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advantages. or even partial session
of territory for the recovery ofthe re-
maindcl. Surely. there is nothing
extrasagant in such suggestions. and
it is not, surely. beneath the dignity
of our government to enquire, who
our enemies are to be. before we
venture upon declaration of war.
We know how prone college boys are
to argue, that what the allied powers
of Europe contemplate doing, at such
a crisis, is no question for us to con-
suit !; but that we are bound to throw
dow. the gauntlet of defiance to them
all. They would hold as Just poll
tical. maxim, that we are baund in
case of war, to have as many enemies
to combat; as we possibly can, OH the
ground, We presume, that the more
difficult the victory is to acquire, the
more glorious it will be when it is
acquired. We have, it is true, fought
Great Britain single handed /; and
we are now called upon to play the
same g-,ac with tie allies, on the
ground, THAT it is beneath our dignity
to know how many we have to fight.
We would venture to propose an i'm
proycmcns on this happy and original
idea, ar that is, for our own govern
ment to declare, in the outset, war a
gainst all the world. for fear we
should not have enemies enough to
fight.
We once heard Of litigious cha
ractcr. living in New-England, who,
during session ofthe court, was dis
covered seated or the steps. wiring
ing his hands and shedding tears,
with every other demonstration of an
guish. An honest neish5or compass
sionately enquired into the cause Of
his grief. {" have" replied the rus
tic, % only forty nine eases on the
docket for trial Alas Alas am
totally undone :"
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Fromthe Universal Magazine.

ELEGANT ENGLISH EXTRACT.
SALLUST, from the irregular
ity of his life and the beauty Of his
writings. has not unhappily been cal
led the BolinSbrooke of Rome. His
enmity to Cicero is we'll known, and
perhaps it had some influence on the
popularity of his diction. Personal
luminosity might make him form a
style as remote as possible from the
redundant language of the immortal
orator, whose turbulent wife, leren-
tia he married after her divorce.
This extraordinary woman rs said to
have lived to the aye of los ; to have
married MESSIAH, her Sd, and Vibius
Rufus, her 4th husband. The latter
boasted with the joy of an antiquarian
that he possessed two of the greatest
curiOsities in the world, namely, Te-
rentia. who had been Ciccro's wife.
and the chair in which Cesar was
killed. The character of Saliust. at
one time the loud advocate for public
liberty. and afterwards sharing in the
robheries of Caesar. is happily pour
traycd in the following passage from
Bishop Warburton, which is remark
able for IFS elegance, & beauty of ex-
preston.
=" No sooner did the warm aspect of
good fortune come cut again. but all
those exalted ideas of virtue and ho-
nor, paiscd like a beautiful kind of
fr0st-work, in the cold season of adj
versity. dissolved and disappcared.p
Sal'nst had the singular honor of
being twice translated by "A royal
hand first by our Elizabeth. accord
ing to Camden and secondly, by the
present infant Of Spain, whose version
of this elegant historian, lately print
ed in folio. is ono of the most bcauti-
ful works, that any country has pro-
dured since the first invention Of print
ing.
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From Tie Bait. Federal Republicans,
HINTS To CONGRESS.
sss 9S@


We have extracted some articles,
by way of a recent arrival from Eu.
rope, not altogether destitute of int.
rest. Amongst .other rumours, we
find one, that Spain has acceded to
the confederacy of the European po-
tomatoes. IL this report is correct.
we will ask our own government.
whether i: docs not become important
10 ascertain the disposition Of the al.
lied powers towards the South Anne
ricans, before We acknowledge their
independence. and thus throw down
the gauntlet of defiance to all Confcd-
Grated Europe. We are, we must
confess, Inclined to believe that the
report of the accession of Spain to the
confederacy, is Substantially correct.
What p ,'itical motive Could Ferdi.
pand possibly have, in refusing to be-
come a party to this alliance ? He is,
at the present moment, the weakest
power on the continent, and there
fore nothing is more natural than that
the weak should attempt to form an
alliance with the strong. 1t is more
for the intercst of Spain to form such
an alliance, than for any other Euro
pean power. Her incompetence to
resist the efforts made by the Spa
nish Americans to throw off the yoke,
would, of itself, be sufficient motive
to stimulate her to become member
Of the eonfederacy. Whether il is
made an article that the allied powers
shall exert all their strength, to ena-
BILE Ferdiuand to recover his South A
merican dominions, we know not: but
one thing is very clear, that no efforts
of his will DO waisting to accomplish
this object. 1t may be said, indeed,
that it is qr ionable with the allies,
whether they will admit Ferdinand as
q party. Let it be remembered that
all nations are, by the terms of this
treaty, invited to join in that alliance.
1t is true, that the treaty concluded
at Vienna, points exclusively to the
subject of French aggression ). but, as
this subject does not now excite the
same alarm as it formerly did. it is
not improbable that they wouli turn
their attention to otter objects, which
is rendered still more probable, if
Spain has indeed become party 10
that instrument. Il is 100 much for us
to saw, thar the allied powers Mil not
Interfere in a quarrel between Ferdi-
nantl and bis subjects, for the plainest
Of all possible reasons. because, we
have no authority for making such an
assertion. How idle is. it, to reason
from motives of ge.aral Po'icy. on a
question so interesting and so impor-
tant, as the present! The allies may
have received overtures from Ferdl-
nan,l SD favorable as to overcome all
scrdples Of this character he may
hare promised to them commercial
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SELECTED.
aoee
LOVE song.

They're silly fools who sonrnts sing
To glowing checks and sparkling eyes,
Or make the mills and valleys ring
With lovers v VS. aud lovers lies.
Now I'm In love as much as they,
And write at least as honest verse
OF her, whose charming beauties lay,
No. in her peysor--but her purse.
Her golden charms so sweetiy shine,
When risirg to my raptur'd view,
That would rather call her mine,
Than any girl ever knew.
No lips that culver for kiss
No sparkling eye that ever rol!'d,
Afford SO rich and solid bliss
As Aura's beautecus bags Of god.
What tho she's lost the bloom of ycnth,
The rose that decs'd her early days !?
Has only one iecaying tooth,
With eyes that squirt thousand wayss
What though she's lost her ffaxen hair !!
MY love shall never know restraint
Fer half her sex can tell her where
To buy her wigs, md teeth, and paint,
Then, Aura, bless thy amorous swain,
Who doats upon thy shining charms
Believe his bOsom's tender pain,
and throw your BEAUTIES in his arms.
And he will clasp them to his he!rt,
Adore them with affection true,
And with them never, never part,
Whatever may become Of yon.
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From the v. Z. Ga=e!fe, Not. II.

JTD" NLc az IL od~cstct e'Ot' . 10
On re-perusal OF the London papers
by the Maria, Captain Duplex, We fiud
but little to interest our readers.
1t i. not little crafty ing to the Ame-
rican feeling, to notice such articles as
The following, reaching US through mi
nisterial print.
The London Courier Of the ed Of last
month, observes,
The American Papers which we have
lately received continue to speak of the
efforts making to encrease the strength
Of the Navy of TIE United States, with a
view, no doubt, to more desperate COM
petition with Great Britain. should any
unforeseen circumstance unhappily occa-
sion another rupture between the two
countries. Such an event is most ear
nestly to be deprecated but as, in the
various and fluctuaiing relations OF States,
il is impossible to say how soon tranqui-
iity, apparently the most profound, may
be violated, it may be worth while asain
to call the public attention, while it can
be calmly directed towards the subject,
to the practice on the part o. the Ameri-
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LAWLER WuElT.

II is now ascer,aincd by actual expert.
ment, in this state, that the description
of wheat known by the name of LAWYER
wheat is not secprc from the rarages Of
the HessiaD fly. A quantity Of wheat,
represented as genuine Lawler, was OBJ
tanned from Virginia by gentleman
whose farm is about ten miles f,om Balti
more, aud sown this fall; within few
days past the young blade has been
blishted as with blast from a furnace,
and on examination it appears that tie
destruction has been caused by the well
known Hessian fly.
We learn that the LAWYER wheat sown
on the Eastern Shore of thi. state, and
in some parts Of Virginia, has experienced
similar fate. Bait. Fed. Gaz.
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ENGLISH.

Though the following story may be a
little in the style of carricature,
we can assert that as a description
of the uncoutl, sibberish sometimes
spoken in England, it is scarcely
an cxsggeratnn, and indeed is suf-
ficiently chaste as a story. illustra-
tive ola truth little. less strange.
A member of the quorum in Cum
berland. who was the very mouth
piece of eloquence in his owa country,
when he went up to London, inquired
at a shoe makers shop in Cranburn
Alley, if he could meet with pair of
small shoes for bis little girl in the
country. with pink heels, pointed Toes,
and crop straps for clasps. which he ex-
pressed in the following provincial
dialect
"Ipray We moo, Lac We gatten any
neatly fecdy sheen, pointed toen. pin
ked at heel, aud cropped strops for
clnpses?'
Sir" answered the shop keeper.
what's that you say {!
sWhy Ipray ye noo,' (repeats as
bgors.)
" The family who speak French,"
said the shoemaker, live at the next
door
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q rarnins 10 those who put too much ,cg
ter IN their grog.
AN INDIAN VERDICT.

John Iatson, an Indian, native Of
Lyme, in Connecticut, being found deal
on a winters morning, not far from a
tavern where he had been drinking free.
" Of spirituous Liquors the evening be-
fore, the Indians Immediately assembled
a Jury of their own tribe, who, ai;er ex.
aiming the body Of the deiunct, unani-
mously agreed THAT the said ratsoa's
dealh was occasioned by the freezing OF
large quantity of water in his boly,
that had been imprudently mixed with
the rum he drank" Zanesriils E.r.
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lie scatters enjnymeuts who can
enjoy mach.
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ALEXANDRIA,:
SATURDAY, NopEMBER IS. 1917.
From the ". r. Commere,cl .adrsrtis.r
RuNoRs OF THE DAY.

From the ". r. Commercial .Adrsrtiszr
RuNoRs OF THE DAY.
1t was, some iire since, announced in
the Baltimore Federal Gazette, as the
rumor VI the day. that Caesar A. Rod
ney, John Graham, and Walter Jones,
Esqrs. were appointed commissioners to
proceed to South America, for the pur.
poses which had been rather guessed at
than explained; that Mr.. Jones had de-
cljned proceeding on the mission, and
that it was not then known whether ano-
Their commissioner had been or would be
appointed 10 succeed him."
The Gazette of Saturday last CONTAINS
The following additional rumors on the
same subject: g Report now says that
the honorable Theodoric Bland, one OF
the judges of Baltimore county court, Is
offered the appointment of commissioner
with 4 compensation at the rate OF SIX
thousand dollars per annum, and like
sum for out-fs. 1t is supposed that judge
Bland will accept the appointment, anu,
OF course, ressa his office in the iudic;a-
~ of this state.
Report further says, that the frigate
Congress is to convey the commissioners
to their port OF destination, aud will be
ready to sail in a few days.
II. NJ. Breckenridge, Esq. now in
Washington, has long been spoken of as
the secretary to this intended mission.--
He is also, we believe truly, considered
the author of pamphlet addressed to
president Monroe, pointing out and urg-
ing to the government of the United
States the proprieiy of acknowledging
the independence Of some Of the newly
formed republics in South Aperica.-
These circumstances connected might
lead to probable guess at the intentions
OF the executive, and the object Of the
mission"
The schooner General Pike, captain S.
White, bound from Mobile ~ Charleston,
was lately abandoned at sea. Her pas
sengars ard crew were received on board
the British sloop of war Ri1eman, captain
Duff, and conveyed to Havana. Two
days after their arrival there, two Of the
passengers. Francis D Stockton and 10.
seph c. Rutherford, Esdrs. embarked on
board the brig James, captain Coulter, for
Philadelphia, where they arrived on Sa.
turday, in passage of days. They
speak in the warmes. terms of the polite
attention and kindness received from CAP
tain Duff while they were on board the
sloop OF war. ibid.
A Hague paper of September e5 says,
I" The conferences to negotiate a com
mercial treaty between the United States
and the king OF the Netherlands have
been suspended till the American com.
missioners receive further instructions.
His excellency Mr.. Galatin has return
ed to Paris
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From q late London Paper.
CARNEY GEORGES.


Georges Pctrowich. better known
by the name of Czernry Georges. that
is to say. Black George, was born OF
a noble Scryian family. in tho neigh
borhood of Belgrade. Before he had
attained the age of manhood, ne was
one day met by Turk, who with an
imneriuus air ordered him to stand
out of lis way, at the same time de-
claring that he would blow out his
brains. Czerney- Georges. however.
prevented him from putting this threat
into execution, and by the discharge
Of a pistol Immediately laid him dead
ON the ground. To avoid the dan
gerous consequences of this affair, he
tool; refuge in Trans, lvania. and en-
tered the military service of Austria.
in which he quickly obtained the rank
of non commissioned officer. His cap.
tain having ordered him to be pu-
iished, Czerny- Georges challenged
and killed him. He then returned to
Servia, where al the age OF twenty
FIVE, he became the chief of one of
those bands of malcUntents which in
fest every part of the Turkish domi-
Mons, who pride themselves upon
the title of Klcptai, or brisand, AID
whom the non. Mgssulman population
consider as their avengers and liberia
tors. Czerny- Georges encamped in
she thick forests, waged war against
the Turks with unhcard of cruelty
he spared neither age nor Sea, and eX-
tended his raNages throughout the
whole province of Servia. The Turks
having by way Of retaliation, condem-
ned tweuty six of the prin ipai Serri-
ans to death, the Father Of CZcrney-
Georges. shocked at SO many horrors.
determined TO abandon the tanners Of
his son. whom he had previously join,
ed. The old man even threatened 70
deliver up the whole troop TO the pow
er of the Turks, unless they immedi-
ately consented to relinquish the use
less contest. Czerny conjureds him
to alter his resolution bat tic old
man persisted and set out forBc!srade.
His son followed him. Having arri-
we'd at the SerYian outposts, he threw
himself on his knees and again en-
treated that his father would not be-
tray his country; but finding him
inflexibie, he drew out his pistol, FIR
ed it, and thus became the murderer
Of his parent.
The Servians still continuedto aug
ment the hand of Czerny-GeorSes.
Emboldened by the numerous advan-
ages be had obtained, this chief at
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SELECT ED.
@A
EDUCITION.


The Lion DER his wild domains,
Rules by the terror OF his eyes
The Eagle Of The rock retains,
by torcc, his empire in the sky;
Tie Shark. the tyrant OF the food,
Pursues his p;ey with Quenchless rage
Parent and young, unwean'd IRON O'oou'
Are still! the same from age to age.
OF all that live. and move, and breathe,
Man ONLY rises s'er his birth;
H. look, above, around, beneath
Al once the heir Of Hrav'n and Earth.
Force, cunning, speed, which nature gave
The various tribes throughout her plan,
Life to pressr,e, from death lie save
These are the LOWEST powers oi man.
From strength to strength he travels on
lie leaves the lingering brute behlnu'
And whea few short years are gone
He SANS a disembodied mind ;
u, s,ined his future course sublime
Through nabler, better paths to run,
With lim The cer,ain end 0t time,
Is but eternity begun.
What aids him in ills high pursuit,
Opens, illuulines, cheers the way
Discerns the immortal frOm the brute
Gods image l. OIL the mould ct ciayF
TisKNowLzoeE!- Knowledge to the soul
Is power, and liberty and peace,
And While celestial ages roll,
The ;nys Of knowledge shat! increase.
aid then The geieyous pan whichspreads
The light with universe! BEAMS
And through the human desert leads
Truths living, pure, perpetual streams.
Behold new creation rise,
New spirit breath'd into the cLop'
Where'cr the voice Of Wisdom cries
Nan know myself, anJ fear thy God +!
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length Sailed Iron his forests. bcsies-
ed Belgrade, and on the lst of Sep
trmher, 1906. forced that important
lGtrcss to surrender. Being pro-
claimed Gcneralissilno of his nation.
he governed it with unliajted power.
The principal mobiles and ccclesiastics,
under the presidency of the archbish.
op, formed kind of senate or synod.
which assembled at SemcndPiali, and
which claimed the right Of exercising
the sovereignty. But Czcrny-Gcor-
ses annullcd the acts Of the assembly.
ard declared by decree. that " du-
ring his life no one should rise above
him-that he was sufficient in him
sell, and stood in need ofno advisers"
In 1907 he ordered one of his brothers
to be hanged for some trifing want Of
respect towards him.
The conquest of Servia was &C
companied by the massacre Of the
Turks no mercy was shown even to
those who yoluntarily surrendered
themselves. Czcrny-Georges being
attacked by an army Of $4,000 Mus
sulmen, valiantly defended the banks
of the Morave, and had he possessed
the means of obtaining foreign officers
to discipline the intrepid Servians, he
might perhaps have re-established the
Kingdom of Servia, which under Ste
phen Ill. resisted the Moguls. and
under Stephen Duscian. included
Bulgaria. Macedonia, and Bosnia.
In 1887. Seryia, though tributary to
the Turks, still retained its national
Princes, who assumed the title OF
Despots i; in 146s. they were succeed
ed by a Turkish Pasha. Their house
became extinct in 1860.
CMrncy-Georges was tall and well
made /; but his. appearance was alto
gether savage and displeasing, owing
to the disproportionate length of his
counienance, his small and sunken
eyes, bald forehead, and his singular
method Of wearing his hair, gathered
together in one enormous tress, which
hung down upon his shoulders. His
violent spirit was marked by an ex-
terror Of GOODNESS and apathy; he
sometimes passed whole hours without
uttering a single syllable, and he never
knew how to read or write. He ne
YER rcsorted to the diversion of hunt
ing above once during the year. lie
was then accompanied by from three
to 400 PaudOms, who assisted him in
waging a deadly war against the
wolves, foxes. deer, and wild goats
which inhabit the forests Of fertile but
uncultivated Scvia. The entire pro-
duce OF his hunting was publicly sold
for his own profit. He also sought to
ausnen; bis patrimony by confsca-
ton.
AT the treaty of peace in 1919,
Russia provided for the interests of
Servia. That province was acknow-
lodged to be a yassal and tributary of
the Porte. CzcrDy-Georgcs retired
to Russia and lived ut kissonoff in
Bcssarabia.
His return to Servia in disguise.
his discovery and execution, have
been recently stated.
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A suspicious man resembles a ira
veiicr IN the wilderness. who sees n"
object around hin but such as are
dreary and uncomfortable.
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On board one of the prizes recently
carried into Amelia Island, were 1000
boxes segars, put up expressly for
the King Of Spain.
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From the National Mtelligsrccr.


The following singular error occurs
in a late philadelphia paper.
The civil authority of the city Of
Washington has passed an cdiCt a.
gainst dogs, and have ordered into
immediate confinement all the human
race, under pain of extermination.-
This is no doubt a blunder of the com
poster, human being put for canine.
This is almost as unfortunate a
mistake as that made the other day.
by the Albany Daily Advertiser in
announcing respectable man, to the
utter astonishment of all who knew
him, as having been convicted of petty
larceny 1t turned out in the end
that he was only a 7vitneSs against
the convict, and the case occurred in
making summary from the Crimi-
nails docket.
These Typographical mischances
are sometimes amusing enough
Some years ago, IN bill brought in
to Congress TO amend the charter of
the City of Washington, the usual
power was accorded to the Corpora
ton to regulate party fences. BY a
hallucination of the compositor, who
had probably been used to work in a
newspaper Office, the bill, as printed.
proposed to vest in our City Council
the power OF regulating party teads,
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in ~, ..st. By the hon. Mr.. Morsr
mcni.,r VI par'ia seat.
"Hctwcsr wv" and three years 400
wen, '.n.n Ronbly into he Mah.at,s
corrtTy. 'or rhr ''allh 6 my family. All
we srcsu. ped o. tie ooSom Of bcau,;.
Ia! Cove t.anocol!y' about hi ~ ni'c,
'ron P'naHa. O..e day ~ Off little gaI.
not :hrce Years Old. vas wa'hIs : tErs'
he e eve VITA he ra'ivc servsht. they
approached ID ancient aa'! deserted Hin.
doc tc" PIE ; The man quitting the I'LL.
Child. slept aside, AMI lmm' d!atply paid
his ado'a'''Es to stone idol. HAT was
>ea'"d at the d"or Of tie 'emF'r. When
he returned, the following dialogue touk
r!lcc between thea. sanay, what fer
y"n d" t''at e." ." Nll'sy' that ny
"cd." your g" WY !"ur god i
stenc-yonr COD no can see-rO ca
hear-no can move. Nj tod make yor
make me-nske every thing"
we rem'lhcd at t'is 'cqpeste'sd place
tor tour months sn' the SGe"e have des-
crIbrd had was frequently REPEATED
saumy never 'ai,ea 'orepa' 10 the ten
pie and The eh'ld never la Ell ''feonte
nun i'r ms h'I'oy' iie became, not
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From the albany Daiiy advertiser.
GENERAL ST CLAIR,

The following sketch VI the military
life and services of gen. St. Clair, one Of
the most patriotic, brave and skilful, and
at the same time the most unfortunate of
our revolutionary heroes, is extracted
from Wilkinson's Memoirs. The chill
ins and studied neglect which this sai-
ant veteran has experienced from the
general government in his old age, can
not have escaped the attention Of al! thvse
who are capable of estimating the services
Of the brave champion Of hi, country's
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A gentleman Of considerable landed
property was observing to learned
Judge that be found great difficulty in
enforcing rents from lis tenants
i" That must be your own FAULT re-
piled the noble judge. Z" There's
distress enough in the country
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The following arecdute ia tDken from
speech delivered at the arsuaI meeting
OF the British aaG Fareigr Bible Society,