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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, Executive Department, Raleigh, Feb. 13th, 1871. b the -Honorable, the General Asseinblu . . T-r 1 1 s i L Gentlemen: There has been certi fied to nie "an act concerning a jCon vention of thepeople," ratified on the 8th day of February, 1871, j byj the terms of which the Governor is required to issue a proclamation commaidirig the Sheriffs of the respective Counties . in the State to open polls and hold an election for a Convention, &c, fcc. If a majority of the votes are for a jConr vention, then the Governor is required C to issue another proclamation summon ing thedelegates to meet in Convention, jCrrt Jtfh 5 r' slrso . tii i-s4- 4-r have been passed by two-thirds pi ail , the members of each House of thejGen- end Assembly. , j -1 have the honor to inform youf hon . orable body that as at present advised, I cannot discharge the duties required of me by said act. i . When the act was upon its passage in the Senate, I was the presiding officer of that body,-and then stated, that as the bill did not recite that it had the concurrence of two-thirds of. all the members of each House of the General Assembly, I deemed it unconstitutional and could not declare it passed, rind if the Senate did not concur with kne, I would vacate the chair and call to it ci a .1. i, A; l scruples on the subject. The Senate did not concur in my views, and I va cated the chair, calling to it the Iionor-, able J Senator from Beaufort, vhose opinion -was known to be in accord with that of the Senate.! Sincet that time I have been called tb the Execu tive Chair of the State, anoV as thd Chief of one of the three Departments pf the Government,'! at first felt that t was hardly-courteous for a co-ordinate de partment to require me to do vihat I had previously announced I coujld not conscientiously do oh account 6f the uncemstitutionalit v of the act : but upon - fiirt lipr' reflection. T concluded that the jGeneral Assembly is right in supbosing that the act.can in no other way be executed except through the Ext cutive of the State.' I deem it respectful to state briefly whv I tl.A.ik said act unconstitutional. tion declares, that "no Convention of ine-,peopie snan ue caneu uy uj vjreu. eral Assembly- unless by the concur renee of two-thirds of all the members of each House." The act under consid em tion is unquestionably an act a Convention. It nrovides the idling neans. fixes the, time and places of voting; declares who shall vote and who shall not vote; who are eligible as delegates; Avnen tney snau meet; wjiat oain mey shall take; what they way, do) .what . they shall do, and what they slmll not do : and what they shall do with the Constitution which they, may fmme, - it I IH Li I H Ml UUki ITIlHllllUllO 11 1 all be come effective. If this be not culling a Convention, then it is difllcultfto tell what would be. I am aware, however, that lC is con tended that the Xesrislature does not; call the Convention, but only authorizes! the popple to call one. For the .sake of argunlent, suppose this to be sojj it only make the case worsey for in my opinion, there is no event in which, the people can call a Convention except as a revo lutionary measure. Ours is a Cbnstitu- tional government, and the people are, as much bound by the Constitution as the. Legislature is, or as any officer is; The Constitution is the suprebie law and it forbids even thepeople toj change or amend it, except in pursuance of its. own provisions, (Art. 1, sec. 3J) Ahy other mode of amending it is extra constitutional, revolutionary, and en dangers the peace of the State, j j Again, by- the Constitution, all legis lative power is vested in the -General Assembly. Convening a Convention is a legislative act, and can only be done by the General Assembly. Calling in the aid of a popular vote does not alter . the case, for the people have no power of legislation, and. it is, after Jail, only an act of the General Assembly, with out the vote required by.the Constitu tion. I If the act under consideration only submitted the question to th people, whether they will have a Convention or not, then there might jbe some plausibility in the argument of its friends, that the General Assembly was not calling a Convention by a bare . majority, but was simply inaugurating a mode by Which the people inight ex press their desire that ; a uon vention ' should be called in the manned prescrib ed by the Constitution, so as I to justify the General Assembly in calling one at a subsequent session. But lejt any one examine the Act dispassionately, ana . the conclusion is irresistible that this is a legislative attempt to amend the Constitution in. a way and by a mode different from that prescribed by the Constitution itself. Is its sole object to allow the people to say whether they desire a Convention or not r ri nen w ny provide in the act that the Convention tiiau do certain thinsrs, rnau hot do cer tain things, and shall do ptill other certain thinsrs ? Is not this establishing a part of the Constitution by legislative enactment, without doing it in the manner provided by the Constitution ? irthis General Assembly,! by a bare majority, can say what particular clause or clauses shall be put into the Consti tution, can it not. with equal propriety, dictate all that shall be iri it? This " proposition seems totne to be too clear to admit of arsrument and I submit that a Convention thus called would be a Convention to ratify ainendments made bv the General Assembly, and not such a Convention as is contempla trn hv th Constitution tci alter and amend the Constitution or to adopt a '. new one. . y I When our resent Constitution was adopted it was of no force or binding effect until it was submitted to ! the Congress of the United States, and re ceived its sanction and aDnroval. This .was rendered neeessarv bv an act o Congress tassed on the 2d day of March, 11867, entitled " An Act td provide for the more efficient governinent of the Rebel States," and by an; act supple mentary thereto, passed onl the 23d day of March, 1867, uto facilitate Restora tion." Both of these acfaf secured the approval of the Legislature of North Carolina, and the people of the State acquiesced therein ; and, time and aga in the Legislative' Halls, on. the hu ings and in the j Courts of Justice; tj leaaing representative men oi the state have affirmed that, in good faith, they would abide by sind support those laws until they were altered, modified or re pealed by the law-making power of the nation, or were declared to be uncon stitutional by the Judiciary o the United States. Neither of these contin gencies, has yet happened, and as our Constitution could not have gone into operation without the sanction of Con gress, I submit that no part of it can be altered or amended without the same sanction, unless the alteration oramend ment be made in the way indicated by the Constitution itself. Congress agreed, when it accepted our Constitution, that we might amend it in two ways: First, by calling a Convention, two-thirds of all the members of each House of the General Assembly concurring; and, second, by Legislative enactment,' as provided irt Article 13, section 2. The people of North Carolina, by their dele gates in Convention assembled, and afterwards by their own votes, agreed to the same thing: Will it not now be justly regarded as an act of Punic faith, on bur part, if we claim that we did not intend the consequences of our own act: but, on the contrary, had the ulti mate purpose to violate our plighted- honor. whenever we felt it convenient to do so ? God forbid that we should give any one cause to believe that we or our people could be wilfully guilty of such an act o xluplicity and treach ey ! In the name of the peopleof my State, I repudiate, any such purpose, and proclaim that although they may desire their Constitution to be amended, they wU never consent that it may be done in any other way than that agreed upon between themselves and the Con gress of the United States, without the consent of both parties freelygiven. f I" am embarrassed by the situation. JJ am extremely anxious to be in accord with your honorable body, but I feel assured that no member of the "General -Assembly, nor any person vThd values his reputation, will censure me for re fusing to do an act which I feel I am precluded from . doing: bv the oath I have taken to support the Constitntiou. Were I to do so, I should feel that I merited the scorn and contempt of every honest ana honorable man in the .State, and that I was utterly unworthy, to oc cupy the place I now hold. . I would much prefer your censure when I have a conscience void of offence, to ybur commendation with an accusing con science. ; " - . With an earnest desire to arrive' at a correct conclusion, and to do nothing rashly or unadvisedly, I have ljctaken myself to the great fountain, of law iii North Carolina; and sought information from the Supreme Court on this vital question. It is the peculiar duty of this learned tribunal of justice to ex pound the Constitution and the laws, and I feel it my bounden dutv to sub mit to and acquiesce in their decision. In renlv to a letter addressed bv me to the Chief Justice and Associate Justices? on the 9th inst., I have received at ; answer, a copy of which I herewith transmit to your honorable body, as well as a copy of my letter to the Court, I have endeavored to state the hon est judgment of my mind upon this important question. I have asked in a spirit of sincerity and truth, and have ascertained the opinion 'of the Supreme Court, that' my judgment might be enlightened by . their views. They concur with me in my opinion of the unconstitutionality of this act. It is gratifying to me to know that thev have done so, not because it af fords me an occasion to say that I was right and the General- Assembly wrong, but because it may suggest, to your honorable body the proper means of accomplishing 6 change in the Con stitution, in lieu of such as are pro vided for by the iact under considera tion M . It is in the interest of peace, quiet and pnblic order, andto prevent prob able serious conflicts anoT collisions of authority, that I invoke the General Assembly to relieve me from the em barrassment of my present position. The Government is of the people and for the people, and, upon a just occas ion, ana in a lawful way, they have an indisputed right to change it. No one will be less likely than I to interpose captious objections to the mode or man ner of effecting such changes as are pro posed by the representatives of the people, or as? may be in accordance with a distinct, definite and deliberate popular will expressed upon this . sub ject. But it cannot be successfully de nied that the mode now proposed is novel and irregular (to use no stronger term;) that it has no express warrant or authority by any provision of the Constitution ; that it is sustained only by a latitudinous and strained inter pretation of a general phrase in that liisirumeui max .it is in uie niie ui ? a. : i. ii u - . : 4 1 . f contemporaneous exposition and de cision of the same question in the uon vention of 1835, by the ablest men, and by a very large majority of that body of pure, upright and eminent citizens; that it has been more than once deter mined, and I had supposed finally de- , ' . ' t i xi i . r i iu Hi.: termineu, uy.uie action oi ,uoia politi cal parties, represented by their best men in the General Assembly, before the war. This being the case, and the, public mind still being sensitive to the slightest cause of alarm and apprehen sion for the continuance oi peace witn in our borders, and our people praying every day and hour of their lives that they may never see again the scenes of commotion, sinie, uuieriiess mm oioou shed through which they have so re cently passed; that whde they have decided views that one manner of se lecting Judges and Justices of the Peace, is preferable fo another ; that one kind of county administration is better than another, there is yet no prevailing reason why they should again buckle on their sabres, shoulder their 'muskets, and at the point of their bayonets, and at the mouth of their cannon, enforce their views of what ought to be the Constitution upon their dissenting neighbors, as each party un dertook to do in 1861. A feeling of doubt and uncertainty as to the future, exists in JSorth Caro- olina. There is some should exist. And, slightest circumstance reason why it therefore the will be seized -n j-p j upon as foreboding evil by the sober, steady men' and women of the Statu;. For they yet remember and) feel the agonies of slaughtered or crippled sorjs, of widowed daughters and: orphaned childrjeri, and deplore the loss of rav aged and desolated homes and ruined fortunes. "The trivial coincidence if the paonth and day of the j proposed Convention election with certain other inauspicious days and months in the dark period of bloodshed, crime, and overthrow of political relations and in stitutions, inaugurated with' 'as. fair, promises as are now made in this sarie month ten years ago, will be remem bered) H;jt -will be remembered aljso that i the very day, April 1 13th, on whicli the proposed election is to m held the anniversary of the bom bardment of Fort Sumter j and the commencement of the war. t Slight as these i circumstances are, the people till attribute to them great signifi cance! as indicative of ulterior and-dan-gerou$ designs, not perhaps in the con templation of those who concurred in the passage of the present law. i , I The dread of being deprived -of the protection of the homestead clause in the present Constitution will, .create a deep, feeling of anxiety and' interest among the people, and contribute to exasperate and heighten the general excitement beyond that j which We might j expect in; ordinary elections. The fear that the 'army of creditors whose claims, have been excluded jby the holding of the present Supreme Court!,j will be precipitated upon the helpless and impoverished debtors f in the Site, now protected byl that dteis-l ion, I coupled with the fact that the present act does not restrict the pro posed Convention from abolishing the constitutional exemption from impris onmebtf for debt, will seriously agitate the ikiinds of the poorer classes of our peoplje .both white and colored. The former will regard the homesteads al lotted to them by law as put in jeo pVr If, if not probably lostj by submit ting Hio; a call of a Convention. The hltterj. who labor upon our farms,).1 in our .domestic service, and upon pur publip works, may suspect that a Cfon ventibn, unrestricted as to its powef to establish the old ca. sa. system of .Im prisonment for debts', willj leave ojpen a door to introduce that or a system I of peonage: like that in Mexico, wliiere, although their Constitution guarantee liberty to every citizen, by' their niode of enforcing debts every farm or h(j)use servant is liahlp to become practically a slave, . y A i ' . These topics are alluded to, not for the purpose of entering into any dis cussion with the General Assembly upoiju its views' of what it may think necessary to do in the way of Constitu tional reforms, but to shov, as all will achnit,; that there -are causes of .irrita tion and excitement enough tobe an ticipated in any-' election: which .may occur in a regular and lawful maimer for (Jetermining the 'important Cohsti t u tional change now proposcnl, and that) this irritation and, excitement must be, beyohd measure, and With grea.tlanger to the public peace, ag gravated by a continuance of the pres ent Unfortunate conflict of opinion Ih1- tw.een the Executive and Legislative branches of thejgovernment. j xMy ardent wish is that the tienerai Assembly, actukited as I Relieve it is, bv an honest hnl unselfish desire to promote the public goodand. as fully. if ndt better informed than I aih, of the probable perils of the future, may shape its course in such a way as tp I es cape;; the dangers which every pnadent man, in my judgment, must see ahead of us. T ' i In conclusion, I have again to repeat that? the oath which I have takh j to support the Constitution forbids line to participate in executing this act, hich believe to be in violation oi that sa cred instrument. Very respecttuiiy ; 1 0 TOD R. CALDWELL, ! Goveriior. COKBESPONDENCE. Raleigh, Feb. 9th, 1871 To the Honorable, The Chief Justice, H and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of North Carolina : . j ; Gentlemen .Enclosed herewith send!you a copy of an act passed jby the present General Assembly, entitiea 'An Act concerning a Convention of the Jneonle " Bv the first section of the Act the Governor, is required to is sue his proclamation, commanding the Sheriffs to open polls and hold an eiec uon, ex., ax. - I After carefully reading the various provisions of said act, and giving to it such examination as I have been able to bestow, i am lorcea to tne iconciu . . ...... - . . sion. that it is m airect conmct wixn , a -m i a rm J t a 1 the Constitution of the State, which have taken a solemn oath to support,. in that, it proposes to amenu saiu jon- stitntinn in a wnv and bv a method! not-recognized nor warranted by the Constitution itself. Entertainihg this view, I feel that I would be unfaithful to ihv trust." were I, in any way, even at the behest jof the General Assembly to become an instrument to assist in Violating the supreme law jof the State, .enacted, by the j .peoplf them selves:.' I am willing, however; to sur render my own opinion; upon this vital auction, to the better opinion of the Supreme Ctourt, which is the final ar biter of-all questions involving! the con stitutionality of an act of the IGenera Assembly. j: ; ji II- " I desire not to act rashly or unad- visexily, and therefore most respectfully askKhe opinion of your Honorable ' A . A Jl- 1 1 . ? f Uourt,.as to tne constituiioniuiTy o said act ; and wThetheri if unconstitu tiohak it is my duty as Governor, to assist m the execution thereof,! as j pro vided in the first and third section of said act ? ' i A,h early answer will confer! a great favor. ; . . . ' ! j ' Very respectfully your ob't serv't., I , TOD R. CALDWELL, . j Governor. fjSTATE OF NORTH CAROLINA '!..'-. Supreme CoiUBT, . A Raleigh, Feb. 11th, 1871.! ToxHis Excellency, Gov. Caiwex.l. ; Sir : In reply to your communica tion of the 9th inst., I have the honor to say, that the Chief Justice, fend Jus- iices iwxunan, jjick aau oeiue axe oj opinion that the act to which you refer. is in violation of the Constitution. All legislative power is vested in the General Assembly. Calling a Conven- lon is an act of legislation, it follows that ho Convention can be called un- ess it be done by the General Assem- ly. j ' The People have reserved to fhent- selves.no Mwer of legislation : It f! ows, that a -Convention cannot be called by a vote of the People; nor will j such, voting enable the General Asseinbiy to call a Convention in a manner not authorized, by the Consti tution, i i Justice Read e, for the reason stated bv him when the opinion of the Jus tices was requested by the General As sembly in regard to the tenure of of-; hce,i declines to give an opinion.- i . - " .1 if -i uixm tne secona question in regara to your duty, .provided you believe the; act to be unconstitutional, the Justices; do riot feel at liberty to offer an opin ion.: ' Very respect fully, tvev, R. M. PILVPySOX, ChUfJitsfice, Sti)reme C u;t. JOSH BILLINGS ON KORN. Korn iz a' serial, i am glad ov it. It got its name from Series, a primi tiff woman, and in her day, thegoddessj ov ojits, and sich like. Kom iz sumtimes called maiue, and it grows in sum parts ov the western country very amaizenly. , I hav seen it out thare 18 foot hi, (i don't mean the aktual korn itself, but the tree on which it grows.) i Korn haz ears, but never haz l)ut one ear; which iz az uen az an adder. t Injun meal iz made out ov korn, and korn dodgers iz made out ovmiunmeal and korn dodgers are the tuffest chunks ov.the breau imrswiwiun. known tew man. Korn dodgers are made out ov water with injun meal mixt into it, and then baked on a hard board, in the presence ov li hot lire. , When vou can't drive a 10 penny nail into them with a sledge hammer they are sed, hi good judges, to.be wel dun, and are reddv tew be chawed upon Ihey will keep five years, in a damp place, and not gro tender, and a dog hit with one ov them will yell.' tor a wcck and then crawl under thebam and mut ter for two days more. ' I have knawed two hours nnselt oh one side ov a korn dodger, without pro duemg enny result, and l think l could tarve to death twice before i could re duce a korn dodger. They git the name dodger from the immegiate necessity of dodgeing if one iz hove horizontally at yu in anger. It iz iar bettor tew be smote hi a . year old steer, than a korn dodger tha iz only three hours old. tlvorn was first; diskovered bi the in juns, but whare they iouna it i (ion- khow, nor du i care. VVhiskee (noble whiskee) is made on ov korn. ana whiskee is one ov tne frffnttt bleinrvi trnnwii tew li:tn I W e never should hav hm aole tev fill our state prizons with energetick men. and our ooor houses with goot eat4rs, if it want for noble whisket We never should hav had enny tem perance sons or society, liordemokratic oollvticians. nor; prize htes. nor gooa ihufders, nor phatt aldermen, nor. whis- kev rinirs. nor nothing, if it want f(r bhWood whiskee If it want tor korn how could enny boddv get kornedV And if it want for getting kornct what would life be. worth? We should all sink down to the level ov the brutes it it want ior gexiin korned. 1 The brutes don't git korned, the y haint got enny reason nor soul. We otten hear Of " drunken brutes ; this is a compliment to oxen whic don't belong tewi them. , Korn also haz; kurnels, and kurne are often kornedl so are brigadeer gin- enns. ' Johnny kake is made out ov korn, so iz hasty puddin. j L Hasty puddin and milk iz quick tew eat. All you hav got to do iz to gap, anjd swallo, and that iz the last of the puddin. ' Kom wras familiar tew antiquity Joseph waz sent down into Egipt after som korn, but his brothers didn't waijit him to go, so they took pitty on .him and pitted him in a pit. j When his brothers got back huiiii, and were asked where Joe waz, they didn't acknowledge the korn, but lied sum. . f It has been proved, that it is wicked to lie about korn, an enny of the other vegetables. - Thare iz this difference betw een lije ing and sawing wood, it is easier to lie, espeshly in theshade.. J Korn has one thing that noboddy else has got, and that iz a kob. j ' This kob runs thru the middle ov the korn, and iz as phull ov korn as Job was ov biles. j: I alwas feel sorry when I think ov Job, and wonder how he managed tejw set down in a chair. ; Knowing how tew set down square on a bile, without hurting the chair, iz one of the lost arts. Job waz a. card ; he had more pa shunce, and biles,'-' tew the square inch, than iz usual. .' f One hundred and twenty-five akers ov korn tew the bushel iz konsidered a good crop, but i have seen more. I have seen korn sold tor 10 centsi a bushel, and in sum parts ov the weste country it iz so much, that thare ain't no good law against stealing it. In konklusion, if yu want tew git a sure kron ov korn. and a good price lor the kfoo. feed about.4 quarts ov it tew a shanghai rooster, then murder the rooster immediately, and sell him for 17 cents a pound, krop and all. The oldest neAvsnaoer man in the world. Lewis Doxat, died in Lonelon recently. Sixty-five. : years ago he Alas an editor of the Morning Chronicle, the great daily organ of the Whigs. After that he conducted the Observer, a lead ing Sunday paper, for OA'er fifty years He was born in 1773, and had attaiiied the pTeat aire of ninetv-eight. - lie was a narnsranhist at the age of sixteen. He retained all the faculties of his mind to the last. -! ' Conversation enriches the understan ding, but solitude is the school Of genius. MARK TWAIN. Don Piatt, who met Mark Twain at a dinner party in Washington City the other day, thus sketches the well-known humorist: This was m v first meeting with Mark I Tsvain. I had seen! his potrait in fflie uuKixi, ana it gave me an insane Ktoi of the humorist. I recollect when I was a lxy, that the) enterprisingi Mons. I orfuille in his museum in Cincinnati, md the hejul- of h murderer named had the head' of a murderer named I loover, wIk had been very properly haiiged preserved in a jar of alcohol, and on exhibition This woodcut of Mark Twain looketixto me more like Hoover's heul thaii anything else, and was entirely unlike the countenance that leametl in on us hist night. One would not pick Mark out from axcroWd as a humorist; indt-eil, one would not venture to pick him out as a literary character at all. lie looks more like a member of the Ohi(') Legislature (if you know! what that is) tlian anything else. That is, a sort oi a man who had nar- rowly escared being made County Commissioner, and so' was .returned to the Legislature. He is not only care less about his clothes, but he U i positive ly ignorant on the j subject, and loborS under the impression that the garme nt that hangs so loosely upon his shoulders is a coat. From unUer his bushy hair his face peers out, presenting a square, well-proportioned forehead, keen gray eyes, and hooked nose, a-well developed mouth, exhibiting a good tleal of deci sion, and a chin that rounds ! out, sup porting the whole, in no part of which will you find a particle of the humor for'wliiehheiselistin'guished. ! His face, on the contrary, is afsad one, and when all are. in roars about him he continues in a state of dense solemnity. : jllis voice is the most extraordinary voice I ever heard. It is a cross- between Horace Greeley and Tim Lincoln. lie drawls his words out in the most preposterous manner, that gives a drollery to what he says utterly beyond description. , It is' 'quite impossible for him to pro iuce in h is conversation a serious effect. The exctH'dingly dn'll (maihtness of his solemn countenance, adtletl t) the drawl of his voice, makes one laugh when the speaker is really trying to be serious. For example: 1 had said to him that a contract to be funny at regular intervals struck me as rather, heavy, and he re plied by saying that was so ; while he might be sufficiently entertaining-to raise a laugh when! left to himself, it became dreary stuff I when brought out in that inanner oil,5 contract "Only think ,'? said lie, " I knew that confoun ded -thim? had to be done, and, with a 'dear friend lying' defad before me,-and nivkvile half'distractcHl over the' loss, I to tret off niv articles so as not to sapioiht niv publishers; and when 1 sat down Avith a board and penknife to I ! it i . f t ,i: j ngrave tnat nuiu m rans. i um with a lunivv heart and ma house of lanientation." Now this was rather a ssuli incture, and he meant to impress me! with the sorrow lie had felt, but yet it reuuired the greatest struggle on riiy part to refrain from laughing as I heard it. i 1 felt ashamed at myseii atterwara for ( Joil knows there is no wnt or humor in'ithat unhappy story nor did Mr Clemens':! mean there' should .be, and vet, like the hommc Qui rit, tlie effect is always tliere. - SMALL ENGAGEMENTS. How much the brightness of Chris tian honor is dimmed by inatte'iition to "triiles," has by contrast an illustration in i the -fi)llowing bit of history: Sir William Napier was one day tak ing a long walk near iTeshforct, AVhen he met a little girt about five years old sobbing over a broken bowl. She had fallen Avlfile bringing it from the field to' which' she had. ''taken her. father's dinner in it, and she said she would be beaten for having broken it ; then witn a sudden gleam of hope, she innocently lobkeel into his face and said, "But ye can mend it, can't ye?" Sir William exnlained that he could not mend the bowl, but the trouble he could mend by the gift of a sixpence to buy another. i However, on opening his purse, it was empty of siler, and he had i to make amends to meet his j Httle friend the same hour next elay, and to bring the sixpence Avith him, bidding, her. meanwhile, tell her mother sh0 had seen a gentleman Avho would bring her the money for the bowl next day. The child, entirely trusting him, Aveht on her way comforted. On his return home, he found an invitation awaiting him to cline in Bath, the following eA'ening) to meet some one whom he especially wished 'to see. He hesitated for some little time, trying to calculate the possibility of giving the meeting to his little frienel of the broken bowl, and of still being in time for the dinner party in Bath ; ' but, finding that this could not be, he Avrote to decline accept ing the; invitation, on 'tlie plea of a " pre-engagement," saying to oneof his family as he did so, " I can not disap point her ; she trusted me so implici try. ' ' WHERE IS POUGHKEEPSIE ? I A Avell known Brooklyn .politician, noted for his Avaggery,stopped the con ductor of an Albany-bound train on which he Avas journeying last winter, and asked innoeently if tlie next station was Poughkeepsie ISTo," said the conductor. On his next fare-collecting round, the conductor was; again asked if the train Avas near Poughkeepsie; to which he again replied;, negatively. Again and again, as the official made his rounds, the same question Avas asked by the anxious passenger j until at last the man of cheeks replied Avith some irritation in his tone: , , ! r ! "No, sir; we are not yet near your stopping place. Pray trust to me. atjd 1 will let you know when we shall get 'there.":l ! - . ! ' I : ! ".! "! i The passenger thereupon relapsed into silence, and the official, engrossed in other duties, forgot his case until the train had left Poughkeepsie about a half a mile to the rear,Vhen recollect ing himself, he hastly backed the cars to the station, and rushing up to the ; troublesome passenger, cried out :! ; "This is Poughkeepsie. Hurry up and get off; We ara behind timet? i M Oh thank you," deliberately draAvl ed the quondom questioner ; " but I am goingthrough. My daughter cautioned me particularly totaite a pin ai rougn keepsie. That's all." ,1 j . The pill AA'as taken and so was the joke by the passengers. DON-'PIATt ON POETRY OF COMMERCE. Track its hi for a moment from the earliest peri In the infancy of he Avorld iitstoravans, like gigantic silkworms, Went creeping through' the arid wastes of Asia and Africa with their infinitesimal legs, and bound: the human family together in those vast regions as they, bind us together now. its colonial establishments scattered the Grecian culture all around ; the shores of the Mediterranean, and car ried the adA'enturers of Tyre and Car thage to the north of , Europe and the south of Africa. The walled cities of the mitldle ages prevented the arts and rehnements or hie from being tramp- lea out of existence under the iron heel of th feudal powers. The Hanse- Towns were the bulwark of liberty and property in the north and west of Eu rope for ages. .The germ of the repre sentative system sprang trom the mu liicipal franchises of the boroughs. rt the reA ival of letters the merchant prinees of Horence receiATed the fugi tive arts of Greece into their palaces. The spirit of commercial adventure produced 'that movement inp the fif teenth century AVhich carried L Colum bus' to America aiKLVasco di Gama around the Cape of'Goqd Hope. The deep foundations of the modern sys tem of international law were laid in interests and rights of commerce, and the necessity of protecting therriX va;iiiiuci.c iMiiiiiAii'u cut; ucasuivn.ui the newly found Indies through the Western nations ; it nerved the arm of civil and religious liberty in the Pro testant Avorld it gradually carried the colonial system of Europe to the ends of the earth, and . Avith it the elements of future inelependent, ciA'ilized repubn lican governments. But -why shout Ave dwell on the past ? What js it tha gives Algor to the civilization of th present day but the world-wide exten sion of 'commercial intercourse, by which all the; products of the earth an of the ocean: of the soil, the mine of the loom, of the forge, of bounteous na ture, creative art anel Untiripg indus try, are brought by the agencies' o riTniTior'fp int the ! univeTXiill markei of elemand and 'supply ? Ko matter in Avnat region a oesiraoie prcxiuci uer stoAved on man by a lileral Providence, or fabricated! by human .skilly it niay t j i T ii.. .1 L j. i . i . clothe the hills of China Avith its fra grant foliagq; it may glitter in the golden sands of; Caitornia ; t it . may wallow in the depths of the Arctic seas: it maAi ripen and Avnnen in tne plains of the sunny South I; it may sorinc forth from the flying shuttle of Manchester in England, or Manchcsh in America-the great Avorld magnate of commerce attracts it alike a'njd -gath ers it all up for the service of mfan. t PSEUDONYMS. For the instruction and delectation of our readers, we-will inform them pf the proper names of the principal auth ors Avho Avrite under r various - pseu elonvms. Of course Arery Icav Avill e'jire to burden their memories with- this long list, but it Avill make admirable scrap-book literature: Miss Abigail E. Dodge, Gaul Hamilton Mrs. Elizabeth Akers, Fldrente.PerKy Myra Daisy McCrum, ! Dajsy JIowaiHt Miss M. A. Earlie, : Cousin May Carlotbn Mrs. C. M. Kirland, M.-iry ('lavrs Charlotte Bronte. I Currer liell MLss D. M. Mulbck, Auth. of 4 John llalifajx.' Mrs. Jane Faiton (nee Willis), Fanny Fern Miss Laura V. Redden, Howard Glyndon Mrs. Jennie Crol v.. : Jennie Jiine Miss Miriam Coles, Author of" Rutledge, Miss Virginia Terhune, Marion 1 Iarliiiid Miss Nellie Marshall, Mrs. E.; A. Warn eld, Miss Sallie" Shanks, Miss Agnes Leonard, Miss Lizzie H. Browne, Dr. J. (i. Holland, Wm. S. Newell, Robert II. Newell, " P. B. ShiUibar, Sans Soiu-i .Bcerhmore' Kentuckiene 'Mollie Myrtle Nancv Neute Timothy Titx-onb AV . Savage J ortn Orpheus C. Kierr Mrs. Partington Charles F. Brown, ! M. Thompson, Q. K., James M. Morris, ; J. H. Williams, C. G. Iceland, Charles A. Poulson," Josep h B arber, The Stephen Masset, E. Z. C. Judson, . J. B. Gilmore, A. H. K. Boyd, C. M. Dickinson, Arterims Ward Phil. Doesticks, Pi P, K. N. Pepper j B. Dadd Maoe Sloper, Esq. Frank Colliger Disbanded Volunteer ; Jeemes Pipes Ned Buntline Edmund Kirke Country Parson Village Schoolmaster Robert Lytton Bulwer, Owen Mereaitn Barry Cornwall Colly Cibher William Proctor, James Rees, ! Donald G. Mitchell, 1k Marvel D. R. Locke,! Petroleum V. JN as by Richai G. White. Author ot the New Gospel of Peace Charles A. Bristed, , Carl Benson Dr. S.iJ. Prihie, l Iraneus Col. Charles P. Halpine, Miss O'Reilly Mr. Coffin, 1 , - Barry Gary George W. Curtis, : Harpej's Lounger F. C. Cozzens, ' Mr. Sparrowgrass John W. Fornev. Occasional and 1. li. Matthfiw TT. Smith: .-' ' Burleigh ATai PtAn Perlev Poore. Perlevand Raconteur Dr. Johnson! .. i Malakoff George Arnold, . McArone CaDtain Derby. Jolin Phoenix Frank AV. Ballard, j NOrwester Loud Brougham's Poaveu OF of Work. Lord Brougham's powerj work, and that universality on which he so much prided himself, were never more strongly exhibited than in con nectlon with the ; Edingburg llepiew In thfe Arery first number three articles on totally ! different subjects appear from his nen : one on "Optics." anoth er nh "Acerbi's TraA'els." and a third nn the "The Crisis of the Sugar Colo nies." ' i , - j After Lord Brougham came to Lou don he Avrote to Jeffrey, saying that he had f occasion for 1,(KK), and desim him ti let i m have it by return o post, and article's for the Iteciew to jtha A-alue should le sent as soon as 'pOssi- ble.' The 1.UUU wasuuiy renuieu and in tlie course of six Aveks Brougham' sent down articles On a jA'ast A-arietv of subiects. eneiugh to jnaxe up an entire number of the lleview-Uyne ... .. . i as or them being on surgical operations another on a mathematical subject,' anu a third on the music of the Chinese. There is apparently no causetco s igh for a great lawsuit. tA ri ghtofAA-ay case has iust been decieled at the Kxeter Assizes, in England, in which the plain tiff Avas a brother of Sir H. P. Collier, the Attorney General of Englandl ami the defendant a clergjanan of the church of England. The trial lasted three days, and the costs amounted to about jei.OOO sterling, and yet, according to thede- fendant's counsel, the. right of way pouid haA-e been purchased for four pence a year. - - i i dd. THAT WHICH KILLED ARTEMUS WARD. Artemus Ward, anxious to buv hark the family homestead in which to shel ter the old age of his Avidowcd mother, discovered that he could never do it by making jokes, unless he could sell them overaud over again. So he tried comic lecturing. The first night the experi ment was a failure. A violent storm of show, sleet, and wind, thinned the audience in Clinton Hall, , New York rto such a degree that the lecturer lost thirty dollars by tlie enterprise. A. tour in New England, however, had better results. lie lectured a hunelred nights, jby which he cleared nearly eight thousand dollars, and he was soon able to establish his mother Inthe com fortable home in which he was born. I thought I ought not. to conclude this article without letting the reader know Avhy this' bright and genial spirit is no longer here to add to the Avorld's harmless amusement. .Well, this was the t reason; Whererer he lectuml, whether in New England, California. or London, there was sure to be a knot of young fellows to gather round him, and go home with him to his hotel, or der supper, and spend half the night in telling stories, and singing songs. To any man this Avill be fatal in time; but when the nightly carouse" follows an eA-ening's performance before an au- diencevana is succeeded by a railroad journey the next day, the waste of vi- uuuy is ieariuuy rupiu. r ive years or such life finished poor Charles Browne. . 1 1 i 1 . . i it. ' . a j l r a iieuiei in lXHiuun in io,Hge4 miriy three years-j and he now lie's buried at the lion le of his childhood in Maine. He Avas not a deep drinker. Ile Avas not a man of strong appetites.' It was the nights Avasted inconA'ilalityAvhich his system needed for sleep, that sent him' to his grax forty 'years lefore his time. For men of: his profession and cast of character, for altelitorslj literary men and artists, there isonly one safety IVelotalism. He should have taken the adAlee of a stage driver' on the Plains, to Avhom he once offerwl soine whisky ; and I comme'iid it strongly to the, countless hosts who sen this paper evvery Avek : . " I don't drink..! 1 Avon't drniiv : And 1 uon t like to e any- iMMjy else drink. I'm of the opinion of these mountains keep your top cool ! They've got snoW, and I've got brains : that's all tlie difference;" X. York Ledger. HIGH-HEELED SHOES. I)f. William II. Pancoast remarket! the other day, after performing iv pain-. lull oitcmtion on an interesting little girl whose feet had been ruined by . , Avearing Avrongly constructed "f0s-, "this is the - b'eginning of a llarg har vest of such cases." And what. vw ' can ie expecteiv ii owners wai k ine streets' Avith heels' em their t units from . two' and a half to three and a half inches'.. high, and not more than 'an inch in di-' ameter. and their daugltfers follow he same bad and barbarous ! practice,' In. many case's seAe're sirainsof the ankles ' - W A 9 A A are suuerexi. uut inese are not me vorst fruits of the high hee'led torture. he toes are forced against the fore part of the boot, and sN)n; iK'gin to assume unnatural positions, j In many cases they are actually dislocated. j In 'others the great toe passes under the foot,-the tendons' harden in that position, and lameners is contracteKl, for AVhich there is no cure but the knife. When theiin-; iurAT ttoes not tase tins lorm it assumes i other aspects almost as - horrible ami distressing. There; are thousands of our young gins tip-Toeing it aiong our streets to-day, Avho, in a lew years, avim be cripples if their ' parents do not in terfere and remOA-ethie cause.' We Avill have a race of Avonieh almost as help less, so far as walking is "i-oncerned, as those of China.- We condemn the prac tice of Confining the feet of Chinese children in wooden shoes, and yet .that practice is no more injurious to the feet than forcing them mto-a small ooot, with an Alpine heel.! This is a matter of grave and serioas imjiort, and hence we press it upon the mothers and fath ers of the land. If! they l Avould not feed the surgical hospitals, and have groups of maimed daughters, in their homes, they must commence a crusade upon high heels. J No father should have high-heeled boots in his house, any more than he would keep a vicious ! dog in the parlor. .wnen skiiiiui sur geons, like Drr Pancoast, from the op erating room; raise their voices against high-heeled boots, it is time for old and young ladies to pause and listen. At this period, they can choose between -j high heels and the operating knife. In a short time, it may be tine latter, or ! permanent lameness. - PldCa. Age, : j FRANKLIN AND WHITEFIELD-pAN INTER- ESTING REMINISCENCE. f In his biography e of the celebrated Evangelist Whitefild, just published in; London, Mr. J. P.! Gledstone gives this! anecdote:- ' J th .' , ' .'.''' ! 'It Avas not only the Ignorant and. excitable that yielded 'to the extraor dinary fascination of his oratory. No! shrewder listener ever stexKl in front of him than the celebrated Benjamin Franklin; and how little even he , was able to resist the charm is1 shown by the amusing story which he tells of himself. Whitefield had! , consulted' Franklin about the locality m his; pre-j posel orphan house, but had refused to aet on his al vice', and the refusal had t deitermiiHMl Franklin not to Kubscribe." I hapiened sNn after,' s;iys Franklin,! 'to attend one of his Hermons, in the course of which. I 'perceivelhe intend el to finish with a collection, and I 14 hMitly re-solved ho should get nothing: from. ine. I had in my jxicket a hand ful of eopper money, three or four si If A-er dollars and five pistoles in gohlj' As he proeee-ded. I began to soften, and coneluded to give him the eopiKT,1: Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, j ami eletermiricd 'ine to give the silver ; arid he finished so Ijdmirably that I emptied my ppekets Avholly into the , collector's dish, gold and all.' If any one could .have- re sistcel the siell, one .would ' haAe thought it must haAre been Chesterfield; yet even-of him it is rehded that, on one occasion when Whitefield Avarf de scribing a blind man groping his way unawares toward a pn-cj pice, till' he : stumbled on the edge in tlie act of taking the last fatal step oyer, the ieer could not help springing forward In an agony from his seat, exclaiming, 'Good i-irwl I Via ia crnnoV " I T i .4