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Its circulation in the town of Wilmington is as large as that ofany oti.er paper pub lished in e pbce. We would further state that its circ-ui; nf bv the counties which" trade to this place is , dreg TiJttittge as that of any other paper publish cd in North Carolina, and that its liatis daily increasing. We say, therefore, without the fear of contradiction, thartt is the beat vehicle for advertising which thepeo I U of wUntakn can select. One other observation We Uiinfcr'ftkM Blrtfttigh a large majority of the readers of the "Journal" arc Democrats, still they occasionally do-a little folding, as well as the readers of the whig pa fceis We have written the above merely for the Infor mation of those who are most deeply intereated-busi-rift m.: ( dl prates soi?8 and all political creeda Ull , WAMCL-STOMEHS. MAIL ARRANGEMENTS. Post Office, Wilmington. Northern Mail , by Kail Road, due daily at 2 nd close ai lOevery ni'hl. Sni THKRN Mail, bv Steamer from Charleston, P. 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N C GEOKGE V. DAT. Commission and Forwarding MERCHANT, liONDON'r8 WHAKP, Wilmington, N. C. Auctioneer & C ommission Merchant, WILMINGTON, N. C. Liberal advances madeon shipments to his friends in Neiv York. September 21, 1844. 1-tf. ;ii,i,i;ss: & hoki;m)i Continue the AGENCY business, and will make lilieral advances on consignments of Lumber, avsl Stores, &.c. &.c. Wilmington, August 1st, 1845. Vina ffWJiWi From the North Carolina standard. MR. LEAK'S LETTER We lav before our rea lers to- Hy, the letter tun v t;ee. in em 1 n : i lei; : i a!;.v won of Mr. Leak to the Lincoln which, we regret to stale, he 0. vass in that District for Congre as iie says in his reply ant nave ueen neieatet our knowledge of , i if ; tiut we tee) conhdent, i rom his patriotism and Lis. self- sacrificing disposition, iliHt ! or, : nave tr ken the field promptly, with tte o . Is greatly against him as they are, but for circumstances entirely beyond his control. Mr. Leak's letter is not only handsomely written, but it is replete with goo i sense and sound doctrine, and it will arrest the attention oi the thinking portion of the Federal party. His, views in relation to the Raynervyinder of the last session, are just and philosophical ; and his remarks upon the course of the lead ing Federalists in regard to the existing War, will meet a warm approval in the heart of ev ery true American. His letter will- he read with interest by men of both parties, and we commend it especially to the attention of our brethren of the Democratic press. Rockingham, Richmond Countv inty, ) 17 i Julv 1st, 184' Gentlemen : Your letter of the 9th ultimo, is before me, and would have been noticed as soon as received, but for the hope that the cir cumstances in which it found me would have, ere this, admitted a different reply. Disap pointed in this, I can no longer withhold an answer to your polite communication. 1 agree with you that great injustice has been done the Republican party by the whig Legislature of 18 Iri, in re-districting the State; an act indefensible in principle, wrong in ex ample, and pernicious from the instability giv en to the entire system. 1 .have read with at tention the whole of the arguments brought forward by the most able of its advocates, and they amount to this that in the regular ap portionment of representation, the democratic party did wrong; therefore, the whig party are justified in doing a greater wrong. Without entering into a discussion of the tirst proposition,! will confine myself in a few words to the second. If from "the nature of ou- institutions it is right that the tenure should be restricted barely to a time which shall allow the Representative to become ac quainted with the wants of his constituency, the obligation is equallv great, that those rep resented should be allowed some little breath ingttme to consult together, interchange opin ion, and petition for a redress of wrongs. 1 hold it wrong, under any circumstances, to accomplish political ends by Legislative "leans; such shall never receive my sanction. It is a prostitution as well as a perversion of the powers of legislation, not only highly ir ritating in its effects upon the outraged party, but absolutely humiliating in its origin with the other ; for it is a tacit acknowledgment that the principles advocated cannot stand the searching operation of fair argument, but dis trustingly call to their aid the " brief authori ty . .w,t whu h those in power mav be clad, besides this, if carried out, and carried out it will be, lrom a principle of self-defence, it looks to an enlargement of the tenure, which is a highly objectionable feature characteris tic, it is true, of the " Hamiltonian school," but which should be utterly repudiated by ev ery disciple of Jefferson ; lor his doctrine was, that error of opinion might be safely tolera ted as long as reason was left free to combat W are certainly right in supposing that ie present unparalleled prosperity of the country, With the low price of goods in par ,lcuar, are chiefly to be attribute 1 to the tri ultlmiiigtjro " I T DAVID rULTOW, Editor. VOL. 3 NO. 44. umph of Republican principles a triumph a t hieved in the memorable content of '44, when the principle oL a " rern'jeJariff" overcame its antagonist in the person of James K. Polk Nor was tbat the only'ljenefit. The voice of the people in the elevation of Mr. Polk, not only condemned a " protective tariff," but like wise a national bank, the distribution of the proceeds of the public lands, as well as every other latitudinous construction of the consti tution, upon which the prominent -measures of the whig-party so much depend. With you, I contributed my feeble aid in producing such a state. of things, and with you, I recognize in its fullest extent the obligation to stand up in their defence. In regard to the existing war with Mexico, I believe (although I acquit them of any such intention) that the course of the whig press in general, with that of the leaders in Congress in particular, has been in reality extending " aid and comfort" to the enemy ; and al though it might not subject Jifcwb any want of patriotism in its more ernrgeaand compre hensive sense, yet it certainly renders them justly obnoxious to the imputation, that for the sake of a mere party triumph they arc dis posed to risk to some extent national disgrace. There are two kinds of patriotism, if you will allow the classification, which every citizen should possess, both of which are required in any emergency. There is the patriotism of instinct, as well as the patriotism of calcula tion. While we should carefully take coun sel of the " second sober thought" in the pro gress of a quarrel, yet the fight having com menced, the scabbard should be thrown away, and all our impulses should take sides with our country. It is here that they have exhib ited a shameful deficiency ; they have suffered their natural impulses to be suppressed, and, for parti purposes, diverted from their true channel. Against them I bring n railing ac cusations ; but I muAt be allowed to say that 1 admire a patriotism that is both national in its origin as well as in its effects that is less diffusive in its " sympathies" in other words, that kind of impulsive feeling, which adopts fully, cordially, and unconditionally, the sen timent, " my country, right or wrong, my country." That this charge is not gratuitous ly made, I will simply refer to the past histo ry of that party. When was it that those im pulses were allowed to flow in their natural channel, if by suppressing them they thought they could accomplish a party end ? When was it that arty republican administration in any of our foreign " broils " was right ? We were wrong in the difficulty which we had well nigh got into about the French indemni ty ; we were wrong in all our Indian wars ; wrong with Great Britain about the North Eastern boundary : wrong about Oregon, and now more wrong than ever with Mexico. Sup pose that we are wrong in our present difficul ty, (which I am far from admitting,) what practical good can result in promulgating it from the house tops ? None that I can see, but on the contrary, much practical mischief. The idea of withdrawing our troops from the enemy's country, under the hope of obtaining peace, is not entertained by them, or if it be, they dare not avow it. Such a course could produce no beneficial effect, and could only end in an expensive and protracted border war; and, in the end, we should be compelled at any cost to recover the advantages we now have, which should only be abandoned when peace was obtained. You might with equal propriety expect a bully, who in single com bat had been thrice knocked down and so com pletely ' used up" as to be incapable of resis tance, yet who still refuses to cry " enough " von might as well expect him to surrender after being allowed time to "get his wind." Roth parlies i lion, being in favor of a vigorous prosecution of the war, what other object have they in the " hue and cry" now raised, than the one imputed to them ? Yes, gentlemen, s ' iie our country calls for the united energy of :'s sons; while patriotic appeals have been ta e to the nation by its Executive ; while the stars and stripes are already proudly wa ving over the walls of Monterey and Yera Cruz : while our gallant soldiers are suffering isease and death abroad in defence of our na tional honor, instead of letting our national impulses ush forth like the mountain flood, scooping out their own channel, and spreading both deep and wide over all the plain, we have the mortifying spectacle exhibited that there are those in our very midst, bone of our bone, who, for the furtherance of party, have, to some extent, withheld the full homage of their affection fror? their country. While the battle rages, union as to the justice of its origin, is an important element of strength ; it not only buoys up the national vessel, but gives both physical and moral power. " Thrice is he armed who thinks his qunrrel just." In conclusion, let me say with you, that principles which are worth professing are cer tainly worth defending ; and allow me to add that no man would move readily gird on his aimorand make the sacrifice you require, could it ho done consistently with 'the higher obliga tions under which I find myself placed. But the present health of my family, with the lit tle probability of a sufficient improvement in time to canvass the district, render it out of my power to comply with your wishes ; un der different circumstances I would have done so, no matter how great the probability of de feat. I might and doubtless should have been beaten, but in defence of principles, and more particularly w hen called for from such a source I would risk a " flogging" at any time. Your strength, backed by the " unterritied democra cy " of the sister spoken of in your resolu tions, might not have given success ; but one thing is certain, that with Lincoln and the " Hornet's nest " sustaining, I never should feel disgraced. In conclusion, let me say, that although we have no candidate in the field, let not that be tray us into an indifference to our principles, but " follow whithersoever they lead." In politics as in religion, the judgment should become convinced before allegiance is exacted, but when given, there should be no compro mise oi the fundamental truths of either. The principles of our political faith have nobly conducted the country through the first and second wars of independence, and will not be found incompetent to plant the star spangled banner (if necessary) upon the walls of Mexi co. Respectfully, your ob't serv't, " WALTER F. LEAK. To Messrs. John H. Wheeler, Wm. Lander, and M. Hull, Esquires. Things four hundred years ago. The Westminister Review, in an article upon pop ulation, gives the following as the prices of some of the ordinary articles of food in the year 1400: Wheat per quarter, Barley, A Sheep, An Ox, Beer per gallon, The following is a table df same period : Threshing grain, perqr., Master Mason, per day, . Reaping, per acre, Sawing, per 100 ft. deal, Laborer's wages, 8s. 5 Od. 4 5 4 7 6 n wages, for the Os. 0 0 1 0 2 d. 4 9 1 3 Gough recently defined moustaches to be the upper lip in mourning for the loss of the brains. GODj WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1847. THE PRESIDENT IN BOSTON. During his recent Northern tour, President Polk was received in handsom style in the Ci ty of Boston, and was welcomed to the State of Massachusetts by the Governgr of that State. The Speech of Gov. Briggs was eloquent and to the point, and the President's reply was in excellent taste. This, be it remembered, was in old Federal Massachusetts, and the act of a double-distilled Whig Governor; but Gov. Briggs knew what his' duty was, and he per formed it like a man. But what was the ease here ? Mr. Polk paid a visit to his native state and to the Uni versity at which he graduated; and though every body knew, and all the Whig papers in the State admitted, that he came not to ad vance political purposes, yet Gov. Graham gave him no word of public welcome, and did not even visit him until Sunday night, twenty four hours after he had been in the City ! In deed it is a matter of doubt whether he would have called upon the President at. all, if he had not known he would have to meet him at Chapel Hill, as President ex-officio of the Board of Trustees, where he would be obli ged to exchange civilities with him, and treat him viith the respect due to his great Office : and so he "broke the ice" here, twenty-four hours after the President arrived. And yet the same Governor had but a short time be fore, sent his Private Secretary to the limits of the City to meet Daniel Webster, and had entertained that gentleman at his Mansion du ring his sojourn in the City in other words, at one time he lavished all the honors in his power upon Daniel Webster, and threw open his doors to a Massachusetts Senator and a native of New Hampshire, while at another he closed his doors against the President of the United States and a native of N. Carolina, re fused to extend to him a public welcome on the part and in the name of the people whose Gov. he his, and contented himself with pay ing him a cold and formal visit at his lodgings. Bebold the difference between the Federal Governor of Massachusetts and the " Whig" Chief Magistrate of North Carolina ! It is due to Ex-Govarnor Morehead to state, that being in town when the President arrived, he called ubonhim in his most cordial manner, and left nothing undone, so far as he could do it, to render his visit to Chapel Hill pleasant and agreeable. Such a man is capable, when occasion requires it, of rising above the bitter ness of personal feeling and partizan prejudice; and we respect him for it. It gives us no pleasure thus to allude to the conduct of the Governor of our State, especial ly after the hearty welcome which the Presi dent received at the hands of so many Whigs on the occasion of his late visit to N. Carolina ; but seeing what had bee! done even in old Federal Massachusetts, and remembering what had not been done here, we could not well re frain from presenting to our readers the con trast between the Governor of that State and this. COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE. The difference between courtship and mar riage was never more forcibly explained than in the following 'Charcoal Sketch,' by Neal, of Philadelphia : " What made you get married, if you don't like it ?" "Why I was deluded into it fairly deluded I had nothingto do of evenings, so I went a courting. Now courting's fun enough T havn't got a word to say agin courting. It's about as good a wav of killing an evening as I know of. Wash your face, put on a clean dicky, and go and talk as sweet as sugar or molasses candy for an hour or two to say nothing of a few kisses behind the door, as your sweetheart goes to the step with you. " When I was a single man, the world wag ged along well enough. It was just like an omnibus; I was a passenger, paid my levy, and hadn't nothing more to do with it, but sit down and not care a button for anything. 'Sposin' the omnibus got upsot well, 1 walks off, and leaves the man to pick up the pieces. But then I must take a wife and be hanged to me. It's all very well for a while ; but after wards it's plaguy like owning an upsot omni bus !" " Nan !" queried Montezuma "what's all that about omnibusses !" " What did I get by it ?" continued Gama liel, regardless of the interruption. " How much fun ? why, a jawing old woman and three squallers. Mighty different from cour ting that is. What's the fun of buying things to eat and things to wear for them and was ting good spreeing money on such nonsense for other people ? And then, as for doing what you like there's no such thing. You can't clear out ; when peoples owing you so much money you can't stay convenient. No; the nappe's must have you. You can't go on a spree, for when '-ou come home, missus kicks up the devil's delight. You can't leach her better manners for constables are as thick as blackberries. In short, you can't do potb ing. Instead of 'yes, my duck,' and 'no, my dear;' 'as you please, honey,' and 'when you like, lovely,' like it was in courting time, it's a darning and mending, and nothing ever darned and mended. If it wasn't that 1 am partickelary sober, I'd be inclined to drink it's excuse enough. It's heart-breaking, and it's all owing to that I have such pain in my gizzard of a morning. I'm so miserable, 1 must stop and sit on the steps." ' nat s tne matter now t " I'm getting aggravated. My wife's a sa vin' critter a sword of sharpness she cuts the throat of my felicity, stabs my happiness, chops up my comforts, and snips up all my Sunday go-to-meeting, to make jackets for the boys she gives all the wittalsto the children, to make me spry and jump about like a lamp lighterI can't stand it my troubles are over powering when I come to add 'em up." " Oh, nonsence ! behave nice don't make a noice in the street be a man !" " How can I be a man, when I belong to somebody else ? My hours an't my own rny money an't my own 1 belong to four people besides myself the old woman and them three children. I'm a partnership con cern, and so many has got their fingers in the till, that 1 must burst up. I'll break, and sign over the stock in trade to you." Butter for the Million In consequence of the hisrh price of butter, the at:ention of phil anthropic chemists has been directed to some mode of affording it at a cheaper ratettian tm.t by which it can be obtained from the cow. A physician in New York has made a commi":i- ! cation to the public on this sucject of rather a curious nature. ' It has furthermore oeen proved," says he, "that butter obtained from the cream of milk, is not animal secretions, but that it previously existed, in the pure and original state, in the hay or food of the cow ; and a skillful chemist can make more butter out of one hundred weght of hay than a cow can, as the cow must appropriate a considera ble share of it for the uses and necessities of her organization. Give a cow a hundred pounds of hay, and she will render back eight lbs of butter, but an expert chemists cari realize twelve or thirteen pounds out of it." We shall not be suprised to hear in a short time of the establishment of a company " for making butter without the use of the cow." In fact, if what tie New York physician says be true, it may become a profitable specula tion. Charleston Patriot. OTO COUNTRY. AND LIBERTY. LOVE'S DESPERATION. A ROMANCE OF REALITY. Beautiful, peerlessly beautiful is the lady Manuelita, the only daughter of Rosas, the fa mous and powerful President of the Argentine Republic: powerful in the strength of his mind, and in the iron resolution of his charac ter, which has enabled him to control and sway a people whom none save him can keep in order, and to defy the united attempts of England and France to break up his com merce and bend him to their terms. We say that the lady Manuelita is beauti ful, hut her talents, graces, and accomplish ments, alone sustain and render her beauties perfect and harmonious. It almost seems a subject of surprise that this fair lady, so attractive in manners, and so elevated in her position, should have arrived at the age of twenty-five years, without a thought of approaching the hymeneal altar, yet so it hath been : not, however, from lack of soiication and oppoituniry; for many a no ble and brave cavalier has knelt and sued for the love and hand which might bless a King, but because : First of all her suitors, not one, when weighed in the careful balance of her discrimi nating judgment, but lacked some of those qualities of head and heart which alone could win and fix her pure and lofty affections. Secondly Had any cavalier presented him self, possessed of all the qualities which would gain her love, she could not leave her father's side, for as necessary as dew is to the flower, as light in darkdess is to man, was she to him. She has ever acted as his adviser and confi dant ; she alone can guide and sway his stern will, she alone can soften his heart when it is frozen in its stern resolves. He could not live without her. She receives his company, writes his private and important documents, keeps watch and ward over his interests and safety, and becomes even as it were a second self unto him. But to our story. A short distance up the river above Buenos Ayrcs, Gen. Rosas has a beautiful country seat, where often in the warm summer time he and his daughter retire to enjoy the fragrant per fume which arrives with the evening breeze from the groves of peach, lemon, and orange, which cover it. A few years ago during a heavy gale, a ship was driven high and dry by the winds and swollen waters into the ve ry midst of this favorite plantation of the Pre sident's, and when the gale abated she was left in a position from which it was found im possible to remove her. To please his daughtei, Gen. Rosas bought this vessel and refitted her beautifully, to serve the Lady Manuelita as a summer house, and a unique and beautiful one did it make ; im bedded not in the azure waves of the ocean, hut in a perfect sea of flowers and fruits. In the elegant cabin of this vessel occurred the first scene of this brief but true story. It was on a lovely afternoon in summer; the Lady Manuelita sat by the stern window of the vessel, enjoying the sweet-breathing zeph yrs as they came to her from their homes a mid the fragrant flowers. She was alone, and as sue sat anu gazect out upon tne waving trees and bright-winged birds which flew from branch to branch, she sighed, as if she felt she had not been formed for loneliness. At the same moment the door towards which her back was turned was cautiously opened. She heard it not. Then, between the rich velvet hangings which hung in crimson folds before it, quietly stepped a noble looking ca valier ; and as he slowly advanced towards her, there could be read in his face the writ ten poetry of love, aye, even to a passionate idolatry of her who was before him. He was young, not more than twenty-five, his features regular as Apollo could have desired, his eyes dark and bright as a gazelle's, his lofty brow and neck as white as alabaster, was wreathed by dark and curling masses of jet and glossy hair ; a glossy moustache and beard as soft and curling as the hair which crept down up on his broad shoulders, contrasted with the rich rosy hue of health worn upon his expres sive and pleasing face. His tall manly form was dressed in a rich uniform, which beto kened that he had a commission in her father's cavalry. Slowly and cautiously the young officer ap proached the lady, still unseen and unheard by her. Again she sighed. He knelt by her side, and gazed upon the snow-white hand, which, with its taper fingers covered with jewels, hung down against the arm of the ottoman up on which she reclined. Again she sighed The cavalier bent down his noble head, and the lady started to her feet as she felt a warm kiss impressed upon her hand. Not terror stricken did she scream or turn to fly, as other maidens would have done, but with flashing eye, reddened cheek, and frown ing brow, as she drew up her stately form in queenly dignity, she proudly exclaimed, " Who dare intrude" but ere she finished the exclamation, she saw the sad and respect ful gaze of the youth, who still knelt at her feet, and her anger seemed to vanish and her tone softened, as she continued: " Ah ! is it you, Don Edvardo ! I might have knowrn none other would have dared the liberty which you have taken." " Pardon, lady, I could not have gazed up on the hand which I so long have coveted, and 1 A. J 1 . .1 retrain from telling it how much I loved its mistress." " Rise, Edvardo !" said the lady, sadly ; " 1 wish you would never speak of love to me a gain, at least while while " The lady blushed confusedly, and paused. The youth observing it, eagerly and pashion ately exclaimed : " While ! Oh, what mean you by that word ? even it gives light to the hope which alone keeps my heart alive. Oh, lady, for the love of holy Heaven, tell me, have I cause to hope ? Am I more to you than the many others who kneel in homage to your charms ?" " Were you not, do you think I would per mit him to live who has dared the familiarity for which you but now crave humbly my pardon ?" "Oh, lady, then am I blessed indeed ! Oh ! when may I call you mine r" " When I am iree from my present engage- 111L .i L . " Free ! present engagements ! Lady, it is cruel to trifle with a bursting heart !" " I do not trifle, Edvardo, I am willing to acknowledge that I love you, but it may be4 long before we can unite. I have a duty, a sacred, imperative duty to perform, which love nor pleasure nor aught on earth can in duce me to forego. If you love me, your love will not fade, like yon summer flowers, with age. My father cannot alone bear the cares, fa tigues & vexations of his office, he cannot spare me, and I cannot marry while he is in office indeed, he never will consent to part with me, so necessary have I now become to him." " Lady, cruel, cruel, would be the delay ! Know you not that while he lives the people will have no other President .' He alone can 4lease and govern them ; they will have no other oh, for the love you have but now confessed, decide not so, else years and years will roll away, and we will still be as now ! His death alone" " Oh ! sneak not of that, Edvardo," said she as the large dew-drops of the soul rose in I her lustrous eve ; " I love my father " " Lady, I must obey, and await my time," said the youth, and as he spoke a wild, strange light beamed from his eyes, even as if some desperate conceit had entered his mind. She did not observe it, but rising, said : " You may now escort me back to the city, Edvardo. The evening dews will soon begin to fall, and I must dress for the tertullia which I give to-night yoa will be there ?" " I will angel mia !" responded the cavalier as he led her forth. It was the still hour of midnight, and Geni Rosas was in his private chamber, seated be side a table filled with papers and documents, now reading and signing one, and then anoth er. Yes, while his people were enjoying the quiet rest which nature demands, he, the great est among them, was toiling for their benefit, laboring both in mind and body for their good. His daughter was beside him, busily enga ged in copying a private letter for her father, but started, asa gentle tap at the door announ ed a visitor. " Who is there?" said the stern General, as he laid his hand upon a richly mounted weap on which lay near him. " The sentinel?" was the answer in a low respectful tone. " What is wanted ?'' " I bear a present for you excellency, which has just been left, with strict ordeis to be de livered to your excellency, alone." " Enter! this, methinks, is a strange hour for a present. From whom doth it come ?" " 1 know not, your Excellency," said the soldier as he laid a neat, square box of rose wood upon the table, and placing the key on the card which was fastened on its top, depar ted. " Open it, daughter, I have not time," said the General, as he again turned his eyes to a military report which he was reading. ' "Oh, I know who it is from! It is in his hand-writing !" exclaimed she, as she glanced at the card upon its top. Oh, what present could he have destined for the father of her whom he loves ?" " He, whom, daughter ?" " Father, the supscription on this card is in the well-known: hand writing of the brave cavalier, Don Edvardo Escudero, and he has in this delicate way sent you some kingly sent, I'll warrent me !" " Well, well, open the box. my child, pre- and satisfy your curiosity " The lady took the key and turned it in the lock, but as she raised the lid the report of a volley of pistols almost deafened her, and with one wild scream she reeled, and, fainting, fell to the floor, amid a cloud of smoke from the now open box." In an instant the President sprang to her side. " Oh, God ! my daughter is slain !" said he in agony he spoke. -but his heart was cheered again as " No no, not slain, my father, but he he would have slain you to wrin me !" and again she fainted. By this time the room was filled with soldiers and officers, drawn thither by the report of arms, and a hasty examination of the infernal machinefor such it was, explained the plot against the General's life, a row of loaded pistols had been so placed along the box that any one standing in front of it to open it, would receive the contents in his body. It had been sent to Rosas, at this late hour in expectation that he would open it himself. Narrow had been the escape of the daugh ter. She had stood beside, instead of in front of the box when she opened it, but the fair hand, which her lover had kissed but so shortly before, was now stained in several places with blood where the balls had glazed it; her arms and laced sleeves were blackened with the smoke : but worse than all was the wound her pure heart had received, in the discovery of this horrible attempt upon her father's life, by one whom she loved and trusted, and who would have made her an orphan to hasten her marriage. But she had named him to her fa lter, and within one hour after the discovery of the pfot Edvardo Escudero was arraigned before a drum head court martial. Her danger, confession, and the discovery of hishand-wri-ting, had so thrown him off his guard, that when interrogated he made no denial. Brief was the trail. He was sentenced to be shot on the Retiro, or military Plaza, at sun-rise. With haughty composure he heard his sen tence, for he yet dreamed that she she who was all-powerful with her father, loved, and would intercede for, and save him. But he knew not her high stern sense of duty, if he thought that love and pity would have pardoned him who would have murdered her father. In vain he sent to seek an inter view with her. Her answer to his message was brief, but she would deign no other. " Tell him to ask God's mercy there is none for him on earth ! No, not were he my broth er." " And when at the morning's first light, the weeping mother and sister of the condemned knelt at her feet and prayed for one word of intercession, (for they knew that even yet she could save the son and brother, if she would but ask his life of her father,) when in the ag ony of their souls they spoke of his youth beauty-and bravery-all no w about to be buri ed in the tomb of disgrace, with a cold, stern look, as if her innermost veins were frozen, she answered : " He would have made me fatherless !" And while in that energy of despair that would not listen to a refusal, they yet knelt in tlaeir tears and supplications, the first ray of the morning's sun cast its soft light upon her pale cheek, a quick rattling volley of mus ketry was heard in the direction of the Retiro. ' As its sound struck her ear she gasped, her tall and graceful form quivered like an aspin leaf amid the gale, she staggered toward the window, and as she saw the white wreaths of smoke rise lightly towaru the sky, over the spot where now lay the corpse, she murmur ed : " God have mercy on his soul !" and faint ed. Duty had triumphed over love and mercy, hut tern he had been the s struggle. From t lie St. Louis Reveille. TAKE IT COOL. By Sot.taire. " Take it cool" is a very common piece of advice, often gratuitously tendered to a young gentleman of warm temperament, when he is about to tear his under garment ; but the ad vice is often disregarded, to the great detri ment of superficial surfaces, and the discolora tion of exposed parts of the human face divine. In the above mentioned case the advice might be profitably followed, but there are circum stances which forbid the quiet and unmoved contemplation of an approaching crisis. To say to a man who is seated in a falling build ing take it cool," would be a mockery of his situation, or to whisper to three hundred passengers upon a magnificent steam-ship, as is running, with a fall head of steam, bows on to the main land, to " possess themselves of a frigid state," would be a downright ag gravation of their position. It is also sufficient cause for a hostile rencontre to grin at a de feated candidate, and tell him to take it cool f but there are cases which, as a modern romancer would say, in point of downright provocation rise in sublime magnitude above all these, and we will endeavor to make good hf assertion by presenting an example r TERMS : $2 50 in advance. WHOLE NO. 148. In the wild days of Missouri no one, we presume, will dispute its present civilized slate a number of the more excitable and adven turous young officers of our gallant army were stationed at Council Bluffs, to guard the fron tier from the incursions of the wild and then powerful tribes which roamed in that imme diate neighborhood. In their isolated position they had little to destroy the monotony of life except an occasional march to check some tribe which was warming into hostility, or in inventing an 1 playing off tricks upon each other. It nutttered not how outrageous, or dangerous, or ridiculous, any devilment prac tised upon one officer by another should be, they never for once grew angry but the vic tim merely set his wits to work to, if possible, surpass his own case by a retort on his adver sary. A Lieutenant who was particularly good at these practical jokes, because his dig nified and cool manner made him less suspec ted than his comrades, had played off one up on a brother Lieutenant who had a delightful lisp. A short time f&fter, at a evening card party in his quarters, thc.oign'iied joker was expatiating to several officers, among them his lisping victim, how very becomirig it was for a man, under all circumstances, to keep cool, and remarked, moreover, that in his own case it was a constitutional habit, in the face of the most thrcatennig consequences, to retain a nerve which defied surprise. The advantage of such a temperament "was enlarged upon, the chances it afforded of escape from danger particularly pointed out, and a general assent given to its great value in the possession of a military man. " Well, Jim," inquired his lisping friend, " how would you do, thopothe a thell with an inch futhee thould drop itthelf into a high walled angle in which you had taken shelter from a company of tharp thooterth, and where it wath thertain if you poked out your nothe you'd yet peppered !" "How?" said the Dther. winkiner at the circle, " why, take it cool, and spit on the fu see !" " Yeth, thath true," answered the lisping Lieutenant, apparently perfectly satisfied ; and another wink travelled round ihe circle of op tics. The party broke up, and all retired for the night except the patrols, who continued their rounds, as we believe they generally do on military posts, until morning goes into frag ments, when the air of bustle and activity be gan its hum in the barracks. The soldiers were passing from their several quarters, and soon there were a number gathered upon the parade. Presently several officers assembled, and were talking in a cluster, when along came the lisping Lieutenant ; he looked at the group and immediately passed into the quarters of his dignified friend, who was still in bed. " Ah, is that you, Charley," said the sleepy Lieutenant, lazily opening his eyes. " Yeth, Jim," said the lisper, " I want to try an experiment thith morning, and thee how d n cool you can be !" saying which he walked deliberately up to the fire burning upon the hearth, and placed in its hottest centre a powder canister! and instantly re treated. There was but one mode of egress from the quarters, and that was upon the parade ground the rear being built up for defence against attack. The occupant took one glance at the fire, saw the canister, and comprehending his situation in a moment, he dashed at the door, but his friend had it fast on the outside. " Charley, let me out, if you love me ?" shouted the occupant of the quarters. " Thpit on the canister, Jim !" shouted he in return. Not a moment was to belost he at first snatched up a blanket to cover his egress, but nowr, dropping it, he raised the window, and out he bounced sans culottes, sans every thing, but a very short under garment ; and thus, with hair almost on an end, he dashed upon a full parade ground. The shout which hailed him brought out the whole barracks to see what was the matter, and the dignified Lieutenant pulled a tali Sergeant in front of him to hide his parade dress. " Why didn't you thpit on it, Jim ?" inqui red Charley. " Because there was no sharp shooters in front to stop a retreat," answered Jim. " All I got to thay ith," says Charley, " that you might thafely done it, for I'll thware there wathn't a'thingle grain of pow der in it !" Under a volley now of the sharpest kind of shooting, tli :o 1 and dignified Lieutenant re treated into his quarters, perfectly satisfied to acknowledge that, under some circumstances, it is not very easy to take it coolly! Sucker's visit to the Theatre. The following ' good thing' we find in the Reville : ' Well, I've been thar, Jim,' said a sucker to his crony. ' Whar, down to St. Louis ? ' inquired Jim. ' Well, no whar else,' was the answer, 'and I've seed some of the durndest things you've ever heerd on in the hull animal creation.' ' What wur they like ?' inquired Jim. 1 Oh, all sorts of doins mixed up sorter ev ery way; but the thing that just tuck me straight were seein' a flying woman! Arter the liatboat wur hitched, I sot to look in' round, and pooty soon I seed on big boss bill, stuck agin houses, that a feller named Dan Soos war goin to cut up some of the tallest kind of shindies. I war naturally bound to find out what it war like, so I axed a feller readin' it ; and he laughed he said it war only the the-a-ter. Says , that's a show, aint it .' and said he, it ar, but it aint no circus show nuther, but all sorts of a handsome show, held in a place as big as our county seat court-house. I I jest made up my mind I'd go ten cents straight. 1 found out whar they kept it, ana up 1 goes, but lhar they told me the lowest notch was a cool quarter; that staggered me, but I gin it. Root or die, when you're in for it, ses I, so up I goes the alfiredest lot of stairs. I thought arter a spell I'd come out some whar neer the moon ; but by travelling a spell I got up whar a lot of folks wur. It looked to me like a meetin' house with three galleries and lit up like all out of doors in daylight. A lot of fellers fiddled away a spell by themselves, but cuss me if I could see whar that feller Dan Soos war, and jest as I wur goin' to ax a chap whar the show wur, up rolled the hull side of the house, right afore me, and out slid a gal on her tip toes, whirlin' about like as if she couldn't keep down on the yearlh. The way she handled her pins jest sot me rearin' it beat Mary Sellers all holler, and she aint slow. I asked a feller next me who she wur, and I'll swar if he didn't says it wur Dan Soos ! which, instead of bein' a man's name, wur French for a dancin' woman. I didn't notice at first, but arter a spell I seed the reason she couldn't keep from jumpiu' it made my hair kind o' rise she wur not only a angel-looking crea ture, but, Jim you km b'lieve it or not, hoss fly I'll declar she had wings !' Here,' says Jim, 'you kin jest take my hat.' I knowd nobody would believe me,' said the Sucker, ' I jest knowd it, but I swar I seed her take holt on the tip of her wing, spread it out and jest fly like a bird clean across the hurLside of the house. A feller wur chasm her. but he couldn't shine ; she shuck her toe at him, and slid right out ol sigii?. TVrjns for Advertising. UPAR OF 81 XTF.E3T LINES OR LF.98. 1 00 One squate one insertion, do. do. 3 insehtona, 1 25 do. 3 do. 1 60 do. 3 months without change, 3 00 do. 6 do. do. do. 4 50 du. 12 do. do. do. 8 00 do. 6 do. renewed weekly, 13 00 do. 12 do. do. do. 20 OA do. do. do. do. do. do. A liberal discount will be made on advertise mrtiu exceeding one square, when published 6 of 12 months, eath in advance. QCjIf the number of insertions are not marked' on the advertisement, they will be continued until ordered OHt, and charged for accordingly. (XTAU advertisements required to be PAW FOR IN ADVANCE. 4 Thar,' says Jim, ' that will do ; I know'd you could do pooty well a lyin but the last effort kin take the cakes.' ' I aint goin' to tell any more, but I'll swarf I seed it.' Seed thunder !' shouted Jim. 'You seed what the doctors call a olfactory colhision.' THE HOUSE OF LORDS. The following rather ludicrous, and certairt ly very republican description of one branch of the British parliament, has been contribu ted to the New York Journal of Commerce by an American traveller. After some tarry in Great Britain, the writer seems aggrieved as a spectator to see a few men raised' to wealth and power in church and state, whilst the masses of the wide kingdom are left to count less deprivations. " Tell everybody," he says, " to guard our institutions as they would their lives." He then continues : The House of Lords, who has not heard1 of the House of Lords ? those men made up of porcelain, while you and I are made of com mon c!ay. Well I went to see them a few days before they moved into their new house. Just as the clock struck five, the Duke of Wellington arrived on his horse, and dismoun ted with great agility for an old man bent with years. He is a venerable looking man, and in his old age has become quite a reformer. The next person I saw was the Marquis of Lansdowne, a dark complexioned man, well looking, carelessly dressed, on foot with art umbrella. Next came was Lord Ashburton, who walked very infirm, and appeared in poor health. A short man leaned on his arm, very old, who could scarce walk. I did not learn who he was. But it was time for me to go up stairs. As I arrived the landing and was entering the door, I wife told to stand back from the passage, for the Lord Chancel lor was coming. 1 thought that a reason why I should step forward as I wished to see his lordship. At that moment a fellow came trudging along with a ball-club in his two hands, gilt at the top, (the mace,) another one with a cushion (the wool sack,) another with a long, ill-looking sword, (the Sword of State,) then the Lord Chancellor himself; and such a wig! My! only think of having two or three sheep on your head, and the fleeces hanging down far below your shoulders ! And then his petticoats! (gown.) A mart came after him to hold up his tail (trail) tr keep it from dragging. He had to pull preity hard. I could not help laughing. It looked like a farce, a raree show. So they march ed in, with slow and solemn tread, up the aisle, to the Chancellors chair! and the fel low hold of his long tail gave it a swing to the right to enable his Lordship to sit down. This he did with all the dignity of a grand Mogul. I thought it was a pity to dress up such a good lookinr man as the Chancellor, in women's clothes, with such a quantity of wool about his head. And then those " bau bles," as old Cromwell called them, suitable playthings for children; but for full grown mert it did look ridiculous to me. I entered the stran ger's Gallery, and lound perhaps fifty or sixty Lords in the House, many of whom I knew from the prints I had seen of them. I saw art old chap sitting on the very seat on my left hand, apparently asleep, his hat down well over his eyes, (they all wear their hats,) gold spectacles on, very red face, his feet up on the next bench before him, and an old grey twee 1 coat on. The door-keeper told me it was Earl Suffolk. At that moment the doot opened, and a queer specimen of humanity entered, and, alter stopping a momenj, passed through to the next room; As he was close by me, I had a good chance to see him ; and such a figure and face you don't often see. He was of immense size around, hair nearly all off' his head, a very doll shaped head indeed; face appeared sealing wax red, white eye brows, &c. He breathed pretty hard from the exercise of walking. This was the Duke of Cambridge. He has got, not merely noble blood, but blood royal. I could not testify as to the quality of his blood, but I could as to its color. There was a good deal of angry discussion" about Ireland, between Lord Brougham and the Irish Lords. They came as near telling each other they lied, as they could and not dof it. I noticed very little of that dignity and courtesy that you see between our Senators. And then the appearance of the men, as com pared with our Senators, I felt more proud than ever of our Senate. In our Senate each Senator has his seat, and sits with his hat off. In the English House of Lords they keep their hats on, and walk about, here and there talk ing, and apparantly doing everything else ex cept attending to their business. As I looked about me, I thought, Well, a few hundred of these men own perhaps two thirds of the soil of England. They have the entree to the Palace, exempt from arrest. They and theirs monopolize a great proportion of the wealth earned by the sweating millions. They have for themselves and their families nearly all the good places in the Church, Army and Navy. What have they done to entitle them to so unequal a share of this world's goods; while thousands perish with hunger ? Dr. Fxanklin's notion of titles was, that they should ascend to ancestry, and not descend to poste rity ; because if a man performed a great deed, the probability was he had been taught by his father, and prepared by paternal training to serve thi state. Cromwell turned thee Lords adrift, and called from all parts of the kingdom men of various occupations to answer him this ques tion, " what shall I do to make trade prospe rous at home and abroad ?" And these prac tical men sat in this very room before occupied by the Lords. ' The fact is, I left the House with far less respect for Lords than ever before. CWelsh TkMDS. Three things that never become rusty The money of the benevolent, the shoes of the butcher's horse, and a woman's tongue. Three things not easily done To allay thirst with fire, to dry the wit with water, to please all in every thing that is done. Three things that are as good as the best Brown bread in famine, well water in thirst, and a great coat in cold. Three things as good as their better Dirty water to extinguish fire, an ugly wife to a blind man, and a wooden sword to a coward. Tfiree things that seldom agree Two cats over one mouse, two wives in the same house, and two lovers after the same maiden. Three warnings from the grave Thou knowest what I was, thou seest what I am, remember what thou art to be. Three things of short continuance A la dy's love, a chip fire, and a brook's flodd. Three things that ought never .to be from home The cat, the chimney, and the house wife. Three essentials to a false story teller A good memory, a bold face, and fOols for his audience. , Three things seen in the peacock 1 ne garo of an angel, the walk df a thief, and the voice of the devil. . Three things it is unwise to botot of Ibe favor of thy ale, the beauty of thy wife, and the contents of thy purso. Tk. nf a ihan s nouse a imwr t ;o J ping roof, anda scolding wile. j chimney? a drip X 111 CC UliCI iwo - ..