He stood sublime amid the gathered throng,
With heavenly radiance on his noble brow:
Immortal love beamed from his eyes divine,
And mercy, God's favorite attribute,
Shone bright in every speaking lineament!
Obedient to the holy creed He taught,
There came all ages and each sex to bow
Submissive at his feet, and offer up

Through Him the incense of adoring hearts,
Unto the throne of God's eternal grace!

There was the gray-haired sire, with trembling form,
Chilled by the winter of advancing age,
Made young again with recreated heart!

And men in prime of life, and pride of mind,
Like children led by a loved parent's hand;
And youth, full of the future's glorious hope,
Made brighter by the promise of His word!
And woman, with her meek and trusting faith,
Was there, and infants, cherub-faced, whereon
No thought or deed of sin had set its seal.
On these, benign o'er all, the Saviour smiled,
And thus rebuked the judgment blind of those
Who sought t'exclude them from that hallowed scene:
"Forbid them not; but let them come to me,

Of such my Father's Kingdom is, in Heaven.”

"No officer of the guards at Potsdam, dared to go to Berlin without the king's leave. A masquerade was one night given at Berlin, where the king was expected, and he thought that every officer would have asked leave at the parade to go to it, but no one advanced for that purpose, and his majesty, much surprised that no one should ask, supposed they meant to come incog.; upon which he resolved to watch narrowly every mask of whom he had the slightest suspicion. On entering the masquerade, he looked round, and soon perceived a mask, whom he knew by his height to be one of his guards. The king, therefore, sent several of his attendants to find out the mask, but all to no purpose. He was, however, resolved to know who he was, and went himself masked, and asked him—'Are you not Lieutenant G.?' 'Yes I am; but I am here without the king's leave, and he is a scoundrel that tells where I am!' This is a common expression in the Prussian army, and means-keep the secret, or forfeit your honor. The king was thus bound to silence, but determined to punish the officer

for being at the masquerade without leave; upon which he spoke to an officer of the rifle corps, which the mask observing, left the saloon, mounted his horse, and galloped back to Potsdam, undressed, hid his domino, and went to bed. He had not been long there, when the commanding officer arrived, came to his bed-side, and found him apparently fast asleep. The king, the next morning on the parade, sure of success, after having given the parole, asked in a peremptory tone of voice, if the colonel had executed his order, and what officer he had to report absent last night. The colonel answered 'None, that he had found them all in bed.'

"When the king saw his scheme had miscarried, he walked up and down, and stopped before the officer in question, and whispering in his ear, said, 'I make you a captain, but you are a hundsfott (a scoundrel) if you tell it to anybody. As soon as the king was gone, they all came round the officer, and asked what the king had said to him, but he would not tell, and replied, 'Nothing, nothing.'

"After a twelvemonth was passed, and not a word had transpired, finding the officer kept the secret, the king sent him a commission dated a year back.”

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

PHILO is informed that the first book ever printed was the Vulgate Edition of the Bible." It was printed in the year 1462, in two volumes folio. In the reign of Edward VI. of England, the idea that the art of printing and some of the sciences were the work of magic, was so prevalent, that all books treating of astronomy and geometry were publicly destroyed.

W. R. F.-A member of the Order who is not entitled to the pass, and who obtains it in a surreptitious manner, and uses it after having so obtained it, is clearly guilty of, at least, a constructive misdemeanor, and may be punished under the laws.

THE RIOT AT HOBOKEN.-We have been at some pains to get at the facts connected with this disgraceful affair, and they seem to be simply thus. The Germans of this city, (and their name is legion,) have for some years past held a clannish annual festival at Hoboken, in the month of May. These gatherings were held on the grounds leased by Mr. McCarthy, proprietor of the pavilion at Elysian Fields, but in consequence of the disturbances always attending them, Mr. McCarthy this year refused to let them assemble on his grounds, and a good deal of bad feeling was entertained toward him by the disappointed Germans, who were thus compelled to find another, and less agreeable spot for their recreation. It appears further, that a gang of Irishmen, known as the "Short Boys," or "Rock Boys," (we believe they are the same, or of very close relationship,) whose employment seems to be riot and lawless crime, were more or less instrumental in annoying the Germans at their festival on a former occasion, in consequence of which the latter took with them this year, a large corps of professed pugilists or fighting men, regularly drilled under a leader, uniformed, and disciplined to act in concert at the sound of a bugle, the word of command. These men are called "Turners," and they went to Hoboken for the purpose of fighting the party through if necessary, and apparently with a determination to exhibit their prowess in some sort of demonstration, whether it was necessary or not.

During the progress of the festival, and after the beer had flowed pretty freely, it appears that a boy took a segar from one of the stands of the Germans, for which he refused to pay, and he very properly got a handsome shaking

for the offence, whereupon three men,' (some say "short boys,") took the part of the boy who stole the cigar, and a little fracas ensued between them and the Germans. But the disturbers got worsted and fled, one of them badly hurt, and bleeding, to McCarthy's house for shelter, pursued by a small band of Germans, knife in hand, and with apparently no very pacific intent. The refugees claimed protection of McCarthy, for their lives, and were allowed to secrete themselves under his counter.McCarthy himself met the pursuers at the door and prevented their entrance.

Here the whole difficulty might, and should have ended, but the Germans, not at all friendly to McCarthy, and bent on doing something, retired and soon returned with a large body of their fighting men, attacked the house, broke in the doors, assaulted Mrs. McCarthy and a helpless child, destroyed the furniture and set fire to the premises. Here the riot commenced, and as everybody knows what followed, we shall not repeat it.

We have a word to say, however, on the morale of the thing. It is plain to us, and to everybody else, that much of the prevalent disorders in this country is owing to the clannishness of our foreign population. It seems impossible to train the masses of them to a perception of what constitutes civil liberty, and they too often construe it into a right to do as they please, without regard to either law or moral restraint. It is quite natural that the people of any nation, when from home, should hold fast to old ceremonies and customs, and cherish in their hearts the blessed memories of their native land. To lack this instinct would prove a want of the best attributes of humanity. But when they have fors worn their country, and adopted another, it becomes in them a moral duty to con form, outwardly at least, to the customs of the land of their adoption, instead of clanning together, either socially or politically, as most of them do in this country. It was but last summer, we believe, that an orgie, perfectly bestial in its character, was held at Hoboken by a vast body of foreigners, at which the necessity of establishing the papal Inquisition in this country was boldly declared by some of the speakers-such things carried on with impunity prove three propositions: 1st.-That the Americans are

very civil to permit them; 2d.-An undying desire to engraft on American soil the worst attributes of despotism; and 3d.-That a vast proportion of the foreigners, in this country, have no sympathy in common with us.

We have not found, from any testimony, that the gangs of "short boys," incited the riot at Hoboken. But whether they did or not, they are none too good for it, and were it not for their influence at the polls, and the utter inefficiency of our police head, those gangs would have no "local habitation nor a name" in this community. An Englishman is kept at the head of our police department, under the cry that "partisan interests must not enter that immaculate organization, which everybody knows to be the rankest, vilest, and most corrupt political machine that the Empire city was ever cursed

with. This is said without a shadow of reflec

tion upon the men who compose the rank and file of our police, for although there are many imbeciles on the rolls, there are also a great many who would do credit to the service if allowed to. It cannot be denied, however, that every policeman is appointed from political consideration, and that he is expected to use all his iufluence for the good of the party.

So long as these evils exist, we must expect to have "short boys," "rock boys," riots, and assassinations; but we hope the time is coming when the police will be in fact free from that baneful political control, which now strangles its utility, and when foreigners will not carry so high a hand over the authorities of the land.

BRITISH CIVILIZATION, &C.-Our readers will remember that a short time since we quoted from the Stockport Mercury, an English paper, an account of the sale of a wife by her husband, and the assertion that we then made to the effect that such disgraceful and brutal proceedings were sanctioned by English law. This last statement of ours is denied by a correspondent of the Newark Daily Mercury, who signs himself"An Englishman," and in that denial he makes use of an unnecessary degree of vituperation and spleen. After a discursive essay on the ignorance of American editors generally, respecting European affairs, he says:

"The passage to which I alluded a moment since, appeared in the May number of Whitney's Republic, and truly sorry am I to witness the bitter spirit in which this article is written, so little creditable either to the head or heart of the writer. It is headed British Civilization and Philanthropy,' and says:-Among other relics of refined barbarism, the Government of England keeps upon its statute books, a law which allows a husband to sell his wife at public auction to the highest bidder, and provides that when such a sale takes place, the wife shall be led forth to the place of sale with a halter

around her neck.' Now, sir, this is not a hasty newspaper article, finding its way in, no one knows how. This is a deliberately written article of some length, and yet I need not tell you sir, that there is not one word of truth in it. Not only is there no such law, but there never was, or anything like it, or at all similar in character. But this is not the only error in this ment as one that sends its members of Parliafamous article. It speaks of the British Government to America to preach against American slavery!"

Now we re-assert, on the testimony of several English gentlemen, that there is such a law existing on the statute books of England, and that it has so existed since the time of the great Alfred. We are assured, also, that but for the existence of that law, an act so brutal would be visited with, not only popular indignation, (which it now receives,) but with the exercise of what in this country is called Lynch law, upon the offender. The power in a husband to sell his wife at public auction, is recognised by the statutes of England, and we are quite at liberty to class it with "other relics of refind barbarism," still to be found upon the same statutes. Perhaps our captious censor will deny that the English law provides that certain criminals shall be hung, drawn, and quartered”—and yet during the reign of the present monarch of that country, a criminal has been sentenced to that barbarous fate, and it was only averted by the clemency of the sovereign, Victoria, who commuted the sentence to something more in accordance with the spirit of the present age.

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But it was not for the purpose of finding fault with the statutes of England that our former article was written. It was with the view to expose a glaring inconsistency, and to show that while England condemns our slave laws, she herself entertains and enforces laws enacted by barbarous impulses, and under semibarbarous rule, from which circumstance we had a right to draw inferences of a lack of sincerity in her philanthrophic professions.

This writer also arraigns us for making use of a constructive expression, to the effect, that the British Government "sends its members of Parliament to America, to preach against American slavery." The word "sends" was used by us in a general, or constructive sense, as the Mercury correspondent well knows; yet we are willing that the expression should be construed literally, so far as this, viz: that Geo. Thomp

son, a member of the British Parliament, came to this country, to sow the seeds of discord among our people on the question of slavery, through the connivance, if not by the contrivance, of the British Government.

As to the "bitter spirit" which "An Englishman" complains of in our article, we only say, that when we see our open-handed hos

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pitality outraged, and our country made systematically the Botany Bay of England, we have good reason if we happen to loose patience. America bore a great deal before the Revolution, and she seems disposed to bear a great deal now-but there is a point beyond which endurance ceases to be a virtue.

THE NEW COSTUME.-Whenever objection is raised to any new-fangled notion, any innova

tion on old and time-honored custom, it is met with the knock-down argument, that mankind at the present day know more than their grandfathers, and that "reform," that is the word,

reform is but the natural result of maturer wisdom. This argument is conclusive, with some people. It cannot be denied, at least with becoming self-respect, that we do know more than our grandfathers, because we have converted harmless steam into a war-horse, the sun him

self paints our portraits, and the forked lightning is made to take the place of the postman, and carry our messages. This is, by the way, a species of knowledge that even Ben Franklin did not dream of, postman as he was, and dealer in the electric. Certainly we do know more than our grandfathers, and it may prove lucky for us if it does not turn out that we know too much for our good.

In the olden time, as far back as when Moses, the Hebrew lawgiver, was a babe, and from thence to the present superlatively wise era, it was and has ever been deemed sufficient to designate the sexes by giving to each a distinct costume. That was when men were only men, and women only women; but with our superior growth of intelligence and wisdom, we also find that there are different grades of both men and women, and it becomes necessary to adopt a costume adapted not only to the sexes, but to the grades of sexes; and hence it is proposed, that those women who approach nearest to men in their sentiments and habits-those, in fact, who are least effeminate in their natures, should be invested with a costume that is neither of man nor woman,—a sort of hermaphrodite uniform, hitherto unknown out of Pagan-dom, and more in keeping with the character of the wearers, and the harem of a Grand Turk, than that which belongs peculiarly to modest women.

We like this idea. We have long needed a distinguishing mark between the different classes of the fair sex, especially in the large towns and cities; and it gives us pleasure to learn that the new costume has already been adopted by many of the residents of the middle wards of this city, especially the 5th, 6th, and 8th wards, and hope it will speedily come into general use with that particular class, not only throughout this city, but in every city, town and village, where they are to be found. Modest women may then walk

the streets of an evening without fear of insult, and that will afford another proof of the growing wisdom of our race.

There is only one thing in this matter that we are in doubt about; viz., the chances of misrepresenting, and misconstruing the object of the new costume. Extraordinary efforts are being made in certain quarters to convey the impression that it is intended to be worn by

women of all classes, and we have been informed that the poor but virtuous and honest factory into this notion, and are preparing to put on the girls of Lowell have actually been wheedled harem uniform. We do not really believe the rumor, but if it is true, we must entreat them to respect themselves, and "look twice before they leap" into the snare that has been set for them. The Lowell girls have thus far been an ornament and a pride to their sex, on account of and we trust they will not throw away their their propriety of deportment and intelligence, good name by professing to know more than their mothers and grandmothers in matters of female decorum. All that we can say for this costume is, that it is very pretty, very lascivious, and very undignified.

OUR ROAD TO THE PACIFIC.-Since our namesake has been bluffed off by Congress, in his great railroad scheme, we have determined to put in another good word for our own plan; viz., the construction of a great Continental Road of the ordinary kind, for carriages, caravans, &c., and the peopling of the route as the road is constructed. Such a road can and ought to be built. It can be done at comparatively little cost to government; it would meet all the immediate requirements of the route for some years to come; and it would not require the outlay of that vast portion of the public domain which is called for by Mr. Whitney's railroad scheme. Our plan, as set forth in the first number of the Republic, is as follows:

"That the unemployed portion of the army should be detailed to open the great Continental Road, say from Weston, or Independence, Missouri, by way of either Santa Fe or Utah to San Francisco; that in connection with this, buildings should be erected in small villages on the route, at proper distances, farms of a quarter section laid out, and each man, at the expiration of his term of enlistment, be entitled to a deed of one of these farms, with a house, and a small allowance of stock and utensils. To further his means of subsistence, a furlough of six months might be granted to him, prior to the expiration of his term, to be devoted to breaking up and seeding his land. If this plan should appear repulsive to the dignity of a soldier, who by ancient usage is not expected to work, and if the inducements here offered to him are not sufficient to remove his scruples on that head, we would further recommend that a corps of pioneers, sappers and miners, be organized by enlistment,

expressly for this object, and that they be subject to the same duties, and entitled to the same privileges as have been proposed in this article."

DESPOTISM versus CIVIL LIBERTY.-By a late arrival from Europe, we are in receipt of the following intelligence:

"The Berlin correspondent of the Daily News says, Russia, Austria and Prussia, will act as one man at the Frankfort diet, and that this triad of the great northern powers, headed by Russia, will deliberate really on one subject only viz., the most effective means of extinguishing civil liberty all over the world."

We have long ago perceived that the example set by our national success and happiness, and the influence exercised by the operations of our pure system of government, upon the minds of the despot-ridden people of Europe, would eventually draw down upon us the combined, vindictive hate of those man-enslaving powers. The example of American liberty, has created a restive sensation among the subjects of the Old World, and already resulted in revolutionary movements, that have made the dry timbers of their old thrones rattle, and totter on their rickety legs, to such a degree that it has required all the power of their possessors to enable them to keep their seats, even with the marks of the convulsions upon them. It is quite natural, then, that despotism should struggle hard in its own cause, and what step so important to their ends as the putting out of the light which free America holds up to the eyes of the world? This combination, then, is to be formed, and civil liberty is to be extinguished. American institutions must be sacrificed on the altar of despotism. How? Is it through the medium of armies and navies, that the act of immolation is to be accomplished? No. There is a surer and a safer way-The Ballot Box. Give the right of suffrage to their incoming millions, at six months' sight, and they will, ere long, vote you out of your liberty as quietly as the fall of a snowflake.

increase. The authorities here are discussing the best mode of getting rid of the importation on their arrival."

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Many a time, when we have urged our friends in other towns and cities to be awake on the subject of foreign influence, the answer has been, Oh, we don't feel that influence here as you do in New-York; and we see no occasion for action in this part of the country!" It would seem now that they are likely to get a share; NewYork is full to repletion, and as the contents run over they must fall somewhere.

THE SPECIAL SESSION.-The revolutionary Senators who broke up the regular session of the legislature of the Empire State, for the purpose of defeating the passage of the Canal Bill, have gained what Paddy would call an "Irish hoist" by the operation. Six of the twelve vacancies caused by the resignations, have been filled by their opponents, through the voice of the people, so that where they had twelve partisans before, they have now but six. The special session, called by the governor, is now sitting at Albany, and the Canal bill will be passed. It will never answer for minorities to crowd majorities.

NEW-YORK COUNCIL, No. 10, of the Order of United American Mechanics, held a public meeting on the evening of June 13th, at their chamber in Allen street, at which some very pleasing and patriotic ceremonies took place, consisting of music, an address by Chancellor Whitney, of the 0. U. A., and the presentation of a beautiful gavel, by New-York Council to the Harper Council of United Daughters of America. The gavel was presented, with a neat speech, by Mr. Daniel Vreeland, on behalf of the Council, and very dignifiedly and appropriately received by Mrs. Faucher, on the part of the "Daughters." The hall was crowded, and presented a scene of living beauty, not often found in the saloons of a pampered aristocracy.

SECESSION.-The Secessionists of South Carolina, have up-hill work of it. They can't bring necessary to hang all the tories before they can their own people to the work, and it will be accomplish the business of secession. metto is in a bad way, truly.

The "Pal

SAN FRANCISCO, California, has been again laid in ashes, and property to the amount of about six millions of dollars destroyed, including buildings and shipping. The news reached Newarrival of the Alabama at that city. York by telegraph from New Orleans, on the

IMMIGRATION.-No less than 18,975 immigrants arrived at the port of New-York during the first twelve days of the month of June!