, 1869-06-11
sEwARp,s LITTLE REI.I.

n Drltlsh dlplomatist, who visited MI
Seward, on one occasion, during the Garlic
part OF the war, asserts that the American
premier boasted to him that he possesse,
greater power than any king or emperor O
Europe. To illustrate and prove the trutl
OF this not idle boast, Seward said: M,
lord, you observe that little bell within M
reach. Now sir, can ring that little bel
four times and have any four persons
please arrested, within fifteen minutes, time
IN any four quarters of this great country
and sent on their way to Federal prisons
If, my lord, you have that time, will illus
trate Saying which, the ambassador sig
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the principle Of American liberty undeE red.
republican rule, Mr.. Seward rang thesbell
four times, at brief intervals, being at each
interval Immediately waited upon by voices
less automaton, to each of whom he gave q
slip of paper, upon which had been written
the names of prominent democrats, with their
residence, and the Endorsement ARREST and
forward TO Fort Lafayette. VIM. Ii Seward,
Secretary of State
Remarkable as it will appear to the reader
who is not posted in the details of the inside
workings of the machinery of power, which
set in motion, so thoroughly aud effeclually,
instituted that reign of terror which filled
this broad land with an underlined but no
less real cause of alarm, at the expiration of
the fifteen minutes from the disappearance
OF the hrst vOiceless automaton, he reappear
ed and delivered into the Secretarys hand a
brief telegraphic message which read 'Wm.
II. Seward, Secretary of State: Information
just received at this department is hereby
transmitted to you of the arrest of---at
ordered BY your excellency at 80 this
afternoon. (Signed) Edwin NJ. Stanton,
Secretary Of War
Again, came the automaton and his sealed
package, and again, and again.
No wonder that the ambassador from a
European monarchy expressed surprise, when
there before his eyes was enacted what, to
have been executed in Great Britain, would
have taken days Of time AID the strictest aud
closest formality of law. But such is the
truth-the American Jacobin exercised, by
the right of usurpation only, power which
no Constitutional monarchy of Europe would
have dared to indulge, in any emergency
whatever.
Nor does it astoush US, who have felt the
strong hand of usurpation, that the ambassa.
dor who witnessed the performance of our
republican Secretary, should have pondered
the probabilities likely to follow such bold
stroke of power in England, Under Magma
Chdrta, every mans home-fs his castle, and
where 10 be arrested a specific charge must
be made By citizen before law officer, a
civil law warrant issued, fair and speedy
trial being guaranteed. He replied Sir,
Her Majesty possesses no such power. Were
she to attempt the arrest of citizen with
out warrant of law, the consequences would
involve the kingdom in a popular uprising"
True, England is only hateful monarchy
which the tens of thousands of our fowery
Fourth. of July orators have taught the peo-
pie from tens Of thousands of stands to re-
gard as a despolism, ruled by royal person
age, aud compared with which our land was
an earthly paradise And yet.-and yet
the law is secure in England, and uneasy
would lie the crowned Head which would
dare to trample the rights of the humbest
of her subjects.
Oh, will the people never learn what they
have lost, and are losing and by whom and
what set of men?
In the name of human freedom, God, and
your children, ye yeomen of Pennsy ylvania,
awake awake to realize your true condi-
ton, and witherway ye are going
There is hope only when the people awake.
Remember that eternal vigilance is the price
of liberty, and that if ye loose it, eternal
slavery is your doom
What it was when Seward rang his little
BELL it is sto>day. Morally, there is no longer
any law in this country which is bulwark
that may not be. thrown down, and from bad
we are going to worse; from ruin to ruin
from decay to death from republicanism to
monarchy; from liberty to slavery; from
faint hope to hopeless despair from heaven
to hell democratic Wdtchman.
BEEF EssENCE.-In low fevers and other
forms of exhausted vitality, there is no ar
ticle of food which can replace beef essence;
and every housewife should know how to
make it properly. To do so take a pound
of juicy beef (the neck is perhaps the best),
cut it very fine rejecting all fat and gristle,
and put it N a wide-mouthed bottle, such
Us a pickle bottle. Then put the bottle,
tightly corked, into a kettle of cold water,
yet it over the fire and boil an hour. When
well boiled uncork the bottle, pour its con-
tents into strainer, and drain out the liquid.
A pinch of salt may be added if required to
render it palateable. No water should be
added to the meat or essence. Even tea
spoonful of this preparation contains a great
ieal of nouris hment, and is borne by almost
Ill stomachs. Life Gan be sustained by its
lse for long time.
COMPETITION IN TRADE-The eastern
merchants are 10 the market for the Navada
rade. The Inland Empire, 8th instant,
avs: We hear that we'll known Navadan,
ormerly State official, is on bis way here,
IS agent of one of the largest houses in New
York, to procure customers in White Pine.
Ie was at Salt Lake on Wednesday, and
elegraphed that he would soon be here with !
amples of his houses goods to sell on the $
most liberal terms We hear of other mer- !
antile agents on their way-some from =
,hicago, and some from St. Louis. We opine