The Iowa patriot. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1839-1839, 1839-06-27

OF NJ. Lebrun. He pressed his daughter
more ana more to name her lover.--At
last she said. Give me only three DAYS.
ana az ! will then conceal nothing from
YOU -
Inc next day the young director Of the
new Insurance company to promote mar
rage, came to pay visit to his partner.
On! my dear fellow said NJ. Lebrun,
when ne saw him, you will never
guess
Guess what
|, THAT my daughter is already inspired
by the tender passion
Oh said the director that must be
the effect of the insurance.
"A wonderful effect it is, at all events.
Why, a month has not elapsed since the
insurance took place. BY Joye you
are fortunate. If we have only another
such piece of good fortune, the fame of
the company will be in every person s
mouth
They were conversing in this manner
when Euphemia entered the room. She
blushed on seeing the stranger.
My daughter said NJ. Lebrun to the
young man-'What do you think Of her!
She is admirable! can venture to pre-
dict she will not pass another year with
out
Father said the young girl, regarding
by turns the two speakers, 81 promised to
inform you of the person whom love.
This is he?'
Good heavens! is it possible cried
the astonished capitalist.
According to our regulations, said-sshe
director very gravely, 4 was bound to
seek every means not to allow the specii-
ed time to pass without
True, true. But Euphemia, how did
you get acquainted with monsieur??'
i saw him in the country one day in
going out. He used to come afterwards
every day. He helped me to cultivate
my flowers. We walked out in the park,
and, at last found his visits to short,
thought that by coming to Paris should
see him more frequently, and for longer
time
IN showing my zeal for the interests of
the society," continued the speculator; i
considered
Come my young friend, " said the sur
prised father, you are clever fellow
Stunned as have been, must acknow-
ledg that the matter has something anu
sing in it,
1 protest to you, considered that
faithfully performed my duty
No use, in talking Of it now. You al.
ready have the eight hundred thousand
francs fortune
quite correct said the young man,
taking Euphemia by the hand with the
air Of martyr to his duty. This is a
glorious beginning. We shall have such
custom from this affair. We must abso-
lutely gain millions!'
INTERESTING FAcTs.--The first deck
ed vessel, ever built within the limits
of the old United States, was con-
structed on the banks Of the Hudson,
| by Adrian Block, in the summer of
1914. She was called a yacht, and
her first voyage was made through
He'll Gate, into the Sound, and as far
east as Cape Cod, by the Vineyard
passage. It was in this voyage that
Block Island was discovered.-With-
in the first forty-six years after the
settlement of Massachusetts, there
were built in Boston and It's vicinity
$50 vessels, varying from six to $50
tons in burthen. One of these, the
Blessing of the Bay, bark Of so
tons, was built in l63l.-The cele-
brated English patriot and divine,
Hugh Peters, caused vessel Of 800
tons to be constructed at Salem, in
1641. The first schooner ever laun-
ched is said to have been built at Cape
Ann, in l71A. Her name is not
known.-In l713, Connecticut had
but 9 briggs, 20 sloops, and a few
smaller craft, employing but 100 sea
linen; while Massachusetts, about the
same time, had 492 vessels, the ton
mage Of which was 25,4o6, and EN-
ployed 3493 searnen. The first en-
sign ever shown by a regular Ameri-
can man-of-war, was hoisted ON board
the frigate Alfred, in the Delaware,
by the hands of Paul Jones, in the lat
ter part Of December, 1775. What
this ensign was isnot precisely known
as the present national colors were
not formally adopted until 1777. ~
The first regular American cruiser
that went to sea, was the Lexington,
a little brig Of ID guns, commanded
by Captain John Barry, Of Philadel-
| phia. She sailed some time in the
Winterof 1776.-The first American
man-of-war- that got to sea after the
adoption Of our present form Of gov
eminent, was the Gauges. She was