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4firat Battle of the Revolution. following description of the battle is from Bancroft’s seventh ot the History of the United States ; On the afternoon of the l?th of April the day on which the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts a ij ouroed. General Gage took the light infantry and grena diers off duty, and secretly prepared an expedition to destroy the colony a stores at Concord. But the attempt had for sev eral days been expected; a strict watch had beon kept; and signals Lad been con certei to announce the first movements of troops for the country. Samuel Adams and Hancock, who had not vet left Lex ington for Philadelphia, received a timely message from Warren, and, in consequence the Committee of Safety removed a part of the public stores and secreted the can non. On Tuesday, the 18th, ten or more ser geants in disguise dispers'd themselves through Cambridge and further west to intercept all communication. In the fol lowing night the granadiers and light in fantry, cot than eight hundred in number, the flower of the army of Boston, commanded by the incompetent Lieut. Col. Smith, crossed in the boats of the transport ships from the foot of the Com mon to East Cambridge. Thera they re ceived a day’s provisions, and near mid night, after wading wet marshes, that are now covered by a stately town, they took the road through West Cambridge to Cot cord. “ They will miss their aim,” said one of the party who observed their de; arture. “ What aim?” asked Lord Percy, who overheard the remark. “ Why the cannon at Concord,” was the answer. Percy hastened to Gage, who in-tantly directed that no one should bo suffered to leave the tow n. But Warren had already at ten o’clock, dispatched William Dawes through Koxbury to Lexington, and at the same time desired Paul Revere to set off by the way of Charlestown, Revere stopped only to engage a fiiend to raise the concerted signal*, and five minutes be ; fore the sentinels got orders to prevent it, | two friends rowed him pa-.t the Somerset man of war across Charles river. Allwas6t.il, as suited the hour. The I ship was winding with the young tV od ; j the waning moon just peeiel above the j horizon ; while from a couple of lanterns in the lower of North Church, the beacon streaim-J to the nci_di . ning towns as fast 1 as light could travel. A little beyond Charleston n.‘Y, R-.v-rt- was intercepted l>v two British < tilers on horseback, but being himself well in runted, he turned suddenly and leading one of them into a clay pond, he escaped from the other by a road to Medford. As be passed on bo waked up the captain of the minute men of that town, and continue 1 to arouse al most every house on the way to Lexing ton The troops had not advanced far, when !' • fling of gut sand ringing of bells ante uiic i tl.it their expo lilion had been heralded before them ; and Smith sent back to demand a reinforcement. On the mornii gof the 19th of April, between tie hours <>f twelve and one, the message of Warren reached Adams and Hancock, who divined at once the object of the expedition. Revere, therefore, and Dawes, joined by Samuel Prescott, “a high son of liberty from Concord,” rode forward, calling up the inhabitants as they passed along, 'ill at Lincoln they fell upon a party of Biitish < -Ulcers. Revere and Dawes were se /•* 1 art 1 taken back to Lex ington, whete they wave r -leased ; but Pic-cott leaped over alw stone wall and galloped <>n for C ncord. There, at about two in the morning a peal from the belfry of the meeting house called the inhabitants of the {dace to their town hall. They came forth, old and voting, with their firelo. ks, ready to make good the resolute wor ks of their town de bate’!. Among the most alert was Wil liam Emerson, the minister, with gun in hand, his powder horn and pouch fot hails slung over his shoulder. By his sermons and prayers, he had so hallowed the en thnsiasm of ids flock that they he 1 the de fence of their liberties a purl ol their cov enant with God; his presence with arms proved bis sincerity and s’rcng'hened thir sence of dutv. From daybreak to sunrise, the summons ran from house to bouse through Acton. Express messen gers atid volleys from minute men spread the alarm. Lexington, in 1777, nnv have Lad 700 inhabitants forming one Parish, and hav ing f<r their minister the learned an 1 fer vent James Clerk, tiie bold inditer of pat riotic papers that may yet bo read on their owns records. In December, 1772, they had instructed heir representatives “to demand a radical redress fur their griev ance?, fer ii' t through their neglect should the people ho enslaved. ’ A year later they spurned the use of tea. In 17 < L at various town meetings they voted to in crease their stock of ammunition, “to en courage military discipline, and to put themselves in a posture of defense aga.nst their enemies,” In December they dis tributed to the “ train band and alarm list arms ami ammunition,” and to supply ‘.he training soldiers with bayonets. At two in the morning, under the eyes of thy mini-iter,and of Hancock and Adams, Lexington Common was alive with the minute men ; and not with them only, but with many old men also, who were exempt except in ca-e of immediate danger to the town. The roll wasca l 1, and out of the militia and alarm men, about one hun dred answered to their names. The Cap tain, Jhn Darker, or 1* r? ; every one to load with powder and I -all, hut take care •not to be fir-t to tire. Me-amgers *nt to H ■ rled that there was no < ! 'heir appr**a h. A watch wa*. therefor ■ se*. .and the * unpany dismissed with orders to come ’ gelh**r at heat of drum. Some went to their homes; some to the tavern ne ir the southeast cor ner of the (■•mmon. Adams and Hancock, wh< proscrip tions had alreadv been divu ,'*d. and win -c seizure was believed to be intended, were compelled by persuasion to retire towaid Woburn. Tin* 1 ist ‘a-s wer>- vanishing, from the sight i..cl .• f . n. 't party, led by Pit carin, a Marine, w ~ -vcied - l-ancmg quickly and in - .ei.ee. Alarm guns wore fired, and drums beat. 1. - - 'ban seventy —per Lap? Ic - than t;\ty —jL -ye I the JEREMIAH CROWLEY,] VOL. 2. summons, and in sight of half as many boys and unarmed men, were paraded in two ranks, a few rods north of the meet ing house. The British van, bearing the drum and the alarm gun*, halted to load ; the re maining companies came up ; and at half an hour before sunne, (lie advance party hurried forward at double quick time, al most upon a run, closely followed by the grenadiers. Pitcarin rode in ♦rant, and when within five or six rods of the min ute men, cried out; “Disperse, ye vil lains; ye rebels, disperse I lay down your arms ; why don’t you lay down your arms and disperse?” The main part of the countrymen stood motionless in the ranks, witnesses against aggression—too few to resist, too brave to fly. At this Pitcairn discharged a pistol, and with a loud voice, cried —“ Fire 1” The order was instantly followed, first by a few guns, which did no execution, and then a heavy, close and deadly discharge of musketry. In the disparity of numbers, the Com mon was a field of murder, not of battle ; Barker therefore, ordered bis meu to dis perse. Then, aud not till then, did a few of them on their own irapulse ; return the British fire. These random shots of fugi lives or dying men did no harm, except that Pitcarin’s horse was gazed, and a pri vate of the light infantry was touched slightly in the leg. Jonas Paiker, the strongest and best wrestler iu Lexington, had promised never to run from British troops; and he kept his vow. A wound brought him to his knees. Having discharged bis gun, he was preparing to load it again, when as sound a heart as ever throbbed for freedom was stifled by a bayonet, and he lay on the post which lie took at the morning’s drum beat. So fell I*aac Muzzey, and so died the aged Robert Monroe, the same who in 1758 had been ensign at Louisburg. Jon athan Harrington, Jr., was struck in front of his house on the north of the common, liis wife was at the window when he fell. With the blood gushing from his breast he rose in her sight, tottered, fell again, then crawled on his hands and knees to wards his dwelling; she ran to meet him, but only reached him as he expired on the threshold. Caleb Harrington, who had gone into the meeting-house for powder, was shot as lie came ouf Samuel Had ley and John Brown was pursued and killed after they left the green ; Ashael Porter, of Woburn, who bad been taken prisoner by the inarch, endeavoring to es cape, was shot within a few rods of the common Seven of the men of Lexington were killed ; nine wounded ; a quarter part of those who stood in arms on the green.— These are the village heroes who were more than of noble blood, proving by their spirit that they were of the race divine.— They gave their lives in testimony to the rights of mankind, bequeathing to their country an assurance of success in the mighty struggle which they had begun. Their names are held in grateful remem brance, and the expanding millions of their countrymen renew and multiply their praise from generation to generation. — They fulfilled tneir duty not from accident al impulse of the moment; their action was the slowly ripened fruit of Providence and of time. Heedless of his own danger, Samuel Adams, with the. voice of a prophet, ex claimed when no heard of the resistance at Lexington, “ hat a glorious morn ir.g is this!’ for thus he saw that his country’s independence was rapidly hast ening on, and, like Columbus in the tem ] est, knew that To storm did but bear him the more rapidly towards the undis covered world. The Essential Reason. I There is probably no room to doubt that the essential reason why the democra cy have not carried Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana is that the Breckinridge man i agers preferred that the black republicans i should carry them. Foster and Hendricks, : the democratic candidates for Governor in Pennsylvania and Indiana, and Smith, the democratic candidate tor Judge in Ohio, there being no Governor elected this year in Ohio. —were ardent supporters of Douglas, and their e’ection, the Breckin ridge managers feared, would be claimed as Douglas victories. This, of cour.-c, would not answer their purposes, and to prevent it they have played into the hands of the black republicans. And ibis is their power —the power to prevent the election of Douglas by the people. If the ultimate result of their operations shall be ; die election of Lincoln by the people, they will glorv iu that as preferable to the election of Douglas. Many of them are animated bv the same spirit that, animates Jesie D. Bright, of Indiana, who recently declared ; “We have no iove for Breck inridge, nor never had, but he answers our purpose for defeating Douglas.” — That is it. T-r -ki ridge is a mere in strument 1 r ; D uidas, and, as a consequence, to e!e ting Lincoln. Hit let us hope that there are better tilings in s.-.re for the <• untry than the eh-, non of cither Lincolt or Breckinridge. Detroit Free J're&s. Ma, has aunty got bees in her j mouth *'* “ No, why do von ask tha 4 question V “Cause that 'eetle man with a heap of hair on his face cotched hold of lier and -a; I ho was agoing to take the hone? from he: lips; and she said, 4 well make The | R tar, N, Y.. is about forty night thousand—only a , I) incrca i 1855. MANITOWOC, WIS., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1860. From the New Yotk Leader. A Dry Goods Prince. Probably he most stupendous success iu a mercantile career, of no extraordinary length has been that of A. T. Stewart the present wholesale and retail dry goods dealer. A. T. Stewart is a countryman of O’Connell, Brien and brave Curran, the late Duke of Wellington, Powers the ac tor, Grattan, the Emmets, and Teddy, the Tiler. Forty-one years ago lie landed on the western side of the Atlantic alone and unfriended. He came from the county Tyrone, near the bushes. When be reach ed New York in 1815, Mr. Stewart must have been twenty four years old, and soon after he could have heeu found at 59 Hose street, directly opposite the Quaker church where he taught the young idea how to shoot,” or in plain Irish, kept a school. — ilow long Mr. Stewart was occupied in a task that would have tried the patience of Job, 1 dare not say, hut I have no doubt it was a most excellent preparatory school to teach patience to the future immense favorite, and successful waiter upon the caprices of lady dry goods purchasers. Mr. Stewart is now about the age of sixty-four, having been born in Ireland, in 1795 or ’9O. After the yellow fever in 1822, Mr. Stewart opened a lelail dry goods store in Broadway, in an old w'ood en tenement directly opposite to where his great marble palace now stands. Stew art’s store may have been twenty feet deep. lie kept hosiery, laces, silks, gloves ribbons, and the more costly fabrics. He attended the great auction sales regularly, and never missed a saie of dry goods at P. & J. Hone's; Hwgeny; Austin & Co'.-; and David LeeV. He invariably on these occasions bought wl.at was called “ tumble lots,” or more properly speaking “ sample lots.” At a great “ shelf saie,” samples would be flung upon the long table, before the auctioneer. The buyers would handle, stretch, pull, try on the goods if gloves, and tumble them in line style. It was curiosity to a philosopher to watch the rapid transition over Stewart’s face, lie always stood close to The auc tioneer, and as invariably’ bought thesam pie lots, his fare expressed anxiety, his hands reached out and grasped as manv of the articles as he could compass, e>- peci dly laces, and he drew them near him self to prevent more tangling. When a lot of goods was closed up, and then the samples would be cold separate, and rare ly brought half price’ Then A. T. Stew art was in his glory. Ho bought all, con veyed them to his little store, and as he was very expert in re dressing up gloves, laces, hosiery, etc., he would make his sample lots equal to the original goods be fore they were mussed at the auction sales. 1 hen followed the triumph of the patent humble little tradesman. He could undersell anybody in that trade, of course, and ladies of fashion w ere not long in finding out that fact. In his modest wav ho worked along slowly, but surelv, from 18k2 to 1828. Then ho found his busi ness greatly increased. He was the best judge of laces in New York, and he sold the best at the lowest prices—lower than the great dealers, Fountain & Cos., and Vanderbilt & Fiamden. Stewart bv practicing economy, industry, and abso lute devotion to bis profession, and busi ness, Boon came alongside of bis great and sometimes overbearing rivals. He was humble, attentive, sold very cheap, and the best of goods. He neither tried on dodges or gouges. He was regarded as a worthy young beginner, and very soon the fashionable Misses, Jones, Prime, Jay, Hones, Gracie, Crosby, Stuyvesan', and others of their set became his constant patrons, and lie soon had all tiiat profita ble trade. His business increased so rapidly that ho liad to enlarge his store by deepening it twenty feet, and raised it to three sto ries In the course of live years more, ho was obliged to deepen it thirty feet more, and put on two more stories, making it a live story house. About this tune Stewart adopted ibe plan of employing, us clerks, tbe hand somest young fellows he could pick up in this country, or even in England. His customers were the most dashing and fash ionable young women in the city, and from the South. He hired handsome Boyle (afterwards Boyle ik Humphries,) and Durham. They were great fellows among the women in 1833 and 1832, and drew crowds to Stewart’s already fashion able store. In 1831, Mr, Burroughs was book keep er. Stewart took him iu as partner, and gave him one eighth in 1833. He died last year and his share was just one mil lion of dollars. In the year 1833, when all was gloom and confusion in the commercial world, Stewart reduced his ‘■took to cost and sold for those prices. Gir.guams and such stnll's that had been r<- g 1 r si cents per yard, he .-old a HU mis ; calicoes in the same proportion W hat was the con sequence .' GnJ women who had stock inged their gold and silver marched to Stewart’s to take advantage of the awful sacrifice that unfortunate merchant was making, and, though they did not want the goods yet. like Mrs. doodles, they might “ want e’m one of these days ” when they could not be had at such unheard of low nrices. Stewart was overrun with cash.* He took the same money received for goods sold at cost, went into the mar ket, and bought the same siyie of troods, calicoes, ike., that lie hah soid.for 4U j>er cent. l.vs than he had obtained I In one purchase he bought $50,000 worth of silk-, half cash and half for sixty days, as sixty per cent. iesS than the cost of the “LET THERE BE A UNION OF BROTHERHOOD AMONG US." silks to import. On this transaction he realized £20.000. During all that disas trous panic, Stewart retailed every dav £5,000 worth of goods. While others all around him were breaking he was coining monev. lie was the father of the “Sell ing out at Cost.” lie was the originator of an idea among retail dry goods dealers that has saved thousands of men from ruin and made fortunes for tens of thousands of humbugs, by “ selling out at cost.” In 1 S4b he removed to his present mar ble palace. lie had bought Washington Hall of young John Coster, for £50,000, and for a few thousand dollars more two additional buildings and lots, on Broad- | way, corner of Chambers street. Upon i this magnificent site he erected the pres- i ent store. The whole cost of the ground and pal ace erected did not cxceed*3oo 000. To dav it would sell at auction for from ■ *BOO,OOO to §1,000,000. lie paid Batroon Van Rensselaer $540,-! 000 for the Metropolitan Hotel and out buildings. It is now" worth and pays an ! interest of ten per cent, on §1.000,000 and w ould bring him at auction £BOO,OOO. He owns nearly all of Bleecker Street, be tween Broadway and his present residence, in fact owns more real estate than any oth er man in New York, except it mav be I \\ m. B. Astor. But Mr. Astor’s income is not so large as Stewart’s. Mr. Stewart lives plainly, and is very simple in his habits. Ho never splurges, and cares nothing for fashionable society, ui (or any but the set habit has llung him among. He now and then gives a great I dinner party. His guests are found among tiie substantial commercial men of his acquaintance. At Stewart’s dinner the service is ot solid gold. ]le can and does entertain splendidly. It is useless to speculate in regard to the disposal ot this vast property when its owner passes from among us. Mr. Stewart is only sixty-four. Cirard Ihed to bo ninety-two, and Astor was j ninety. Mr. Stewait is more likely to live to be one hundred, than either Cirard or Astor at sixty four were likely to live to ninety. Jn IfcoG Stewart was worth one million live hundred thousand dollars. Ho ha? averaged from that time to the present a business ct tour millions a year for twenty tour years past. Ills profits have been litieen per cent —that is six hundred thou sand a year, or fourteen million? of dollars; add compound interest to that and to his original capital in 183 G, and it reaches fourteen millions. Tae rise of real e-t.H(e owned by Stewart, over the price paid is in 1800 over five millions, and 1 do not behove he is worth less to day than eight een or twenty millions of dollars, and a large portion is in real estate that i? rap idly raising in value. I stated, a few lines back, that in ten years Stewart would he worth one hundred million dollars. I will now prove it. His bush ess to-day is eight hundred thousand dollars a ye ir profit to himself. In ten years, at a compound interest, ten millions. Add to that seven percent, or twenty millions, and compound interest for ten years, and with the rise of real estate, and Mr. Stewart's wealth will reach pretty near eighty or one hundred millions of dollars. If he lives to be ninety years old, he will be worth two hundred and fifty millions, and the richest man in the world—far ex ceeding the Marquis of Westminister in England, whose income is a million and a halt sterling or about seven millions of our money in dollars. As three to three and a half per cent, is quite a good income from property in England, the Marquis may be set down as fairly worth two hundred millions of dol lars, which at three and a half per cent, gives him seven millions of dollars an nually, oi a million and a half of pounds sterling. Dr. Cahill’s Advice to the Irish. In a recent letter fiom this country to Irishmen at home, Dr. Cahill offers the following advice, with the following anec dote which accompanies it; I h ive often implored the Irish emi grant never to come to this country till he had a friend to receive bihi. Melancholy instances often present themselves to me where misfortune, poverty, aud perhaps death, are the result of this oversight.—■ A painful case occurred in this way when [ was in Dunkirk, N. Y. Two young girls from the county Clare landed there, and had no friend. They took the ship fever, and being without friends or money, they had to depend on the relief of the poor law for their care, support and recovery.— Warm hearted Irishmen, on learning their sick and forlorn condition, hastened to their assistance; their tender duty to them. I did all I could when the news reached me. Hut the younger girl, seven teen years of age, sunk and died, poor girl, fat from home. The priest was at her bedside. An excellent Irishman went to the shanty where the girl lay sick, help lt sand insensible, and in bis arms ear ned her home to bis wife and children. — It was a heroic act —may God reward him. He remained up at niarbt with her, gave her her medicine, and behaved like a father to the poor Irish r.lild, Father Alpinus Magno, and Father John Hudenel li, watched over them with zeal snd fond ness. The second girl "ill recover. When may a man expect a do mestic breeze ? When his wife begins to put on “ airs.” The appropriate motto in New York among republicans i. “Vote for Lincoln and Nigger Suffrage.” PRESENTATION OF THE SWORD OF HONOR, TO 31 ar s Ii vi I McMahon. In last week’s Pilot we gave a brief statement of the presentation of a magni ficent Sword to Makshal M’Mahox, of the French Army, who is a descendant of Ireland, and who was proclaimed Di ke of Magenta on the famous battle-field of that name by Louis Napoleon himself. This sword was manufactured in Ireland, and an idea of its magnificance may be formed when we state that its cost is more than ten thousand dollars —the whole of which was paid by the people of Ireland. It was lately presented to M’Mahon by a deputation of Irish gentlemen, an account of which we find in a letter from Paris to the Dublin Irishman, and is as follows; The deputation from Ireland arrived in Paris on Friday evening. A telegraphic despatch immediately informed His Ex cellency the Duke do Magenta of their presence in the capital, and of their in tention to visit the Camp of Chalons on Sunday. Some customs’ formalities had to be first encountered which prevented the possibility of their proceeding to Chalons next morning, but these formali ties, which otherwise would have detained the deputation for several days, were greatly abridged when it was intimilated for whom and from where the sword came. The deputation which actually went consisted of Mr. T. D. Sullivan, one of the honorary secretaries, and Dr. Sigerson. Mr. P. J. Smyth was unable to proceed. On Saturday, pursuant to the powers I conferred upon them. the deputation hav- j ing bei ii increased by the presence of J. P. Leonard, Ids.y , member of the commit tee, proceede 1 to ttie residence of John Mitchel, Ksq , who had arrived in Paris from the United States but a short time before, and invited him to honor the depu taiion with his prescenco. To this Mr. Mitchel kindly assented. They also pre sented themselves at the residence of a patriotic and revered ecclesiastic of the Catholic Church, in Ireland, and from him received an equally favorable answer. On Sunday morning the deputation en tered the train for Chalon, but the rumor jt liiea mi aiou bavir g spread abroad,they were beseiged not only at Paris but at al most every station en route, by an eager crowd of pnesfs, officers, soldiers, and la- I dies, gentlemen, laborers, &c, who re j quested the favor of seeing the sword for j the hero of Magenta. And when this fav or was l them, their admiration cf the beautiful weapon knew no bounds, while their sympathy of Ireland and de testation of England, “ Celle nation dc Jarlfscl dc tyrants” as a Zuuave (one ot her “cordial lilies’’) very correctly oh serv ed. At Chalons, among the nniltiMide w ho visited the hotel where the deputation remained for two hours before proceeding to the camp, they were waited upon by a priest of the tow n, whose father had ac companied lluche’s expeciticn to Bantry Bay. He was cordially received by the deputation, and whilst expressing deep sympathy for Ireland, gave utterance to Ids firm conviction that a cruel and tyran nical power, such as England, must quick ly f el the effects of Divine Justice, re minding them, at the : imo time, how much of her prestige she had lost, and how far she had fallen from her former position in Europe. At about o oVUm k p. m. the deputation arrived in the noble Camp of Chalons,and immediately on their arrival having being notified to an aid de camp, they were con ducted to the head quarters of the marshal who received them at once, and in the kindest manner. Tiie following address (which was en grossed in Irish and French,) was then read in the latter language by a member of the depu'aiiqn, to his excellency, who stood prominent among his aides de camp; To Jlis Exceli nnj the Marshal M'Mahon, ])nkc of Magenta. Your Excellency—From the Island home of your ancient race —on behalf of Ia nation which, |in every crisis of fate, through every change of good and evil fortune, has ever cherished (although so often in tears and in blood) a heroic love of worth and valour—we come to present you with this, Ireland’s affectionate til bate to the genius and bravery of the gallant soldier who has once more ideriri lied the hereditary chivalry of Erin with I the imperial glory of Caul. Thai land, sir, wliose royal blood yon inherit, has known much misery, lint, like a blooming laurel chaplet, entwined i with the funeral wreath of her mightv sorrows, is (is to the widowed heart of' Erin) the God like fame which the exiled children of the Gael have won, upon the | battle fields and in the councils of Europe. Over many a bloody field, from Cremona to Fontenoy, that fame has lightened with 1 the refulgence of victory. And now, with the tearful pride of a mother, Ireland le clare-i to day, that you, the heroic descen dant of her greatest monarch, have added new lustre to the martial glory of our race, amid the smoking battlements of the Ma lakhoff, and on the victorious field of ' Magenta. Illustrious chief of the Celtic chivalry of France, Ireland loves, with the tendeiest love, the -e children of her race, in other lands, who still remember, with a child’s afieclion, the home of their fathers. You, sir, have given us abundant proof that | affection for the lat.J of that royal race [Editor and Publisher. whose blood courses in your veins,is warm as the love of infancy in your soldierly heart. It is therefore that Ireland who recognizes in you the valiant chief of Irish blood, whose military genius has upheld unstained the conquering flag of kindred Gaul —the Christian soldier who has pre served for the Cross, the hereditary fideli ty of bis royal race —the worthy descend ant of the warrior-kirg who crushed the pagan foes of Ireland upon the bloody field of Clontarf —that she, Ireland, presents to you this sword, whose sculptered scabbard and shining blades are types of her ancient glory and civilization. In gold, and steel, and glittering gem. Ireland hero oilers to you, gallant scion of a warrior-race, the emblems of those su llies which should illumine the escutcheon of a Christian soldier. In you, she is confident those virtues will ever shine as bright as the gems upon this hilt, as pure as the gold upon this scabbard. And, therefore, with this fitting tribute for a true and valiant soldier, she sends you, through us, the utterances of her love and admiration. (Signed) O’l lonoghuk, M. P., President. I'. J. Smyth, } ir c , rp T ANARUS, c , > lion Secretars I D oUI.LIV AX; j During she reading of the address, the Duke seemed much aff cled, even a tear might have been detected in his eye, when Uni ancient land of Ids royal fathers and her present sufferings were mentioned. In answeiing (which he did in the following words,) his voice trembled with emotion more than once: — Gentlemen —1 am mo<t deeply touched by the sentiments which you have just expresse 1, and I pray that you will tell the Irish, whom you represent, how grate ful I feel for the testimony of esteem and sympathy which you effh-r me in their name, 'i’uis testimony, by its spontaneous character, proves to me that (. recti E:in has preserved tho>e chivalrous ids is, that vivacity, and that warmth of hearth which have ever distinguished her. 1 will leave, one day, to my eldest son, Patiick, this magnificent sword: it will be for him as ft is for myself, anew pledge of those ties which should unite him for ever to the noble country of his ancestors. After the address, His Excellency, who is the beau ideal of a frank, manly soldier, conversed familiarly with the members of the deputation, who spoke French, for, as one of his officers said, he lias not had time to learn English. His age may be staled at about fifty years, but he looks much younger, and is as hale and active as though ho wore twenty-five. His many campaigns have not bowed bis head, quenched the vivacity of his mind, nor chilled the kindly ardour of his heart U s portraits give Lnu a faint idea of his face, which is Irish to the last degree, and all the time the deputation was present beaming with pleasure. His eyes are ofa soft blue, bis hair is a little gray. Ills officers love him; he is a man, they said, ossy of access, f. auk, full of sympathy and kindness, almost timid as a yog:; ’■ girl in drawing room, but a man of iron —a lion in tlie field of battle. liis Excellency invited the deputation to dine with him, and on their acceptance immediately sent off to his country house to inform the Duchess of their arrival, and to reque-t her presence. Sbo was very anxious, he said, to ho present when the deputation would arrive, as besides other considerations she was of Irish descent herselt, but ho feared that the illness ot their youngest child would detain her—as she nursed the child:en herself, a Vlrlan daise, afier the manner of the Irishwomen. After a little the open carriage, “ be cause, he said, “ 1 know how much you like open cars in Ireland,” which he had ordered drew up before his residence, and he thou placed the deputation under the care of his brother-in law, the Vicomte de (Jaslres, in order that they might inspect the camp. Close besides his Excellency’s quartet >, the Marshal’s own tents had been pitched tor the Irish deputation, and he and hi-> aides de camp expressed great dis appcin’Hient when they were informed that tiie deputation cuuid not remain to witness un simulacre de yum-e (a sham battle), at which he had intended they should be present on the morrow. Ihe Camp ot Chalons is situated in the midst ot an elevated plain, exceedingly healthy on that account, and because of the nature ot the soil which rapidly dries after rain, yet is never dusty. At present it contains about 25,000 men, cavalry and infantry, the horses of the former being all Afao. which were found so serviceable in tue Ciimea. The camp was excellently drained and furnished with all sanitorv ippliances. The tents of the soldiers in many quarters were surrounded with those little gardens of dowers, adorned by models of buildings, of the camp itself, and busts of the emperor and empress, which they delight to establish, 'f lit, busts and models they ingeniously constructed out of the soft, chaiky stone of the locality. The emperor, also, has provided for their amusement by sending down a fine troupe of actors. Throughout the camp and Us environs there was not a single tipsy sol dier to he seen. Every Sunday morning at eight o’clock the whole army hears mass; the altar is erected at a distance in front of the Marshal’s quarters. On the whole, there could be no greater contrast presented to the filthy, unhealthy,drunken and immoral camps of English soldierly. When returning to head quarters at about 7 o’clock in the evening, the depu tation perceived his excellency, attended by about thirty generals and superior offi cers, hts guests for the evening, mounted upon fine Arab steeds, gallop up to his residence, in a few minutes the deputa tion was joined by bis excellency, who {resented to them General O’Farrell, Gen. Sutton de Clnnard, and Commandant Dil lon, all of Irish descent, and warmly re membering their fathers’ land; in a short time, after a very interestin'; conversation, proceeded to partake of the sumptuous dinner which was prepared lor them, the Duchess of Magenta having sent her ex cuses on account of her child’s condition. At the left hand of his excellency was seated our beloved patriot exile, John Mitchei, at his right a revered Irish priest. The other members of the deputation ob tained seats beside the most distinguished of his guests. At nine o’clock his excellency arose and preceded with his guests to inspect the sword, the inscription on which was, in Irish and in French — To the Grave Soldier, Maurice Patrick de McMahon, Marshal of France, I Hike of Magenta, Descendant of her Ancient Kings. Avery interesting conversation then ensued, his excellency seeming to be very well acquainted with Irish history, and a great admirer of her ancient institutions and bardic poetry. Cofteo and cigars having been passed round, at about teu o’clock the deputation announced that the hour for them to re tire in order to meet the train had arrived. The guard turned out in their honor, and his excellency and several of his generals bade them a reluctant adieu, shaking each of them by the hand in the warmest man ner. Your readers will, no doubt, be gratified to learn that Mr. Mitchei appears in the best of health, firm and erect, “like an up lifted lance/’ NO. 1(>. Lincoln’s Land Warrant. Lincoln was a soldier in li e Black Hawk War—at lea.>l he says ho was, and nobody lias seemed to question it. His soldiering,however, didn’t amount to much, accord’n*; to his own account of it. In a speech delivered in Congress on the l!7th day of July, 184S, he said : “By the way, Mr. Speaker, did you know that lam a military hero .' Vos, sir, in the days of the Black Hawk "\V ar, I fought, bled and came away. Speak ing of Gen. Cass’ career, reminds mo of my own. 1 was not at Stillman’s defeat, but I was about as near it as Cass was to Hill’s surrender ; and like him, 1 saw the place very soon afterwards. It is quite certain I did not break my sword, for I bad none to break ; but 1 bent a musket pretty badly on one occasion. If Cass broke his sword, the idea is that he broke it in desperation ; 1 bent the musket by accident, if Gen. Cass went in advance of me picking whortleberries, guess I sur passed him in charge of wild onions. If he saw any live fighting Indians, it was more than I Hid, but I bad a good many bloody struggles with the rnutquiloes ; and although I never tainted from the loss of blood, I can truly say I was often very hungry.” lie was not in any battle he says,’ but he saw the place” where one was fought! ‘Btn'a musket by accident,’ and made vigorous “charges upon the wild onions!” He didn’t “ see any live fight ing Indians,” but he had “ a good many bloody struggles with musquiloes!” Those are tlies services rendered Ins coun try in a military way, by the black re publican candidate for President, as serv ed up by Lincoln himself. Well for these servics, lie recently applied to the land de partment at Washington, and received his warrant fur ICO acres of the public lands I Fur such services these ho claims and receives from the government a bounty in l,i~r) ! T !,lf while in Congress he voted against the bill granting a slm ilarco. to tlieso'diers who served their coun tryin the Mexican war! Themen who fought at Buena Vista, Orro Gordo, Chcpulte pec, and the City of Mexico, and conquer ed the foes of their country, were not en titled in Mr. Lincoln’s opinion, to a boun ty in land lor their services. But he, who did nothing but “charge upon wild onions, and fight the mosquitoes,” is enti tled to one hundred and sixty acres of the very land that those who fought the Mex icans, purchased by their Mood and bra very. Such is Lincoln! Such is the Ito - publican candidate for President, tried by bis own words, and by bis own record ? The following extract from a late number of the Now York Herald, ilia Urates him still further : “Old Abe contributed fif y dollars ta the fund for purchasing Sharp’s rifles f* r Ji n Lane and John Brown in Kansas.— I his sum would buy two rifles. Possibly one of these rifles is the one with which Lane shot poor Jenkins when he camo to get a bucket of water fr< m bis own well . and the oilier one with which old Brown murdered the Doyles—father and son.”— Quincy Tferald. Population- ok Wkstkkv Citif.s.— The following table shows the population, and the increase since iB6O, of manv of the Western cities -I Louis, it will lpsf<Tn, is ahead, and its increase has been gisaier than that of Cincinnati. It has 1,452 slaves : Cities 1850. 1800. SI, Louis, 77,800 102,170 Cincinnati, 115 436 IGO.OOO Chicago, 28,620 109,420 Louisville, 43,199 75.196 Milwaukee, 20,060 45,009 Detroit, 21,019 46,834 Cleveland, 17,034 45,540 Columbus, 17,882 18,638 Xs7*Tiio Buffalo Commercial says:— From what we can learn the potato rot has never been so bad in this vicinity as this fall. There are farmers who have lost almost their w hole crop. The rot is mostly prevalent on low, wet ground, and con fined to the bent kind, ifcar w e heard a man call another man an extortioner, the other day, for suing him, a day or (wo before. 44 Why, friend,” replied the man who brought the suit, “ 1 did it to oblige you,” 44 To oblige me, indeed—how so!” “ Why, to oblige you to pay me.” Many beautiful women, when walking in the street* seem very angry if they are gazed at, and sadly di.-apjoiutcJ if they are not.