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! i '-! ' i- ' .- ' ' ' " ' , , H - ' ' '. -. : ; ' ". ', ' ' j ' ' ; ; ' imi ' m iwii ti '"'''' - - . . ! ' s ' : ' '"' ' -" ' ; ! -M, ! . ...... , - ....... . 'j I i THOMAS iOKING, Editor and Proprietor: 'TffCT DOLClRS Per Annam, inrariablj in Advance, VOL. 5. VILMINGTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 18o2. NO 26 fln iA Flag of our Union. TIIE MONOMANIAC: AND, HOW HE WAS CURED, BT RYLVANCS COEB. JR. In a small town, not fir Trora one of our largest maratime cities, lived a light-fisted old codger named acob feevins. There were two peculiiiritie'a that made him an ex traordinary man. In the first place, though he was quite iyeal,th, and allowed himself all the the comforts of high Jiving, yet he was neyei; known to bestow a penny in alms, or to grant a lit bit of delicacy to his etrv antBj and in tlte second place, what wTas still more'vvonderful, he firruly bplieved' him self to he .haunted by a ghost. On this lat ter subject he waa a perfect monomaniac, nod soj earnestly had he believed its truth that he would lay awake at night and talk with the ghost which be ijnryiguied to be standing by his bedside, and more than once had he arisen from his bed. and offering his arm to his ghostship, walked forth into tlie open ajr, and those who had met him on such occasions, and tried to convince him that he was entirely alone, were forever afterwards banished Irora his favor. He knew that the ghost was with him. or 2.e felt the spirit's arr, entwined within his own. , ;Patripk,u-said .Mr. Peevins one day, as he 6topped in one of hi walks and addressed his gardener, ''do you believe in ghosts?" :hpsts;sir'- ' '.Yes ghosts.1-?-' ''Faix. sir, an' Fn think iiiMU meseif that'll be a ghosSj ; afore long," returned the honest Hibernian," as. he k'u.ncd, upon ki? shovel and wiped Usp sweat, trom his, brow. "Perhaps when you. are dead." "'An' I'll be that same, sir, you may depind upon It, afore long, if ye's doesn't give me more, to ae rndi dh rink. By me eowl, sir, I ha,vn' tasted a dr'ap o' the comfort since I've been, upon your place. " But do they not see ghosts in your coun try Patrick ?" asked old Peevins. seeming not to, notice the man's delicate hint. Patrick knew his master's weak spot, and !je determined for once to humor him. :'M cou.ntry, sir ? Ghosts in ray country? Ah, ye'd better believe it, sir. ai.x. many'e llie time I've talked wid 'em. meself when they'd be afther comin' into, the house."- The old man's eye sparkled at this infor mation," and bidding Patrick drpp his spade, ordered him to follow him into the house, where; he demanded, a full explanation of all t,he circumstance attendant upon ghostly vis its in t,he old world. Ijat, Muiropney had the "gift of gab" to perfection, and for half an tyouc.ne entertained his credulous master yth, the ra,ot marvellous and wonderful ac counts ot Irish ghosts. ! - i;And this is all true, Patrick ?" 'Every word ov it. sir." :And ghosts have ben known to kilt perf tons 'When heyV.e been afther . disobeyin' thim, sir, not widout." 'Air. Alulrooney.". said Peevins, having suddenly conceited a gre;U respect lor his ; gardener, "you are the first man ol sense with whom I have conversed fore, ong time. : I think you mentione. s,oniet)nrig a,out uriiik'-'- " l- "Aiaybe I did, sir." ' Qo to that drawer a,t the head of my bed. and, bring me that bunchy of keys," Patrick d(d as d?.si,red. "There rtake that one and go down and unlock my wire cellar. " Ou tne ground, up on the right, you vf see t ro(w of bottles. "Bring one of thorr'uip here. Only one. and be sure that you relock the door." Yhen "MutroOviiey" returned, he received the joyful intelligence thai tie might "in dulgej" and it is hardly necessary to state that the peculiar powers of lhoat proved an at traction so strong that the bottle was emp tied ere it left his lips. PatlMuItooney felt extremely happy that he had been allowed once more o partake of that stream of exhiliartion whic.b h.dl he come endeared to, him by the naemorv of the poteen ot'his native hills, but yet h'e, Telt not , half so wll pleased and saisfie as did his master.. Jacob Peevins had at length found a man who'coulci, from experience, sympa thize with him in the peculiarjvisitation that Providence had fixed upon his' fate. One night, when the winds blew mourn fully around the old mansion, and the'' stars seemed to peep forth 93 if half-'ashamed of their meagre light, the old monomaniac laid n his: bed awaiting the appearance of his nocturnal visiter. Just aa the clock struck twelve, his chamber door wa&slow'ly opened, and the ghost appeared. Indeed, the man or woman -who had seen that presence would have been half conyinced that old Pe.evens was right in his ghostly faith. Slowly and majestically, the ghost ap proached the head of the old man's b,ed, and jyith a prophetic air it swayed to an,d fro be fore hini. Most people would have been Trightened by the apparition." but not eo with Jacob Peevins. The ghost Was his very deal of existence, ancj as the pale visitant too(j by his bed he attempted to arise from his recumbent position, but in this he was frustrated, for as he made the first motion his spiritual visiter pronounced, in a tone deep &ad sepulchral: " ' ' "Mortal, to thy sight I've coa, I'll not harm ya if you're dumb j Stir not from your downy bed, For on that moment thou art dead !" Jacob was startled with thia announcement. ,' QUI still he was nl eased, for npvr hfnr hnrt fee received such direct, palpable evidence of nMayorite ineory -or, rattier, such eonvtae- ing proof of his predominant faith asj this i nterview afforded, and for several moments he gazed with a kind of religious awe upon the palie, corpse like "form. At length the presence spoke again; j . "( "Mortal, thou the truth can'st gain, Other men baye sought in vain, j ' : One hour will tell my yisit's done-7 : I'll see thee when the clock strikes one J" 1 1 With these words the ghost lelt the room, and with the fullest faith that the promise would be kept, Mr. Pieevfns , anxiously awaited its re-appearance.' The clock (fid strike one, and hardly had the sound of the clock hammer died away upon the air, when the solemn spectre again entered the old man's room. Again the pale Visitant stood by the bedside, and anon it disappeared Night afier night se'ttied. in darkness up on the Pjeevins m.ansipn, and each midnight found the ghost at the old man's bedside, and for nearly three weeks thes$ nocturnal, mid nigh 1 meetings, were kept up, to the! entire satisfaction of the monomaniac, and appar ently, to the infinite deligbt of the ghost. At length, one warm, sultry night, the ghost appeared, as usual, at raidtiighf, and promised to - return when the clock should .strike cjie. Jacob Pevina laid awake, and auxiously awaited the moment when ,he could bid his spiritual visitant "good night," for he had become so used to The meeting and the separation, that he could not have clept till the final visit had been paid by jthe ghost. The clock was near the old m.an' room, and ere long its iron hammer tohl the magic hour the hour when th.e ghost would re-appear and bless with vis presence the owner of the mansion. Just then he doer opened, and his ghostsip entered, j There was something strange something unaccounta ble in the present appearance and bearing of the ghost for which the old man could not account, it still ha't tnn enraat dr,f hlilfP. palor. and- its raiment was of spotless white from head to foot; but instead of the ma jestic, melancholy tread, with which the spir it was wont to enter the room, it came in with a singularly significant reel, and as it reached, the foot board of the bed, it stretch ed forth its hand as if for support. At length the frhost ODened its month. Mr. Peevins CJ, , expected, in the fulness of his spmpathy for nis gnosisnip's enieeDieci, conaiuon. mac ne was ''about to. hear the, fast farewell of the spirit; but what his asjtoriishmentiupon hear ing the ghost give uttgrance tb the following, with an evident airtf atsome sort of an ac companying tune : 1 r '. "Av I was a (hie) Lionarch m stele, Like Romulus, or (hie) Julius CaTsar, i Wid the best of fine vittels to (hie) ate, And dhrink like (hie) great Nebuchadnezzar, A rasher ov bacon I'd hare, And pertaties the (hie) finest je'er seen, sir ; And for drink it's no claret I'd crave, But a keg ov ould Mullen's poteen, sir." ' ' ' . ' ' ' ''Arab, poteen foriver ! Be jabers, ysi give me the mountain (hie) dew !" "But a keg ov ould Mullen's poteen, sir 1" Old Peevins could not be mistaken in the sound of that voice. All thoughts of ghots were driven, and springing from his bed he seized the apparition by the shoulder, at the same time exercising his contracting anc". ex panding muscles in such a manner' as to cause a violent vibration to ensue' upon the ci-devojxt ghost. s - ' Och murther ! rniirther 1"- shrieked, ,Pat Mulrooney. as Mr. Peevins continued his vi bratory efforts, while the long sheet fell from his shoulders, and he stood before his incen sed master in his robe de nuit. "Let me go, dear masther.'' , f "Oh, me darlin.t so frisky, Jest give me a tip ' your whiskey." Mr. Jacob Peevins found that Mr. Mulroo ny was by far too spiritualized for mental chastisement, and feeling a desire to keep this visitation a secret, he helped his ghost up into the attic, where the latter soon lost his identity in the equalizing embrace 61 Morpheus. I On the next morning Mr. reevins instinct ively paid a Visit to his wine cellar -having found his keys upoji his chamber ftjoor-: and his chagrin can be better imagined than des cribed, when he found that some four dozen of his choicest bottles of "brown sheny" and old hock" had been entirely emptied! In a moment he comprehended the whole secret. That palpable that most convincing ot all ghosts, who had paid him such" devoted, at- tention lor nearly three weeks, nap punoinea his keys at twelve o'clock, and returned, them at one in the meantime having appeared, in propria persona, to tne Dottien army in the wine cellar. 1 Jacob Peevins determined from the bottom of his heart that he would never entertain a ghosl in his- house agairf, and (from that eventtul nignt nis monomania was enureiy cured. At first, he thought ot dismissing the delinquent Mulroony, but as thejpoor fellow was in fact the direct means 01 curing mm 01 his injurious halluciriatibn, he retained him in his service, but, however, with the strict injunction that Pat shoui,d. never lisp a word of what had happened. ' Pat kept His word; but ere long, Mi. Pee vins told the whole story himself, and atf the present ime the old man is hale and hearty, and sound iir mind: and Mr. Patrick Mulroo ney is his most faithful servant and cbinan- ion. I (Jikcinhati,. Feb! 27. koasutb has receive 14,000 in this city, in eluding'000 frojn the sale of hij bonds. ' THE, MARRIED MAN. The folio win or amusins sketch is from a book recently published entitled, "Dream of You grow unusually amiable and kind j you are earnest in your search of v friends ; you Bhake hands witl your office boy, as it he were your second- cousin1'. "ou joke cheerfully -'with the stout "washerwoman; and give her' a shilling overchange, and in sist upon her keeping it ; and grow quite merry' atlhe recollection of it. You tap your hackman on the shoulder very famil iarly, and' ..'tell hnn ' he " is a. capita fellow; and-doh't aifow hirh to whip his horses,' ex cept when driving1 to'the post' office. You even ask him to take a glass of beer with you upon some chilly evening. You drink tof the health of his wife. He says he has no wife whereupon you think him a very niiserabfe man; and give him a dollar by way of 'consolation. You think all the editorials in the morning papers are remarkably well written wheth er upon your side or upon the other. You think the stock market hasja very cheerful look with Erie of which you are a large holder dovvnto seventy-five. You wonder why you never admired Mrs. Hemans, be fore, o-y Stoddard, or any of the rest! You give a pleasant twirl to your fingers as you saunter along the street; and say but not so loud as to be overheard t:she is mine she is mine I" You wonder if Kranlf. ever loved Nelly one half as well as you rove'Maage . You feel quite sure he never did. You can hard ly conceive how it is that Madge has not been seized before now by scores of enam ored men, and borne off. like the Sabine wo nien in Romish history.' You chuckle over your ' future,1 "like a boy who has found a guinea in groping for sixpences.' Xou, read over the marriage service, thinking of the time when you will take her hand, and slip the' ring upon her finger; and repeat after the cliergyraan ufor richer for poorer ; for better for worse Vy A great 'ftealjof worse, there will be about it, you think ! Through all, your , heart cleaves to that sweet image ol the beloved Maid, as light cleaves today. The weeks leap with a bouni; and the rnpntfys 1 grow long 'when you approach that cay which is" to make her yours. There are no flowers rare enough to boquet lor her; diamonds are too dim for her wear; pearls are tame. ' And aft,er marriage. t,he weeks are even shorter than before ; you Wonder why on earth all the single men in the world do not rush tumultuously to the altar ; you look upon them all, as a travelled man will look unoh some- conceited Dutch boor, who has ' never "been beyond the limits of his cabbage garaen. married men. on iu.e coinrary, you regard as fellow-voyagers ; and look upon their wives ugly as they may be as bet ter than none. You blush a little at first telling your butcher what 'your wife' would like; you bargain with the grocer for sugars and teas. ari&wbhdef if he knows you are a married man? You practice your new wy of talk upon your office boy ; you tell him that 'your wife' expects you home to dinner, and are astonished that he does not stare to hear you say it. You wonder if the people in the omnibus know that Madge and you are just married; and if the driver knows that the shilling you hand to him is for self and wife?" You vvbnder if anybody was ever so happy before, or ever will be so happy again ? " You enter your name upon the hotel, book as 'Clarence and lady; and come back, to look at it wondering it any body else has noticed it and thinking that it looks re markably well. You cannot help thinking that every third man you meet in the hall wishes to be possessed of your wife ; nor do you think it very sinful "id him to wish it. You fear it is placing lempatipn in the way of covetous then, to put badge's little gaiters outside the chamber door at, night. Your home, when it is entered, is just what it should be, quiet, smallj. rwith everything she wishes,' and nothing more than she wish es. The sun strikes it in the happiest possi ble way; the piano is the sweetest toned in the world, the library is stocked to a charm, and Madge, that blessed wife, is there,adorn ing and givtng life to it all. To think, even, of her possible death, is a suffering you class with the infernal tortures of the inquisition: You grow twain of heart and purpose. Smiles seem made for marrhge ; and ycu wonder how you ever wore them before-!" ; THE; NUTMEG. The nutmeg tree is represented to be a beautiful vegetable. The stem, j with a smooth, brown bark'j rajea perfectly straight. Its' strong and numerous " branches jiroceed regularly; from U in an oblique dirtefctjen up wards. They' bear large oval leaves." pen dulous from them, some a foot inlength. The upper and outer surface of the le'af is smooth, and of deep: agreeable green. Tbe tinder and ieher surface h rharkeil ! with a strong nerve Sn the middle of the leaf,1. from the forestalk lb the point; and from this middle nerve others'proceed' obliquely tdwards ! the point and edges of the leaf; but what distin guishes most this inner surface, is its uniform bright brdwri cotory Without the least inter mixture of greert ; and Ks'if strewed all 'over with a'fine brown powder.' The 'wholo leaf is characterized by its fragrant odor, suffici ently dehotineftbe fruft which the tree pro duces. This : fruit when' fresh, is about the size and figure'af aV common nectarine. It consists of an outward find, between which and the inward shell is found a reticu lated membrane, v or ' divided skin, which, when dried, is called the mace. What is known by the name of nutmer, is the kernel within the shtll. and soft. in its criminal etats. A SHARP LETTER. Mr. Samuel Gurney, the celebrated qua ker merchant and philanthropist, has lately been engaged in a controversy with Gen. Sir W C. Napier, about the Caffir war. The last letter of the General to the Quaker is very rich. It appears as follows in the London Times : Picayune. Respectable Friend. If the reporter of thy discourse has pat wards into thy mouth which were not in tended he is to be blamed, and thou art so far exonerated from the charge of injustice; hut thou dost again, without solid foundation, villify military men. saying, uThey are far too liable to look to the sword for the settle ment of international disputes.". ' ' I say unto thee in reply, ! that since the days of Marlborough, military' men ' have never had recourse at al to'the sword in the settlement of international disputes, and it is not becoming in thee to charge them with it as an offence. '" 1 : Mark. Friend, political and, commercial men they are who have "al ways ha'd rfefcoiirse to the sWord. The soldier makes var. but he does not declare it. The political men declare war, and generally j for commercial interests; but when the nation is thusem broiledWith its neighbors the' soldier saves it fr6ni darker. ; He draws the sword at the command of his country but heas rothing to do with the sin, if it be one, of having "recourse to the sword for the settlement ol international disputes." He fights sternly to save the nation from the consequences of its own act. namely declaring, war ; but he loves not wa'r. Why should he ? What does he gain by it ? Death, wounds, pain disease, premature old age and poverty, and insult when his services are no longer in request, Is it justice Friend ? Is it char itable?, Thou hast said, "military men are far too liable to Ippk "to1 :lhC,,s'wdrd.',. meaning, of course, more liable than politicians and com mercial men. Was George Greenville, whose stamp act produced the American War of Independence, a military man? Was Mr. Pitt, who made the long war with prance, a military man ? Was the honorable company of traders, whidh from a (actory on the Hooghlyjfcxten dedVits bou'hds'by wars to a. mighty empire, composed of military or commercial men 1 Was Warjen Hattings a military govern or ? Was Lord Weilesley one ? Was it a military governor who declared war against China to enable iron beaded old rats to smug gle opium, in 'defiance of the laws of that great state and of morality 1; Were they military governors who com menced the Affghan vvar, the Punjaub war? Were tHose military or commercial men who' established and carried on the? slave trade with all its African waas that trade which has recently been declared by Lord Palmerston to be unapproachable, in atroci ty, though all the other crimes. of all nations, in all times, were heaped together ' for the comparison ? I !,i "' And think not, friend, though I have con fined my justification of military3 governors to Sir George Napier, that'fie only canciim exemption from thy censuses! 'Inquire and thou wilt find1 it so. Cease, -therefore, if thou wouldst1 be counted among the just, to villify soldiers. V And, friend, ; thou" ' ha!s not yet answeredfray question.; What manner oTrndn be thdy'whd supply j the'Ka&ir with arms and, ammunition ? Napier, Lieutenant General. To Mr. Samuel Gurney. THE INDIANS IN FLORIDA. The Jacksonville News says that, it learns from a. reliabld'sourcp that CaptJerigan hap received abthoriiy lirdni QoV BroWn to'1 raise a company of fifty mounted Voluriteers, 1 for the protection of the settlements about Fort Gatlin, and an order from Capj fdr pro vision and stores was brought to Jacksonville by the steamer Thorn from Iake'Monroe. The steamship ' Florida, 'that sailed from CharlPEton on Thursday for Pilatka. 'lookout - - - 1 1 Companies H and J of the 2d Regiment of U. S. Artillery, under tfye command ol uapt. H. Swartwout, and' Lfeuts. A. J. Cooke, H. Benson,' C. Ri P Baljer, and J. Perry. A detafchmnt of U. S. troops, 'numbering 51. sailed from Fort Wood, in New York harbor, forFiprida', cri Thursday week. THE IRISH DISTURBANCES IN OniO. The Steubnyilie (Ohio) Herald of the 9th instant publishes the following : 'On Friday of ast week a parly of fifty seven Fardewners. that were marching over the hills and fields in the : neighborhood of section 14 in pursuit of Coik-men, met n party of seven or eight of the latter, and fired upon them. ' One man of the Cork par ty, named James Casey, was shot through the main artery of the thigh, and Uien bea ten over the head and body with bludgeons. In a few minutes he was dead.. 'A party of the guard Kafrpened to come up at the Mme, and the assailants were promptly disarmed, and marched into the city with the murder ed corpse. Eleven of them, who had been disarmed, were immediately taken before a magistrate, and committed to jail on a charge of murder. The rest of the prisoners were also sent to jail on various charges, so that at the fast accounts there were' from fifty ;to sixty 0 them in jaij. The Hreafd says: 4'In addition to all this, it seems that the country pe6p1e of. the neighborhood, aided by some ot the guards, were to bring in yet another party of the unruly Fardowners. who are accused of having gone about to far mers' houses, threatening the inmates, or dri ving the females away, ostensibly to search for concealed Corkonians. It has now come to this,that those people have armed in de fence of themselves and property, and that they will not permit one of the fardowners to remain in the neighberh'ood. 4" "On Tuesdaytwd orihree hundred Cork onians marched into Pittsburg, from the rail roads in the vicinity, inahy-cf them full armed, with the determination to go to Steu hnville to aid their friends there to drive off the Farderwno. but none of the captains of the steamers being; willing id take fljem.lhey avowed their" intention to rriifreh there by and. Sevdral arrests were made, and ener getic steps have been taken, both at Steu benville and Pittsburg, to put an end.to these disgraceful feuds." The Offer made by Meslcc to Geiu Scott: The 'New York Times affirms that the state ment that General Scott was offeree! the Presi dency of Mexico is strictly tme, and that it oc curred just after he bad been recalled by our gov ernment, and peace had been concluded with Mexico. The offer, it is alleged, was made in consequence of the admirable manner in' which he administered affairs after the capture of the city of Mexico. He was to have received 250,- ,000 pier 'annum for fi?e years makiDg in all a million and a'quarter provi Jed be would retain under his. command such of his soldiers as should, after their regular discharge from the service of ttie United States, volunteer to remain with him in Mexico. The representative of the British gov ernment in Mexico, it is alleged, moreover, agreed to guarantee! to General Scott, if ho would accept the offer, the regular payment" of the money promised. But, as has heretofore been stated, he declined the pro ft; red honor. ' From the New York H.-rald of Wednesday. Arrival of tide Great Gerctcu Patriot -Kin- kel Come to Town. A Recently wc have been glorifying and deifying all kinds of revolutionary patriots and orators. One as great as any of them has arrived in our midst, and has already been holding forth to the German population. Kinkel has come; and though no notes of preparation have been' sound ed, and no military or civic triumphal procession has ushered in his advent, and no cannon have roared their welcomes from our forts, and no great guns of orators have greeted ' him outside the precincts of the city all which hare been grievous sins of omission arid sad oversight yet it is time enough for the ' great, grand, bloody Revolutionary Committee in tho Astor House to act, and time enough for the Common Council to take the initiative in giving him a demonstra tion of some kind. ' Better late than never. Kin kel is the representative of a larger nation in Eu rope than Kossuth, and is a man of nrier and more martial appearance. He is the representa tive of a more numerous race in this country than Kossuth the Germans, next to the Irish, being by far the largest item in oar foreign popu lation. 'While the Hungarian's are like angels' visits few and "far ' between. The Hungarians in the United States probably number one hun dred arid ninety-nine and a half the Germans between two and three millions. Germany is as ranch in need of political regeneration and liber ty, and quite as likely to bo successful in a revo lutsonary itrnggle, as Hungary. It is much near er and more accessible ; and every consideration suggests that, to t,b&t country and its representa tive we are bound by far stronger obligations to supply financial and material aid, than to any other European country, except Jrelnnd, which seems to have beea completely forgotten for tho present, amidst the host of other claimants fiir sympathy, and money, and intervention'.' ' ,; We call, therefore, on the Mayor arid Corpora tion to give the use of the Governor's Room, in the City Hall, to Kinkel, to hold a levee j'alio, to take rooms for the German patriot at tho Aitor ! House, and pay for them1 at the expense of the city. This is the least they caa do; and if they do it promptly, it will bjalie some stohefneht for the omission of a triumphal entry or ovation. We .call on the abolitionists, white, black, and grey, to come forward and lend a' helping and: We call upon the holy Atfiance of :$emipirance,' with Bafnum at its head,' to ccme "forward, that, by serving the German cause, they may acquire such an influence as will upset the'lag'erbier "anil the corner grog-shops. ! We call upon the'lh-ofes-tant clergy, of all denominations, led' on by Rev. Heriry Ward Beecher, 'tomo' forward, ' and 'by their prayers and their 'couritenancei' 'f not with their purses to give' a momentum to the revolu tionary strugglo fn Germany, which is destined to complete what Martin Luther began, and to ut terly extinguish "the rain of sin." and drive him forever from' the city of seven hills." We call on the Astor House Revolutionary Com mittee f 6 bold a meeting immediately, to see if they cannot do something It the'Vvay of assisting a revoimicn in vsermany, or raising loans upon , the security" of a' republic that is to be, backed by I the signature of "Kinkel in a large round, hand George Law has plenty cf muskets 250,000 of them and millions of ball caitidges. Simeon Draper, too wbx sold 40.000 maskets to Kossuth, has 40,000 more on hand, better than the others, if possible, and which will go'off. &cabst' by look ing at them. No doubt the committee could make an arrangement with one or both tjhe gen tlemen to furbish Kinkel with those deadly instru ments of wr, to anihilate despotism in Germany and all Zhrope; We oIl ou Genin, the hatter, to come out with anotfefer thousand dollars. He will make ten thovsand on Kinkel hats, trhich it Is said will toon supersede the Kowuth, Wo hope he wUI '.not allow some other smart fellow In the trade to get ahead or mm. juc ma 00 quic, time by tho forelock, v ' We cali'on'all the VaT, flunkey editors of In tervention to get cp v banquet We call on Richard AdaW Locke izA llajor Hagadorn, to conie forward and pledge the blood and treasure the whole moral and physical force of tho United States to aid and. assUt the coming revolution in Get many, In order that that oM fatherland may be speedily "redeemed, regenerated and diien. thralled, by the genfus of UErrersal emancipation Ce quick. 'gentTementueCis dollar now Is worth a thousand at Vfuldro'tiiae.'' A canc of intervention how is worth a ton weight cf' it when it is tbo'late. " And last, not least, ye Qerroans conie forward and rall for liberty and fatherland. Kinkel returns to Gdrmany in a few days. i 1 ARRIVAL OP XI1E STEALER ATLANTIC. FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE: I x a ding Featxr: of L&rd John RussclVs Parliq mcntay Reform ht'd?irclandlne;Tranquil Affair sin France The Attempt to Murder Iks Queen of Spain The Execution of Kosuth's Friends in Austria Turkey. ( New York, Feb. 26th, Th a steamer Atlantic arrived this morning, with t.iverpo6T dates to tho' 11th,. She experienced very boisterous weather on the passage, and was detained somo time by the ' ice. ' - ... ENGLAND. Lord John Russell introduced his Parliamenta ry Reform Bill into the House f Commons on" Monday. The leading features are as follows: A reduction of the courts amd borough franchise. In Ireland the country representation la unalter ed, but that of the boroughs reduced. The es tablishment of a new class of voters, consisting of those who pay 40s. of the direct taxes. The es tablishment of the order of supremacy as1 repug nant to Roman Catholics and Dissenters, and tho substitution of a form of oath for Jews and others, which is.buta simple oath of allcgianco to the Throne. ' i Lord John's speech was followed by an anima. ted debate. The omission of tho voto by bal lot in the bill was complained of by Humo Berks ley and other members. Leave was granted to Shannon' to bring in a bill to establish a (cnaol right m' Ireland. ' 1 ' The expulsion of certain missionaries of tho Free Church of Scotland, Vy the Austrian Consul at Trieste, was referred to and the inquiry mado' whether steps had been taken, to procure satis- 1 faction for this grss violation, of international law. Lord John Russell said he wes. t hpr'epared. to answer. - IRELAND. ; ' . - 1 Ireland was moro tranquil. - Trade was. unusn-. ally dull and many failures "had occurred. ?' : FRANCE.' Tho news from France presents no acw feature. - 4 lw J Jhe Government had put forth a most indiscreet electors tbey'rnust return Boifapartlsts to the as sembly or the 'tibnTwin Woid V '. The Legitimates will not comdibrwaM' . Coinmercial reports froni France are unfavora ble. ' ' " ' ' . i Madame Pauline Toland, a disciple of. M. Pier re Deroux, and sixty Journeymen printers, had I been arrested it ; r SPAIN. Full details of the attempt to murder the Queen ! have been received. As her mjajesty was leaving church bearing thes Royal Infant in her arms, a Jesuit priest, named Marino, 'while kneeling,' pre- tended to'offcr a p'etUId, 'and immediately struck' a't the Queen with a poinard which he 'drew from" under his cloak!" The weapon penetrated the folds of her dresV, but was directed from its course; by'striKIng thVwhalebone of, her stays and Inflic ted only a'sfight wound' eloc the left rib. Tho secbril blpv slightly wounded her arm. the as?-' sassin wad instantly secured and proved to be a villain of the deepest dye, having been by turns. , soldier, usurer, traitor and priest. Her majesty is fast recovering.! ' ' : The villain was executed at Madrid on tho 7th j AUSTRIA. , :fy The Vienna Lloydsx state that PetcekL report- ed to be an agerit of Kossuth and hfazlini, was executed on the 6th, by older of the Austrian Court Martial, on the charge of attempting to se duce Hungarian regiments fror4 'theff' allegiance.' A man named Genler was cxecr.fei 'with him, on a , charge cf conspiracy to produce' VeVoJufifiu- - v 1 - TURKEY '1" - ' I Advices from Coristaftnople state that the excellent and enligiitened" JJiinisterI 'H3C!d Pa sha, had fallen a victirn to the intrigues 6t. bis eneroifS".' The Cabinet had resigned, and tho Sultan had appointed Racha, Grand Vizier. r FIRE AT THE CAPITOL. About half-past eleven o'clock on Thurseay morning, the chimney leadicg from the Senate Chamber was discovered : to be ' cViitting largo flakes of cinder and much smoke. 'Upon Investi gation it was ascertained that fh'e chimney was on fire. Its burning is supposed lb have cracked the brick work, and but for the fire-proof condi tion of the roof, serious consequences would ia all probability hae been the result. ' , Baltimore' Dai-v Ntvs. f 1 4 1 vrr f 1 1 :
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