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there were no other neighbors, and the child
could not go away unless carried. How else
could it have happened? !? EAiT5zaH H.la- 5..i
Dinner being over, Mrs. Clair walked
over to the neighbor's, to bring back his treas.
ure of baby that Miss Lucy had borrowed
that morning. Miss Lucy said that she had
not borrowed the baby-she had not seen it
that day. Mr.. St. Clair was hard to be con-
vinced that no one of the family had taken
the child, but all assured him that they knew
nothing of it. '' -" --
1t was now time to be alarmed. "What
has become of the poor child ?" was his ex-
clamation, and he ran back home in great
agony. The mother, in like manner, was al
most frantic! They could not conceive who
had taken away their child. il ..-.f..E =
Mr.. Williams family joined in the grief,
but could afford no aid, no consolation. They
could invent no theory, nor devise any plan
by which the child had with any degree of
probability, disappeared. Who was to take
it away? Why would any one wish to have
1t? They were utterly at loss. 49,.
Finally it was remembered that OCCASION
ally there were parties of Cherokees hunting
through that country. Itwas now surmised
thu they had happened to come to the house
while Mrs. st. g. was in the field, and had
stolen the child and carried it away. This
was at once received as plausible and quite
probable. ---
Early the next morning Mr.. St. Clair and
Mr.. Williams set out to seek for the Indian
camp, and Mrs. St. G. was left alone at home
She was sitting in silence, weeping tears of
bitter anguish, such as none but mothers ever
shed, and wondering in her heart what had
become of her darling babe. 1t was now
about the hour of the day on which she, the
day previous, had gone out. Ere she was
aware, a large panther, with stealthy tread,
came to the door and looked In toward the
cradle. Mrs. St. Clair screamed and he ran
away. The fearful truth was now apparent,
and no new light has ever been cast upon the
subject
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Hold them Responsible +!

A letter in the Free Democrat of Milwau-
kee, dated at St. Peters June 26th says:
The political waters have not begun to
move yet, but every lover Of freedom seems
impatient to leap into the contest; and the re-
cent confirmatory evidence of Democratic edi-
tors and ex-Governors, that our present State
officers were elected by frauds of the most
Outrageous kind has succeeded in driving many
of the best men from the Democratic ranks,
so that Republican victory this fall in GER
tainty. Alexander Ramsey is the only man
talked Of as Republican candidate for Gov
ernor. The people are beginning to see their
mistake in adopting the Five Million Loan
Bill. The Railroad men have induced the
people to loan them five million dollars, and
now want them (the people, to raise tax
and pay the interest on their own loan.
Minnesota though young State, is heavily
burdencd with taxes in Hennepin county
alone being $4,000 with debt of $50, 600
besides, incurred in building the Court House.
The Democracy OF Minnesota have given our
young State blow from which she cannot
recover in many years of good management.
MADISON.
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LATER FROM EUROPE!
Arrival Of the Steamers Vigo and Ade-
}. --, %" laide. -.r w.
ANOTHER TERRIBLE BATTL
The French and Sardinians Reported
-- . t. rrIa..e Victorious! ~. .rr-f . Z .
-Four Days Later From Europe.
RETREAT-0F THE AUSTRZdNS
6, 600 Austrians Taken Prisoners -!
$4,000 AUSTRIANs KILLED!
r..--. 10000 FRENCH LOST! .

Ia e. -..-..-- ST. JOHNS, N. B., July 6.
The steamship Vigo passed here on Sunday,
with European dates to the 25th ult., three
days later than received by the steamship
Vanderbilt, which arrived at New York on
Sunday. -s "r.
The steamship City of Baltimore, which
sailed from Liverpool on the 22d ult., was
crippled shortly after. She put back to port
and her passengers were transferred to the
steamship Vigo.
The intelligence from the seat of war reports
that no battles had occurred, but the Allies
were still advancing. and had occupied Tomato,
Castenedolo and Montechiearo, all of which
had been abandoned by the Austrians in their
retreat to Mincio.
The Emperor Napoleon was at the Allied
headquarters. -.- b.. ''-|
Prussia is moving her army upon the
Rhine.
The Liverpool Mercury on the oath has the
following dispatch from Vienna dated the
23d:
The Austrian Government has formally de.
clared the cruelties attributed to Gen. Dur
ban, in Count Cavour's message, as entirely
devoid Of foundation.
A sanguinary collision had taken place at
Brugia, between the soldiers of the Pope and
the inhabitants.
The King of the Belgians and the Count OF
Flanders had arrived at Buckingham Palace
on visit to the Queen. .-.
An alarming and destructive fire took
place at Cork, on Thursday night, the 2Sd-
Inc amount OF loss was not stated.
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AnecdOte of Cassius M. Clay.

Notwithstanding the strong enmities which
the slavery question engenders in the South.
c. NJ. Clay's social qualities have made him
always a favorite with magnanimous portion
of the shareholders. On the Kentucky river,
at the base of one of those immense lodges of
perpendicular limestone which give that
stream the most sublime and picturesque
scenery where Fayette county joins Madison
(Mr. Clay's native county, flows one of the
coldest and purest streams of water in all the
land. Here for many years parties of gen.
tlemen from both counties have been in the
habit of meeting in the most social and
unserved manner, and feasting on what is
called 'burgout'-a kind of camp soup made
of fish, turnips, red pepper, &c-as much
relished in the West as chowder in New
England-with interludes of cigars, old Bour-
bon, and anecdotes. On such occasions all
come uninvited-rich and poor-and gener-
al jOllifcaton ensues.
a few years since on one of these occa-
sions, the Vice President (John G. Brecken-
ridge,) the Dudleys, Bruces, Hunters and
other good fellows being present, it was pro-
posed to 60 in bathing and many hundred
yards the river was splashing with good and
bad swimmers, playing on each other
all sorts of tricks. At length in the midst of
all the fun came cry "a man is drowned !"
This was Mr.. Willis OF Madison county whose
family had been the most bitter enemies of C.
NJ. Clay. The four or five men who were near
est him fled to the shore in great terror, and
Immediately from twenty or more persons
rose the cry, Clay-Clay-Clay Mr.. Clay
was about 50 or 80 yards above, but imme-
diately swan down the swift stream to where
Willis had sank-never to rise again Of his
own effort, and seizing him by the hair at
arms length, swan, keeping the face of the
nearly insensible man under water, toward
the shore. He was called to on all sides to
raise Willis head above water; but know.
ing that the life of both depended upon keep
ing the drowning man from seizing hold of the
swimmer, he proceeded calmly without an
swering till he placed his charge safely on
land; then turning to his officlous advisers
who had fled from the danger which they
left to- others he said-'next time, if you
want his head raised above water, raise IL
yourse!f" The universal call for Clay in this
emergency showed the great and unquestion-
ed confidence which all who know him place
in his quiet courage and magnimity of soul ;
and the end proved that it was not misplaced.
Willis and family thenceforth became his life
friends.-Boston Journal.
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Mons. Rlondin,s Great Feat.

When we reached the scene of Mons. Blon-
din's exploit, about a mile below the Falls,
yesterday afternoon, at halfpast three o'clock,
a crowd of people thronged the banks of the
river on either side for some distance above
and below the cable The end on the Amer
ican side was in an enclosure known as
Whites Pleasure Grounds, which are much
frequented on account of the admirable points
of viewing the Falls on the one hand and the
Suspension Bridge and river scenery ON the
other. 4 thousand or more people paid ad-
mission to the grounds, which would afford
good stand points to witness the feat for many
thousands, and Mons, Rlondin gave one of his
tight rope performances here prior to under
taking the seemingly hazardous passage. A
band Of music enlivened the scene and aided
in dissipating the feeling of terror and awe
with which the undertaking was evidently
surrounded.
On the Canada shore an enclosure was
formed between the road, which at this point
runs along the precipice couple of rods from
the brink, within which the end of the cable
was secured. All around were stagings, erect
ed to enable people to get good view of the
affair, but the entrance charges were so ex-
tortionate that few availed themselves of the
facilities provided. In the immediate vicinity
were booths for dispensing edibles and imbib-
ables, with curious side show or two, but
were not extensively patronized, the cabalis-
tic attractions of Mons. Blondin overpowering
the ordinary curiosity of such promiscuous
crowd, which was not entirely so large as we
anticipated, the total number ofspectators on
both sides not exceeding ten thousand
While the vast audience ranged round the
grandest' amphitheatre man ever exhibited his
| puny skill and courage in, were waiting, the
excitement growing momentarily more in.
tense, Blondin was capering before an audi
ence in the grove on Whites Pleasure
Grounds. Sporting men betted on the result
of his performance, the odds being in his fa
vor The bands Of music in attendance play
ed as if they were trying to blow their brains
out, and the roughs had a muss or two by
way of amusement, to pass off the time.
The cable is two inches in diameter, anG
nearly six in circumference. 1t was firmly
anchored at each end, and was guyed by
smaller ropes stretching at regular interval.
on both sides to the shores, with stay rope.
running perpendicularly to the waters edg
from the cable and firmly fastened to rocks
The guys were made fast to trees on tn
bank, and from an inequality in fastening
drew the cable slightly from a straight line
The depression Of the cable at the centre from
the fastenings on shore was about seventy
five feet, though still hundred feet above tn
water. The banks are not over two hundre
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Popular Sovereignty as Defined In the
Cincinnati Platform.

The Cincinnati Platform, though it is no.
torious cheat, is still appealed to as fountain
of sound doctrine. The Douglas Democracy
especially quote it as authority for their no
ton of I" unfriendly legislation" !" and the Ad-
ministration also find in it texts to>confir1n
them in their proposition that the people of a
Territory have nothing to do with Slavery
The Washington Constitution contained, on
the 21st, an article on popular sovereignty,
which opens with the following sentence,
which Our friends of the Pioneer will please
notice: rsdi ..a,aH st-a. .-T l -.Ea3
The selt.style1 Democrats who contend that
under and by virtue of the principle of the
Kansas-Nebraska bill, the settlers of Terri
tory, from the moment of its organization,
have the right to pass laws hostile to slavery,
or to neglect to provide for its protection-in
other words, the first handful of squatters
may at any time, and no matter what their
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RECONCILED.

When we parted, long ago,
Believe me, sweet, knew not
That thou didst love me sol
For with my earnest love was born
A sense of my unworthiness,
And so | roamed the earth forlorn,
And longed for death in my distress /:
could not brook the thought of scorn,
And so l roamed the world forlorn.
When we parted, long ago,
Believe me, sweet, knew not
That thou didst love me so!
But after years of bitter strife,
said, I'willsreturn and dare
My fate; for, better such than life,
The bitterness of death to bear:
And loye was mine instead of scorn,
And | no more shall be fQrlorni
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RY A. SANDERS PIATT.

Thy beauty's matchless, / the brand
Hold, to Tighten fame's fair scroll,
With all the gentleness and grace
Fer wrapped within thy soul.
l strike the wall, the sparks they fly,
Flames ascend, the airs infused,
With treachrous odors, passing by,
That Satan oft hath used.
These matches are not Heaven made,
Caught this one, that you have brought,
Promethean fire from thy fingers,
And rare dreams to me has taught.
Inspiration gently fingers
Round the ends that they have prest,
More Internal thought, arising
From the other, not SO blest.
Inundated on the altar,
Sacritcial flames arise,
Light the weed of inspiration,
Fills my soul with many sighs.
And q wreath Of cloudy whiteness,
Scfty steals up to the gods,.'
Forms Muse descending ladder,
With the mystic wand and rods.
Weaving in my brain rare visions,
VISIONS OIL lHlnOttal NE,
Half of Satan, half of Heaven,
Good and evils bitter strife.
Earth the stage, and we the actors,
Mingled love and mingled woe,
Entangled with thorns and roses,
Are our footprints as we 60.
And the fame of life consuming
lights the pathway to the sky.
Or to deeps of utter darkness, :.
Where llie's dropping ashes lie.
Brightly in the smoke ascending
Hazel eyes are looking through,
And the heavens flow about them,
From thy heart, so pure and true.
lmps of darkness in the circles,
Glide around to pull thee down,
Matchless beauty, shades of wonder,
Satan's with Promethean crown.
u1s1DE. KY, 1859.
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Thou hast left me. Whittier, oh love whittier
Hast thou fed?
Let the sun fall, and the green earth wither,
If she is dead!
Where, oh where, is my true love9
have questioned earth and heayeI,
And the only words they say
Are the sad words-far away,
Far away, far away.
Could she die? Not SOL Am dreamers
She doth live!
Sorrow twas that made me blasphemer;
Oh love, forgive!
Where, oh where, is my true loveg
l have questioned night and day,
And the eniy words they say
Are the sad words-far away,
Far away, far away. :
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TWILIGHT.

Ye sounds that come across the leas,
And up the hills that climb to me,
Clsaving the purple silenoes
That deepen over land and sea-
Ie sounds of bells Of silver swung
In sacred turrets ivied gray,
Ye sounds of solemn anthems sung
Amidst the valleys far away
Ye are more sweet to other ears.
But very, very sad to mine!
Ye come like ghosts from sepulchres,
Drunken with sorrow as with wine
Ye come forlornly wandering,
Lost echoes Of an age of gold,
TSn sne hnt tbe aha dreams was ef
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mr In school in Baltimore the boys were
reading from their class-books story of re-
turning good for evil. Philip had accidental
ly dropped his cane, present from his father,
upon Roberts pitcher filled with water, and
Robert, refusing to hear his apology, broke
the cane in pieces. Some time afterward,
Philip found Robert lying beneath log Of
wood which he had fallen on him. He very
kindly lifted it off and assisted him home,
thus returning good for evil, or as Solomon
has it, ''heaping Goals of fire on his head"
Snow see, boys" said the teacher, ''what
noble little fellow Philip must have BEEN
Now, what would you have done, Johnny, if
your cane should be broken by another boy p
Little Johnny arose from his, seat, and
doubled his fists, while his eyes flashed as he
said: a--s Drs
IL would lam him so bad that he could not
stand!"3 Cd 5colz u-i- -1ssitzz.T
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The Bayonet Exercise to Receive At
IeMtiOn...Artfllery.
The following order has been issued by
Gen. Scott: .s.
GENERAL oRDERs-NO. 3.
HEAD QUARTERS OF TIE ARMY,
New York, June 48, 1859.

GENERAL ORDERS-NO. 3.
HEAD QUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
New York, June 4S, 1859. I
As the reports Of Inspectors General are
evidence that the subject of bayonet exercise,
and target practice for small arms, has been
almost entirely neglected by our troops, es-
pecially the bayonet exercise, the General-in-
Chief calls the attention of all officers concern
ed to the subject, and directs that, hereafter,
the troops be regularly and systematically in
structed in the full use of the several weapons
placed in their hands,:
Inspectors General, as general rule, will
report particularly on the merits and defects
of the several articles of new invention or
contrivance now in use, or which may here
after be, arm S, equipments, &C., and, in their
respective reports, besides giving their own
opinion, they will also set forth, as far as pos
sible, what they may understand to be the
Judgment of the service, discriminating be-
tween the principle and the mere construction
of the article, in order that the merits in the
former may not be unjustly sacrificed be-
cause of defects which can be remedied in the
Inspectors General will, moroyer, be careful
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E- When God contemplates some great
work, he begins it by the hand of some poor,
weak human creature, to whom be afterwards
gives aid, SO that the enemies who seek to OBJ
struct it are overcome.-Luther
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The Fou rth at Washington.
-. .--.. - ~ WAsu1NaroN. july

The day was celebrated by the customary
firing of salutes and the ringing of bells. The
convicts in the penitentiary also engaged in
the patriotic observances In the evening
there was grand display of pyrotechnics.-
Universally good order was preserved during
the day. -. s... 49,, ...
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Fatal Accident.

New HAVEN, July 5.
A young man named Baldwin was killed in
the adjoining town of North Brantford, by the
bursting of cannon
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The Fourth Mt Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, july

II ---".'| FPILADELPHIA, July b.
The Fourth passed off without any disturb
ance. Numerous fires were caused by fire.
works from private displays, but through the
activity of the firemen with their steam en-.
gines, no serious loss occurred.
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From Boston.
BosroN

BosToN, July 8.
A fire yesterday afternoon in Dorchester
avenue, Sonth Boston, destroyed five dwelling
houses and carriage factory. Loss $40, 900
partially insured. .
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Another Conhaxra,ion a. Oshkosh. Wis.
Oshkosh, july

... Oshkosh, July 8.
The Planning Mill of Morgan, Walter &
Jones, and six dwellings, among which is the
Episcopal Parsonage, was destroyed by fire
on Saturday. Loss $4,000.
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We clip the following fine stanzas from the Gin
cinnati Daily Times. They unquestionably breathe
the spirit of genuine verse-a spirit that too seldom
finds utterance in these latter days:
TO A MATCH...GIVEN BY A LADY,
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Factory Burned.

HARTFORD, July 5.
Factory No. 2, Of the Lock Company at
Ferryviile, Connecticut, was destroyed by
fire Yesterday.
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H Urgency in prayer does not so much
consist in vehement pleading as in vehement
believing. ..a- a.. .,.
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Suicide.

DOSIoN, Culy y.
Mr.. H. Orthal, acting vice consul at Glou
cester, committed suicide on Sunday by hang
ing himself ..
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A BEAUTIFUL POEM.

>
md, though beautiful throughout, it has some two
II three passages of very rare originality. Tht
writer of It, as learn from letter of lady whl
ncloses It to me) was factory girl, who, by the
abor of her own hands, secured the money for hel
and she is now twenty four wears of age
nd supporting herself by various uses of her pen
he Josie H is yet to be famous, I am very
ure. Thus run the verses:1
BABY BUM.
Winsome baby Buun
Brighter than the stars that rise
In the dusky evening skies,
Browner than the robins wing
Clearer than a woodland spring,
Are the eyes of baby Bum
Winsome baby Bum!
Smile, mother, smile.
Thinking softly all the while
OF tender, blissful day,
When the dark eyes, so like these
Of the cherub on your knees,
Stole your girlish heart away.
Oh! the eyes of baby Bum.
Rarest mischief they will do,
When once old enough to steal
What their fathers stole from you.
Smile, mother, smile.
Winsome baby Bum!
Nlilk-white lilies half unrolled,
Set in calyces of gold,
With its rings of yellow hair!
Scarlet berry cleft in twain
BY wedge Of pcarly grain,
Is the mouth of baby Bum!
Winsome baby Bum.
Weep, mother, weep!
For the little one asleep
With his head against your breast!
Never in the coming years,
Though he seeks for it with tears,
Will he find so sweet rest
Oh, the brow of baby BUM
Oh, the scarlet mouth of Bum!
One must wear its crown of thorns
Drink its cup of gall must one!
Though the trembling lips shall shrink,
White with anguish as they drink,
And the temple sweat with pain
Drops of blood like purple rain;
Weep, mother, weep!
Winsome little baby Bunn
Not the sea-shelps palest tinge,
Not the daisy's rose-white fringe,
Not the softest, fantest glow
OF the sunset on the snow,
Is more beautiful and sweet
Than the wee pink hands and feet
OF the little baby Bum
Winsome baby Bum!
Pray, mother, pray!
Feet like these may lose the way,
Wandering blindly from the right,
Pray, and sometime will your prayers
Be to him like golden stars
Built through darkness into light.
Oh! the dimpled feet Of Bum!
Hid like rose-leaves in your breast!
These will grasp at jewels rare,
But to find them empty air;
Those shall fater many day,
Bruised and bleeding by the way,
Ere they reach the land Of rest!
Pray, mother, pray!
JOSIE H
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to obtain, from the chiefs of, the several staff
departments, a list Of all such articles ~
By command of BreVet Lieut. Gen. Scott.
II noi,G.25s. 5s-g1., 4. /. THOMAS, voew-L
. ,...s.r. G.. .5=., s.gzq Asst Al. General.
The Secretary of War issues the following
order: e.; ,--
:, The Artillerists Manuel, now being COM
piled and soon to be published, by Lieutenant
Gibbon, Fourth Artillery, will be substituted
instead OF the French aide MSnsoire, pre-
seribed inGeneral Orders No. 10, current Sc
ries, for artillery instruction. ,r.-- =, .
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BABY BUM.

Winsome baby Bum!
Brighter than the stars that rise
In the dusky evening skies,
Browner than the robins wing,
Clearer than woodland spring,
Are the eyes of baby Bum
Winsome baby Bum!