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PIAQUEMINK, l'AKISH OF IBERVILLE, JULY 25, 1810.
NO. Gfi.
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Germany. —"Genevcse," the Loudon
correspondent of the Courier & Enquirer,
after discoursing of the situation of affairs
nt Paris, thus alludes to the existing state
of things in Germany:
But something more ludicrous yet (for
serious as these things are, one cannot
help laughing sometimes,) is that state
into which the neighbor country of both
these—the German ^Vaterland" —has
fallen. All the efforts of this shadow
hunting people after unity seem to have
had no other result than to prove to the
world the theory of infinite divisibility.—
Babel itself could not witness worse con
fusion than the political aspect and lan
auage of Germany at the present mo
ment. Every'party, every power in Ger
many, is now inspired by so fiercc a pas
sion for unity, each is so convinced that
its own plun for obtaining it is the only
one, each is so determined not to yield a
hair's breadth of its conviction that from
sheer enthusiasm for unjon there is very
nearly a war of every single State against
all others! There is a Central Powerat
Frankfort, which is wholly disregarded, a
National Assembly,"at least the remnant
of it, which everybody despises, and
which has set lip another central power
of its own at Stultgarard, while a third
central power has been formed at Berlin
by the King of Prussia's league, which
however, has been joined only by Saxony
and Hanover, and one or two of the mi
nor States. Then there is Austria, who
looks on with tolerable sang froid on all
these squabbles, and yet cannot be wholly
interested; she is therefore endeavoring to
draw Bavaria and if possible Wurtemburg
into a anion with herself, and so constitute
a fourth central power; while Prussia pulls
them with no less assiduity the other
way. Lastly, there is the Republic in
Baben, and the other Rhine States, which
if not speedily annihilated, will be setting
on fire all the combustible materiais that
fie scattered throughout the "Vaterland."
Living Without Food. —Animals sup
port want much longer than is believed.—
A civet cat has lived ten days without
food; : an antelope twenty, and a very
large cat also twenty; an eagle has sur*
vived twenty-two days, a badger one
month, and several dogs thirty-six days!
Id the memoirs of the Academy of Seien»
ces, these is an account of a bitch which,
hiving been accidentally shut up in a
counting-house, existed forty days without
any otter nourishment than the stuff of
the wool of a m at ress, which she had tore
to pieces»-; A crocodile will live two
mönthar ldfhotit food, a scorpion three, a
bear six; a chamelion eight, and a ■ viper
ten.* Valiant Thad a spider that lived
nearly a year without food, and was so far
from baling weakened, that it immediately
killed another large spider, equally vigor
ous, but not so hungry, which had been
put along with it. The celebrated John
Hunter inclosed a toad betweeu two stone
flower-pots, and found it as lively as ever
after fourteen months! Land tortoises
have fliyed withont food for eighteen
months, and a beetle is known to have
been kept in a state of perfect abstinence
for three years, when it contrived to make
its escape. There is also a well-authenti
cated account of two serpents living in a
bottle witlioul food for fire years.
03-It is humiliatingto deal with an ig
norant, low bred slanderer.
Advantages of a Piccc of %old. —The
New Bedford Mercury says:
Capt. Iloyor, who arrivedhere a dny
or two since from Francisco, via Phila
delphia, was the hearer of a fieco of pure
gold weighing nine and a liai" ounces in
its natural state as taken from the mines,
valued at about $180. It s crescent
shaped, about five inches in length and
evidently of volcanic origin: It was ac
companted by a letter of mestionable
chirography, which gave rise to a report
that the precious ore had beer sent home
hy a runaway whaler as a «mediatory
offering to his shipmaster, Cap. Gardner,
ol this port; and accordingly, bad
gratified tho longing gaze of Kindreds of
our citizens, the gold and acimpanying
letter were sent to his house, aid placed in
the hands of his lady, the capain being
still at sea.
In a pains-taking perusal ofthe letter,
Mrs. Gardner discovered that it was ad
dressed to Mr. Edmund Card ter, another
valuable citizen, aud after anoher public
exhibition, both the letter and »old were
transferred to its new-found ii;stination,
and the gold was again exhiiited in a
feeling of honest pride as aprcsmt to Mr.
G. from an old and faithful family ser
vant, but who had within the lu>t twelve
month wended his way lo tl« new El
Dorado and had shared bountifully in its
treasures—report says to the anount of
more than $100,000.
A more thorough decypheriig of the
almost unintelligible letter, hotvever, at
length revealed the profound fa:t that the
gold had been sent, bona fuie , from the
faithithful attache above alludel to, not,
however, as a present to his od master,
but in trust to be transmitted ly him to
some place in the Western p»rt of the
Empire State for the use and behoof of
certain relatives of the successful Cali
fornian ; and it has been despatched ac
cordingly.
Singular Affair. —A few da)« since a
most singular transaction was brought to
light at Monticello, Miss., by the arrest of
a white boy and a negro mai. Upon
investigation before a magistrate, it wa s
discovered that the negro was a slave and
the property of the youth's father. The
lad travelled on foot from Louisiana, the
boy representing himself and companion
as travelling on business for his father.
The negro seemed to have unbosndedrin
fluence over the boy, and had learned him
what to say and how to act. The negro
was restored to his master and the boy to
his parents.
QJ^If you covet learning, you must
have leisure and a retired life; if to be a
politician, you must go abroad and get ex
perience, and do all businesses, and keep
all company, snd have no leisure at all; if
you would be rich, you must be frugal;
if you would be popular, you must be
bountiful; if a philosopher, you must des
pise all riches.
fi^We deny that the whig party is
goverued by mercenary motivos, We
have no doubt that the administration
ought to make removals, and to fequalize
the burdens' of the government;- But the
furious charges of relentless procription
by one extreme, and the equally furious
charges of procrastination by the opposite
extreme; are enough to satisfy any man
that the administration is pursuing the
true via media of moderation and duty
and, while it refuses to practice a sweep
ing and universal proscription, is deter
mined to give the whigs that just and
equal share in the'burdens' ofthe govern
ment to which they are entitled by their
numbers, their patriotism and their capa
city, but of which they have been, for
nearly a quarter of a century, relentlessly
deprived.— Richmond Republican:
The. First Saw-Mill.- —The old prac
tice, in making hoards, was to split up the
logs with wedges; and inconvenient as the
practice was it was no easy matter to
persuade the world that the thing could be
done in any better way; Saw-mills were
first used in Europe in the fifteenth cen
tury; but so lately as 1555, an English
ambassador having seen a saw-mill in
France, thought it a novelty which de
served a particular description. It is
amusing to see how the aversion to labor
saving has always agitated England.—
The first saw-mill was established by a
Dutchman in 1GG3; but the public outcry
against the<new-faliglsd inaeMino was so
violent, that the proprietor was forced
to decamp with more expedition than
ever did a Dutchman before; The evil
was thus kept out of England for several
years, or rather generations: butin 1798;
n unlucky timbèr merchant, hoping that
after so long a time the public would he
less watchful of its own interests, made
a rash attempt to construct another mill.
The guardians of the publie welfare how
ever, wereon the alert, and a conscientior.s
mob at once collected and pulled the mill
to pieces.
0'good story is told hy the Belfast
journal of a college professor, as follows:
"He was one of your precise men, who
measured off sentences as a clerk does
choice tape. The good professor took it
into his head to relieve the monotony of
his existence by an aquatic excursion.
The boat was unfortunately capsized near
the shore, and he was put in a fair way
to test the virtues of Preissintz's theory
He was averse to making an uncouth out
cry; and had gone down twice without
saying a word, but just as his occiput was
disappearing a third time, lta rolled ou his
back, and blowing like a porpoise, ex
claimed, rather louder than usual, 'It is
anticipated that some one will extend to
me a rope."
Answer us This! —The New York Tri
bune puts one or two hard questions to
those locofoco editors who are now so
vehement in their denunciations of pro
scription. It asks:
"By what course shall we who loathe
this quadrennial out of postmasters, tide
waiters, etc.; put an end to it? How shall
we proscribe proscription? You cannot
seriously contend that we are to do it by
continuing in office those who got it by
proscription, thus offering to the cham
pions of the spoils doctrine a virtual mo
nopoly of the offices at all times, whether
their party be triumphant or defeated.
How, then according to your judgment,
shall we act, when in power, to bring the
Government back to the principles aud
practices of its earlier and purer days?"
These questions were first asked some
weeks ago. They have been answered.
Although the opposition papers are pub
lishing und republishing, over and over,
the same hackneyed complaints against
Gen. Taylor's alledged proscriptions; al
though they are manifestly in great want of
some new topic for their editorial articles;
although they must have long since worn
out the patience of their readers with their
monotonous and stale diatribes, they yet
scrupulously avoid answering these very
opportune and pertinent questions. They,
object to Gen. Taylor's removals, but
cannot tell how they can be avoided:
[ Trent on Gazette.
CtT^A correspondent of ITolden's Ma
gazine tells an anecdote of an old widow
who, when her pastor said to her, "God
has not deserted in your old age," replied
"No, sir; I have a very good appetite
still!"
(X/^It is said that î'Neccssity is the mo
ther of inuvention." Wonder who the
daddy was—he must be a rouser.
(U^The newspaper may be destroyed
at night; it may light a cigar or it may
curl a lady's hair, hut the thoughts that
are in ils columns may influence ten
thousands for good, and produce effects
which volumes of essays, sermons or
narrative could never cffect, and especial
ly where they could never reach.
The above paragraph, from the U. S.
Gazette, is copied into the Philadelphia
Journal, and the bachelor editor of the
latter paper, overcome by his feeling, in
continently bursts into the following rhap
sody:
• The very thought of one's lucubrations
jiestlin.fr down al night among the ringlets
of a sweet girl, keeping watch over the
midnight slumbers, as well as curling her
hair, is enough to infuse poetry into the
pen, and make the traces along the sheet
frantic with sentiment.
Last Degree of Relationship.—A
Iloosier stepped on board a steamboat as
she was lying at a certain port on the
Ohio river, and bawled out, "Is the cap
tain aboard?"
The captain, who was standing among
the crowd, responded, "Yes; what do you
want with him?"
"Oh, nothing particular; he's a distant
relation o' mine, and I'd like to see him.'
"A relation of yours?" inquired the
captain, some-what surprised.
"Yes, a slight relation; he's the father
of my first child."
You'd better believe the captain sloped)
while the crowd enjoyed the sport to their
heart's content.
CJ^The Philhdelphia Dispatch tells
a story of a pedlar who whished to sell
the editor a pair of spcctalces for "three
dollars;" but in consequence of not using
the article, lie refused them. The Jew
was determined to sell, he said, to "shave
his family from stharving," and fell down
in his price, at last, to the sum of fifty
cents. The editor then said lie would buy
them, provided the Jew would tell him
the whole of the profit he would make out
them at that. "You give me your word,
you will pay, if I tell you?" asked the Jew.
"Yes." "Then, so help me Moses, if I
sell him to you for fifty cents, my only
profit is— three shilling and ninepcnce."
Qy?»Mrs. Caroline M. Swett, who in
April last went into a rum shop in Port
land, Me., where her husband had been
debauching; and demolished the decan
ters of liduor, glasses, windows, etc!, has
been tried for the "smashing," found
guilty and recommended to mercy by the
jury, with a request that a lenient sentence
may be passed.
{U^Mcn are like bugles: the more brass
they contain the farther you can hear them
—ladies are like violets; the more modest
and retiring they appear the better you
love them.
(E/^Liberty, without obedience, is con
fusion. Obedience, without liberty, is
slavery.
The Straits of Magellan. —A Corres»
pondent of the N. Y. Courier and En
quirer, , describing the Straits of Magellan,
says; I cannot sufficiently laud the mag
nificence of the wild scenery of the Straits
of Magellan. The mountains that skirt it)
and which raise their snow-capped peaks
in the distance, impart to this magnificent
sheet of water the choicest feature of Al
pine and Scotch lake scenery. On a fast
sailing vessel, its violent gusts and obsti
nate currents, render it an almost imprac*
ticable passage from the Atlantic to the
Pacific; but for a steamer, with the aid
of Captain Fitzroy's most accurate chart,
it is a great deal less dangerous than
Long Island Sound.
Wc lind the following very appropriate
and well timed remarks in reference to
the prevailing epidemic, in the New York
Express:
The Cholera—Penitence —Among the
judgments of Heaven none has ever
been more conspicuous than pestilence.
Sometimes it has been actually miracu
lous. It was so when it traversed Egypt
in a single night, and destroyed the first
born of every family. In other cases
natural causes, to some extent, have been
detected. And thus multiudes have come
stupidly and irreverently to overlook the
divine hand. At length it seemed neces
sary lo send abroad the destroyer, in as
pects cf greatly increased obscurity and
mystery. The great pestilence of modern
time s is the Cholera. About twenty years
ago it traversed the earth, and swept into
eternity fifty millions of its inhabitants.
is again oil its mission, and with terrific
power. Its causes are yet undetected.
Its form of progress among the nations
is unaccountable. It is the disease of no
continent, country, climate, or season of
the year. The most that science and ex
perience have gained in regard to it, is
some light as to its existing causes, the
symptoms of its approach, aud a few
counteracting influences. The Cholera
is still visiting city and country, and car
rying dismay over the earth. Nor, per
haps, is it reasonable to expect that its
mysterious ravages will be permanently
arrested, till man, especially in Chrstian
lands, is brought to recognize in it the
presence and power of the Supreme;
What but a palpable miracle could more
clear'y mark it as a visitation ofthe Most
High? Why then should not Christians,
rulers, and the people at large, with one
heart and voice recognize the justice of
this chastisement, Abjure the sins? which
may have occasioned it, and raise the
earnest cry, "Spare the people, O Lord?"
How much more ratioifbl, as well as ho
norable to the Infinite One, such a de
monstration of humility, than either im
pious complaint or reckless stoicism, or
that alarm which hopes for safety in flight.
A Jury Rebuked. —In the Phildelphia
Court of Sessions nine young men were
tried for riot at a.Pbildelphia engine-house
on the 24th ult., and notwithstanding the
evidence against them wns ovewkelming;
the Jury (which had been selected from
salesmen) returned a verdict of acquittal.
The verdict occasioned much astonish
ment, and Judge Parsons, after dischar
ging the Jury, addressed the defendants
as follows:
"Your are probably as much surf rised
as the Court at the verdict just rendered*
It is without the slightest justification in
the law or the evidence, and I doubt much
whether twelve other men could he found
in the city and county of Philadelphia
who would have redered such a verdict.
In my experience upon the bench, I have
generally found the verdicts of juries to
be correct. If they err, it is because there
is something in the evidence to raise a
reasonable doubt; but in this case there
was not a shadow upon which the con
scieuee could base a justification, or even
an excuse. Let me warn you, young men,
not to let this verdict embolden you
in crime. Should you again be brought
to trial, you cannot expect such another
verdict. Though justice is sometimes
slow, she is always certain in her opera
tions. Beware, then, how you again
commit a like offence against the peace of
ocicty and the laws of the land ."
CGr^'Father, what do you mean by rais
ing things in hot houses?" "Why, my
dear boy, you are being raised in a house
too hot to hold me sometimes." The
mother seized a broomstick; but tho man
cut his stick. *