The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-06-21
to SO much excitement and discussion in

leave his post to give way to his successor,
having established renewed kind relations
between the two countries, and having fixed
| upon the helks of the English people the
impress of republican character, which
has never, for single moment, yielded its
simplicity and its truth to aristocratic bland
ishments. Couited and fiattered during his
stay, he studiously abstained from paying
tribute to English vanity In all circles, and
on all occasions he displayed his American
! dignity and his American patriotism. Ne
yer gratuitously obtruding his country and
! her advantages, he never hesitated to speak
of her as son speaking of his parent; nor
was he ever actuated by any spirit Of offens-
| i've partizanship. AS he came so he goes,
| the same plain, untitled, unpretending Ame-
rican citizen. The highest classes Wed with
each other to do him honor and on a recent
occasion, when the news of threatened col
| lison between the two countries alarmed the
people of both, his presence among the po-
pulace of London was greeted with cheers.
| an evidence that, however parties may in
| trigue, one honest, straightforward patriot is
sure to hold high place in the affections Of
! the masses.
One great reason why Mr. Buchanan's
name is at this moment so acceptable to his
| countrymen is, because he stands before
/ them, not merely as eminentiy capable,
! but as an emiaentiJ safe man. In the
growing greatness of our republic, its in
I creasing Importance, commercially and po-
| litcaily, its extended and extending rela-
/ tions with other powers, not to speak OF the
/ efforts of reckless agitators against the con-
stitution, and all the security and guarantees
| Of our domestic safety and tranquility, we
( see the evidences that such man would be
| able to confer Signal benefits upon the Ame-
I rican people in the Presidential chair. For
/ the first time in many years we behold in the
! person of James Buchanan, a statesman
who combines the rare quality Of having
been among the very first. in every emer-
/ gency, TO take the most progressive view of
/ every great question, and yet Of being able
! TO preserve, in the midst of such emergen-
! cies, the bearing, and 70 exercise the rnhu-
encc Of a sagacious and wel-poised demo-
! cratic statesman. 1t is this combination of
elements which has awakened in his behalf
the favorable sentiment Of those classes Of
/ citizens who look for wise and judicious
/ administration of the federal government,
/ and which has also gatf cred around h!m tie
warm and generous sympathies of the con-
! stituents who confidc in his progressive in
,tIncts, as illustrated throug b al his long and
. I!ustrious career
4 Durin, Mr. Buchanan's 5 absence Of nearly
three years, while politics ragged at home, he
proudly abstaned from interfering with the
/ struggle for the Presidential succesSIon.-
From the time he set foot on English soil, he
wrote back to his friends, that in no contin-
gency would he place himself IN the field as
a candidate for the Presidency. There was
nothing of grief in this resolve, nothing Of
disappointed ambition. IL was the calm a d
I a. l si.t.t. III of .,
ing looked carefully over the political pas:
, and future, ha4 ONE TO the conc usion that
the day for the scramble for Presidential h9-
nors had passed away-at least with him
and that he was determined 70 apply himself
TO other pursuits. We assert that, If every
private letter. written from London since his
absence, DH Jaaaas Blcuanan, in The ussus-
pecting confidence of his heart, should now
be published, and LAID before the American
people, there would no, be found one line,
no, not one syllable, mauifystng a desire
for the nomination Of the democratic con
vention, or suggesting any way by which it
might be oUtIned by himself.
The people will judge Of him by the re-
cord, by the even tenor Of his life, by the
spotlesS purity Of his character, by his Ua-
daunted patriotism, and by the trophies with
which he returns II his native shores, to be
crowned, as we confidently nope, with the
highest honors Of the republic.
PLAYrSG The HiyD LE5s OF CAxEL,-
The Paris correspondent Of the Boston Post
tells the following funny story:
The man that plays the hind legs of the
camel at the FUl,es Nouveles Theater, is
just now the most taiheG-of individual in
Pari-,
The circus has its elephants which stand
on their heads, and gesticulate with their
trunks, and eambo in various massive WAYS;
and there are wild beast shows without
number throughout the city. So the Folics
Nouvelles, always up to the mark, caused to
be constructed an out and out dromedary,
and it is exhibited nightly to crowds of de-
lighted spectators. A spotted body, proper
ly bumped, and a wcll-manu!actured head,
and propelled, as large as life, and three or
four times as natural, by two men inside.
Their legs only appear to the public as fur
nishing forth the animals lower limbs, and
nankeen pantaloons essentially assist the IL
lusion. The camel is led in by little fellow
in flowing clothes and a turban, who puts
him through his PAGES in highly accom-
plished manner, and whirls him finally off
to the inspiriting music of polka executed
by the orchestra, the four legs keeping time
in 4 correct measured Just under the camcIs
head is 4 small window Out of this win
dow, while the show is going on and the
points of the beast are being Illustrated sud
denly issues the head of the man whose Ia
lents are developed in the hind legs! My
God! he says, what a role this is to put
me into. The hind legs of a camel. Here,
you keeper, you in cotton hat, give me
pinch of snuff, or l shall smothe, 1t would
l. \
fore legs-but he's a bette, and stupid, and
aint got no conversational powers. and smells
disagr> eably when he's warm! What
devilish piece to be sure, and l suppose he
will have great run-just my luck! Keep
me swinging this Internal tail for fortnight
And in goes bis head, as suddenly as it came
out, as the keeper raps the hinder parts of
the camel, and the polka commences. This,
with the explanations of the keeper, which
is ri iliculous beyond expression, keep up
perfect roar of laughter, but more consum-
mate nonsense cannot be imagined"
VENTILATION AND CONsUMPTIoN.-The heat
ing process of our domestic ovens, of course,
is not complete unless every breath of cold
air is diligently excluded, and exceeding
care is accordingly taken by keeping the
windows closed, by constructing double case
ments and other ingenious contrivances, to
make the atmosphere not only too hot for
health, but too impure to breathe. A hCgs-
head of pure air is computed the necessary
allowance for a pair of healthy lungs per
hour, and we are sure our ladies hardly get
a thimblefull in the course of twenty-four.
The excessive furnace heat SO rarites the
atmosphere, that it becomes as weak in oxy
gen as the boarding-school beverage was IN
coffee, which we used to believe was made
by carrying pot of boiling water through
the kitchen while the genuine Mocha was
being roasted for the masters breakfast.
This scaht supply of oxygen is, of course,
soon sucked up by the exhausted lungs, and
as no fresh air is admitted, the poisonous