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JANE G. SWISSHELM, EDITOR.
VOL 1
THE 8T. CLOUD VISITER
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CHILD.
BY MINNIE MARY LEE.
WHEN Spring shalll bring the birds, and grass,
and flowers,
Methinks that thou must come, my child, to
me
For how will pass the erst so joyous hours
Without a sign, without a word from thee
The tender buda will spring from where thou'rt
lying
Some soft-eyed flowers will open to the sun
On boughs above the birds will cease their fly
ing
Thou wilt not see or hear, my silent one!
Thine ear is closed to all thy parent's sighing
In vain we call thee by thy soft, sweet name,
In vain we listen for thy quick replying,
For little steps that once so joyous came I
Ah blessed child thy busy feet are straying
O'er emerald meadows of the blue Beyond,
Sweet-scented zephyrs 'mong thy locks are
playing,
And angel whispers woo thee, soft and fond.
But oh, sweet child, mid all the building rap
ture
That fills thy soul In the abode of bliss,
Let now and then thy wing give lowly wafture
Adown the home thou once did sweetly bless.
Come with a whisper of thy love, yet cherish
ed,
Or give a sense of thy sweet presence near
Come and give token that it has not perished,
The precious link that bound thee to us here.
From ua to thee there is but little distance
The golden hills will dawn soon on our view
Our souls will gladden in the bright existence
Of those who've passed Eearth's shadowy
valley through.
We'll joy to go, since thou hast gone before
us
Thy stary wings shall light the path along
Thy winsome voice shall teach the heavenly
chorus,
The swelling anthems of scrapie song.
Beloved child, if such thy glorious mansion,
Shall wc not cease our mourning and our
tears,
With earnest souls to strive for that Elysium
That shall be thine, and ours, through end
less years!
The Floating City of Canton.
In alight and lively book, just published
in London, the author of which is Dr.
Yvan, we find the followingpicture of
Canton:
The town of boats occupies a space of
several leagues of the Tchou-kiang it
is divided into quarters like London and
Paris, and like our great cities has its com
mercial streets and its fashionable districts.
The suburbs—that is to say, the part of the
river which is inhabited by the lowest class
—are composed of narrow streets, all very
much alike. They consist of lines ef tanks,
with their coverings of bamboo, moored
sideways, and preseting all the appearance
of the vessels I have described elsewhere
in speaking of Macao. During the day,
you never see a man in these boats the
women and children alone remain in the
wretched dwelling, while the father is en
gaged up the river loading the vessels of
the barbarians, or disembarking the mer
chandise contained in the junks which
furnishes Canton with its enormous sup
plies. The fisherman's street adjoins the
quarter inhabited by these laborious classes
their habitations are more vast than those
of the poor carriers, and there is much
more animation in the place. As soon as
they return from fishing, anchor has scarce
ly been cast when the children, with naked
feet, run along the shore they pass from
one boat to another to stretch out the nets.
The men sitting down upon the ground ex
amine the nets, mend the holes made in
the proceeding expedition, and the women
at the back of the little house prepare the
family dinner on a portable stove made of
plaster.
The fishermen in this amphibious society
represent the horticulturalists and garden
ers who supply large towns. Every morn
ing they plough the inexhaustible plains
of the ocean, and furnish the market with
the principal object of consumption. The
fisherman's street has certainly the most
varied aspect of any in the universe.—
When the weather is fine, each habitation
becomes detached from the one next it, and
this part of the floating city is sometimes
absent for some days together. Then,
when the fishing is over, the rising tide
brings back the travelling abode to its
stating place, and the two rows of houses
resume their place in the floating city.—
For the rest, on this liquid soil the appear
ance of the streets changes every moment.
A movement of the tidor a gust of wind,
a sudden decrease in the pressure of the at
mosphere, and the position of the town is
completely changed. For instance at the
approach of a tempest the large vessels
turn round, and present to the wind the
least assailable portion of their hull. The
little boats gather together and place them
selves under the shelter of the large ones
and these changes are sufficient to render
a quarter unrecognizable to a person who
has passed through it only an instant be
fore.
There are, however, a few rows of houses
which always preserve their habitual phys
iognomy. These belong to merchants,
private persons, and sometimes to public
institutions. These peaceful habitations,
which could never set sail, and on board
of which it would be very difficult to use
oars, seldom change their position. They
are real houses, with only one side to the
weather, and placed on the hull of a ves
sel. The entrance is at the back, if there
can be said to be a back. It is left wide
open so as let the air circulate freely, and
the rooms have wnidows furnished with
nankeen blinds. The pediment of the
outer door is adorned with sculpture, and
with large characters written on red paper
or cut in relief. These inscriptions gener
ally signify happiness, prosperity, longevi
ty. The Ohineese, who are not naturally
very mystical, do not care for much be
yond the hapiness of this world, these
trading districts, with their floating habi
tations painted all kinds of colors, and
adorned in artistic style, have really all the
appearance of Chinese streets on dry land.
The illusion would, indeed, be complete,
were it not for the fact that you proceed
through these streets in a boat, when you
may see the largest of these edtflces agita
ted by the curent and fall of the waves.
Here, however, as in Physic street, there
nre shops of all kinds and trades of every
nature. In the city of Tehou-kiang I
have seen not only carpenters' and tail
ors' shops, but druggists' laboratories,
ready-made clothing warehouses, fortune
tellers' and professional lettar-writers'stalls,
and even a pawnbroker's establishment
GREAT FLOOD NEAR
CINNATI.
CIN-
The Cincinnati papers of Wednesday
give accounts of a tremendious rain storm
in that city and its vicinity, beginning on
Monday morning and raining heavily until
night, then beginning&jgdYesh at midnight
and raining with unprecedented violence
for nine hours, during which time, it is as
serted, five and a half inches of water fell
upon the earth thereabouts. The railroads
were all damaged so much, by slides, wash
ing, loss of bridges, &c, that no trains
went out on Tuesday morning. The Cin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, however, was
in running order by noon, and most of the
others probably would be in a day or two,
so far at least as to pass by exchanging
trains at the worst breaks. (The Ohio
Mississippi road, it appears by St. Louis
accounts, was to be opened throughout on
Saturday.)
The Whitewater canal is thought to be
almost ruined, being so much injured that
it is thought doubtful whether it will be
repaired.
A young man named James Dowling
was drowned in the Little Miami on Tues
day morning, near Loveland station. The
river was higher than the oldest citizens
had ever seen it. A Mr. Heaton and his
son and Mr. Dowling were crossing the
river in a skiff, when the current swept
them against a clump of sycamore trees,
and capsized their boat. All three seized
upon branches of the trees, and the two
Heatons soon clambered into safe positions.
Dowling, however, had so completely lost
his presence of mind, that he continued
clinging to the branch he had first seized,
and no eflorts of his companions could in
duce him to take hold of another limb and
climb out of the water, as he might easily
have done had not terror paralyzed his fac
ulties.
Messrs. Henry Hanner and Wilson Bow
Ian put off in an old boat to the rescue,
but their boat was also capsized at the
same trees, and they both escaped into the
tree tops. This occurred about an hour
and a half after the first accident, and
Dowling, seeing it, relaxed his hold in de
spair, and was swept away and drowned.
The story of the final rescue of the others
is thus toldby the Commercirl:
At last, however, a gray haired old
man, a steamboat captain named Cummins,
and a brave-hearted and strong arnied
steamboat mate, whose name we regret not
to HrVe learned, undertook the perilous feat
of navigation. By a most adroit system of
taking advantage of the currents and ed-
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dies, they succeeded in fastening a rope to
a tree directly above that on which Heaton
and company were lodged, and dropping
down, steadying themselves by the rope,
made their way within reach of the pris
oners, who, being 'all abflard,' the rope
was cut, and after a few minutes' hard row
ing they were safe ashore."
Messrs. Heaton and Hanner (or Iianna)
do business in Cincinnati, and the former
was trying to cross to the railroad station,
in order to go into the city, when the fatal
accident occured.
After the Fight.
The Shakopee Correspondent of the
Minncsotian in reviewing the incidents of
the disgraceful battle between the Sioux
and the Chipeways, has the following re
flections?
This is truly a great country where one
can get up by sunrise,- take his wife and
family in a buggy, ride a mile or so in the
fresh morning air witness such a scene as
an Indian fight from such a view as we
had, be treated to a Chipeway barbacue
and return to breakfast at a seasonable
hour, without costing the first red cent, al
though several red skins had to pay dear
ly for the entertainment.
When the fight first commenced oppo
site Major Murphy's, his wife, daughter
and two lady visiters arose and stepped up
on the river's brink and watched the whole
affair quite unconcernedly, although, at
one time, the rifle balls whizzed and sang
past them, striking in close proximity.—
Before the battle ended, a very large num
ber of the population of men women and
children of tho city, were gathered around
the dead, dying and wounded warriors
which the Sioux had brought over the riv
er, and from their elevated position could
see, with the naked eye, every movement
of the combattants, and with the aid of tel
escopes, counted the number of Chipeways
which collected on the opposite bluffs
where the Sioux had driven them.
Fishing Bounties—Sugar.
The bill for the repeal of the Fishing
Bounties passed the Senate by the votes of
all the Administration Democrats except
Mr. Allen, of Rhode Island. All the op
position Senators voted against it. By the
aid of Northern Democrats the South was
enabled to defeat tbe amendment proposed
by Mr. Trumbull, of Illinois, to repeal the
sugar duties—duties imposed for the ac
knowledged purpose of protecting a few
hundred rich sugar planters and enhancing
the value of their thousands of toiling
slaves. Louisiana and Texas are the only
States benefitted by this "local" tariff.—
Louisiana has but 1,294 sugar houses, giv
ing last year an aggregate production of
279,697 hogsheads of sugar, weighing
307,662,700 pounds. The Texas sugar
planters made only 2,000 hogsheads. We
imported, last year, sugar to the amount of
$41,596,000, on which the duty was 24
per cent, making over $12,000,000 paid by
the people of the U.S. in duties on one of
the common necessaries of life—a useless
tax levied to build up an intense sectional
interest, and nothing else. Against the
repeal of this duty the Northern ,Democ
crats in the Senate voted with tho South,
nearly or quite to a man! Thi3 vote should
be remembered by the people of all classes
who pay the sugar tax. It comes home to
every tea and coffee cup, and adds to the
drops of the white man's sweet in every
State but two in the Union.*—Winona Re
hiiblicctoii
Speak, unto the children of Israel that they go forward."—EXODUS,
The ground from the river to the bluffs,
(about three fourths of a mile.) is a level
grassy plain, with a few large elm trees
near the north bank, on which we stood, is
high, OverlookingJdia whole 5©e*« as per-:TI-S
fectly as one eould sit in the boxes of a
theatre and observe the play upon the
stage. Only think of what a sight we had
of Indians stripped to the breech cloth,
running, skulking, crawling, shooting, tom
ahawking, scalping, mutilating—the squaws
carrying the wounded, shouting and en
couraging their braves, wrho were yelling,
fighting, bleeding, dying, crossing and re
crossing the river. The retreat of the
Chippeway'stothe opposite hills, gathering
under the trees, where all their gestures
and actions were clearly visible through the
telescope—while among us, and at our feet,
were ladies and Chippeway scalps, horses
and carriages and Chippeway's heads, gen
tlemen, and Chippeway hands, childrcn,[and
strips of Chippeway skin, barking dogs,
moaning squaws, dying warriors, (deeding
braves, crying children, yelling combat
ants, neighing horses, cackling hens, whis
tling bullets, cracking rifles, puffing steam
boat, smoking Dutchmen, mixed up with
the different languages including the sil
very tones of beautiful women the whole
concluding with the building of a fire, ap
pearance of the headless trunk of a Chipe
way, a very extensive retrograde movement
on the part of the ladies and children, the
contention of those who advocated or ob
jected to the consumation of the barbarous
act, the roaring of the flames, the broiling
of the carcass, the rising of the incense,
and the general leaving in disgust, or lin
gering for curiosity of the crowd—and all
this adjoining a city of a thousand inhabi
tants.
ST. CLOUD, STEARNS CO., MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1858.
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The Seven Sleepers.
The story of the Seven Sleepers is the
most romantic of the legends of the Church.
It is as follows:
When the Emperor Decius persecuted
the Christians, seven noble youths of Eph
oeus cdncealed themselves in a spacious
cavern, on the side of an adjacent moun
tain, and were doomed to perish by the ty
rant,, who gave orders that the entrance
should be firmly secured by piles of stones.
They immediately fell into a deep slumber,
which was almost miraculously prolonged,
without injnring the powers of life, one
hundred and eighty-seven years. At the
end of that time, the slaves of Adolus, to
whom the inheritance of the mountain had
descended, removed the stones to supply
material for some edifice. The light of the
sun darted into the cavern, and the Seven
Sleepers were permitted to awake. Soon
after rising from their sleep, which they
thought only lasted a few hours, they were
pressed by the calls of hunger, and resolved
that Jamblichus, one of their number,
should secretly return to the city, to pur
chase bread for the use of himself and his
companions. The youth, if we may still
employ that application, could no longer
recognize the once familiar aspect of his
native country and his surprise was in
creased by the appearance of a large cross
triumphantly erected over the gate of
Ephesus. II is singular dress and obsolete
language confounded the baker to whom
he offered an aucient medal of Decius, as
the current coin of the Empire and Jam
blichus, on the suspicion of having discov
ered a secret treasure, was dragged before
the jUdge. Their mutual inquiries pro
duced the amazing discovery that two cen
turies had almost elapsed sinco/Jamblichus
and his friends had escaped from the rage
of a pagan tyrant. The Bishop of Ephe
sus, the clergy, the magistrate, the people,
and, it is said, the Emperor himself, hast
ened to visit the cavern of the Seven Slee
pers, who related their story, bestowed
their benediction, and at the same instant
peaceably expired.
ROMANCE IN RJSALLIFE.— The
'(OTiio vuiunat says that a man living
near'there lost his wire some years ago in
Homer New York, that they liad a little
girl which he gave to a friend, and left the
country. He was gone ten years, and re
turned, but couldJ$$kM trace of his child.
She had two mai^prny which he might
know her—one toe was gone, and she had
a scar on her arm. The man gave her up
as lost to him, and finally settled near Bu
eyrus and married. The rest we give from
that paper:
"About six weeks ago he happened to
pass by the room in his house occupied by
a servant girl w%o had resided with him
for nearly two yeare, at a time when she
was about to retire, and the door being
open he saw her foot. He merely glanced
at it and happened to notice that the little
toe of the right foot was misssing. He
thought nothing of it at the time, but af
ter retiring the idea struck him that it
might be the daughter he had searched for
so long. At first he dismissed the thought
as improbable, but it still forced itself upon
him, until finally he requested his wife to
go to the room and ascertain whether or
not marks of a scald were upon her right
arm.
"She went and to his immense delight,
reported that the mark was there The
poor man was so positive of her identity,
that the girl was awakened, and in the mid
dle of tho night was questioned as to her
origin. She could only tell them that she
did not know her parents that her earliest
recollections were that she had lived some
where in the East' with a family named—
(naming the family she had been left with
by the woman originally intrusted with
her) and and at their death she was taken
charge of by the overseers of the poor a
place provided for her, and she had come
to Bucyrus with a family, and had sup
ported herself by doing house-work since.
This tallied so nearly with the already as
certained facts in the case that the next
day the father started east with her, and
visiting the different points she had named,
ascertained to his great joy. that she was
in truth his daughter. She is an extreme
ly beautiful girl, of great natural intelli
gence, and, though totally uueducated, is
still interesting. She is now at Granville,
Ohio, receiving an education to fit her for
tbe new station she has asssumed in life."
You have seen a ship out on the bay,
swinging with the tide, and seeming as if
it would follow it and yet it cannot, for
down beneath the water it is anchored.—
So many a soul sways toward heaven, but
cannot ascend thither, because it is anchor
ed to some secret sin.—Beecher.
When the celebrated Hayden was asked
how all his sacred music was so cheerfull,
the great composer replied:—I cannot
make it otherwise. I write according to the
thoughts I feel when I think upon God my
heart is so full of joy that notes dance and
leap as it were from my pen and since God
has given me a cheerfull heart, it will be
pardoned in me that I serve him with a
cheerfull spirit
B.UC&X-uniess
IKSf,
CHAP, XIV, VERSE
15.
A Tale of Terror.
The following rather marvellous story,
is told by one of the Vienna journals:
As a farmer of Orsinovi, near that city,
Was a few nights ago returning from mar
ket, he stopped at a roadside public house,
and imprudently showed the inkeeper a
large sum which he had received. In the
night the inkeper, armed with a poignard,
stole into the farmer's chamber, and pre
pared to stab him, but the farmer, who,
from the man's manner at. supper conceiv
ed suspicions of foul play, had thrown
himshlf fully dressed on the bed, without
going to sleep, and being a powerful man,
he wrested the poignard from the other,
and using it against him, laid him dead at
his feet. A few moments after he heard
stones thrown at the window, and a voice,
which he recognized as that of the inkecp
er's son, said: "Thegrave is ready S" This
proved to him that the father and son plan
ned his murder, and to avoid detection
had intended burying the dead body at
once. He thereupon wrapped the dead
body in a sheet, and let it down from the
window, he then ran to the gendarmerie
and stated what had occurred. Three gen
darmes immediately accompanied him to
the house, aud found the young man busi
ly engaged in shoveling earth into the
grave.
"What are you burying?*' said they.
"Only a horse, which has just died
"You are mistaken," answered one of
them, jumping into the grave and raising
the corpse, "Look I" and he held up a
lantern to the face of the deceased.
"Good God I" cried the young man,
thunderstruck, "It is my father."
He was then arrested, and at once con
fessed all.
READING ALOUD.—There is no treat so
great as to hear good reading of any kind."
Not one gentleman in a hundred can rend
so as to plsase the ear, and send the words
with gentle force to the heart and under
standing. An indistinct utterance, whines,
drones, nasal twangs, gutternal notes, hesi
tations, and other vice* of elocution, are id
most universal. Why it is, no one can say,
it be that either the pulpit, or the
nursery, or the Sunday school, gives the
style in these days. Ma ay a lady can sing
Italian songs with considerable execution,
but cannot read English passably. Yet
reading is by far the more valuable accom
plishment of the two. In most drawing
rooms, if a thing is to be read, it is discov
ered that no body can read, one has weak
lungs, another gets hoarse, another chokes,
another has an abominable sing song, evi
dently a tradition of the way in which
Watt's hymns were sung, when he was
too young to understand them another
rumbles like a broad-wheel wagon anoth
er has away of reading which seems to pro
claim that what is read is of no sort of con
sequence, and had better not be attended
to.
RATIONAL TREATMENT FOR ANIMALS.
—Many who insiston the necessiiy^ cf pure
air and cleanliness for man, and admit the
power of kindness to influence him, yet
cruelly abuse a wayward horse or an irrita
ble cow. and confine both in air saturated
with animal effluvia.
The service we receive from these ani
mals ought to secure them such treatment
at least as will enable them still better to
serve us. Kow can rough usage make an
animal patient? How can blows make a
horse decile? They only waste his
strength, and make him fear you. They
can not induce ready, patient service. Do
you expect to control your horse when you
are not master of yourself! A angry man
cannot properly control anything. If you
fail to make an animal understand you
when you are calm, impatience and anger
will diminish your ability to do it. All you
can do while angry is to make him fear
you, and to try to escape from you. This
he will do for he feels that you have di
vested yourself of all which qualifies you to
control him—that you arc the meaner
brute. The most successful trainers of
horses never use either fear or force to in
fluence them. The horse knows a man
from a monster.
And the cow—do nothing to render her
impatient nor draw her milk while she is
irritated. Speak kindly to her caress her
thus soothed,she will feci that you archer
friend, will become placid, and readily yield
her milk. Now, you can draw her milk
with satisfaction, and give it to your chil
dren without fear that it is vitiated by an
ger.
Be assured, that you can manage domes
tic animals as much more completely, by
kindness, as you can human beings.
Respecting hygiene, they need purity of
externals as much as you do. Give them
clean stables and fresh air. Then, if you
would manage them completely, acquire
faith in the might of kindness.
—An excellent imitation of" apple,"
either as sauce, or to make pics, is thus pre
pared:
To-one pint of well boiled and nicely
mashed. pumpkin, add two heaping tea
spoonsful of cream of tartar, about half a
cupful ef sugar, a little essence of lemon
and apiece of butter.
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NO. 14
Buchanan Becomes a God-Send,
A eotemporary thinks that James Bu
chanan is a god-send, as he will bring the
American people to repentance, the first
atep in the road that leads to Heaven.—
The Kniekirbocker remarks that this idea
reminds them of another. In a certain
villiage in Ohio, resided a family consist
ing of an old 'man named Beaver and his
four sons, all of whom were hard "pets,"
and -,vho had often laughed to scorn the
advice of a pious though very eccentric
minister wdio resided in the same town.—
It so happened that one of the boys was
bitten by a rattle snake, and was expected
to die, when the minister was sent for in
great haste. On his arrival he found the
young man very penitent, and anxious to
be prayed with. The minister calling on
the family, kneeled down and prayed in
this wise.
"Oh Lord, we thank the for rattle
snakes we thank thee because a rattle
snake has bit Jim. We pray thee send a
raitle snake to bite John send one to bite
Bill send one to bite Sam and. oh, Lord,
send the biggest kind of a rattle-snake to
bite the oid man for nothing but rattle
snakes will bring the Beaver family to re
pentance!"
?dr. Buchanan is tho political rattle
snake an all wise Providence has placed in
the Executive chair to bite the citizens of
this country into rebellion to Presidential
dictation and official corruption.
The following supplication from the
Knickerbocker is arranged to suit the lo
cality
"Oh, Lord, we thank thee for sending
that rattle-snake—we thank thee that he
has bit Douglas, and Walker, and Wise,
and Bell, and Crittendon, and Stanton.—
Let him bite our near neighbor Trimble,
J. Hand, Harvey Russel, and old Mr. John
son. Let him bite "Sam," and give a
backbone to those who once worshipped in
the midst of dark lanterns—and, oh, Lord,
wc ask thee as a special act of grace that
he may bite the old man of the Spectator,
and his son Ed. for nothing but a bite
can save them from everlasting reproba
tion
The lady who thought it a disgrace to
bring up her children to work, has just
heard from her three sons.
One of them is a driver on a canal an
other has been taken up as a vagrant, and
a third goes on to Westfield to learn the
shoemaking business, under the auspices
of a keeper. It is a hard thing to quarrel
with the great law of nature.
The Evening Post says: "Bishop Potter
held a confirmation recently in this city,
at which a lady presented herself, to whom,
he was quite sure he had administered the
rite before. As she approached, he asked
if she had never been confirmed. 'Oh law,
yes,' Doctor, she replied 'you have confirm
ed me twice, and I want you to confirm me
again it is so good for nig rheumatism."
Wendell Phillips said lately, in a speech
delivered in Xew York, that,
If woman knew enough to be taxed or
to be hung, she knew enough to vote.—
What if woman were not equal to man.
Many men wTere not equal to Henry Clay,
but still they voted all the same."
The Rev. Henry Wood, a chaplain in
the United Slates Navy, writing from St.
Helena, says that in the room whore Napo
leon died there is now a threshing machine
in operation and stall for horses that move
it, in his bed chamber.
ANOTHER EXPLORING PARTY—The
Chicago Democratic Press says that a small
party of gentlemen are now forming in that
city for the purpose of exploring a very in
terresting portion of Minnesota, with tho
probability of extending their trip to Minne
Wakum, Devil's lake, and the head waters
of tho Jaqnes river, in the new teritory of
Dakota. The month of June is deemed
most favorable for this pursose.
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W rite your name by kindness, love, and
mercy, upou the hearts of the people you
come in contact with, year by year, and
you will never bo forgotten.
A good name is at the same time a re
ward and a bond if you gain it you are
pledged by it it is like earnest money re
ceived from the public, and which obliges
us to do our duty.
Why is the letter IT the gayest in the
alphabet! Because it is always in fun.
Yes—but why is it the most unfortunate
in the alphabet? Because it Is always in
trouble and difficulty.
Never load a cannon to kill a mosquito.
There is no grave so desolate that flow
ers will not at last spring ou it.
What is the lightest ship that man ever
embarked in Courtship.
Don't meet troubles half way —they are
not worth the compliment.
A new party, to be composed of all who
oppose the Administration, is talked of at
Washington. No meeting has yet "heen
held.