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Sumner first replied to him by telegraph saying: "I am against sending commissioners to treat of surrender by the North. Stand firm." Then he wrote him this memorable letter. WASHINGTON, 3d Feb., '61. My Dear Sir: There are but few who stand rooted, like the oak, against a storm. This is the nature of man. Let us be patient.

It is rather surprising that these incidents have never been adduced in proof of Lord Carnarvon's determination to take the Home Rule wind out of the sails of the Liberals! CORK, Sunday, Feb. 26. I went out to-day with Mr. Cameron to see Blarney Castle and St. Anne's Hill. Nothing can be lovelier than the country around Cork and the valley of the Lea.

I was surprised when he asked me if the lines were correctly spelt, for he speaks English remarkably well. They are simply a kind wish, unaffectedly expressed. HILO. HAWAII, Feb. 26. "Wheresoe'er thou may'st roam, Wheresoe'er thou mak'st thy home, May God thy footsteps guide, Watch o'er thee and provide. This is my earnest prayer for thee, Welcome, stranger, from over the sea."

We shall go to Pasadena Feb. 3rd, our address there will be Sierra Madre. It is about six miles from Pasadena in Pasadena Glen. How I wish you could be here for those last two months.

First snow 3 inches Thanksgiving day Skating December 3rd Weather clear and bright on Candlemas day, Feb. 2nd and therefore ground-hog saw his shadow Heard crows cawing Feb. 18th. Last year Jan. 26th Saw first robin March 14th Last snow April 28th There is scarcely anything in nature that is not interesting and in some way useful. Perhaps you will say "How about a bat?"

Thus, in Feb. 1642-3, or when Comenius may have been about a year at Elbing, Hartlib was again at the Durie business. That Hartlib was interested in all this, and led into new positions and relationships by it, there is very varied proof. For example, he was one of the witnesses in Laud's trial, which began Nov. 13,1643, and straggled on through the rest of that year and the next.

I desire now to come down to the very near present, as some claim that my late afflictions and sore misfortunes have extinguished my capacity for good: MEMPHIS, MO., Feb. 14, 1878. DEAR BENSON I know of my personal knowledge that you did a grand work here. Bro. B., you remember my pointing out to you a Dr. , and telling you what a persecutor of churches he was, and how hard he drank.

Blunt in Dublin, after lavishing much praise upon his disinterested devotion to the cause of Ireland, moodily remarked, "For all that, I don't believe he will do us any good, for he comes of the blood of Mountjoy, I am told!" EDENVALE, Monday, Feb. 20. This morning Colonel Turner called my attention to the report in the papers of a colloquy between the Chief Secretary for Ireland and Mr.

I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to Ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the election of his son to the Presidency. It is but a sketch, and nothing important passed in the conversation; but it reports a moment in the life of a heroic person, who, in extreme old age, appeared still erect, and worthy of his fame. , Feb., 1825.

When I get a little abler you shall hear farther from, Madam, yours, ELLISLAND, near Dumfries 14th Feb. 1791. Sir, You must by this time have set me down as one of the most ungrateful of men. You did me the honour to present me with a book, which does honour to science and the intellectual powers of man, and I have not even so much as acknowledged the receipt of it.