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TH
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JJAN S MATTSON,
Attorney at
Law,
AND JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
Red Wing, Minnesota.
Particular attention paid to Conveyancing
•nd Collecting. 157-y
et,1MTOM eCBNEB,JB. O.O. BBYMOLDS.
N E E A REYNOLDS
CoiBsellors and Attorneys at Law,
Red Wing, Minn.
earOfllce with Smith, Towne A Co. 82-ti
FRANK CLARK,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR
AT LAW,
NORTH PEPIN, WISCONSIN.
Will five special attention to collecting Ac
7*y
BANKING SrREAL ESTATE
OBACB WILDE* WU.BBB.
fc E W I E
Bankers A Land Agents
ED WING, Minnesota Ter.
oney loaned. Exchange A Land Warrants
oought and sold. Land Warranto, or Money
.oaned to pre-emptors, on long or short time,
and on favorable terms.
HP" Lands bought and sold oncommission Ac.
Bed Wing,May,l8S7.
a a is
a Estate Agent, a Dealer
IN
A N W A A N S
S a W in Minnesota
IWMoney loaned, Land Warrants sold or lo
aned on time. Real Estate, and Exchagn
boughtand sold. May 93/57
O W N E I E E
DEALERS IN
RBAL ESTATE.
E W I N I N N E S O A
Will attend to locating Land W arrauts, pay
ment of taxes, collection of notes, and to the pur
chase and sale of Beal Estate throughout the
Territory: Sarveying, Mapping, and Platting
of every kind done te order by a practical sur
veyor. Copies of township maps furnished.—
Deeds drawn and acknowledgements taken.
EsVAU easiness intrusted to them, will re
ceive prompt attention.
T. W. TOWNX. J. O. FIBBCB
REAL ESTATE OFFICE,
A O I N I N N E S O A
THEENsubscribeWarrants,,
will buy and sell Lands, lo-
cate Land enter Government
Lands, select Claims for Settlers desiring to lo
cate on the Half Breed Beservation, pay Taxes
and attend to all business appertaining to his
profession—negotiate Loans for Capitalists up
on unexceptionable real estate security from 20
to «9 per cent. PERRY MABTIN.
Central Point,Jan. 1,1858. 77y
W. S. BAWKKS. O.B. BAlIB. A. HALL
A I O N S N O W O S
Hawkins A Co.,
WOULr
take this method of informing
thei friends and the public generally,
that they are now prepared to do
I? & S
3 S
3
Of all kinds, such as House, Sign, Carriage,
Curtain and Ornamental Painting, Graining,
Plying Marbling and Paper Hanging.
KS^pecial attention paid to all ordersfrom
ha eon ntry. *atf
Bed Wing, July 17 1857,
VOLUME 4, NDMBEH 14.
HOTELS.
E O O I A N O E
Uevees'treet, immediately opposite the Steam
boat Landing, Red Wing, Minnesota,
A A So E E E E O I E O S
THI.S
new, spacious and commodious house
is now open for the reception of guests.—
It has been constructed under the immediate
supertisionof the proprietors, and nothing has
been omitted to insure the comfort and conven
ience of those who may favor them with their
patronage. The numerous rooms are all well
lighted, ventilated and furnishedin a superior
manner. In connection with the house is
good and commodious stable.
Red Wing, March 1,185S. 88tf
E N A O I N O S E
1\R. A P. A. 1IARDT, PBOFBIBTOBS.
THIfSLake
House is pleasantly located on the shore
Pepin, within a few rods of the
Steamboat Landing. Persons wishingto spend
a few days of recreation and leisure, willnnd
this the place to do it. A good and well sup
plied barn is attached to the house, and a com
petent ostler always in attendance.
The proprietors having leased the above pop
ular house and having thoroughly repainted
and furnished in a superior style, would say to
the pnblic that thing that they can do to
make al. calling, comfortably and pleasantly
situated, will be left undone.
May23,lS53. 9*7
E W I N O S E
JACOB BENNETT, Proprietor,
«K1 WING, MINNESOTA.
I^fOonnected with the House is a large and
convenient Stable. Stages leave daily for the
interior. Teams and Carriages on hand to
convey Passengers to any part of the country
April-24,1853. 90-t
A S O S E
E N VAN A E N
CANNON FAILS, MINNESOTA.
Travelers will find every accommodation on
reasonable terms at the above House. Good
Stablos, Ostlers, Ae. 62ly
I S O N O S E
COBNEB OF BROAD AMD THIRD STREETS.
THIoSf
A. B. MILLER, Proprietor.
new Hotel is now open for the reception
the traveling public, where they will
find the best of accommodations. There is a
good stable attached. Passengers and Bag
gage conveyed to and from the Boats free of
charge. 171-ly
MISCELLANEOUS.
NEW BARBER SHOP.
THE
SUBSCRIBER HAS FITTED UP IK
a first rate manner, the room formerly
occupied as the Sentinel Office, on Plum street,
opposite the Hack House, and having reduced
the price of shaving to
I E E N S
is prepared to execute, in a superior manmr, all
ranches of his profession. Citizens and stran
tfully invited to call.
branc
I gers are respect'
N•HEBBICK.Dealer
J. W. COOK.
144-tf
Sed Wing, May 7, '59.
L. CONNELLY. M. D.,
Tenders hisprofessionalservices to the citi
zens of Red Wing and vicinity.
OFFICB.—Corner of Bush and Flam street,
up stairs.
E E E N E S
Hon.Z.KiDWBLL,M. C,Fairmont, Va.,
Hon. L. DAWSON, M. Brownsville,Pa.,
Prot.T. D. MCTTXB,Philadelphia,Pa.,
Dr. J. C. COOMB,
Rev. Dr. DBUM«.owD,Morgantown, Va.,
Drs. MCLAVX A BBOCK, Morgantown, Va.,
Dr. A. H. CAMFBXLL, Key West, Florida,
Dr. E. 8. GAINES, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Red Win*,May 38,1857. 44tf
1859. E WING 1850
S E A A N I N W I
—AMD—
SASH, DOOB AND BLIND FACTOBY
(One Block above Freeborn's Saw Mill.)
WE
SHALL BE PREPABED TO FUB -self-deception
nish at all times, anything in the above
line of business and shall keep on hand all
kinds of planed and matched Lumber, Mould
ings, etc.
Orders promptly attended to, which- may al
so be left with Brown A Batcher.
Produce of all kinds taken in exchange for
work. COOEL A BETCHEB.
Bed Wing, April 19,1869. 142-ly
I N I E S E O N
DXALXBSIB
Dry Goods,Groceries,Crockery,Hardware Cut'
.ery, Nails, Oils, Paints Sash, Window Glass,
Looking Glasses, Farminglmplmente.
A.so, Hosiery, Gloves, Cravats, Suspenders,
8hirts,Collars,Brashes,Fancy Goods, Ac.
J. MOIMTIBE.
Red Wing M. T. S E O N
DUBUQE CITY MARBLE
WORKS.
in American and For-
eign Marble,Sixth street, below Mainand
Iowa, Dubuque, Io*a.
Monuments, U. ad S to a
a A 6Sm9
O N A E S I N G,
W A A E S
DEALER S I N
E A I E S
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry,
Bed Wing, Minnesota.
•9*AL WOBK W A A N E
Aug. 13,1859. 158-tf
a
A E N
I
S A E S
OF. ALL KINDS.
FAIRBANKS & GREENLEAF,
3d Lake street, Chicago*
E N I S O N
Bectifiex and Wholesale dealer in
a aaxxcl W 3
BJSP
WINES 4* LIQUORS,
Corner Plum and Third SU., »7tf
WJrtG, MINNESOTA.
A N
Nearer, my God, to Thee
Nearer to Thee!
Even though it be a craw
That raises me,
Still all my song shall be
Nearer to Thee.
Though, like the wanderer,
The sun go down,
Darkness be over me,
My rest a stone
Yet in my dreams I'd be
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!
Then let my way appear
Steps unto heaven
All that thou sendest me
In mercy given
Angels to beckon me
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!
A YOUNG HUSBAND'S SOLILOQUY.
BY W. F. PABOD.
The queerest little dresses
My eyes have ever seen,
I sometimes catch a glimpse of
And wonder what they mean.
All folded up so neatly
And fashioned out with grace
With little bows of ribbon
And little bits of lace.
I gaze on these with wonder,
And in Viola's eyes
I try to read the secret
Bat she is all too wise.
And unto all my questions
She gives but this reply
"If you'll have patience, Pelcg,
I'll tell you—hy—nd-by!"
KKIAGIOUS S E I A
The spryad of the religious epidem
ic for some time prevailing in Ulster,
and ihe unabated violence of its symp
toms, seems to have attracted the pro
fessional attention of many able and
learned men on both sides of the
Channel, who naturally desire to save
their respective denominations from
the contagion, or if thai be not whol
ly practicable, to know how to miti
gate its effects. The Bishop of Win
chester and other dignitaries of the
English Church, are said to have made
recent pilgrimages to the scene of so
much moral and physical suffering
aud the General Assembly of the Free
Kirk of Scotland, after due inquiry,
are reported to have come to a unani
mous resolution, somewhat equivocal,
perhaps, in its wary wording, but suf
ficiently significant of their reluctance
to lend any specific sanction to the de
plorable delusion. The members of
the Congregational Union have, we
understand, taken a manlier and
prompter tone, and counselled their
brethren against any paltering with
what the great historian has well de
scribed, as the infinitely subtle and
inappreciable gradations, by which
passes into .voluntary
fraud. But the best and ablest ser
vice that has been rendered on the oc
casion is that which we acknowledge
at the hands of the Archdeacon ot
Meath, who in a spirit highly commen
dable seems to have applied himself
soon after the breaking out of the dis
ease, to a patient and critical exami
nation, on the spot, of every painful
phase of its development. Early ex
perience as a town missionary among
the most afflcted and degraded classes
of the community, had led him to the
caretul study of that wide-spread but
too much neglected root of female
maladies, hysteria. He had deemed
it his duty to master not only all the
medical symptoms of the disease, in
all its Protean forms, but the varied
moral and social incidents commonly
predisposing thereto and being a man
evidently impressed with the highest
sense of moral obligation, he seems to
have waited for no dilatory conclusions
on the part of others, but spontane
ously to have devoted much time and
labor to making a careful analvsis of
the actual condition of things, in the
counties of Down and Antrim, on
which he grounds his earnest and
touching appeal to the judgment of
the community at large.
Under the name of a general Revi
val of Religion, a system of intense
excitement has been organized thro'
ought the districts above referred to,
Ee
A I A N S
astors and congregations seeming to
equally moved by a common im
pulse, unlike anything we have been
accustomed to witness in these coun
tries, and comparable only to what
was some years ago not unfrequent in
the less civilized States of America.—
The ordinary method of teaching is
on the one hand laid aside by the
minister, and a system of vehement
excitation to "escape and begone"
from the pending wrath to come is
substituted, until the tragic iteration
of the appeal has wrought in the
minds of the hearers a sort of spirit
ual panic, amouuting to something lit".
tie short of delirium. On the other
hand, the congregation being pre
pared by the intensity of individual
self-consciousness, gives way on.
theTUB
TH
E RE WIM SENTINEL
•Minnesota Foretier!
RED WING, GOODHUE COUNTY, MINN., SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 26, 1859.
first suggestion, to frenzied movements
and exclamations. Far from restrain
ing either, the minister earnestly en
courages both. The men, who seldom
wholly lose their self-possession, serve
to swell the chorus of terror but the
women become more easily physical
victims of their fears. With spas
modic gesticulations and piteous cries
for mercy, they fall down into a kind
of cataleptic tit. Then it is the trium
phant pastor breaks forth into thanks
fiving, as for a direct manifestation of ed in upon his soul. He writes a
ivine power. The congregation are preaches, in a strain of touching
then told to pray for a repetition of ~'~A t_„„....
other instances and thesketches
miracle in
fervid anticipation thus created as
matter of course realizes itself Half
a dozen helpless women have been
thus smitten" in the course of a sin
gle hour, It is announced beforehand
that adjacent apartments await their
reception, and that persons are in at-accurate
tendance to remove them thereto.—
Doctor Stopford relates the particu
lars of several scenes of the kind he
witnessed. He followed the "possess
ed" to the places prepared tor them
during their state-of trance, watched
them during its continuance, and con
versed with them at their awakening.
Far from casting any doubt upon
the reality of what he saw, or imput
ing any admixture of deceit or vanity
to those concerned, he bears the
strongest testimony to their sincerity,
and does not shrink from saying that
he entirely believes them when they
describe their mental state to be one
of unearthly happiness. They declare
themselves* unalterably assured of par
adise, and to have ceased to care
about the ordinary ills and sorrows of
their present mortal state. He tells
us also that for a certain period, usu
ally a brief duration, the features of
ihe smitten" wear the glow of su
pernatural beauty but he does not
fail to add that this ecstatic illumina
tion of the countenance commonly
gives place to very different appear
ances. He finds in the blotched and
murky skin, the unnaturally fixed ex
pression of the eye, the incipicntly de
crepit gait, and above all, in the help
less susceptibility to emotion, the un-the
raistakeable symptoms of hysteria.—
He does not question the sincerity of
motives in those whose preaching ren
ders their hearers peculiarly liable to,
even when it does not actually drive
them into, this condition, but he says
plainly, that it is a state of bodily dis
ease, which is not and cannot be the
true or just means of effecting moral
regeneration. In a word, he depre
cates strongly all idea of treating it asdifficulty
imposture, but he manfully strives to
wrestle with it as a fearful delusion.
It does seem hardly credible, yet
unfortunately we know it to be true,
that disinterested persons of educa
tion and worth should at the present
moment be actually engaged in
en-seven
deaveriug to inoculate the community
on this side of the Channel with this
humiliating and deplorable disease.—
Persons, both lay and clerical, have
gone from hence to the places where
it is known to prevail, and .have re
turned possessed with the idea that it
is their duty to bring all within their
reach under its expanded influence.—
At Manchester, Woolwich, and other
places, vast gatherings have been held
within the past week avowedly for
this purpose and we are sorry to ob
serve that so far from any warning be
ing given against factitious physical
excitement, expectations are openly
held forth, and prayers actually offered
that God would make himself miracu
lously manifest by the same tokens as
it is supposed that he has shown else
where.—Edinburgh Examiner.
CONVERSATIONAL INTERCOURSE WITH
THE SEXES.—What makes thos*? men,
who associate habitually with women,
superior to others What makes that
woman, who is accustomed to, and at
ease in the company of men, superior
to her sex in general Why are theassembly,
women of France so universally loved
and admired, for their colloquial pow
ers Solely because they are in the
habit of a free, graceful and continu
al conversation with the other sex.—
Women in this way lose their frivoli
ty, their faoalties awaken, their deli
cacies and peculiarities unfold all their
beauty and oaptivation, in the spirit of
intellectual rivalry. And the meninutive
their pedantio, rude, declamatory, or
sullen manner. The coin of the un-doctrines
derstanding and the heart is inter
changed continually. Their asperi
ties are rubbed off their better mate
rials polished and brightened and
their richness, like fine gold, wrought
into finer workmanship by the fingers
of women, thau it ever could be by
those of men. The iron and steel of
our character are laid aside, like the
harshness of a warrior in the time of
peace and security. «. ,.r ..,.
Susan," said a servant girl,
looking out of the upper story of a
small grocery, addressing another girl
who was trying to get in at the front
door, we've all been to oamp-meet
ing and been converted, so when you
want lager on Sunday yon will have
to come in at the back door.
IRBEPRESSIBLK CoimcT.-John Brown,
E REV MR. 3HLBURN*S O
A I O SENATOR DOUGLAS.
We make the following extract from
a work recently issued, entitled Ten
Tear's of Preacher Life," by the Rev
W. H. Milburn. The author is wide
ly known as the Blind Methodist,"
who at the age of twenty-two was
elected chaplain of Congress. "Rea
son at one extreme having been al
most shut out," as in the case of Mil
ton, a rare flood of celestial light pour
as he
ear
nestness an3d poetic beauty His
of several of the leading mem
bers of Congress of the present
and past generation, including Web
ster, Clay, Calhoun, Randolph, Pink
ney, Stephen's and others, are truly
admirable. That of Senator Douglas
we cannot refrain from copying, ft is
and well defined as a portrait
and when once started will go the
rounds of the Press:
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS.
The first time I saw him was in June
1838, standing on the gallery of the
market honse,which some of my read
ers may recollect as situated in the
middle of the square in Jacksonville.—
He and Col. John J. Hardin, were
canvassing Morgan county for Con
gress. He was upon the threshold of
that great world in which he played so
prominent a part, and was engaged
in making one of his earliest stump
peeches. I stood and listened to
him, surrounded by a motley crowd
of backwood's farmers and hunters
dressed in homespun or deerskin, my
boyish breast glowing with exultant
joy, as he only ten years my senior,
battled so bravely for the doctrines- of
his party with the veterau and ac
complished Hardin. True I had been
educated in political sentiments oppos
ite to his own but there was something
captivating in his manly straightfor
wardness and uncompromising state
ment of his political principles. He
evcti then showed signs of that dex
terity in debate, and vehement im
pressive declamation of which he has
since become such a master. He gave
crowd the color of his own mood
as he interprets their thoughts and di
rected their sensibilities. His first
hand knowledge of the people, and
his power to speak to them in their own
language, simplyfying arguments suit
ed to their comprehensions, sometimes
clinching a scries of reasons by a fron
tier metaphor which refused to be for
gotten, and his determined courage
which never shrank from any form of
or danger, made him one of
the most effective stump orators I ever
heard,
Less than four years before he
walked into the town of Westchester,
sixteen miles Southwest of Jackson
ville, an entire stranger, with thirty
and a half cents in his pockets
—his all of earthly fortune. His first
emplopment was clerk of a village
"vendue" as the natives call a sheriffs
sale. He then seized the birch of the
pedagogue, and sought by its aid, and
by patient drilling, to initiate a hand
ful of half-wild boys into the sublime
mysteries of Lindley Murray.. His
evenings were divided between read
ing newspapers studying Blackstone
and talking politics, it is a droll
sight to see a crowd of men and boys
gathered in one of the primary conven
tions of squatter sovereigns, at the
store on the public square after night.
It is a rialto for the merchants, a news
room for the quidnuncs, a mixture of
the townhall and caucus room tor the
politicians, and a theatre and circus
united for the huge entertainment of
the boys. The establishment is closed
for business, but the dopr is open for
all comers, and in winter time a cheery
fire is kept blazing for the benefit of
all. The counterhopper," as the
clerk is familiarly called, is on duty as
sentry, the counters, bales, boxes and
barrels are used as seats by the potent
while every one is solacing
himself wiih a quid of tobacoo laid
away in his cheek, or rank oigar poet
ically styled a oabbage leaf. The
principle speakers are expected to sur
round the stove, each with his back
toward it, his hands occupied in keep
ing the tails of his coat as far asun
der as possible. The members of the
society address each other by the dim
of their Christian names, as
Pete, Jim, Bill, or Steve, and the great
of liberty, equality and fra
ternity are realized on the common
level of smoke, story-telling, tobacco
spit and boisterous declamation.
Such are the debating clubs where
in most of our Western orators, legal
and political, have first spread their
unfledged wings and tried to soar to
wards distinction doubtless it was
injust such a school that Mr. Douglas
took his first lesson in oratory. He
before long, by virtue of bis indomnita
ble energy, acquired enough of legal
lore to pass an examination and
"stick up his shingle," as they call
Suiting
up a lawyer's sign. And now
egan a series of official employments,
by which he has mounted within twen
ty-five years, from the obscurity of a
village pedagogue on the borders of
civilization, to his present illustrious
and commanding position,
drat he was elected the State's at-
WHOLE NUMBER 173-
torney for thejudicial district in which
he lived, and next to a seat in the leg
islature. He then run for Congress,
but was defeated by five votes, and
was afterward appointed Register of
the land office in Springfield. Re
signing this, he was chosen to be Sec
retary of State, and while he filled the
office, was selected Judge of the Su
preme court of the State. His next
step was in to Congress, and in 1846doubted,
or 47 he was elected to the Senate, in
which he will soon enter upon his
third term of six years. Thus, in the
twelve or thirteen years that elapse^
from the time of his entering the
State a frendless, penniless youth, he
had served his fellow-citizens in almost
every official capacity, and entered the
highest positions within their power to
confer.
No man, since the days of Andrew
Jackson, has gained a stronger hold
upon the confidence and attachment
of his adherents than Judge Douglas.
Whether upon the stump, in the cau
cus, or the Senate, his power and suc
cess in debate are prodigious. His
instincts stand him in the stead of
imagination, and amount to genius.
Notwithstanding the busy and bois
terous political life which he has led,dismal
with all its engrossing cares and occu
pations, Mr. Douglas has, nevertheless,
by his invincible perseverance, man
aged to redeem much time for self
improvement. For one in his situa
tion, he has been a wide and studious
reader of history and its kindred
branches. Contact with affairs has
enlarged his understanding and hasmore
strengthened his judgment Thus,
with his unerring sagacity, his ma-wiser
tured and decicive character, with a
courage which sometimes appears to
be audacity, but which is in reality
tempered by prudence, a will that
never submits to an obstacle, however
vast, and a knowledge of the people,
together with a power to lead them,
incomparable in his generation, he
may be accepted as a practical states
man of the highest order.
It must be confessed that there was
formerly a dash of the rowdy in Mr.and
Douglas, and that even now the blaze
of the old Berserker fire will show it
self at times. But it must be recol
lected that his is a vivid and electric
nature, of redundant animal life and
nervons energy that he was bred,
not in scholastic seclusion, nor amid
the conventional routine of a settled
population, but that his character has
taken shape and color from that of the
bold men of the border, where pluck
was the highest virtue, and back
bone," to use a phrase of the country,
compensated for many a deficiency in
elegance. His organization is exbeu
rant, but not coarse. Like the prai
ries of his adopted State, which in
their wilderness yield a luxuriant boun
ty of long grass and countless flowers,
but return to culture unmeasured har
vests of wheat and corn so his youth
may have known the flush and pride
of rude health, yet his manhood turns
up, under the plowshare of experience,
a loom fit to mature the glorious plants
of wisdom, power, virtue and patriot
ism.
In society, few men are more agree
able, provided you are willing to make
allowance (which most people in this
country are bound to do) for the de-rage
fects of early breeding, which can
never be entirely hidden. He is sin
gularly magnetic in conversation, full
of humor, spirit and information, and
charms while he instructs.
From the London Star.
AMERICAN POLICY I N CHIN A E
BEST
We see in the success of the IT. S
mission to China, a complete condemn
ation of our own conduct, and, unable
to conceal or deny the fact, the defend
era of the Bruce system of negotiation
endeavor to account for it by offensive
ly imputing to the American gov
ernment and the American minister a
humiliating submission to the insulting
demands of the Chinese. Of course
they do'nt believe this thing but it is
hoped in this way to weaken the worm
wood of our defeat at the Peiho,
reckless of the insult such a statement
involves to the United States govern
ment and people. That government,
we should all pretty well know, by
this time, is not in the habit of tamely
submitting to insult or injury from
any other power. It is not so long
since we ourselves had a good proof of
this, and the ignominous dismissal of
Mr. Crampton, by the Washington
Cabinet, might have suggested the
wisdom of saying nothing about sub
mitting to insult or about American
humiliation.
No power in Europe would dare to
offer offence or insult to the Western
Republic, for they well know it fears
them not aqd is ever ready to defend
its interest and vindicate its honor
when either is menaced. What wretch
ed stuff, therefore is this about Mr.
Ward, humiliating his country and
himself, by going to Pekin in the wayof
that accorded with Chinese law and
custom? The Americans, who know
how to make their rights respected by
strong governments, know also bow to
respect the peculiarities, or even pred
judioes of weak ones, They know
that in China they have no right to in-
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sist upon the observance of western
forms, and that if the government at
Pekin chooses to consider itself of ce
lestial origin, and therefore superior
to the rest of the world, it is no busi
ness of theirs to go to war with it on
that account, so long as it performs its
engagements and acts in a spirit of
friendliness. That is has done so to
wards the Americans is in no degree
for the Americans have nev
er bullied bombarded or extorted there
as we unhappily have done. As to
the silly story invented by some witless
Frenchman, of Mr. Ward's baring
been taken on to Pekin in an enclosed
box, it can impose on nobody who has
any knowledge of the customary mode
ot traveling in China. The celestials
have not arrived at that sort of civili
zation which rejoices in Express trains
post chaises or State carnages, as a
means of conveyance they use for
for that purpose what was not long
ago considered among ourselves, a
more dignified and grand style of lo
comotion for persons of rank and Mr.
Ward, without any doubt, found him
self carried to the capital in the honor
ably yellow sedan chair, which the art
less Frenchman aforesaid has with
humor dubbed a box.
It certainly is humiliating to Eng
land to find the United States so suc
cessfully negotiating with China, while
she, herself has so egregiously failed.
But how will it help us to send a mili
tary expedition to Peiho? Why it
would only be plunging us into the
difficulty deeper, and making success
and more improbable. Instead
ot acting so foolishy, would it not be
to consider a little and see
whether we might not, by adopting
the method of the Americans, suc
ceed as well as they It is true there
is a terrible amount of injuries to be
atoned for, before the Chinese will
come to consider the English as blame
less and friendly as they do the Amer
icans Qbut a real change in our tone
and canduct, vouched by acts, would
we dare say, speedily convince the Ce
lestials that the past was to be past,
restore confidence in our inten
tions.
W I REVENGE
The Celtic legendt, like the Celtic
language, though deficient in terms of
art and refinement, are peculiarly rich
in the expression of the passions.—
J°y» grief, fear, love, hatred, and re
venge, glow through many an impas
sioned strain which still lingers by its
original wild locality. On the shores
of Mull a crag is pointed out, over
hanging the sea, concerning which
there is the following tradition, which
we have thought would form no bad
subject for the painter, or even the
poet:—"Some centuries since, the
Chief of the district, Maclean of Loch
buy, had a grand hunting excursion.
To grace the festivity, his lady atten
ded, with her only child, an intant
then in her nurse's arms. The deer
driven by the hounds, and hemmed in
by surrounding rocks, flew to a nar
row pass the only outlet they could
find. Here the Chief had placed one
of his men to guard the deer from pas
sing! but the animals rushed with such
impetuosity, that the poor forester
could not withstand them. In the
of the moment, Maclean threat
ened the man with instant death, but
his punishment was commuted to a
whipping or scourging in the face of
his dan, which these feudal times
considered a degraded punishment, fit
ouly for the lowest of menials and the
worst of crimes. The clansman burn
ed with anger and fierce revenge.
He rushed forward, plucked the ten
der infant, the heir of Lochbuy, from
the arms of the nurse, and bounding
to the rocks iu a moment stood on an
almost inaccessible cliff projecting
over the water. The screams of the.
agonized mother and Chief at the aw-c
fuljeopardv in which their only child
was placed, may easily be conceived..
Maclean implored the man to give,
him back his son, and expressed his
deep contrition for the degradation he
had in a moment of excitement inflict
ed on his clansman. The other re.
plied that the only conditions on which
he would consent to the restitution
were, that Maclean himself should
bare his back to the cord, and be pub
licly scourged as he had been In
despair, the Chief consented* saying he
would submit to anything, if his child
were but restored. To the grief and
astonishment of the clan, Maclean
bore this insult, and when it was com
pleted, begged that Ihe clansman
might return from his perilous situation
with the young Chief. The man re
garded him with a smile of demoniac
revenge, and lifting, high the child
in the air, plunged with him into the
abyss below. The aea closed over
them, and neither, it is said, never
emerged from the tempestuous whirl
pools and basaltic caverns that yawned
around them, and still threaten the
inexperienced navigator on the shores
Mull,"
23F"A dull clergyman said to the
boys in the gallery, 'don't make so
much noise, for you will wake your pa
rents below.'