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.-3@A A Washington contemporary says it is
currently rumored there that the Adminisira.
ton will back down from its stand on the
Central American question, and that Mr..
Dallas instructions are peace like. We
should not at all wonder if this were so.-
Democratic administrations have faculty ut
this sort of business. The Oregon and Cuba
controversies are memorable ilustralions.-
We hope the friends of the President will
get behind him and hold him up to the
scratch. Greeley has II sovereign liniment
for weak barkbones. If the executive dorsun,
needs it, rub some in We are not anxious
for another tusse with the British lion, but
we are more afraid of II national back out, in
case Of indisput"be right, than We are OF
that. We hope the Secretary Of War will
keep IN eye on what is going on. that he will
hold up the fist and keep up the pluck IF the
government. The people are ready to stand
by it.
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ty- In anticipation OF the arrival Of Mr.
Buchanan at New York, at an early day, his
personal and political friends are making ar
rangcments to give such Il reception as will
not TAI! TO make an impression elsewhere
The demonstration will probably take the
shape Of public dinner.
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The DISTANCE OF THE SuH FROM THE
EARTH lNcREAsISo.-The German Journals
have given some tables which prove that the
distance between the earth and sun is in
Observation-Disclosures bf our summers and the
loss Of fertility " the earth, nre to be
attributed solely 10 this circumstance.
No credit has heretofore been given to ira
ditions of ancient Egyptians and Chinese,
according to which thcsc people formerly
said the suns disc Sns almost four times as
large MS we now see it, for they estimated the
apparent diameter of the sun as double of
what il is seen IN our day. . N
IT. however, we pay attention TO the con-
tinued dimnution of the apparent diameter
of the sun, according to the best observation
of several centuries, we must suppose that
the aneients were net mistaken in the csti-
mates they have transmitted TO us.
In the course oY~six ihousu,a years from
the present time, they assume that the dis
tonce will be so great that orly an eight part
of the warmth we now enjoy from the sun
will be communicated to the earth, and it will
then be covered with eternal ice in the same
manner MS we now see the plains of the
north, where the elephant formerly lived,
and have neither spring nor autumn.
SLEIGH RIDING OurDoNE-The National In
telligencer, in an article on the propagation
of fish, says: ..-
Connected with this subject--somewha re.
motely it may be--is the experience of an en-
tensive orchardist, and who has sold as the
products of his orchards in one year sxty.six
thousand dollars worth of apples and cider,
some of the former being retailed in London
at shilling apiece. Having prepared suit
able harness, Mr.. Pel1 obtained from the IIud.
son n living sturgeon seven feet long, which
he harnessed and put in his farm, attaching
line and cork to the traces. Whenever he
desired to sail about the pond, which was
about mile in circumference, he.would 60
out in boat usually containing two persons,
and attach a cord TO it, when the sturgeon
would invariably start of at full speed, and
make several circuits around the pond, keep
ing near the shore all the way. 1t would
then stop, rise to the surface of the water,
and turn upon its back, thus indicating its
exhausted condition. Having seen and con-
versed-with an intelligent and entirely relia.
BILE gentleman who had accompanied Mr.. Pell
on some of these excursions, we can assure
the reader that we have, no doubt of the
practieability Of this mode of navigation, es.
pecially in shallow waters : .... -.
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BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE.


Major Bunkum tells pretty good yarn of
a fellow he tried to bluff Off by an outrage.
GUS Munchausen. The chap, however, had
cut his eye teeth and was SOME pumpkins
himself, as will be seen from the narrative;
There was a chap that tried to run saw
on while ago exas, that won't forget
in hurry. wn4travelline from the Brnzos
to the Trinity, md when got to thc AL.
ascnseto crossing,I found the San Jacinto.a
roaring. 1t was coming 'hark from the tor3b.'
Free soil movements was ngoing on--trees
tumbling in all along the banks. see there
was no kind Of help for it, and so took my
feet ont of the stirrups, threw nv saddle bags
over my shoulders, and 10 me snd the mare
went
We were in an awful tight place for
! time, but finally landed safe. I'd Just got
my critter tied out and fire started TO dry
myself, when ] seed chap come riding up
the hill on a chunk of pony-and such
looking chap, to be surc. His little rod eye
was stuck IL as head AXE n pixa; his wllis-
kers was powerful, and no wonder, for il
there hadn't been sile enuff in his fat chops
to have raised the crop, there was a plenty
outsidc-a real top drt ssng as they call it in
the North. a little red nose was Just rising
out of them, like bit of sun in n fog or a
red bird in huckleberry patch. He belong
ed to the no comb society, and was MEM
Der of the anti-razor sociation; and if he'd
swan the river with his head in the water
stead Of his feet, il would have effected an
amazing Improvement in his personal appear.
ence. There was ITO mistake about it-he
was one of 'eni.
'Hoopec, stranger! sings out my beauty,
'now d do9 Kept your fireworks dry, el!'
How the thunder did you get Overt? fd
oh, says ], mighty easy. You see, stran-
ger, I'm powerful on perogue, and so |
waited ill seed big log drifting near the
shore, when fasened it, sot my critter sstrad-
die on it, got in the saddle, padded over
with the saddle-bags, and, steered with the
mares tail.
You didn't though, by Ned!' says he, did
you!'
Mighty apt to- says |, but after you've
| sucked all that, and got your breath sgin let's
know how you crossed
Oh says he, setting his pigs eyes on me
I've been riding all day with consarned
ager on me, awful dry, and afeard to drink
at the perrara water holes, when got to the
river went right in for big drink swal.
lowed half a mile of water, and came over
| dry.shodp i-. ... .,
Stranger saysI, you're jest one huckle-
berry above my persimmon. Light, and
take some red-cye; thought you looked
green, but was barking up the wrong tree.'
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THE UNITED STATES MINT.-By the an
nual report Of the Director of the United
States Mint we learn that the depustes re-
ceived and the coinage at the principal mint
during the year amounted in gold and silver
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Nor MUCH FOR LAw.-The Memphis Ea.
gle (by the way the most spirited American
paper in the State) goes 'agin' Law for Pres
ident. Here are its last remarks:
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the opposition, recommend to their friends
everywhere, in all future contests, to main
tain their positions with dignity and firmness,
but to tolerate no longer in silence, amy
unjust war upon thcirrights as American free
men.
The resolutions were unanimously adop-
ted, ~
Mr.. Netherland, from the Committee np.
pointed to select two Electors for the State
at large, and one Assistant from cach grand
division of the State, reported the following
ticket.
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Gboitt SfListtlLanp.
THE SEVEN TTGTIHS OF MITFELBRON.

Mittelbron is a little village in the ju
risdiclion of Phalsbourg, which in its
turn is a little town al the foot of the
Vosges, close to where the Rhine sepa-
rates France from Germany. 1t is an
obscure and Insignificant place, hardly
TO be found upon any map. A dismal
human tragedy was once acted there,
more than ninety years ago.
Two Jews, brothers, lived at Mittel-
bron. They were both married, but oe-
cupied the same house. They were
known to be rich, although they affected
penury. They had one servant, Esther
Levi, Jewess, as her name cerliies.-
On the night of the twenty fourth of Sep
tember, seventeen hundred and sixty
eight, a gang of robbers broke into the
house of these Jews. They beat al d
greatly ill-used all the inmates; after
which they searched the house and car
ried off all it contained of any value
They took plate, silver, jewels and mon
ey to the amount of forty Thousand
francs, and took their departure without
hiaderance or molestation.
The next morning the two Jews went
before the criminal Judge of Phalsbourg,
and gave information of the robbery
They deposed that the band by whom
they had been robbed was between twen-
ty and thirty men strong; the greater
number of these were entirely unknown
to them; but there were seven German
peasants, who lived at small hamlet
near Phalsbourg called the Three Houses
of Lutzelbourg; and the two Jews swore
positively that they had recognized four
of these men amongst the robbers. Al
though they would not swear 10 the
identity of the other three, they could
rearly bepositive that they too had been
amongst the band.
These seven Germans were peacable,
inofensive, hard working men; all of
them married, and all ofthem with fam
lilies. whom they brought up to industry.
They were the most unlikely people in
world to be mixed up with deed Of rob
cry and violence. Nevertheless, the
robbery was fact; and the Jews swore
that four of the seven, they had seen
nd recognized among the band, and
strongly suspected the other three; al.
though they could not swear to them
with certainty. This cautiousness on
the part of the two Jews seems to have
been the point that bore the heaviest
against the accused who were forthwith
seized and flung into separate dungeons.
A great mum Der of witnesses were called,
who could throw no light whatever upon
this andacious robbery, nor did any thing
come TO light to criminale the accused
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THE GREAT UNSETTLED.

James Buchanan is the man that never
settled anything. He settled down
Federalist in early life-but his connec
tions becoming unsettled, he turned out
full fedged Democrat. As diploma
ist he undertook to ''settle" the Oregon
controversy, by boiling out for "54 40"
as ''clear aud unquestonable, but his
claim in that business, was awfully Gun
settled" by the acceptance of some five
degrees less. He went to England, but
settled" nothing. He came away leaY-
ing everything unsettled. He tried to,
but did not, settle the enlistment dispute.
He did not settle the Central American
question. He did not settle the disputed
arbitration of the Clayton Bulwer Treaty.
In short, he settled nothing. Altogeth-
er, he has led very unsettled life. He
has never settled any thing, at home or
abroad-and we don't believe ever will.
" Y Express.
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DENMARK

The protocol of the Danish propos.
ton, to which Russia, Sweden, and the
Duchy of Oldenburgh have given their
adhesion, is published bearing date Co
penh ,gen, May 9. 1t is lengthy docu-
ment, its substance being that Denmark
will renounce the Sound and Belt Dues
for thirty-fve million rix dollars. All
maritime powers must give assent, and
Denmark is to reserve the right to treat
separately with the Powers not repre-
senied in the present negotiations. The
compensation named covers dues both on
shipping and cargo. Denmark demands
security for the money. and aPportions
the same as follows, in round numbers
Denmark herself to pay 1880, 900 rix
dollars; Austria % 900; Belgium, 3oo,-
900; Spain, 100000; France, 1885,
900; Great Britain, 10, 900, 900; Norway
667, 900; Oldenburgh. $4,000; Nether-
ands, l,500, 900; Prussia, 4,5oo, 900;
Russia, 9. 9.75O, 900; Sweden, 500, ,0Oc.
Total Al 500, 900; leaving balance of
100000 rix dollars due by powers not
above named. Further, as there exists
a present difference between Denmark
and Great Britain that may delay a settle.
ment, Russia agrees to keep open her
offer on condition of the other Powers
doing the sane. The document is sign
ed by Bluhme, TengObOrski. and Lager
/ holm,
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BEWARE of a woman who wOrships
dress. In nine cases out of ten such q
woman is without a single redeeming
qualification. Dressy people are gener-
ally those who lack brains and education.
and cheat themselves into the belief that
the world is admiring their gewgsws.
fcrgets that their hearts are untenanted
by single womanly emotion. A man
who Is attracted by mere dress is unde-
serving of the name, and is a dear bar,
gain even to the fool who entraps him
Young ladies who expect to catch hus-
band by means of founced skirts and
Mechlin collars, should Try the virtue of
amiabili;y and consceintiousness before
their folly coDsigns them to the ranks ct
spinsterdom.
Extravagant people are never gener.
Gus. The woman who pays thirty dol
lars for silk dress is just the person 10
to repulse with contempt the paup,r
who applies to her for broken food
The largest hearts are not those which
pulsate beneath morie-antique eorsa-
ges-not by good deal. Young men
contemplating matrimony will please
notice.
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DEATH TOOK THE BRIDE.

1t is with profound sorrow we pen tn,
following particulars. kindly given US by
the Clerk Of the School Board. Sons
time since Miss Sarah 7. Bailey. prin-
ciple female teacher at the Woodward
High School, resigned that situation and
went to Steubenville, where an excellent
situation as teacher had been offered her.
On Tuesday last, she was married TO L.
S. Crawford. Esq, of this city. On the
succeeding Friday, three days after her
marriage, she was thrown from her horse
and killed
Miss Baily was an excellent and ami
able lady and contributed by her val
liable efforts, important aid to the cause
of education in our city. Her loss will
be deeply deplored by her friends and
late fellow teachers and pupils.-CinciH-
natl Columbian.
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Haichet of the Powhatans, while the
father of Pocahontas lived.

11SiCucL VI lHG L ONuhlduSJ hHiiC ehV
father of Pocahontas lived.
Months glided away. The bride and
groom lived civilly ard lovingly togeth
err until Sir Thomas Dale departed 70,
England in 1916, when they, with many
settlers, accompanied him. TOmocomo
one of the shrewdest of Powhatan's
councillors, went also that he might re.
port all the wonders of England TO his
master. The Lady Rebecca received
great attention from the court and all
below it. She accustomed herself to
civility, and carried herself as the daugh.
ter of king DR.. King, the Lord
Bishop of London, entertained her with
festival, state and pomp,' beyond what
he had ever given to other ladies, and
at court she was received with the
courtesy due to iier rank as princess.
But the silly bigot on the throne was
highly incensed, because one Of his sub
jects had dared 10 marry lady of royal
blood, and in the midst of his dreams Of
prerogatives, he absurdly apprehended
that Role might lay claim 'to the crown
of Virginia ? Afraid of the Royal dis
pleasure, Capt. Smith, who was then in
England, would not allow her to call him
father, as she desired to do. She could
not comprehend the cause and her len
der, simple heart was sorely grieved ty
what seemed to be his want of affection
for her. She remained in England about
a year and when ready to embark for
America with her husband, she sickened
and died at Gravesend, in the fowery
month of June, 1887, when not quite
twenty-five years of age. She left one
son, Thomas Rolfe, who afterwards be.
came quite distinguished man in Yir.
ginia. He had but one child daugh
ter. From her, some of the leading
families Of Virginia trace their lineage
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one received note from the strange ac-
Guainiance, to the effect that if they
would present their notes at the bank
ing house of Rothschild, they would be
paid. One who held a note of f25,
900, went there out of curiosity, as he
said, when lol it was cashed. The news
went ike wildfre. All came with notes;
and all, as soon as presented, were paid
and upon this affair, Mr.. Colts establish
ed credit, which enabled him soon af-
terwards TO establish the Banking House
Of Cots d. Co., whose credit at the pres
ent day in England is eqeal to that Of
the great Rothschild himself, to whose
affability its founder owned his fortune
and success.
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VOLCANIC ACTION.

One of the most magnificent, yet ap-
palling, spectacles the world ever beheld
is now to be seen in the Sandwich Is
land. Eight months ago, on the Island
of Honolulu, seventy miles from the coast,
a volcano commenced eructating. 1t was
50 far in the interior that the spectacle
WIS regarded from distance and not
until the red river of lava from the VOL
cano's side, like a stream of kissing
blood, had advanced miles, devouring
everything in its way, did the people
penetrate through the jungles into the
country to witness the awful phenomena.
Then it was found that the stream was
pursuing its way down the valley, to the
sea and. day by day, its slow march
was marked by thousands who found
their way to the spot. Slowly, steadily,
surely that stream poured fourth, de-
vouring all things in its pathway-for-
ests crumbled before it, and huge tree',
fired at the roots, came crashing into
the molten flood and were soon in ashes
rocks melted and slid away before it
and added their force to the fiery cur
rent onward, onward it crept, as stead
iIy as time, and as relentless as the. De-
mon of Destruction, until lakes were
filed, and rivers were gorged, and for
miles away nothing but that appalling
avalanch of lava Oh /! it must have
beer a sight to chain world, and so it
did, for all who came 10 the island in
ships hurried to the country--every day
a less distance-to see the mighty trage-
dy. Less and less became the distance
between it and the sea but the people |
of Hilo-a lovely city containing about |
four thousand people. and situate on the
sea coast at the mouth of the Walluku
not thought of their dan.
ger--it could not be that the hideous
stream would penetrate even TO their
Paradise. But see the lava has reach
ed the Wolluku valley, and now the
waters came roaring down to the sea.
boiling with heat and as black as the
rivers of Hades, for the valcano's blood
is mingling with the waters and filling
I'd their bed. Wo, to Hilo 1t was once
twenty miles to the river of death-a
month more and it was but ten miles
another month it was hui seven miles
away-another thirty day but four miles
we're left for hope Would the stream
De stayed there ? The Walluku was
Tried up, and when the last ship left,
he lava was steadily creeping down to
he sea, and long ere this Hilo and its
beautiful gardens of terraces, its soft
awns and cool springs are blackened,
Dead Sea ruin. Alas for Hilo
This volcanic phenomena may well 7
xcite the attention Of the curious, the
Investigation of the philosopher. We I
Iuery, whence these fires which render
he bowels of the earth molten-whence I
be force which upheaves the liquid mass L
nd sends it on its mission Of death over o
be face of this fair eartb-what sustains U
be earth over the cavity created BY the Z
adolescence below-who shall tell p Il
fan, with all his boasted achievement j
l physical science, is yet an infant, for a
e knows not Of the very earth upon 1
hich he builds his habitatatiOn.-Sa San C
usky Register. h
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the twentieth of February, seventeen
hundred and eighty seven, before the
royal notaries at Phalsbourg, by which
the widows of Ulrich and Gaspard Beck.
vert, the two brothers, and the widow of
Michael Fix, the son and daughter of
of Ulrich Beckvert authorized the Presi-
dent Dupaits, to petition the king in then
name for letters of revision of the SEN
ience on the seven innocent men, which
letters of revision were at length granted.
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WOMAN's LOVE,

When man is waxing frail,
And his hands are thin and weak,
And his lips are parched and pals,
And wan and white his cheek
Oh, then doth woman prove
Her constancy and love
She stitch by his chair,
And holds his feeble hand
She watcheth even there
His wants 10 undersand-
Ills yet unspoken will
She has,eneth to fulfill.
She leads him, when the moon
Is bright, DER dale and hili,
And all things, save the tune
or the honey-bees are still
Into the gardens bowers,
To sit midst herbs and flowers.
And when he goes not there.
To feed on breath and bloom
She brings the posy rare
Into his darkened room
Aud 'ueath his weary head
The pillow smooth doth spread.
Until the hour when death
His lamp of life doth dim,
She never wearieth.
She never leaveth him
Still near him, night and day,
She meets his eye alway.
And when his trial IS Ger.
And the turf is on his breast,
Deep in her bosom's core
Lie sorrows unexpressed-
Her tears, her sighs are weak,
Her settled grief to speak.
And though there msy arise
Balm for her spirits pain
And though her quiet eyes
May sometimes smile again
Still. still she must regret
She never can forget
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MIscHIEvoUs CHILDREx.-We like
misehievous children, and for this res-
son: they are apt to make old men,
Good boys generally die in their fifth
year not because they are good, but
their quiet habits make them strangers
TO mud puddles, oxygen, dirt-pies and
outdoor exercise. When friend tells
US he has little boy who ''neyer wants
to leave his books" the knob Of his,
front door Immediately becomes ssobs
ject of intense interest to US; We know
as if we were blest with FORE e-knowis4ges
that in less than a year strip Of black
Grape will be throwing shade across
his path that time will never eradicate
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lore simple and touching than the followil
ted poems- We cannot ascertain the name
ter. They are cut from an old newspaper,
hey were published anonymously:
MANS LOVE.
When Eoman's eye grows dull,
And her cheek paleth,
When fades the beautiful
The mans love fadeth.
He sits not beside her chair,
Clasps net her fingers.
Twists not the damp hair
That DER her brow fingers
He comes but moment in.
Though her eye lightens;
Though her cheek pale and thin,
Feverishly brigtens.
lie stays hut moment near,
When that flush fsdeth;
Though true affections tear
Her soft eye-lid shadeth.
He goes from her chamber straight
Into life's iostle-
He meets at the very gate
Business and hustle.
He thinks not of her within,
Silently sighing-
He fOrgets. in that noisy din,
That she is dying
And when her heart is still,
What though he mOurneth-
Soon from his sorrow chill
Wearied he tarneth.
Soon DER her buried head
Memory's light sitteth
And the true-hearted dead
Thus man fOrgeteth-
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Is ANYBODY Hit =" Excuse me,
madam, but l would ike to ask why
you Look at me so savagely ?" Il beg
pardon, sir, 1 thought it was my hus-
band %
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qoetrp.
From the Charleston Coar;er.l
a CON Asst.

We have rarely read, says late English writer any
thing more simple and touching than the following
contrasted poems We cannot ascertain the name Of
the writer. They are cut from old newspaper, in
which they were published anonymously:
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INTERESTING TO UNMARRIED
LADIES.

We received the following article from
a friend in California. 1t is an extract
from the Golden Era, and our friend
thiuks it would be well to publish it in
this latitude &:
Marrying in California-a popular Error