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VOL. 1. NEW SERIES. WEST BATON ROUGE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1856. NO. 5.
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TE SUGAR PLANTER,
jIVERY SAIUaDAY XORNING*
YAN llI4 Ga ARDNEtR, Proprietors.
Slgeo near the Court House,
WEST RATO . 0 tO GE.
4 N.. l of the ULGAR PLANTERt
• --.43. a year, due invariybtv at the
-a | scrlhlg if nut throu ]id. or witthlin l:reo
rteaf6 t E r, thi fe tdoLlar . will Is el.anrred; no
ea wil b takwn fo r a es term than six
r oC a paper diasc,,.t'ni un util at rearagea are
Mvgh·gAg.-Adverti.,ements not exceedit g ten
ign $I far the first, a.l 50 cents for . oery .ubs'
l.asertlon;those of greater In.glrth in ,pro.sortlon.
hI*e 'disoouat to tittoe who adtertise by the
esmlto*lubs.--Wh'er a (!i' of not dhsi- llnn
t~s meM is s ent,. with the c:ash, tIle pal.r will l..
gais ed at a: 50 e.ah sultseriber. ItSul a:. addition
Sepy tt the Ipron Ifrnitl hng the list.
Wl'esa db of not less thai twenty is furnishet,
t: the tash, the pai.'r will b. fos..rlr.d at $s 25
aryltkabri.;ir, aId two addits.:tl oepie lfor the
S Job Printing.
t e Pcratsrl , ILAs (.t. I Its;. l ;Km s. irit ser
adetbtrNotlcr ', e .rc-,c ."d wit h Ineat .e .Lni doIr.
u In all case, caI1 on dulivery.
-SELECT POLET1Y.
Dr. Reed, a traveler through the high
leds of Peru. is said to have found late
lI, ia the desert of Alcoatia, the dried
Imnatus of an assemblage of houman
boing , five or six hun,,lu:l in Iumbner
ebta, women and chlitj!.rll, seatLeil in a
sm ri eircle when alive, 't4lril'g lto the
bdraing wqte before them. They ihad
e B bees butried-life had not dJ'elarte.d
before they thus sat around, but hope
w..egeae; the Spanish invader's were at
-iats O hope being left, they had come
... id.e to die. They still sat immovable
t-iate dreary desert, dried like mum
4,4by the effect of the hot ait; they
ttil reep their position, sitting up as in
hitflm~couucil, while o'er that Arcopa
gisailence broods everlasting.
The A,. mbly of the Dead.
h dll alnd lurid skies above,
And burning wastes around,
A l~- ly tavelor journey'd on,
T"hrough sotltude profound.
i wandering bird's awventurous wing
Pauses o'er that chreerles waste,
io trees acrois thase dreary lauIds
A welcome shadow east.
With rching pestilential breath,
The desert blast swept by,
And, with a dull and brazen glare.
The uran looked from the sky.
Yet otnwrd still, though worn with toil,
Thee ager wand'r rer .sd,
hie earnest hope lit up hLis eye,
And narr'd his fsiiting breast.
Wly pIsmd he in his onward course?
Why held his struggling hreath
Ihy gazus, be with bewil.J'red eye
Is this the role of death t
Before him sat, in stern array,
All bhuhed an if in dread,
Yet, ed4 and mationle.s, and calm,
Aetweoarsr of the dead.
Aete. the burning waste they gazed,
ta fixed and stony eye,
As istr.nae fer l,ad choiin'd erewhile
Their gane on vorancs.
ai-a1 e a nd a lrd l on every brow
la eha.ngeles.s tnes were wrought
al racs of te anguish deep,,
That filledtheir latest thought.
Thy seem'd a race of ot.er times,
O'er whom the desert blast,
lrmmany a long and weary age,
inr iery wroth had passed
" - thed and drial, each wasted form
I iid aspect wore,
'd as years aucwrtsive .assed
The lonaely desert o'er.
-i . eitth0clsh of forreign arms?
I' ' Ut4the invader's t.sad t
_..J Z aLbhlel thl dsimpledmined rase
nwildht terror fled 3
6sg, amidst the desert sands,
,lathed by the desert' breath,
1attar by the inoader'x steel,
" maet the strokae of deth,
i ttersthey ded--f.a fr.. born ace.
Seathelr proud hills away:
Wloe them, in its lonely pride, '
'be far free desert lay.
theb. onburled still they sit,
tA la. te like end cold:
W ei T~'i~ dea th, though o'er their homes
(~iJttdoal''s lids hath rolled.
-barrels, it is said, have been lately
n tthe field of Hubbaraton battle,
e, some of which after being
*timore than seventy-five years'
atiian cartridges that exploded with
. "r a ,violence when the barrel
I:$sted in the fire.
A memorial is about to be presented
be.' ,~egislature of Virginia, which
considerable alterations in the
s f laws. Thus: "Forbidding the
Ri of parents and children--re
the marriage of slaves-and
a g peoas of color to be taught
I.:.b d and write, "so as to assist their
h t iental elevation."
,' ` L1h lidfiflls out this column.
R 13t a Passlon ;
Evils of a Hasty Temper.
, BiY SATE S6TRELANID.
"Please, sir," said Hannah, our cham
bermaid, speaking in a hesitating man
ner, as if she knew the cummunication
about to be made would produce a disa
greeable impression.
t "Well, Hannah, what is it ?" returned
11 Uncle Abel, looking at her over the top
... of the morning paper, which had proved
more attractive to him than the cup of
ten coffee, which he had only tasted and
,," left to cool on the table beside bhi.
th, The expression of the good man's cooun
tenance shlowed that he was prepar~ed
St" for )lsonetlhiig disagreeable.
"Mr. Edtwards' girl is at the door,
sir."
2j "Well, what does Mr. Edwa;rds' girl
want now C'
'1TI Elwards family were inveterate
birrowevs, :n Inv uclei wa: begihuning
i1" to l~ 'e all patiencec with tlell).
i "Shle says, will you please-" ''Ite
chambermlaid hesitated.
"Lend what! It's leut, of course "
b I- The old gentleman's face wacriimson
"d 'l say you're using it," replied IIan
en nah, in as sootbhing a touc as she could
eniture to SbUllme.
a "No, you needn't!" angrily replied my
uncle. "I don't want you to put words
Sinto miry mouth. Tell the girl to tell Mr.
ed Edwaids that if he wants to read the
Smorning paper, he can subscribe for it,
pe as t do."
H annah looked doubtingly at the ex
,le cited old gentleman. She did not wish
to be bearer of such a message.
S "D'v hear ?" said uncle Abel, ia an
ey imperat:ve voice.
in Hannah turned and left the room,
a- "Too Lad ! Outrageous! The fatn
ily is a nuisance I', ejaculated uncle Abel,
in an unusually excited manner. "I'll
stop taking the paper, if I am to be au
noyod in this way." And he fluttered
the crackling sheet as he threw his hauds
I about him.
I coi ld with difficulty repress a smile,
as I looked at the really kind-hearted
old man, in his temporary excitement.
"It is well to be angry !" I said, the
moment I saw that I could speak to his
"No, it is not well, Kate," he answer
ed, in a subdued voice. "It is not well.
And I am old enough to know better."
"That was a very rough message you
sent to a neighbor."
"What did I say !" The old gentle
man looked a little frightened.
"Why, you told Hannah to tell the
girl to tell Mr. Edwards, that if he want
ed to read the morning paper to sub
scribe to it, as you did,
Uncle Abel sighed, and looked down
upon the floor with a fixed, absent ga:ze.
His spirit was troubled.
*"Mr. Edwards appears to be a very
gentlemauly person," said L
"It isn't geutlemanuy to be forever
annoying neighbors and' covetirg their
plroperty, retorted uncle Abel, a little
sharply.
lie was making a feeble effort at self
justification, but it wouldn't answer.
His own conscience was not satisfied.
"Perhaps, " said 1, "Mr. Edwards'
paper failed to reach him."
"I got mine," he answered.
"It's no ise to argue the matter Kate,
and try to place me in the wrong," said
the old gentleman, warming up. "There
is nothing to justify his condlct.
Well, uncle Abel's breakfast was spoil
ed for that morning. He laid down the
paper, tasted the cold coffee, and then
pushed the cup away.
"Your coffee is cold," let me pour out
another cup."
"No, I don't want any more," he an
pwored, getting up and leaving the table.
What a troublesome thing a quick
temper is; and the more so, it ib leads
to hasty speech. Some of the best-heat.
ed people, naturally, are quick tempered.
They snffer, of course, gteatly from their
infirmity, but seem to gain much power
y over it. Of this class is my excellent
uncle, to whose affectionate care I am
indebted far a pleasant home.
I noticed that he did not leave the
housequite as early as usual, and that
as he walked, nneasily, the parlor floor,
he now and then beunt listeningly an ear
towards the street. In truth, he was
1 waiting until he was certain Mr. Edwards
a had left home, so as to run no risk of
e meeting him.
e M- uncle was, in fact, heartily asham
ed of his little outbreak of- temper, and
I he felt that he must appear very badly
t in the eyes of his nei bor. It was not
r an unusual thing for them to meet-du
ring the day, and toa pass a friendly
meeting. How, could my uncle kIook
.Mi. Edwiprs in "ilWeie aftf'`wbat had
happened ? And on the other band
how would Mr.,EJwards treat him
should their paths cross each other
during the (lay I
Poor old gentleman He was sorely
troubled in consequence of his hasty
speech.
The day, as he had feared, proved]
one of serious annoyance. Once he saw
Mr. Edwards, half a block in advance,
and coming towards him. A friendly
corner was at. h1and, and a short turd
enablled him to escape the unwelcome
cont1'ct.
Again, on enterinrg a store, he saw
Mr. Edwards talkiunt with the proprie
tor. Th, ftormer lid not observe hitm,
anrd Te quietly withdrew, feeling some
thin' ;ike guii: in his heart.
'O c,,e he met Mr. Edwards face to
face. The, latter bowed, with his usual
politei.es, as if nothing had hapenued ;
anl thi:. itas to unc!e Abel a must cuit
ting rluke. -le would h:o feit Let
ter i Mr. E lwarls Irel met hium coldly,
or w:th didlain,.
The foutth and- last tine he camee inr
contact with his neighbor, was late in
the aftcrnonn, when he was within a
few lpaci of . :s ot n house. Mr. Ed
wa'rdls overtook hii !, and offering, lhis
hand, temniark'd cheerfully on the star:
of the weather anu the n1 lws of thei day.
As, th,'y were parting at our dor, Mr.
Edwards drew ftorn his pocket a u,: ws
paper, and said, as he handed it to ny
uncle
'"I received a late copy of thle London
Times, to-day. It contaius at. article on
the United States, which I au . ure will
interest you."
"Thank you ! thank you !" stauinn,,
ed uncle Abel, pushing back the ipal''r.
"But' don't let me depuive you of ,he
pleaure of reading it."
"Time enough fur me," replied Mr.
Edwards; "titme enough for rue. I will
enjoy it the more from knvUiig that its
perus:d ihas given p!iepsurt.. Su take it,
take it, and you c,.u send it in any time.
Good evening."
At,d Mr. Edwards passed on, leaving
the Times with uwel, Abel.
Now thi ws watoo pointed, and my
uncle felt it keenly. He carme in look
rmg hurt and depressed, and laid the
paprer quietly down.
I happened to be standing at the par
lor window, and so heard what passed
between the two gentlemen. My uncle's
state of mind was, therefore, no mystery
to me."
"Pretty severely punished," thought
I. It was all in vain that I tried to winll
his thoughts from unpleasant reflections:
he answered me only in monosyllables.
Even his favorite airs on the piano fail
ed to restore a cheerful shade on his
spirits.
"Alas!" thought I " how much of
suffering we draw upon our own hearts
These quick tempers and hasty words,
how like the foxes, do they spoil the
tender grapes."
"Hannah," said I, as we sat at the tea
table, (uncle Abel had spread the butter
on both sides of his bread, played with
his spoon, done in fact, almost anything
but ea, his supper,) "what message did.
you send to Mr. Edwards this morn
ngy "
"Uncle Abel started.
Hannah grew crimson in the face, and
stammered forth something that neither
of us could make out.
"What was it, Hlanabh i" said I.
'"--I--I--I old the girl th-that I
would send Mr. Edwards the paper in a
few mimutes."
"You did!" said uncle Abel, in a tone
of surprise.
"Ye-yea sir."
"And why did you say that !"
"Be-because air, Ithougbht that was
what you would say upon reflection."
"And did you send the paper in !
"Yes sir, when you was through with
it. I hope I haven't done very wrng."
"No, Hannah,'4 said the-dear old man
getting up, and assuming almost a res
pqctfil air towards the girl, "you did
very right, and I thank you for your
kind discretion."
Hannah, relieved in heart, turned
away) and glided from the room.
Uncle Abel was restored to himself;
and I think what he suffered thronugh
that day has helped him to a little self
control.-Arthur's Home Magazine.
SKATING.--This morning a young
man was seen skating on $L. ,Michael
street. He had on a regular' pair of
skates, and was unakiug 2:40 time. If
this is not a prepty good sign of cold
wjathLr, we give it up. Ice strong
enough to hold a person's weight, here
in Mobile, one of the mnot southern cit
ies.in the, Union! As we are writing
this the thougl4 of so much icd aimost
benumbs our hands.--Mobde ...eW4.
SBtusisan iStorms.
u, A trave'Jer in iiu ,i:i sass that the
"r stIrnsw of that cou',"v are divided inl.
three classes. Tue first and tsildesi
Y kind is called the Mdiatsel ; the' second
Y mrre severe,'the Sainjotl; and the third
which is absolutely terrific, the Wiuga,
1 In a conversation between hinmqelf and a
W priest, the latter is thus described :
0, "What then," cried I, "is the Win
S " A prelude to the last day," answer
e e. the priest. "Fortunately, umistakable
indicationus an nounce its coming for some
w days beforehand. Then nobody sets out
auponr a journey, not eveu to the next
o village, though it be but a verst or two
- of i'recauutons are taken for the safety
of the house, by protecting it, on the
a north tide with heavy stones, and by
propping it up, as well as barns and
stables, on the south side. TIhe taunon
-troops pf wild horses--seamper in all
iaste to the nearest forest; droves of
, cttlt and ilocks of sheen seek shelter
wherever it is to be founrd. Whatever
' the stcrl overtakes on the open plaiCn
" man or beast, caravans drawn by oxen,
a or cera a;ns drawn by horses, is lost with
Sout a chanct of rescue.
"Ant icy shoertr of snow is the fore
Srnner oI f the tern hir bhias ; it falls so
.- tick and drives so horizontally through
Sthe air tl:at to withstand it is imrpossible,
while it avails little to suiter one's self to
' be driven before it. For if one escapes
for a while this prelude to the bhuricane,
he is iuithhbly overtaken by the form . i
able bl:s.ts and cielCng whirl-winds
I wich sucuicd it, and which gather up
frium tht earth, like chiatl'ftuo the thretsh
insg hoor, the oljects, exo!,sed. to their
Violence, and burl to and from in the air.
And yet the range of the unfettered
elemnent is not here at its height; for
when thte storin seems to have exhaus
Sted its fury in the manner I have do
h scribed-often raging thus for a period
of several davs-thef tfirst begins the
real tej..'st, a blast which nothing can
rsist. 1. uproots whole forests, tosses
the loftiest fit trees into the air like blaJd s
of straw, and uften couvey them higu
above Lre earhb, whole versts away. It
levels stabies and barns, unrouof houses
and thruowdowu church towers, so that
the district which it has visited looks,
after its destructive passage, and for dis.
I tances of several days journey, like a
land ravaged by tire and seord. On a,
sides are seen herds of dead cattle, and
villages overthrotwn. In exposed situa
t tions, this wind has been known to tear
t up isolated stables, to transport through
the air their fr.tgmieints and the catJe
they contained, and far, far from the spot
to hurl these down shattered upon fields
and rootf. With varying fury the mon
ster rages for some days, leaving behind
f him, on his departure, death, deste uction
and lamentations. Hiaptily ie c,Inrs'
but seldoom; his visits are out for every
;ge:nerat;on; but when he duoes come. all
tcit h;s try breath touches is devot'ed to
,u annib lation.
S"'Tiat is the Russian Winga."
0f -
g In the American tdicacl Gcazette, Dr.
d Reese thus earnestly reiterates his ad
2- vice to apply flour to scalds and burne:
"We still see reported almost daily, an
appalling number of deaths by burns
ad and scalds, not one of which, we take
sr upon onselves to say, 'need prove fatal
or would do so, if a few pounds of wheat
flour could be promptly applied to the
I wounds made by fires and repeated until
a the inflammatory stage had:passed., We
have not known a fatal caseof scalding
16 or burning in which this practice h.as
been pursued, during more than thirty
years experience, and have treated hun.
dreds in both public and private practice.
We have known the most extensive
burns by falling into cauldrons of boil,
ing oil, and even molten copper, and yet
h the patient was rescued by this simple
" and chfjp remedy, which, from its infal
on lible success, should supplant all the
s' fashionable nostrums, whether oil, cot
id ton, leadwater, ice, turpentine, or pain
' extractors, every one of which has been
tried a thousand tinsni with fatal results,
4 and the victims have died in excrucia
tiung agony, when a few haudfulls of
F; flour would have calmed them to sleep,
h and rescued them Wom pain and death.
- Humanity should prompt the profession
to publish and repeblisb the facts on this
subject, which are established by the ah
g thority of standard medical works' on
il both sides of the Atlantic.
If Mr. Bright, theaEnglish orators has
d made a famous speech at Marsden, in
g which, greatly to the annoyance of the
e Timnes, he cinpares England, with her
t- .£Q,Q0,6,000 excess p9fann.al expendi
g ture abovt the United Stats, to aP over
st weighted tfarm-hot.s cos eng tll re
with a trained, and iiht ridden ~f.iy.
Revolutionary Relics.
e Great thounghts never die. Great deeds
0 which are but the manifestation of these
nt thoughts, enjoy a like immortality. We
d have now embalmed in our chronicles
d those great.ideas which, like arrows of
t. fire, entered the brain:of Archimedes and
a created there an intellectual conflagra.
tion that the waters of Lethe, fabled to
I destroy all over which they whelmed,
have left int4ct; still standing, as firm
- and durable as the pvramids, or the mon'
e star creation of Druidical times.
e Our own American Revolution, the
t exponent and full development of an idea
t which had beep foreshadowed in the
u barbaric efforts and wild throes of many
v nations before-in the revolt of the Sclai
e vi-in the uprising of the Roman gladia,
torii-in many a brave but unsuccessful
effort of oppressed people-aside from
its historic embalmment, las another of
I a more literary nature which will endure
f when our present histories have gone ty
r join the lost books of Livy, and those{
r other printed or written pages of which
we haveleft only the titles and general
nature. That iiumortality is" one which
no loarning has been gifted to comprei
hend by its own direct causes. It is not
scientific, nor is it classic; but, in every
sense of the word, popular. It springs
from the people; lves in them, and :s
affected by them. It is the actual, warm
hearty and sincere offspring of the feel,
ing and emotion of the masses. It is
generally lyric, rough, unmetered and
crude; but continent of a life and vitality
which learning cannot touch---whieh
erudition vainly seeks to embody. We
still have the ideas and resolves of the
patriots of olden times in the lines which,
expressed them-the songs which ac,
companied the monster tea-party of
Bojton, when they made their bay a
cauldron for hundreds of chests of pure
Bohea-the wild ballads that inspired
the cow-boys who Tarleton and his gren
adiers-the rough and rude metres that
made the waters of the Mississippi and!
its fringing woods as vocal as the oaks of
Dodona, when our kinsmen came down
from the "dark and bloody ground" to
fight out a great problem on the plains
of tChalmette.
ot Chalmette.
These relics and evidences are as note
worthy as any which we have;. are far
more spirited and correct than Baucrotl,
or De Tocqueville. They were written
for the immediate period of which they
treated ; for a body of judges as strict as
the ancient Areopagii, and as severe as
the Venetian " Council of Ten." The
writers were compelled to embody in
them the actual condition of affairs
and the resolution to which that condi.
tion gave rise. They were not only to
be chronicles and brief epitomes of the
times, but political histories and treatises
concerning national economy. They
were to paint a part as gloomy as Ian
gaug could depict: a present overclouded
wiit disaster and foreboding, and a fu
aure which might realize the dreams of
More and Ponce de Leon, 'or fill up the
full measure of foreboding which Aaron
Burr eudeavored to realize. That the
men who sat themselves to the task were
competent for the labors they assumned,
their execution of those labors is the best
evidence. They knew the heart of the
nation, for they were a constituent por
tion of it, They knew the sufferings, for
the endAred them ; and the high resolve
with which they were to be met and con
quered, for the resolution sprang from
their own hearts. Possessing thus all
they essential requisites and being, more
over, endowed with that high resolve
which makes the coal upon the altar to
any achievement worthy of fame and af
ter remembrance, they breathed out the
whole in a melody which, if it had the
,roughness of an Ukraine colt, had also
his strength and fire. There was none
of that literary dandification and fine
writing which emasculates composition
in the more refined ages, but .a direct,
straightaforward expression of sound feel,
ig, upon a sound subject, which'thrilled
the hearer or the reader like the sound
of a trumpet, and fitted him for deeds of
the highest emprise.
It is said of the Dorians that their
coarage had that excellent edge, that
when going into bktsle, the soft notes of
theaiute and recorder were allaufficienr
to an accompaniment. The world has
seen but one such people, add our own
were not of the order. They could fight
and, if seed be, die for the great cause
they upheld; ,but, they wanted the in
spiration of Jeiters to rouse them and of
musi,0t sustaiin them. Both were pro
videid, la "Yankee: Doodle. Daady".is
now i aiortal over the whole wqrld;
accompanies the heaving up of the aa
chor in Kantia and Botsbay; the.put
ting downu.,t 1aids. and solids :i Low
don or"taiis; the pursuit of the whale
by the iroszn agsre~ of Greenland; the
. ,
glorification of adventurous Yankees ou
the top of the Pyramids. Long may it
coutinune to grace our festivals at, home,.
and abroad; to accompany the "Stat
Spangled Banner," and those other'rev
olutiouary relics which, whenever and
wherever heard, go to the Americans
heart like arrows of sunshine, golde.s
and glorious.
AsNoor Or A FAT MAN.-" Brid
get," said a lady in the city of Golham,
one morning, as she was reconnoitering
in her kitchen, to her servaft, -' what u
quantity of soap grease you got there
We can get plenty of soap for it, and
we must exehange it for some. Watch
for the fat man, and when he come:.
along, tell him I want to speak to hir."
"Yea, ma'am," says Bridget, between
each whisk of her dish-cloth, keeping a
bright look-out of the kitchen window,
and no moving creature escaped her
watchful gaze. At last her industry
seecmed to be rewarded, for dowu the
:street came a large portly gentleman
flourishing a cane, and looking the pict
are of good humor. Sure that he was
the man, when he was in front of the
house, out she flew and informed him
that her misstress wished to speak to
him.
"Speak to me, my good girl ?' asked
the gentlera.n.
" Yes sir; want# to speak to you, and
says would you be good enough to walk
in ?"
This request, so direct, was not to be
refused, so, in a state of some wonder
ment, up the steps went the gentleman,
and up the stairs went Bridget, and
knocking at her misstress' door put her
head in and exclaimed:
" Fat- gentleman's in- the parlor,
ma'am." So saving,she instanly descend
ed to the lower regions.
"In the parlor thought the lady.
What can it mean. Bridget must have
blundered." But down to the parlor
she went, and up rose ourfat friend with
his blandest smile and moat gsaceful
bow,
" Your servant informed me, madam,
that you would like to speak to me--aP
your service madamn~"
The mortified missar saw the state'
of the case immediately,- and a saile
wreathed itself about her month in-spite
of herself, as she said :
" Will you pardon the blader of a
raw Irish girl, my dear sirl I told her.
to call in the fat man to take away time
soap grease, when she made a mistake
you se."
The jolly fat gentleman leaqed bak,
in his chair and laughed such a laps t
laugh as never come-, frotm yow ~ke'
gentry.
" No apologies needed madam," ~gi
he, "it is decidedly the beat joke of the
season. Ha, ha, hay o.took me for the
soap grease man, did she! It will keep.,
me laughing for months, such a good.
ioke "
And all up the stteet and around Uhe
corner was heard the merry laggh of tle"
old gentleman as he brolugt down his,
cane every now and then, aud exclaised,
"such a joke."
Eo.UROAw Io-]ORAN.R or Am RQI.
-Governor Anthony writes home frm '
Europe as follows:
"I have seen a man, who had held sa
high place in the gorernmment of a coun
try that maintains a large commierce
with the United States, estimate te:
population of New York atL 1)50 ,0.-: '
And when he was told that New York
and Brooklyn and ether adjoining ifal
nicipalities aumbered abOdt the poptila
Lion of Paris, he evidently did lot be-
lieve it, though he wis. too polite tl stay
so. I have seen men whose position
hoald make them quite familiar rfth
statistics shake their heads in incredu
ions amazement, when told that ther
were more miles of yailway in the United
States than in Europe, and that the
steamboat tonnage of the Mississippi and
its tributaries was greater than uall the
inland watero.A-tAe Eastern hemisphere.
nGixo .ades Padmuao .-"-'T e Alex
andria (Va.) ý tgeta v an .ccount a*t
a recent shower of bugs nearFanfa,
Cours House. The Gaeut4t say:, .
The snow, for several .mile% ,wn.b -
bed of it# whiteness, and made-tp, ss
ble'a vast field of colored velvet. What'
is still more surprising ,.e intense cold
ness of the weather cannat kill. teim. -
They apparently seema to be stifed'
by the raw atmosaheras; but if placed
near the ire, will relax and exhibit signs
of life. They are very bl4 are;
but little larger "tan at gof cgare
powder. Who elighicig itn s oa the
'big pquestion 9'
The young ladry who0o0gI4
cohl'di it go ageD.