Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-10-27

90 The following is an extract fiom Mr.
willis's letter from New York to the National
Iitelhgencer at Washington, dated the 29lh
ut:-
1t will be curious piece of news 10 you that
our countryman, Dr. Howe, (a,ely married
and gone abroad) has been stopped on the bor
ders of Prussia by Cabinet order, and of
course is shut out from so much of the Rhine
as lies (if my geography serves mel between
CobIentz and Cologne. This special edict on
the part of King with standing army oi
two hundred thousand men, is no small compli-
ment to DR.. Howe's consequence; but perhaps
il would interest your readers TO be made ac-
quainted with the cetera inius.
About ten gears ago had the honor (and as
such shall always treasure the memory of
sharing DR. lHowe's lodgings AT Paris for some
months Ne was then employed in learning
that svsion of instruction Tor the blind upon
which no has since engralted Improvements
that havs made him separate fame among
phiaGtIropis,s. Philanthropy seems TO be his
enproSing and only mission in life, however;
for, dough giving the most of his day to the
object of his special errand, he found time to
matc himself the most serviceabe man in
France to the cause of Poland. The disasters
of w arsaw had filled Paris with destitute relu-
gees, and disting uished men who had shared in
that desperate battle were literally houseleSs in
the streets. Our common hreakiast-room was
thronged with these unfortunate patriots, and !,
with noble liberality, DR.. Howe kept open ta-
bic for all who came to him-many Of them to
nv knowledge getting no food elsewhere, and,
among Others, Leewel, the distinguished poet
and patriot, coming in one morning TO ask a
breakfast, as | well recollect, after having slept
out winters night in the street. Lafayette
was at that time at the head of the Polish COM
mittec, and Fenmore Cooper (whose generos-
ity TO the Poles should be chronirled, ms well as
the devotion of his time and talents 10 the
cause) shared with DR.. Howe the counsel and
most efficient agency of the benevolent old man.
AT this time sum of money was raised to be
sent, with some important and secret despatch
cs, to the Poles who had fled into Prussia, and
DR.. Howe offered to be the bearer. went
with him TO the Messagerie and saw him off in
the Diligence, very little suspectng the dan
eerous character of his Grand. He arrived at
Berlin, and alter passing the evening abroad,
returned to his hotel and found n couple of
eens-d'armes in his room. They informed HIM
that he must accompany them To the police
The Doctor understood his position in a mo-
ment. BY a sudden effort he succeeded in pa-
cling both the soldiers out of the room and co-
sing the door, for it was all important that he
should gain time to destroy papers that he had
about him. The gens-d'armeS commenced a
parey with him through the boiled door,
which resulted in a compact that he should be
let alone ill morning, on condition OF his agree
ing to go with them peaceably at daylight
they keeping sentry outside, lie had no light,
but he passed the night in tearing inuo the
smallest possible fragments the important pa
pers and soaking them in water. Among his
papers, however, were two or three letters
from Lafayette to himself which he wished to
preserve, and after examining the room he Sc
creled these IN hoiio,o Of plaster cast Of