. L., OP TENNESSEE.
Hold that erehoss down to the yearlh."
:i He's spreadin' his tail to fly off." " Keep
him wliav he is." '• Wo, wo, wo, Shave-
tail." 11 He's a dancing a jig." These, and
like expressions, were addressed to a queer
looking, long-legged, short-bodied, small-
headed, white-haired, hog-eyed, funny sort
of a genius, fresh from some bench-legged
clothing store, and Counted on "Tarpole,:'
a nick tailed, bow necked, long, poor horse,
half dáiidy, half devil, and enveloped all over
in á perfect net-work of bridle reins, crup-
pers, martingales, straps, circingles, and
red feretin, who had roijied in front of Tom
Nash's shop, among á crowd of wild
mountaineers, full of fun and mean whisky.
" I say, you durncd ash cat. just keep yer
shirts on, will ye? You never seed rale
hoss till I rid up; Tarpoke is jist next to the
best boss that ever shelled nubbins, an'he's
dead as a still worm, poor old Tícky-
tail."
" What killed him, Sut ?" says inn anx-
ious jnquirer. , - •
" Why, nuthin', you tamal fool "; he jist
died so, died standin' up at that. Warnt
that good pluck? Froze s£iff; no. net that,
adzactly, but starved fust, and then froze
afterwards, so stiff that when dad and me
pushed liirri over, he jist stiick Out .$o,
(spreading him arms and leg,) like, a car-
penter's bench, and we waited seventeen
days fur him to thaw afore we could skin
him.- Well, there he was—did and me
(counting on his fingers)—dad and me, and
Sal], and Jake, (fool Jake we called him, fur
short,) and' Janass, ánd Phineas and me,
and Calline Jane, Sharlotea, an' Noah Dan
Webster, an' me, and the two twin gals, and
Catharine Second, and Cleopatry Antony,
an' Jane Lind, and Tom Bullion and the
baby, án' the prospects, an' mam herself, all
left without ara hoss to crap with. That
was a nice mess for a 'spectable white fam-
ily to be slashin' about, warnt it? I be
durned if I didn't feel like sorter stealin' a
hoss sometimes. Well, we waited, an' rest-
ed, an' wished, an' waited, ontil well onto
strawberry time, hopin' some stray hoss
mought come along, but dog my cats if any
such luck as that ever cums whar dad is.
he's so drotted mean, an' lazy, an' ugly, an'
savage. *
Well, one nite, dad he lay awake all nite.
a srorin' an' a rollin,' and. a blowin.' án'
scratching an' a whisperip' at. mam, an' nex'
mornin' says he, " Sut,. I'll tell you what
we'll do; I'll be hoss myself arid pull the
plough, while you drive me, and we-'Jl .break
up corn groun', and then the " old quilt,"
(that's mam) an' the brats can plant it or
let it alone, jist as they d n please.' .So
out we goes to the pawpaw thicket, and
pealed a right peart chance of bark, and mam
and me made gears for dad, and they becum
him mitily; theq he would have á bridle; so
I gets an oíd umbrelle? brace what I'd found
—its a little fbrked piece of iron, sorter like
a pitchfork,-ye know—and we bent and
twisted it shorter into a bridle bit, snafil
shape, (dad wanted it kurb^as he- said he
had'nt work't for .sum tifni. and mite sorter
feel his oats áñd go to cavort in.) Well,
when we got the bridle all fixed on dad, he
chomped the bit jist like a hoss, (he alters
was amost komplicated, durned old fool eny
how, and mam allers said so when he warn't
about) then I put on the geers. an' out dad
and me goes to the field, I a leadin' dad by
When we cum to a fence, I let down ft gap,
an' it made dad mad; he wanted me to let
him jump the fence on all fours, hoss way.
I hitched him onto the gopher, and ftWfty
we went, dad leanin' forard to bis pullin'
right peart, and we made, sharp plowin',
dad gom' rite over the aprontes and bushes
like a rale hoss, the only difference was he
went on two legs. , Presently we cum tó a
sasafras bush, and dad, to keep up his kar-
acteras ft hoss, bulged squar into it and
thru it. and tere up ft hornet's nest nigh on-
to as biz s 'heftcLftn' all the tribe
kirergd lvlm ■ atrate- , He rfcrsda*'kick-
ed once or twice, an' fotched a squeal, was
nor ara hoss in the district, an' sot into run-
nin' away, jist as natural as ever you seed.
I let go the lines an' hollered, " wo* dad,
woa!" but you mout as well, said " woa" to
a locomotive. Gewhillicans! how he run!
When he cum to a bush, he'd ciar tbe top
of it, gopher an' all; p*raps he thought
there mout be another settlement of bald
hornets in it, an' that it wur safer to go over
them than thru, an', quicker done; every
now and then he'd paw the sides of his
head with fust one fore leg and then t'other,
then he'd gin hisself a open-handed slap that
sounded like a waggin whip, an' a runnin'
all the time, an' a karrin' the gopher jist as
fast an' as high from tbe yearth as ever a
gopher was carried, I swar.
When he cum to the fence he busted rite
thru it, tarrin' down nigh onto seven pan-
nels, scatterin' and a breakin the rales mi-
tily, and here he left gopher, geers, single-
tree, and a klevis, all mixed up, not, worth
a durn. Most of his shirt stuck On the
splintered end of a. broken rale^ and nigh
onto a pint of hornets staid with the shirt, ft
Stfngin a11 nror f Via lialomHi nn 'otn tliAnf.
seemed to run jist adjactly as fast as a hor-
net could fly, for it were the titest race I
ever did see. Down thru the sedge grass
they all went, the hornets makin' it look
sorter like a smoke all roun' dad's bald
hed, and he with nothin' on yearth on but
the bridle, an' nigh onto a yard of plough-
line a saiiin' behind.
I seed now, that he was aimin' for the
§wimniin' hole in the kreek, whar the bluff
is over twenty-five feet perpendicular to the
water, an' hits nigh onto ten feet deep.—
Well, to keep up the karacter as a hoss,
when he got to the bluff, he jist leaped off,
or rather he jist kept on a runnin'. Ker-
slung into the kreek he went; I seed the
water fly plum above the bluff from whar I
was.
Now rite thar, boys, he overdid the thing,
if that was what he was arter, for thars
nary hoss ever foalded, duraed fool enough
to lope Over eny sfch a plaqr; ft cussed
mule mout a done it. But dad war'nt act-
ing mule. 1 crept up to theedgeánd looked
over ; thar was dad's bald hed, for all the
yearth like a peeled onion, a bobbin' up an'
down, an' the hornets saiiin' an' a circlin'
round, turkey buzzard fashion, kn' every
once in a while about ten would make a dip
at dad's head at once. He kept up a peart
dodgin' under, sometimes afore they hit him
and sometimes arter, and the water kivered
with drowned hornets. " What on yearth
áre you doin' in thar, dad ?" sez I. *' Don't
you see these cussed (dip) infernal var-
mints (dip) arter me." " Whát;" sex I,
" them are Boss flies, thar—ye ain't ret
feared of them, are ye ?" "floss flies, h—1
sez dad; " they're fale (dip) genuine blld
hornets, you (dip) infernal cuss!" Well,
dad, you'll hev to stay rite thar til nite, an'
arter they .go to roost you cum home and
I'll feed ye. I sorter think ve won't need
eny currien for a week or so.
"I wish I may never see to-morrow, (dip)
if I don't ruinate you [dipj when I do get
out," sez dad. "Better say you,wish you
may never see another -bald hornet, if jon
ever play hoss a'giiitr sez, I—and. knowin'
dad's unmolified natiir', I broke from parts,
and. sorter cum to the- copper mines. I
staid hid till next árternoon, when I seed a
feller a tiavelllu', an' sez I, " what was
goin' on r.t the £abin this side the kreek,
when you passed it ?" " Why, nuttin'
much, only a man was sittin' in his door
with nara shirt on, and a woman was
greásin' his back an'arms, an' his head was
about a3 big as a ten gallon keg, an' he
hadn't the fust sign of an eye—all smooth."
"That man was my dad," says I. " Been
much fightin' in this neighborhood lately?"
sez the traveller, rather dryly. il Npn
wiith speakin' of pussonally or purticulár-
ly," sez I. Now, boys, I hain't seen dad
since, and would be feared to meet him in
the next ten years. Let's drink.'.' >
And the last I saw of^spt. he was stoop
ing to get in at the doggery door, with a
mighty mixed crowd at his heels.
IfhtteftlOtak 6ft M
inga past, reclining lazily. in Vv big tm
chair, reflecting musingly otar various sub-
jects of daily discussion, steam-boats, rail-
roads, mails, and contracto. kmS fiularea,
and over all the peat hnpoftant avente
moral, politics}, reli¿ous,4c.; our thoughts
carrying hither ana thither over all crea-
tion, until qpr mind's wing became wearM,
atid we became somewhat drowsy. Fér til
sake of variety, we picked up a
an address, delivered by; the H
L. Oliooham. at Wwlt <ÜrnW i i cw this
document we soon droped is • profound
slumber. Just as we wen visited by *
sweet dream in which waware indulging de-
lightfully, were suddenly sod unwelcomly
aroused by a loud knocking at oar doer
knock, knock, knock; we called out to the
intruder,
« Who's thfttr
"It's me!" was the «ply.
u Well, who are von?"
"VeLit's meP*
" Well, who an von, sad what do 70a
want?"
As we thought that be might hrre some
important event to communicate, and herald
to the world through nor journal-
ed tbe door, «nd in walks ft big,
dirty, angry: looking looking m
humanity, looking vsngenee, as if ft CMk of
krout had bursted, and sent its bontents. in
a solid bulk before us. we oould net btv
been more horribly krout stricken.
uGoode morning Mishter Editor V .
. We returned his salutation in that usual
polite manner that distinguishes editors
__ from all others, and invitedhia to be asat-
it sdVover"the baiance on 'em~ aboufled. * 1 in * moment 1*1located himself in
a gallon and a half, kept on with dad. H<? ™ of our best chair . Wo announced that
. DESCRIPTION Of LOVE.
. Love is like the devil, because it torments;
like heaven, because it wraps tbe soul in
bliss; like salt, because it is refreshing ; like
pepper, because it often sets ohe on fire; like
sugar, becaiu>e..jit i$:sweet; like ft rope, be-
cause it is often death of ft man ; like ft pri-
son, because it makes a man miserable; like
wine, because it rn^kes us happy; like a
man, because he is here to-day and gohe to-
morrow; like a woman, bccause there is no
getting rid of her; like a ship, because it
guides one to the wished for . port; like a
Will a'tb'Wisp, because it often leads one
into a bog; like & fierce coprser; because it
often runs away with One ;like a little po-
ny, because it ambles nicely with one; like
the bite of a mad dog, or the kiss of a pret- l""hr «d intellectual pleasures,
ty woman, because they both make a man Vith all Europa at bis disposal, with
run man; like a goose,because it is silly; his ante-chamber, begging for va-
"ke a rabbit,.because there is nothing like thrones, with thoufeands-of men, whose
purse, and taking from it a small piece of „ „
silver, put it on the table, and went away I the bridle and a totin' gopher plough on my
without speaking a word. I back.
it;-in a word) it is like ft ghost, because it
is like every thing and like nothing—often
talked about, but never seen touched nor
understood.
or.—" Has anyone insulted, or cheat*
or has your wife whipped you ?" . ,'c
¡hman.—uNo, nopoddy hash insult
poddy has sh^st me¿-and mina vifc no
we were the representativa of the peraon ha
desired to see, and were ready to seme bint.
He then proceeded to detail his troubles,
thus: * i
^ntebman.—0 Tel, Misther Editor, I ish
Editor.—"I am sorry your angry passions
are up; what troubles yon V
Dutchman.—" So besh I, put I Ml you I
ish mad." . , , . > • .
Editor.—" I hope yon are not mad with
us?"
Dutchman-—" No, put I tell yon I ish
mad like de toril."
Editor.—" Who has oflMsd you 7"
Dutchman.—" Blenty, Meaty, and I ish
mad, fightin mid.'
Editor.—" Has any one insulted, or cheat-
ed you, or has
Dutchman.-
vip'ni«,*she can no dó it; pot I ish mad mtt
aese araiocijLts, tty Din iooznx oe cuermiB
beeple. and I rants you for Ml me some
^itor.—Well, sir, ws will take, pleasure
in answering your interrogatories to tha
best of our knowledge."
Dutchman.—" Velyou see de democrats
makede detch beeple tink dat de Amerikias
v$nt to plack ana sell ns, but dat toy w|l
make us all sbentlemen, if we vote t for torn,
and divide all offioes mit us, aad toy Wn
havm mee tins and no make detch candidato'
and I no like aieh pishness."
Editor.—" Had you any political aspira-
tions yourself V
Dutchman.—" No, put you see toy tell us
dát nopoddy ni pig man put da detch, dat
de democrats all cum from deteh grandadys,
put tey made no .deteb candidato, and so t
tink tey soft-soap-.ua, Now toil me, vas
tis pig man vat yoa call Adam a detch-
gliter.-*-" Ño sir I donU think he was.''
utchman.—" Vel I didn't dak so, put I
vas not scquftinted mit him. Vas Shmecal
Yashington, a Sherman ?" < • .1
Editor^-'u No sir, he was not."
Datchraia—" Vas Shineral Shaekson a
detchman?"
Editor.—"No sir, he was not."
Dutchman.—''Ish Shiner si Fieros a detch-
man?" -- " ■ •
Editor.—^ No, General Pierce is no Gor-
an." .H
Dutchman.—"Vd von Irish democrat tell
me dat Saint Patrick vas ft detchman, ish
dat true?" 4
Editor —" No sir, Baiht Patrick was an
Irishraán.*í.--~- ' '
Dutchman.—u Vel ishent dat de teril ?—
Vol I ish got tree poys, two gals, and von
rife, and if tey ever pe democrats, tey may
shust go to de toril, and I go to Shermany,
onde Rbine:?' - •
We were much amused at our visiter as
be detsiled in his peculiar style and broken
language, the deoeption practised apon him
and his countrymen, by the designing min-
ions and leaders of the democratic party,
under the guise of admonishing friends.—
Although litany of the' Germans of this
oountry are uninformed, and equally unsus-
pectingr—yet.they ase not all; entirely blind
to the wicked plots of 'that deceptive party,
who. sede- power without regard to moral
priac,\p\^.~fhliad^A^riccat. y ■
i z ¿Ayx N¿má to bias. •
Tbe Mea about tho want of time is a men
phantom- Franklin found - tone in the
mjfirt Of all hie labóra te drive into the bid-
den recesses of philosophy, and to exploro
the untrodden path of sdenoe. The great
Frederic with an empire at his direction,
in the midst of War, on the eve of battles
which were to decide the &to of his kingdOm,
found time to revel in the charms of phil-
. . . Bona-
In all the police reports of our large cities,
as far as we have observed, tbe number of
foreigners arrested for various offences, ex-
ceeds that of Americans about four times;
and the number of males arrested cxeeeds
that of females about tbe same proportion.
The total arrests in Boston for the month
of April, was 1.197, of whom 923 were for-
eigners, and 274 Americans. The arrests
for drunkenness were five times as_many as
for ftny other offence.
destines were' suspended lg: .the brittle
thread of his arbitrary ptdtsure, had time to
conversé with booka., Gamar( when he had
curbed the spirit of the Roman people, and
was thronged with vidtors from the remo-
test kingdoms, ifound time for intellectual
conversation. •< Every «nan his time, if ham
careful to improve it as well as be might hd
can reftp a three-fold rewftrd. Let all make
use of ther.honts at their disposal, if they
wan* ft oládn ft propei; inHaaiw in sodetv*
They oan, if tbsy p)s*sa, hold in their hands
the destinies Of oar Republic.
1 11 sdf 1 ■ 1 ..j
. Small pox reed with considerable vinx-
ttnoo at Porto Ska at last accounts.
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