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"Ode to Napolcon," "Where shall the eye rest, weary of gazing on the great, where find a glory that is not criminal, a pomp that is not contemptible? Yes, there is a man, the first, the last, the best of all, the Cincinnatus of the West, whom Fenvy itself does not hate. The name of Washington has been bequeathed to us to make humanity blush that such a man is alone in history."

Is Washington as great as Byron makes him? Yes, as we shall soon see if we compare him with the most illustrious personages. Take, for example, that Cæsar, who has dazzled men to such a degree that each vies with the other in pardoning his crimes and bowing before the greatness of his misdeeds. Washington does not pale before this hero of the Roman empire. Doubtless, the American general had neither the mind nor the resources of the conquerer of Pharsalia; he lived in a poor and frugal community, and his fellowcitizens resembled the contemporaries of Cincinnatus more than those of Cicero; but what a moral difference is there between these two men, and considering only political genius, how great is the one and how small the other!

If, in these two 11vals, we consider what belongs to the man, and not what belongs to the nature or to the age, I mean the will, Washington does not yield to Cæsar. Once entered upon their career, neither ever quitted it, or diew back. Cæsar sought to impose his will on the world, and to expel therefrom the very name of liberty; nothing retained him; he slew a million of men to

and consolidate the liberty of his country, and nothing arrested him either; braved the halter and ignominy to five his menaced county; he rejected with contempt the crown which his army offered him, and which he might have accepted without being dictator, he had no STOREMON ANbition. A other love than the ENDIFOUND very, no and Washington both succeeded, both founded an empire, and bequeathed to the future their example and their idea; their work will judge them. The despotism that Cæsar established gave the omnipotence to one master and condemned a whole! people to live by the will of a single man. Tnis' reign of a day, by founding the empire, cost the wed five centuries of irresistible decline. The imperial administration, one of the best planned systems ever invented, wore out Roman society to such a degree that even Christianity did not revive it; new races were needed to regenerate the exhausted blood.

Washington established a wise and well-ordered republic; he left to the future, not the fatal example of triumphant crime, but the beneficent example of patriotism and virtue. In less than fifty years, thanks to the powerful impetus of liberty, we have witnessed the rise of an empire founded, not on conquest, but on peace and industry; an empire which, before the end of the century, will be the greatest state in the civilized world, and which, if it remains faithful to the idea of its founders, if ambition does not arrest the tide of its fortune, will offer to the world the unheard-of spectacle of a republic of a hundred millions of men, richer, happier and more brilliant than the monarchies of the Old World. This is the work of Washington! Despite all the luster of the genius, Cæsar h is left a sinister name, which is the symbol of despotism. The name of Washington is much more than that of the founder of an empire; Washington opens a new era in history. Greater than Cæsar, he has undone the work of the Roman; he has put an end to the Fatal divorce which Cæsar introduced upon the

a; he has resuscitated the world and liberty! ulaye's Criticism on Napoleon's Cæsar.

A valuable Reminiscences

From the Philadelphia Press.

While the brave veterans of MEADE's and SHER MAN'S armies were sauntering through the Capitol building on Thursday last, one of the privates of the Twenty-ninth Pennsylvania Regiment, named HENRY HAUPT, strayed into the room of one of the officers of the Senate, and while referring to his campaign, spoke of a valuable letter which he had picked up the State-house at Raleigh, N. C., while the army wa quartered there. He permitted a copy to be taken which is as follows:

SIR: A great variety of business at present occupies the attention of Congress, and though the sessions com menced with the year, there is little probability of ad journing previous to the 1st of August.

The President is dangerously ill of a pectoral com plaint. The opinion of the faculty is against a recovery Before the attack he was engaged in extending h appointments to the several departments of Nort Carolina and the ceded territory, but the secrets of hi Cabinet are retained in such absolute darkness that wer I to attempt to give you information it would be mer conjecture. If this stroke should unfortunately pro fatal, the Vice-President will be in office, by virtue of hi present appointment, until the 4th of March, 1793, event melancholy indeed. Should it happen, perhaps would have been better for the United States that Ge WASHINGTON had never been chosen; for relying on hi virtue and abilities, Congress have, in repeated stances, by law vested him with powers not delegated the Constitution, which, I suppose, would have been in trusted to no other man. These powers can never ber called without the consent of his successor in office, or union of sentiment, which, in these factious times, is n to be expected..

The assumption of the State debts, we are told, will brought forward next week in a new dress. This is in tended either to gull some of the more moderate mem bers, or by delaying the progress of public business, com strain some of the Georgians or North Carolinians wh are anxious to return) to obtain leave of absence, or th Eastern members have been tampering with the Pen sylvanians by offering the permanent residence of Cof gress to Philadelphia. This surmise have taken oob sion to speak of to those who are most zealously attach to the interest of that city, holding out as a threat that they did desert us we should most assuredly desert ther so that, eventually, Philadelphia might lose more by bargain than she would gain.

A bill has lately been passed the Senate, and sent to for concurrence, designed to prohibit any further inte course with Rhode Island until she shall ratify. I tyrannical and arbitrary in the highest degree, and t author of it, indeed, the Senate by passing it, seem have lost sight of that political connection which one existed, and of that spirit of moderation and mutual fo bearance which ought forever to subsist between gover ments related as they are to us, as well as between ind viduals. That State, though comparatively small, w not backward in the late Revolution. She performed sential services in the common cause, she sustained portant sacrifices, and is, therefore, entitled to respec How far in her present politics she has been wrong, how far right, are questions which time only can decid I hope the bill will not pass our House. If it shou there will be a proof given to the world of the san foundation of all human friendships or political conne tions.

I have the honor to be, Sir, with sincere attachme your Excellency's most humble servant,

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NEW-YORK, May 17, 1790.

JOHN STEELE

The writer, JOHN STEELE, was a noted public char ter during his lifetime, having been for a number years a member of the Legislature of North Caroli and a part of the time Speaker of that body, a rep sentative to the State Convention to consider Constitution of the United States, commissioner adjust the boundary between North and Sou Carolina, General of Militia, and First Compt ler of the Treasury under Presidents WASHINGT and ADAMS. It is addressed "To His Excelle cy ALEXANDER MARTIN, Esq., etc., etc., et North Carolina," and franked in the corn "free, JOHN STEELE." On the reverse of rude envelope it is marked "registered." reader will observe that Mr. STEELE was a great frie of Gen. WASHINGTON, who, at that time, was lyi dangerously ill, and that he feared, in the event of death, the Vice-President, then JOHN ADAMS, WO become Fresident, which he regarded as "an eve melancholy indeed," and makes an additional and gular comment upon it, because certain powers delegated in the constitution had been conferred law upon WASHINGTON-"Congress relying his virtues and abilities." It will be notice also, that WASHINGTON was enshrined in the affe tions and confidence of the people, and that Congres

It was the sincere belief of many sharpshooters, among the enemy, that Washington bore a charmed life; that Providence constantly shrouded him in an impenetrable halo of protection. There was a report that an Indian once said he would never fire at the General again; he had had three fair shots at him, when he could have killed a turkey every time, and hadn't touched him; he knew it was never meant that he should be killed.

A few years ago the remains of Gen. Wash ington were disinterred, for the purpose of placing them in a new coffin. Even these were found in a remarkable state of preservation: so much so that one who knew him in life, would at once have

His fame his features.

Nothing pertaining to him goes to decay but his tomb and the beautiful home to which he was so much attached. long shall this exception last?

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Agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, the most noble employment of man."-GEORGE WASHINGTON.

What Hero from the battle-strife,

With palms of victory crown'à,
Fame's clarion-music in his ear

From earth's remotest bound,

What Ruler o'er a Nation's lovo
In majesty sublime,

The first, the greatest in the realm,
A king in Freedom's clime,
Returns to rural haunts to watch
His ripening wheat-fields wave?
A blessed gladness in his heart
That glory never gave.

Who, mid his acres broad and groen,
Where plough-shares break the sod,
Prefers in sylvan toils to walk

With Nature and with God?

There was but One,-who thus retired
From conquests, power and pride,

For which ambition hath so oft

In madness striven and died.

There was but one. Dost ask his name?

"Neath fair Virginia's sky

Go, find Mount Vernon's sepulchre,

And heed its answering sigh.

Hartford, Conn., March 20th, 1359.

after the Revolutionary War, did not hesitate to confer upon him extraordinary powers, for the purpose, doubtless, of happily and permanently adjusting all the resulting difficulties. As Mr. STEELE lived twentyfive years after he wrote this letter, he undoubtedly realized that when JOHN ADAMS became President, he did not prove to be so unworthy of the confidence of the people; although, unlike WASHINGTON, and JEFFERSON and MADISON, he was not reelected to that high position. Observe, also, the spirit that prevailed in reference to Rhode Island, when that State held back on the ratification of the Federal constitution, and note the old-fashioned diplomacy resorted to to compel Pennsylvanians to oppose the scheme of assuming the State debts-a measure which has been since discussed, and was sought to be carried into effect some fifty years subsequently, but disastrously failed. Altogether, the letter is one of the most suggestive character. might, too, add that the handwriting is beautiful, and the whole style that of an educated and accomplished gentleman.

We

A memory or the Rev. Dr. Thomas Swift, who died June 12, 1592, in which inscription occur the ines alluded to.ould seem from the statement on the tablet, that it had been erected by a son of Dr. S., who succeeded him in the rectorship, and therefore it was probably of a much earlier period than the tombstone in Newport, R. I., or of Dr. Porson. R-A.

SCALPING (vol. v., 25).—Rawlinson's "Herod otus," b. iv., ch. 64. (iii. p. 58), thus describes Scythian scalping: "In order to strip the skull of its covering, he makes a cut round the head above the ears, and laying hd of the scalp, shakes the skull out; then, with rib of an ox, he scrapes the scalp clean of fled softening it by rubbing between the hands ses it thenceforth as a napkin. The Scyth is proud of these scalps, and hangs them from his bridle-rein; the greater the number of such napkins that a man can show, the more highly is he esteemed among them; many make themselves cloaks, like the capotes of

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WASHINGTON AT TRENTON.-Three of the choir of young girls who, dressed in white, greeted Washington as he entered Trenton, in 1789, on his way to New York, to assume the Presidency, and strewed his pathway with flowers, still survive. One yet lives in Trenton; one is the mother of Senator Chestnut, of South Carolina; and one, Mrs. Sarah Hand, resides in Cape May county.

WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS IN VERSE. -Who was the author of "A Versification of President Washington's excellent Farewell Address to the Citizens of the United States. By a gentleman of Portsmouth, N. HI. Published according to act of Congress. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Printed and sold by Charles Pierce, at the Columbian Bookstore, No. 6, Daniel Street, 1798?"

BOOKS DEDICATED TO WASHINGTON (vol. iv., pp. 56, 90, 122, 153).—" An Experimental Inquiry into the Properties of Opium and its Effects on Living Subjects: with observations on its History, Preparations, and Uses, being the Dispu tation which gained the Harveian Prize for the year 1785. By John Leigh, M. D. Edinburgh: 1786." 8vo, 144 pages, has the following dedication:

This treatise is humbly inscribed
To

GEORGE WASHINGTON, ESQ.;
A man Equally revered

By the friends and foes of his country,
And whose character will,
With unrivalled lustre,

Be transmitted to the

Latest ages o of Posterity,

For Consummate Conduct and Courage,
Public and Private Virtue.

EDINBURGH, May 15, 1786.

PINE'S PORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON.-When the effects of Pine, the artist, were disposed of by lottery, as then permitted by the laws of Pennsylvania, among the list of objects was a portrait of Washington, by Pine. Can any of your readers tell what became of it?

The portrait of Washington, by Pine, was found in Montreal, in 1816 or '17, by the late Henry Brevoort, who purchased it; and it has been in his or his family's possession since that time. The history of the picture during the intervening period from 1790 to 1816, is not known. When brought to New York from Montreal, it was at once recognized as Pine's work, by Trumbull, Peale, Dunlap, and many persons who had seen it in the artist's possession. It was exhibited at the Athenæum in Boston, in 1829. B.

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