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VOL. IX.
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THE EXPRESS.
II. HOLT, EDITOR.
II. IIOLT & A. KEESECKER,
o i i: TOIlS,
OFFICK
ON II I.v-.s riiEi:T::::::KNTRT ANCK
DOOR AliOVK THE
BANK.
Rail Kouds iBie order of the day.
The foreign news, important as it may
appear to our fellow-citizens on the At
lantic border, can have but little effect on
the well-being of the great West.
ests and rights, how can it be cxpected
their servants will do them justice?
Wo are glad to perceive a pulsation of
life animating the public mind of Johnson
county, upon the all-important subject of
Rail Road improvements, and hope it may
be the means of awakening others to ac
tion. A Mass-Convention of the people
of that county was held on Saturday last,
for deliberation upon the matter, and we
would bo glad to see this example follo'v-
ed by other counties along the line of the
proposed improvements. Will the coun­
ty of Dubuque move in this matter? Shall
the petition of her eitizens go up with
that of other counties, upon this great and
important subject, in which she is so vi
tally interested?
The position of Dubuque, in reference
to internal improvements, is peculiar and
important. The right of way for a Rail
Road from Chicago to this place, has been
obtained, and the road actually in the
process of construction. During the com
ing year, the work will bo under contract
as far as Galena—a town on Fever Riv
er, only seventeen miles from this place,
—and speedily will be pushed through to
tho Mississippi River, at Dubuque.
Foreign Kingdoms and States may war of our members in Congress—twoof whom,
aud destroy each other—Hoiv Alliances
wo percoivo such o fcvensh anxiety ma-j it j„ „,
begin to ask ourselves, whether this dis-
meetings, having for their object a-union
of public sentiment on internal improve
ments—has or has not the confidence and
approval of a majority of the people-
We may safely venture to assert that
tl.e private feeling of the people is deci
dedly' in favor of internal improvements,
and latterly there has been a public ma
nifestation somewhat commensurate with,
that private feeling, or with the import
ance of the subject? VVe have had a
convention at Davenport, and a .much
more important one at St. Louis. But
Conventions are not the bodies for ulti
mate and final action They can only be»
serviceable in harmonizing and concen
trating public opinion upon tV« useful
ness and propriety of the scheme contem
plated, and in the instances referred to,
have aimed only at bringing before the
Congress of the Nation the importance
of the objects sought, and to ask their aid
in their accomplishment.
The voice of these Conventions will go
before Congress with power, as express
ive of the wants and wishes of the people
of the West, and of the whole country.
A y'ear or eighteen months ago, the
subject of the Dubuque and Keokuk rail
road was prominently before the people
of Iowa, and received something of the
attention which its importance demanded.
Now, we are almost entirely silent. The
General Assembly, at its last session, a
dopted a memorial to Congress for a
grant of land to aid in the construction
of this road but since the adjournment
of the Legislature, the public voice has
been hushed upon the subject. As the
time for the meeting of Congress draws
near, means should be adopted to bring
this subject again to their consideration.
The wants of the State of Iowa, in this
particular, must be attended to, and un
less the people are awake to their inter­
composed of the friends of this work a
long the whole line, to devise means for
the speedy accomplishment of this favor
ite scheme, and when backed by tho en
terprise and capital of a town like Mil-
terminate at Dubuque. With these
lt
The City of Milwaukee is also pushing
her Rail Road enterprise to the Missis
sippi, and expects to unite with the road
going west from Dubuque through the
heart of Iowa. This road from Milwau
kee, is already surveyed as far as Madi
son, half the distance from the Lake to borne upon the air, and her sceptre pass
the River, and a portion of the road as far
Mi war? nit&aCSSSazasg-yg-'WB r3C^Knmeeruc
road be opened westward from Dubuque.
tlie n
0l
0
nifested to hear the foreign neios, to the bank of the Mississippi, through that re
exclusion of what is more important and
more interesting, we begin to doubt—we .S0
nowne
cuous
But on Uie
play of Conventions, and other public the interior, and through the heart of lo-
Fl\nt Hills," is unworthy of the spirit
of this ago and occasion. If Burlington
wishes roads or canals, or the Illinois low
lands opposite, filled up, or any other en
terprise which will better her falling for
tunes, we have no objections. But let
those little folk keep their dirty paws out
of our dishes. It will be good for their
corns. The people of Iowa have gone to
work to better their condition. They
have surveyed a route for a railway, with
one end resting on the approaching chan
nels of trade and business from two points
on Lake Michigan, the middle coursing
through the interior of the State, the
most flourishing and beautiful of any in
the great valley, and the other end be
low the obstructions to the navigation of
the Mississippi river, thereby furnishing
an outlet either to eastern or southern
markets for their surplus produce. It is
to unlock the impediments of commerce,
and open up the abundant resources of
the interior of Iowa that this work is pro
jected, and let no fratricidal act of sec
tional jealousy dare to interpose and es
pecially let not that little Burlington jun
to, on board the steamer, suppose that
they can drive our members ofCongress
by ridicule and low cunning from the line
qj their public duties. It is a fixed fact
—the road will be constructed.
the whole interior of Iowa, and especial- make so much a do about her equal rights,
ly to the prosperity of our City, that a
anc
For tho Express.
DUBUQUE AND KEOKUK RAIL
ROAD.—SMALL OPPOSITION.
SIR—I am informed that the delegates
from Burlington and Fort Madison, on
their way up to the Davenport Conven
men way uu I U W U U U V 'llIJUn V/UUVTFLL- 'N
tion held a kind of mock meeting on board
i
ject of ridicule, in a string of resolutions
passed evidently to prejudice the mind,
VVm-
... i r. i i herd Leftler, were on board at the time,
may be formed lor unholy purposes—to *T ,,
^II J\ow, such unmanly schemes as these,
us it is all the same. It matters but little should meet a proper rebuke from the
whether the Pope is at Gaeta or at Rome press But the people will most certain
whether the President of France or the ly frown down any attempt of a few in
Autocrat of Russia is the greater despot.
urested
i- ... i feat a measure so important to the com
All ihu can afflict us but l,ltie-and when
Thompson and Ilon.Shep-
individuals at Burlington, to de
mcrcill iulere8tiof S|ale This
A FRIEND TO INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT.
cd rom or
tmUally surrou ncl
the boat while under way. The Dubuque i coventrating her mind and continuing
and Keokuk Rail Ruad was made the sub- i
,lS
°P
orntl
,.
oa
3 not paS
s along clown the
City of Burlington, render-
coni,
P'
f° and talent
,, J. by us representatives on the steam bdat.
contrary, its circuit is far into
\va its"riorfh&rn terminus connecting with
the Galenaifnd Chicago line, and the pro
jected route from Milwaukee, on Lake
Michigan, to the Mississippi river and
its southern termini being at Keokuk, at
the head of certain navigation. Thejnis
fortune is,that this interior communica
tion through the State, combining so ma
ny great objects to the people, does not go
to Burlington, where a brilliant Starr, a
Rorer, and a host of other mighty lumi
naries of the West, are shining, and with
in whose obit all tiie lesser constellations
of Iowa are required to centre. What!
build a Rail Road, and not take it to that
vast-City!! jnce the proud Qapital of two
Territories? in the glorious time of Ma
'disonTown lotspeculations!!!! The idea
is preposterous in the minds of. those
high bloods, who have so long wielded
the destinies of devoted Iowa This pro
jected Railway, Bcnri»«^iy ^vished for
by the people, and for which the Statu
Legislature have earnestly asked, in aid
of its construction, a grant of land of the
general government, must be yielded up
to the caprices or interests of one little
self important river town, which two of
our good steamers could bear away at a
single load.
The fact is, this dog-in the-manger dis
position which rather characterises some
of the people of that settlement at the
For the Express.
MR. EDITOR—In reading a back num
ber of the Express, I found an amusing
letter, purporting to have emanated from
the prolific and aspiring brain of "Mrs.
Higgins." Now, without doubt this
same Mrs. Higgins is some mischievous
knight of the pants, who, in love of fun,
chose to make' some mystery-hating Eve
tho victim of his burlesque —but, after
all, it was such a perfect j*ac simile of ma
ny of the weaker sex, that it struck my
attention instantly.
The idea seems strange to me, that, af
ter eighteen hundred years, now in the
nineteenth century, woman lias just be
gan to find her proper social%relation and
position. For the many ages past she
has been content to ocdup/ a sphere far
different to the one to which many of her
sex now aspire. It is. true there have
been those whose names have been sound
ed through the world. A Cleopatra ru
led an Egypt she brought an Anthony
to her feet, and made him a perfect slave.
Wealth, glory, power—all were hers—
but mark her fall. Weary of the cares
of State, tired of those duties which de
volved upon her as Queen, 3he slept up
on her post, and awoke not until the thun
dering tramp of a victorious army came
8
ras
.. .I. victim offered on the altar of a new-born
V-
fr0m
Milwaukee, is under contract, and aciu- thus— her own murderer. Her regal
ally in the process of construction. A robe was her winding sheet, and her fu
meeting is soon to be held in Madison,!
pros-
pective means of communication with the
Eaat hntv imnr.r»«n» i»
JiPW important js U Lo the people of
P» condemned to be the
kingdom, aha died, rather than suffer
ne,al
I"'
0 lJ,e
wreck of her empire
An isabclle fostered tho terrible power
of a Torquedama, and gave to the Inqui
sition all the horrors it may now possess.
An Elizabeth sacrificed a Mary of Scots
to her blind zeal and mistaken policy.
And a bloody Mary deluged the age in
waukee, no doubt can be entertained of which she lived with the sanguine flood
a.rni I In these phases she seems strange and
uccess. lhis road will pass through unwomanly. A poor poet having written some dog
Madison, strike the river at Potosi, and Those who would deprive woman of
her title to intellectual capacity, andj
of 8i
8
hs and
°f
a
smile8 and th
iri5jQnist(inces or »ho/on the othorhand W*
MINER
privileges, are equally superficial in
their reasoning and absurb in their con
clusions.
I think, in point of intellectual beauty,
she is man's equal, if not superior, but in
force of intellect and power of mind great
ly his inferior.
She has not, neither can she attain
that power, for circumstances which con-
her, prevent her from
.°
ns untl1 a11
can
important point
achieved or any of those splendid
1 results cnsue wl,lch
arise from the close
determinate designs of
and
application
man. i
The organization o^hen mind is so de
licate, its fibres so tender that it is liable
to every extreme of pain or pleasure, and
she is consequently unable to regulate the
channel of her thoughts, and pursue un-i
interruptedly the dull routine of study. I
Man may sway the sceptre, make laws,'
figure in the halls of debate, search out
the hidden mysteries of science, rush
heedlessly to the bloody contest, mfnglo i
and tilt in the political tournament, and
yet maintain his dignity of character but I
had he the refinement, the tenderness of!
woman's character, lie would be illy qual
ifiedto fill his station, and be liable to be
diverted from his course by his extreme
sensibility.
Woman seems best fitted to fill the
sphere so long appropriated to her, and
she cannot acquit it without sacrificing
every principle of good taste, and bidding
adieu to all. thai makes life poetrv and
beauty.—^
It might be said truly that woman's in
fluence is unlimited. For it is her task
to train the mind, from the first budding
of mind, to the full stature of the giant
intellect.
We seldom see any so depraved as to
teach their children what they know to
be morally wrong and from her exam
ple and precept, they receive the first les
sdns -to her they lift their clear pure
eyes, and from her lips*ask the. princi
ples of good and evil. With such a "re
sponsibility resting upon her, she dare
not knowingly inculcate ought but truth.
In a few years, other teachers will take
her hut upon her depends the first
bias, and the fruit or sout borne by the
growing reason, and hers is the glory or
shame.
Let us look upon woman for one mo
ment as equal in intellecttial power with
man, and placed upon the same broad ba
sis, let us contemplate her upon the floor
of our legislative halls as an M. C., a
Speaker, or Chaplain, or even a door
keeper, (descending,) is she woman still?
does she still speak with the sweet and
winning music of her refined nature?—
Does Lhe down-cast, dewy eye tell that
she is awed by the voice of debate, that her
delicate soul shrinks from such scenes?
No! her nature must be essentially chan
ged—her tone must acquire a mockery
of power, and her eye glance unquailing
upon the faces of stern men. Her heart
must be schooled to trials that would
daunt the strongest, and her peculiarity
of adaptation to a character of stern defi
a n e A s a i v i n e
v
"Lot not that high and holiest plsico,
Wij consecratc to prayer, o'er witness
1 ho' unblushing face of woman speaking there.
Mercy and wisdom sweetly blond*
In the behest divine which bida God's priest tho
Altar tend, excluding aid of thine."
As a member of the bar, she would
have to pass through scenes revolting
even to hardened manhood, and stand
unflinchingly before the vulgar crowd,
to plead the cause of wrong or right.
In the capacity of Physician, her char
acter would be the least objectionable
and even here, unless her education has
been such as would ultimately lead to
this profession, her sympathy would often
blind her better judgment^ 6r else toially
unfit her for her station.
Miss Blackwell is the exception whifih
proves a general rule. By a long and
arduous course of study, "she prepared
herself for those duties devolving upon
her in lhe profession she has chosen.
Possessedof 6trong energy of charac
ter and great' muscular power, she will
probably be enabled to carry out her
grand project, and show what woman is
capable of doing, when she becomes wil
ling to throw off the restraints of a cen
sure bestowing world, and show mankind
that, "whatman has done, woman can do."
But in neither of these capacities is wo
man the cetre of home the brightest star
in man's horizon—the sun-beam in his
path—the ray to gild his life with joy—
the devoted recipient of his every care,
•and the prayerful watcher at his couch of
pain. ...
When weary, he returns from the bu
sy arena of public life, sick with strug
gling with its toils and cares, is she rea
dy to receive him with a smile, and whis
per of peace, or does she greet him with
a speech on bank or rail-road stocks, the
last election news—a desertation on the
character of "odd fellows," and their in
fluence upon the interest of the world in
general, and her little world (of home) in
particular.
In which character is woman most at bome?
Let others judge. More anon.
Yours, respectfully,
re
ELLA.
I knew an excellent old ladv who al
ways dated from the time "when their
horses run away"—to bo sure it was a
remarkable hegira, and she used to re
mark, in describing it, that "she put the
firmest reliance on' Providence till the
breeching broke, and then she gave it
up."
I guess I have cut a dash, as the horse
said when he threw his heels through the
front of a buggy.
verses to a young lady, in which he
re eale(
would bind her as the creaturo tears s ie retu ed
tho phrase "I saw thee once,"
him for an answer that
o sport of she would take care he never saw her
DUBUQUE, IOWA, OCTOBER 31, 1849.
FRANCE AND ROME.
A E A U S I N A I N
The Triumvir, Mazzini, has address
ed a noble protest against the misrepre
sentations of the Frcnch Cabinet, to Mes
sieurs De Toqueville and De Falloux.—
We extract a passage
'Rome was without a sovereign, the
Pope had deserted and fled to Gaeta. A
Government Commission which he had
instituted had refused to act. Two dep
utations sent one after another, entreat
ing Pius IX to return were repulsed.—
It was necessary to put an end to a state
of things which was inevitably leading
to anarchy and civil war. It was atone
o'clock on the morning of the 9th Febru
ary that the downfall of the temporal
power, and as a consequence, the inaugu
ration of the Republic were proclaimed.
By whom By the Constituent Assem
bly of the Roman States. In what man
ner had that Assembly been,.elected?—
By universal suffrage. Had there been
(I speak not of terror, nor even any agi
tation,) any influence illegally exercised]
No, all had taken place calmly, quietly,
without corruption, without threats.—
Was the minority imposing? Out of one
hundred and forty four members present,
eleven voices declared against the-proc
lamation of the Republic as inopportune
five against the abolition of the temporal
power. IIow many among those whom
you now stigmatize as foreigners, how
many Italians born out of the Roman
States, were then seated upon the bench
es of the Assembly? Two: Garabaldi
and Gen. Ferrara. I deceive myself:
Garabaldi had already set ont lbr Rieti.
It was not until sometime later that Sa
licelti, Cernuschi, Canonieri, Dail, On
gard and myself were elected. In what
manner was the double proclamation re
ceived by the population? Was there,
through all the extent of the Roman ter
ritory, a single attempt at resistance, a
single mark of dissent,, ^single protesta
tion in favor of the fallen power? No,
not one. A few carbineers on the fron
tiers of Naples deserted, perhaps ima
gining themselves compromised by the
arrests they had been obliged to make
under Gregory. And this was all. The
towns and the country saluted tho Repub
lic with a common joy. The old Muni
eipalities, elected under the Papal regime,
sent in their adhesion, since renewed by
those elected by universal suffrage, on
the 11th of March. Pius IX had still
some personal friends tho Papal Gov
ernment could not boast of one. And la
ter on, after the 30th, when the govern
ment on the eve of the quadruple invasion
was obligod to concentrate its forces, and
could therefore -retain only a moral in
fluence in the provinces—in the midst of
the financial crisis, and in spite of the ef
forts of some few1 reactionaries, this, the
conservative clemplft of the State, renew
ed again the testimony of a spontaneous
adhesion to the Republic. Bologna, An
cona, Perugia, Civita Vecchia, Ferrara,
Ascoli, Cesena, Fano, Facnza, Forli, Fo
ligno, Mecerata, Narni, Pesaro, Orvieto,
Ravenna, Rieti, Vitrebo,
Spoleto, Urbino,
Terni two hundred and sixty-three Mu
nicipalities sent addressess declaring, in
the name of the populations, that the ab
olition of the temporal power and the ex
istence of the Republic, formed hence
forth a double condition oC life foi tlie
Roman Stales.
The Constituent Assembly, consisting
of one hundred and fifty members, of the
elite of the country, by the instincts of
the heart, if not by force of intelligence,
and of whom seven only did not belong
to the Roman States, kept their seats
without interruption until the moment
when brute fofce, in violating the duties
and.tho promises of France, dissolved?
them. It had dictated or sanctioned eve-"*
rv 4bing that had been done from the 8th
of.'February to the 2d of July. 4
the Public Debt, and of Hie statistical de
partment, and with the Presidency of tho
High court of Justice, the direction of
the hospitals, Mint, &e. A commission
of seven, all Romans, Sturbinetti, Placcn
tini, Salvati, Neucci, Allocatelli, Spada,
and Castellani were named to examine
all applications for employment. Not a
single President, not a single laborer or
government officer in the Provinces, who
was not born a subject of tho Roman
State. Among all the superior officers
successively appointed from tho first to
the last day of the Republic, I find but
two men who were not born Romans: A
vezzana, Minister of War, and Brambil
la, a member of the Financial Commit
tee: the latter of whom however, had
two fellow officers who were Romans,
Valcntini, and Constabilli.
And the Army: The small army con
struoted in Rome at the time of the siege
was composed of the first line, Colonel de
Pasqualis second do, Col. Gaucci Mola
ri third do, Col. Marchetti all these
Romans, soldiers, and officers. Two
light regiments: the first commanded bv
Masi, the very man whom M. de Corcel
les, in his dispatch of the 12th Juno, puts
dowr as foreigner, cpjlir«|y Romans
And by whom did it govern? *F||,st
by an executive committee two Romans,
Armelliniand Montecchi one Neapoli
tan, Saliesti afterward by the Triumvi
rate: the same proportion. But below
the Supreme Executive, all that vivified
and embodied the principle of govern
ment, all that represented or that affect/.
ed the country in administration', it) the
'distribution of offices, in jthe evefy*-day
affairs of State was purely. Roman. The
President of the Council under the Exec
utive Committee, Muzzareli -the Minis
ter of Grace and Justice, Sazzarini that
of Foreign Affairs, Rusconi of the Inte
rior, Safliand Myer of Finance, Gailli
oli and Mazoni of Public Works, Ster
bini and Montecchi of War, Campelio species^ to which ha^ belonge^^v^r
and Calandrelli: all belonged to the Ro-1 inch arid a^half too fong almc^entireft
man States. The Police was successive-) concealing his feet, and, like a fashiona
ly directed by Mariani, Meucci, Meloni, ble lady's dress, sweeping?he ground at
and Galvagni, all Roman subjects. The I every step. A blue round jacket, Scotch
Ministry of Public Instruction was intrus- plaid vest, about three inches longer thlln
ted to a Roman, Sturbinetti other Ro-j his jacket, a bosomless shirt, which la
mans were_charged_with the direction of open exposing a red under ditto—a mill
the second commanded by Passi the same.
The Roman Legion, commanded by Gal
let'.i. The Riflemen commanded by Mel
lara, since dead of his wounds, all Ro
mans. The small body of the Reduci,
Romans. The Battalion Bignami, Ro
mans. The Regiment called the Union,
Romans the body of tho Carabiniers,
Gen. Galletti, do the Dragoons and the
Artillery do all these, all the chiefs 1
have already named, the Colonels Piana,
Amadel, Petri, Pichat, the General-in
Chief, Rosselli,the Chief intendants. first
Gaggaioti, and afteaward Sal vat i', the
principal employees at the Ministry of
War, all Romans presented the indig
enous element.
on this cipher of your invention depends
the greater part of your argument.—
Foreigners! I entreat pardon of my coun
try for having inscribed the word, after
you upon my page. What! Lombards,
THE SEA-SERPENT THAT SETII
GURNEY'SAW.
"Ilere you see
fourteen hundred to fifteen hundred men
among a total of fourteen thousliticV: for
it is well that Italy should know that four
teen thousand men, a young army with
out. traditions, and impoverished under
tho very fire of the enemy, held in check
for two months thirty thousand soldiers
ofFrance. You knew all this gentlemen, dead, as Uncle Bill said praver
or you could have known it and there-' meet in' t'other night.—You haint no'ob
fore you ought to have done so end nev-
The pisen sarpint," ^-c.—[Old Song.
The ponderous machine with which
our streets are sprinkled during the hot
and dusty seasons of the year, not unfre
quently elicits exclamation! of surprise
and admiration from those unacquainted
with this modern method of getting up
refreshing rains and cases have occur
red of a character directly opposite—the
machine, driver and all connected with it,
receiving the most sev$j!$ 4ehan%tiop.
from some uniortunate pedestrian wtfo,
approaching too near.,^j#h.ile the water,
was shut off, recetvcd a drenching any
thing but desirable, on a sudden rising
tlji%4"flood gfcfe Thtf «ircumstange me
af#'about lo relate, resulted not so niuch
from the carelessness of the vietmri as his
rvintn itt U
moth white cravat, tied into a doublei
not, projecting out on either side#
very respectable looking white
pleted the costume of Seth
"gentleman from New Hamps
Say, you,.what*ve you go|
was his first salutation, point*
machine, which stood within
of the side walk, the water o
dropping from its leaky sides.
Helena, uttered these words: "Unity of and earnestly. After keeping him there
manners, of language, of literature, show
that Italy is destinod to form a single
country."—[The (N. Y.) Nation.
inqui$!|jyeness, or iii&ptness to c&tch at a*
glance The utility and ii«p_or,tance of this
notable machifie—not the leas^of many
Yankee contrivances and improvements,
"The Rain King," (not Profe$sojjj£&»
py.of course, but the y€tongster# who con
trols the wh€blei thun&er shatter,) wad
standing by theside-or his machine, near
the corner of Merrimack* .and 'Geiitral
streets, one moaning, not
ing over with an oldjerony the Qiro|rn- ^Qa
stances and resy^of a late, jfjpdse alarrti
of fire, or somctMl^feqaal iaipoMaqqp,
when iie was amuptty, accosted W a
gaunt 1 ookin^iidividuallrjjfl^eli iijnSin
gy white pantsj 'that, insl^ ^flBeing tx
short, as isjjDmmonly tlfts Cas^ wjth
The driver, thinking that his |)f
gator was quizzing him, did not an!
but continued conversing with his fric
"Look here, you," continued Seth7
stepping up a little nearer,
supposing that
his first question might not have been un
derstood—"What'n thunder have you
got in that tub there on wheels, or, as
Parson Peabody'd call it, that vessel, eh?"
"Water, to be sure, replied the dri
ver, offishly.
"Water? Wall,I rather guessl come
to that conclusion myself, 'cause I see it
drippin' down behind there but what
have you got in the water? or haint you
got nothing in it? Perhaps Father Mat
thew's goin' to have a temperance meet
in'," he suggested, and has got to furnish
refreshments, as
now?"'
they tell
By this time the driver had discovered
that the intruder on his private conver
sation was really as unsophisticated as he
appeared, and thought it a good opportu
nity to get off"a sell."—one which if suc
cessful, would redound greatlv to his cred
it as one of the "sharp shooters." Hav
ing this in his mind, he readily, and with
great sang froid replied— i
"Why, to tell the truth about it, I've
got the Sea Serpent that was taken off
the beach down at Lynn, the other day."
"Yer have! Now, du tell! Well, I
swow I should like to sec the darn'cWar
mint, 'cause I've hearn a considerable
deal 'bout him, and seed his pictur orice
in the Boston Croanalype, newspaper^ or
.somethin' else but I did'ht know he was
took though. Sajr^ou, yer showinVthe
critter aittt"ye?-r-ufcouisDye be, or else
y& wouldn't him in that ar travcl
lirt mud,hole. lifr&Jl what's the stipula
ted fee for jist oA^ook—lowest cent yer
k
{Vow—eh?" v
"Only twelve-nod-a half and you have
fair sight at the monster. But be quick,
or,l shall start along, for there arc lots
of folks waiting to see him up the street."
"Twelve-and a-lialf, repeated Seth
"why, that's ninepence! See here, you,
Where, then, were the'foreigners?—
Garibaldi and his legion," eight hundred
men Arcioni and his legion, three hun
dred men Manara, dead .for liberty, and
bis band of Riflemen, five .hundred men
two'Hiundred^Poles tbe foreign legion,
one hundred men the hanful "of brave
men vho defended the Va3ielo tidier Me
dici. Altogether t\vo thousand men .'but
not really so many, bccause Arcioni^le
gion contained at least one third of Ro
magnoli, because the little knot of caval
ry which formed part of Garibaldi's le
gion, and which was commanded by Mas 'tis dreadful hard times, you know,''and
ina of Bologna, died on the field, were al-, money is orful scarce up our way—all and produces a large quantity of mUkrof
most all Roman -citizens, and because °win' to the Taylor administration, some excellent quality. The tops of beets,
halfeven o( thte foot soldiers of Garabaldi' folks say, afid perhaps it is, but I went it carrots, parsnips, and cabbage and turnip
belonged to the country. I stiff for the" old Gineral myself—y-e-a-s, I leaves, are good. Pumpkins, apples, and
The number of "foreigners" who as-11 d'd but I'll give ye ten cents, and say roots may be given as the feed fails.—
sisted in the defence of Rome was from no more about it.'?
"Well ten cents,^
are not to mention i
for keeping up priccs here, and never al
lowed any one to look at him before, short
of a nine-pence, 'pon honor.
but mind, you
'Not a word—no'sir was the cmphat
reply.
cI'm
ect un to
ertheless you shamelessly gave out to 'bout the Sarpint, I 'spose.'
the Assembly the number of "foreigners" 'Certainly not you may tell whoever
as twenty thousand as a proof that after y°
u
all it was not the Roman idea that you admission fee that's all.'
had endeavored tostifle in blood and up-
tW
Tuscans, Italians, foreigners at Rome! certain place named and described,'while
And it is by you, Frenchmen, by you
as dumb as the consecra-
my tellin' our folks up to hum
please about the snake, but not about
Well, let's see him then, and dam the
expense, I say, replied Seth, his curiosity
excited to the utmost.
The price being agreed upon, the dri
ver told his/rsi customer that he must
go to the hind part of the "cage," at a
ie
who, in re-establishing the Pontifical means of a connection cord raise a slide
throne, have been supported by Austri-, door or window, and expose the wonder
ans and Spaniaads, that this reproach is ful monster to full view, through a glass
made. A year ago our provinces sent
the elite of their youth to fight upon the
plains ofLombardy as to a Convention
of honor but I do not remember that
Radetzky ever called them in his procla
mations "foreigners The absolute de
nial of Italian Natianality has been re
served for the nephew of him, who, at St
would go to the opposite side, and by
ight, and that he would give seasonable
notice by calling out, Now you see him!'
Seth passed around as directed, and
stepped up so close to the'vessel'that his
shins came in contact, the drippings of
which tended in no ways to improve the
appearance of his once pantaloons, and
there waited the countersign, eagerly
an unnecessary length of time, the eye
of his victim painfully closed to the ex
pectant opening, he bellowed out around
the huge body of the machine—'Now you
see J'imP at the same instant giving the
string a sudden jerk—letting a flood of
water on the fellow that would excite the
admiration of cold water doctors in gen
eral, and all lovers of the shower baths
in particular.
As Seth recovered from his astonish
ment he made a lunge from the cataract
that was pouring on him, while the driver
giving the whip to his beast called out—
,41ave you seen the snake." and the old
machine moved up.'the street at notave
ry immoderate jog for a carriage of its
steady habits. The green one was com
pietfely drenched. In his astonishment,
he could find no words with which to give
utterance to his indignation, and stood
gaping and straining in the most ludic
rous position. He .-was however, recall-
e{ 0
|,j
s
senses "by a burst of laughter
1
from a knot of spectators on the sidewalk,
\^|)ich had gathered ttiere through the
satfic mysterious agency that crowds and
mdbs sprin|"up,^s it would seem, from
the bricks beneath one's feet, so sudden
jafcysill they appear. Stating around for
pigment, he became consciou* ofl jfae
trffekthat hadbee&played upbnhimfind
ftppf^led to the crowd for sympathy.
Well, I STOW, now ef that a|a.t a
meanest piece of business
eard uf! Don't you think, that?
stfli-uf-a-gun there—him that's driving
a a i n e o e e o a
Just then, happening to think, ,that|
probably, insfead of gaining their symf
pathies he would only get laughed at, he
checked himself and commenced his sto
ry anew.
Tho darned
tell on'tbut'
at tho top of his
about,—say,
1
now
you don,
'tf
vV
-t -jr,»ar»«v
...
i-
NO. 9.
Ten and fiveare.fifteen. There's fifteen
cents gone Paid five cents not more'n
a week ago, down tu Bostin, tu have these
boots blacked—the man charged a four
pence, but I beat him down a cent and a
quarter—and let my expenders out on
purpose so my trousers'd fairly kiver
'em up, so as not to loose the shine off
'fore 1 got hum agin, but that cussed tub
driver has been and washed it all clean
off as slick as ile. Fllast that boy and
his thunder tub tu Ef he don't pull
hemp or come to some bad end, he'll die
a juvenile, that's a fact," and Seth Gur
oey vanished, hitching up his wet trow
-sers as he went and the probability is,
that he will retain, to his dying day, his
first impressions of the Sea Sar'pint,"
unless at some future time, he revenges
himself on tire mischievous rogue who
excited it, and thus obliterates the oc
currence from his memory as an account
fairlv balanced.
FEEDING AND MANAGING MILCH
COWS.
The grasses, particularly the clovers*
are the best summer food. When these
begin to fail, the deficiency may be sup
plied by green corn, which is very sweet
ap-
Give only a few at first, especially
pies, and gradually increase.
Roots are of great importance when
cows are kept on dry fodder. Potatoes,"
carrots, beets, turnips, p&rsnips, arti
chokes and vegetable oysters, are good.
The last three, and cabbage and turnips,
keep good in the ground through the
winter, and are fresh and fine in the
spring before the grass starts.
Potatoes produce a great flow of milk,
but it is not very rich. A little Indian
meal is good for them, to keep up the flesh
and give richness to the milk and this is
the case with beets and most kinds of tur
nips, as they tend largely to milk. A
little oil meal or flaxseed is excellent,in
addition to the Indian meal, to keep up a
fine, healthy condition, and impart a rich
quality to the milk, and gives a lively
gloss lo the hair of cattle, and softness
and pliancy to the skin.
In all cases of high feeding in winter,
particularly when cows have but few
roots, shorts or bran are excellent to pro
mote digestion and keep the bowels open.
Three pints each of oil and Indian meal,
or two quarts of one and one of the other,
is as high feed with these articles as cows
should ever have. On shorts, bran and
roots they may be fed liberally. Four
quarts of Indian meal, in a long run, will
dry up and spoil the best cows, so that
they will never recover.
Carrots are among the very best roots
for milch cows, producing a good but not
very great mess of rich milk, and keep-,
ing the cow in good health. Parsnips
are nearly the same. Ruta-bagas are ra
ther rich, and keep up the condition. To
prevent any unpleasant taste in the milk
from feeding turnips, use salt freely on
them, and milk night and morning before
feediHg with turnips- 'Cabbage-turnip
(or turnip-rooted-cabbage-below'grotmd,)1
has no such eiiecU. 4-t- resembles riita
baga, is raised in the same way, aind yields
as much, or more*-..
Some keep cowsj^n the barri, by night,
in the warm season., ^hey are saved
from storms, and mafiu re is saved. There
should be good ventilation in hot weath
er. Cowsare much better for being kept
in the barn nearly all the lime in cold
weather. To drink freely of cold water
and then stand half chilled to death, is
highly injurious. But they should go out
a little while daily, in favorable weather,
and be driven around gently for exercise.
Inaction is death to all the animal race.
Cosvsand other cattle are badly mana
ged. They are not watered, in short
days, until ten o'clock in the morning,
and their last chance for drinking is a
boutfour in the evening. Thus they go
sixteen hours without drink, and during
ihattime they take nearly all their/ood,
as
perse ded
Seth
crowd around
him bursting with laughter, at witness
ing his discomfiture.
"Je-hew soliloquized Seth, as he slo
ped across the street, looking dejectedly
at his pants as he pulled them up expos
inga pair of hard worn boots, which
were about as black as red fox skins,ev
ery particle of polish
V:"G
ajiusk. They suffer
tl
u
r^ainM
rnWrnii^
noon ^ad at' night
tr
kt
anc
We
cess to wat9#y||Itm eigf
and after eating or
in the morning, they -would ill^al
drink.
Milch cows are injured tiy
far to pasture, especially invhot
and still more if hurried, bjlilhol
boys.—[COZE'S AmericariWgterint
Hp r~paper thus hu
having been re- Napoleon's Tomb, at St. Helena,iiMpIl
moved by the sudden fall of water,—" ef. estate of twenty-eight acres, is ndvatkmi
that wan't a mean caper, then I'm not in the St. Helena Gazette for sale
the individeral that suffered by it. I not? asks Major Noah the Jto
swow, that's about the smallest specimen field of Waterloo were sold to tMWiniu
of a boy 1 ever did see Wonder ef he ure o^, and why not the toiftb of tfte Ghtof
Over #erved any body olse the ft time sass?. whose ambition strewed thtm y
enu-
pae^tes polished phrases wft
jeient vulgarly
Pltore and iaq.uii
garters usedftfhe the word,
s" is called "Elssler impu
"sweet potatoes," "dulcet
ave su-
"hose
Raising tlie "Old Harry,"
Md Nick," is more politely ex
"by "elevating the ancient Hon
or "exalting the venerable Nicho-
A wag was jogging home rather late
and a little happily, when passing by a
dark alley,a two-fisted fellow stepped out,
and seizing him by the collar, demanded
his money. "Money!" said the wag,
"money! I have none— but if you stops
moment, I will give you my note at thirty
days."