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OFFICIAL JOURNAL.
PLAQUEMINE, PARISH OF IBERVILLE, SEPTEMBER 5, 1849.
VOLUME II.—NO. 5.
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I' Ii A Q U E JM I W E :
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1849.
To flic Democrats.
Standing Notice .—Any Democrat can have
this excellent family paper tor a year, by paying
us five dollars after Col. Richard A. Stewart
lias been elected to Congress from this District.
Gentlemen, send on your names.
Tlie Hey Affair.
We learn from the Bee of last Wednesday
that Rey returned to New Orleans from Hava
na on the 28th ult., in the brig Salvadora, in
company with Dr. Gage, an American citizen.
It appears that a short time previous to the
departure of the Salvadora from Havana, our
Consul, Gen. Campbell, accompanied by Dr.
Gage, visited the Captain General of Cuba, and
in a protracted interview insisted upon the lib
eration of Rey. The Conde de Elcoy was at
first loth to yield, and asked for time to delib
erate. This was granted, and at the expiration
of some days the Consul and Dr. Gage again
visited the Captain General, and after much con
versation of an earnest and very serious char
acter, His Excellency concluded to accede to
the demand. It is shrewdly surmised that the
Count of Alcoy's determination was consider
ably quickened in consequence of a Jetter re
ceived by him from Senor Calderon de la Barea,
Minister Plenipotentiary from Spain, at Wash
ington, in which that functionary advised His
Excellency to surrender Rey to the authorities
of the United States. Be that as it may, the
prison doors of the incarcerated man were
thrown open, and he was forthwith conducted
on board the brig Salvadora, and brought back
to New Orleans.
Rey maintains that he was villainously ab
ducted. He was immediately brought before
Commissioner Cohen, and in default of bail to
appear as a witness before the Circuit Court of
the United States in December next, to testify
against Don Carlos de Espana, he was sent to
the Parish prison.
Gen. Taylor's Tour .—"R.," the Picayune's
New York correspondent, thus writes respect
ing the tour of the President:
Gen. Taylor's tour of observation is turned
into a triumphal progress in spite of himself.
Onee among the stalwart operatives of Penn
sylvania, and the tough yeomanry of the inte
rior, he cannot stave oft' the enthusiasm with
which he is followed up. His plain, honest,
homespun appearance, his downright hearty
address, his very freedom from all pretension to
gifts of speech or miraculous intellect, the cor
dial shake of his big, brown hand, give him a
more welcome access to the hearts of the peo
ple than if he was blazoned from head to foot
with orders of nobility or could charm them
into admiration with "an eloquence equal to
Webster's or Calhoun's. He arrived at Bed
ford on the löth, where he met with the same
flattering, spontaneous warmth of reception
that has greeted his steps throughout his jour
ney, and was able to pursue his course the
next day with health greatly improved.
[CPA writer in the Tribune giv<# a graphic
description of the Musquito king. Soiled scar
let coat, cocked hat, no breeches or boots, and
long spurs. This, says Major Noah, approach
es more nearly to the South Carolina uniform,
a shirt collar and a pair of spurs, than to any
thing that we know of.
Relics of Lake Superior .—Speaking of the
tnines of the Minesota Copper company, on
Lake Superior, the N. Y. Tribune says:
There is much curiosity felt by all visitors to
this mine, on account of the stupendous work
ings of a curious race of people now extinct.
Their diggins can be traced on three principal
sides where veins are well-developed, from one
to two miles in Extent. Their tools, and evi
dence of some skill in mining, remain. Their
age cannot be determined from existing circum
stances, yet sufficient to iuJicate great age.—
Son.e excavations are thirty feet deep. The
wash uf time has filled them, spve a slight de
pression—trees of gigantic size have grown up
in thcin and decayed—evidences that these de
pressions are not natural, are that on opening
stone hammers are found, masses of copper re
moved, copper tools ako, similar in, size and
shape to those described by Humboldt in Iiis
travels in Mexico and the historical accounts of
Egypt.
• It is known that the pneient Egyptians were
acquainted with the art of tempering copper^—
Their tools, from their shape and supposed ob
ject, give equal evidence of that art. Why not
then a reasonable conclusion that the race and
age was the same with the pyramids of Egypt,
the ruins of Mexico, and tne ancientmining
on Lake Superior?
Important Discovery.
The Paris Moniteur of the 22d ult., publish
ed an official report from M. Lanjuinais, Minis
ter of Commerce, relative to a discovery by a
Belgian Chemist, M. Melsens, of a process by
which he is enabled at once to draw out all the
saccharine matter which the beet-root and the
sugar cane contain, and to obtain sugar of a
superior quality without resort to the complica
ted and expensive apparatus now employed,
both for the manufacture and refining of the
beet-root and cane sugar. It is estimated, if
this invention shall realize the marvellous ex
pectations raised, it will augment the produc
tion of beet-root sugar at least a third part, and
that of cane one-half. A commission of sci
entific men and practical manufacturers has
been appointed by the French Government to
make experiments at the same time at several
places, and at Valenciennes they will be con
ducted on a large scale.
We translate, says the Bee, the following ex
tract of a letter from the Independent du Nord ,
in relation to the matter:
The discovery of M. Melsens is of the gra
vest and most serious character as regards the
home and colonial sugar industry. By a pro
cess of marvellous simplicity, and of very easy
application, there is obtained the decomposi
tion and the separation of the primary matters
containing the saccharine parts, which he cla
rifies without other preparation. The concen
tration, filtration, baking, and, I will say, almost
the refining, are needless. As you will already
see, the new process is as yet only applied to
the beet-root. The graters, presses, and even
the boiling kettles are preserved; but the juice
once obtained, the miracle of M. Melsens com
mences. By the aid of a pinch of the marvel
lous substance, which he keeps secret, he ob
tains in a few moments, the clarification and the
erystalization of the saccharine portion. The
seventh part of an hour suffices to produce a
cake of the purest and whitest sugar. It is
impossible to think or to calculate the conse
quence of such a discovery.
Gen. Taylor Forty Years Ago .—The
Chambersburg W T hig, in speaking of the re
cent visit of Gen. Taylor to that place, says :—
"Forty years ago, as he himself stated, he pass
ed through, and as on this occasion, tarried one
day at Chambersburg, but under what vastly
different circumstances ! He was then a young
officer in the army, and on his way from Balti
more to Pittsburgh, the whole of which dis
tance he travelled on foot. Now he goes as
the honored President of a mighty nation, greet
ed at every turn by the overflowing love and
admiration of his countrymen!"
Labor and Gaming in California .—The
Boston Herald has the following : "James Fow
ler, an ex-pilot, who left here overland last Ja
nuary, soon after his arrival at San Francisco
purchased an old schooner for $4000, and in
company with Augustus Dole, of this city, are
doing a good business in running the vessel up
the river, and keeping tavern, or a "shanty sa
loon," at the head of navigation. They have
coined into their pockets already some $10,000
each in the business; so say letters received
by last mail. A letter from one of the crew of
the bark Carib, of Boston, says : 'There is one
woman here who has been three seasons at the
mines, and who has made five hundred thousand
dollars! There are some gambling houses
here, and you may see gold in them piled up in
heaps two and three feet high /' "
The Secret Expedition .—Every paper has
its own idea of the secret expedition. The
Boston Herald thinks it is intended for Canada,
and in commenting on the President's procla
mation says:
"That the organized force referred to by the
President, is in fact destined for the invasion of
the Canadas, whenever the inhabitants of those
provinces can agree upon a concerted plan of ac
tion to throw off their allegiance to the British
crown. The late movements of several persons
known to us, who were formerly officers of
the volunteer division of the U. S. army in
Mexico, and who are engaged in this affair, lead
us to believe that the object of the expedition
is yet the same as when first projected, and
that the hints thrown out of the intention to
make a descent upon Cuba or the Mexican
States are but feigned issues, for the purpose of
blinding our Government to the real desings of
the leaders in this undertaking."
Lieut. Mayi*e Reid .—One of the New York
papers states that Lieut. Mayne Reid, who, as
one of the New York volunteers in Mexico,
distinguished himself at Chapultepec, was in
London, at last dates, on the eve of starting for
the Hungarian camp, to take a part in the strug
gle going on between Hungary and Russia and
Austria. He had an interview with the Hun
garian minister resident in London, from whom
he carries out letters to Kossuth, Bern and
Georgey. Accompanying him, and under his
command, are a band of Hungarians, and others,
who, for the most part, left this country with
him, to share in the dangers and, it may be, the
glories of the contest, now raging.
Don't get is a Passion .—"It is very well,"
said Mrs. Dobbs, "for the moral papers to keep
ring, Don't get in a passion, but for my part,
when the nasty creature, Mr. D., comes home
and goes to bed with his boots on, I kind o'
bile over."
Bern aiul Destiny.
In a letter.written on board the boat which
carries Kossuth and the fortunes of Hungary
we find the following anecdote related of the
conqueror of Jellachich and the Russians:
Once Bern had not slept for three days. He
was near giving out with fatigue, and in .the
midst of a desperate battle, at a moment of
respite asked for acup of cotiee. It was brought
to him, and he was engaged writing an order
with a pencil, he had it set upon a pile ol wood
at hand, over which floated the banner of in
dependence, and which was naturally the point
aimed at by the enemy's artillery. A flight of
balls carried away the wood with the cotiee,
and wounded Bern slightly in one heel.
"Another cup!" he said quietly, folding his
order. His officers surrounded him, imploring
him to chang? his position, and not uselessly
expose his life—but the general refused.
"I shall net die till 1850, when the indepen
dence of Hungary will no longer be disputed,"
he replied simply, with that soft sad look which
u know is peculiar to him
Bern's faith in fate shows at once his eastern
origin, and his entire confidence that he was
born into the world for a special purpose—that
he has a mission to fulfil, an end to be attained,
a purpose to accomplish. The Hungarian tra
ditions speak of a time when the Magyars dwelt
not in the valleys of the Thesis and the Danube,
but wandered over plains of the east and read
their fortunes in the stars. From these, if not
from instincts of his soul, the Hungarian hero
may have derived his faith in destiny: from
these, if not from the impulses of a will that
makes the distant near and the future present,
he may have been imbued with the convieticr
which have so often guided the great and the
good of the race.
Unless, says the Cresent, a man believes he
can do nothing; unless he believ
is something great for him to
nothing great. Hence so many of the captains
and reformers of the world have relied upon
I
îeves that there j
) do, he can do !
!•
.
fate and the stars, A great idea springs up in j
a man's soul; it agitates his whole being, frans- j
ports him from the ignorant present and makes |
him feel the future in the instant. It is natu
ral for a man so possessed to conceive that he
is a special agent for working out into practice
the thought that has been revealed to him. To
him alone are known all the great consequences
that are to flow from the principle he has dis
covered. To his hand alone can be confided
the execution of the great plan that lies perfected
in no brain but his. Why should such a revela
tion he made to him—why should he be enabled
to perceive what is hidden to others—if not that
he should carry it into practice?
Instead of regarding Bern's superstition as a ;
weakness, we look at it as a proof of the j
. e ,. , • .. ... r
strength of'his patriotic convictions In con- j
victions such as those of Bern and Kossuth, i
lie the best and securest hopes of Hungary and ;
Hungarians. j
I
Suicide .—The Baton Rouge Gazette says :
"Dr. Palmer, a convict brought to the Peniten
tiary from New Orleans, about six weeks ago,
for the term of two years, hung himself in his
cell on the morning of the 23d ult. He tore
his shirt in strips and fastened them round his
neck and to the bars of his cell, and thus was
found suspended when his cell was opened in
the morning.
"He's Nobody but a Printer, anyhow!"
Who was William Caxton, one of the fathers
of literature? "Nobody but a printer!" Who
was Earl Stanhope? "Nobody but a printer!"
Who was Samuel Wardsworth, the poet?—
"Nobody but a printer!" Who was Benjamin
Franklin, the great American philosopher and
statesman? "Nobody but a printer!" George
P. Morris, James Harper, Horace Greeley, N.
P. Willis, Robert Sears and Senators Cameron,
Dix and Niles, and a host of no less conspicu
ous names—who are they? "Nobody but prin
ters, any how!"
Salt, a Prophylactic to Worms .—It is
said that persons who take little or no salt with
their food, are very subject to intestinal worms.
Lord Somerville, in his address to the Board of
Agriculture, stated that ancient laws of Holland
"ordained men to be kept on bread alone un
mixed with salt, as the severest punishment
that could be inflicted upon them in their moist
climate; the effect was terrible; these wretched
criminals are said to have been devoured by
worms engedered in their own stomachs." Mr.
Marshall tells us of a lady who had a natural
aversion to salt—she was dreadfully affected
with worms during the whole of her life.
[Pereira, vol. 1, p. 463.
tt »t „„ a
Hungarian News at \ ale College—A
correspondent of the N. Y. jdïirnal of Com
merce, writing from New Haven, says:
"I have only to add, that our graduates' din
ner, while we were waiting a few moments
(some 600 or 800 of us) for our summons to
the tables, Charles Hebly Pond mounted a
platform and announcing tlie glorious intelli
gence just received from Hungary, proposed
that "all who could rejoice in it, and give glory
to God, should give three cheers;" which was
instantly, universally, and most heartily done.
Many a gray and reverend head, as well as
many a youbger one, was uncovered in thathur
rah! Old Yale .will never cease to be the stal-1
wart friend of liberty. In the war of the Re
volution, one hundred of her sons left for the
army. How many of them now would flock
to Hungary, were there only a boundary line to
be erosäed, I cannot say."
EFMr. S——declared that his wife had five
fulls: " tha t she was beautiful, dutiful, youthful,
plentiful and an arm full."
[Fron the Model American Courier.)
The Slight iniKHiaricrslaïKliiig.
A Scene in the Railroad Cars.
by faul creytox.
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! be forbidding, and made no reply.
Not long since, a sober-aged gentleman was
quietly dozing in one of the Eastern railroad
trains, when his pleasent, drowsy meditations
were interrupted by the sharp voice of the indi
vitual by his side. This was no less a person
age than a dandified, hot-blooded, inquisitive
Frenchman, who raised his hairy visage close to
that of the gentleman he addreased.
'• Pardonnez , sare; but wot you do viz ze pie
tair—hfin?''
As he spoke, he pointed to a pair of beautiful
steelplate engravings, in frames, which the quiet
gentleman held in Iiis lap, and which suited the
fancy of tlie little French connoisseur precisely.
The quiet gentleman looked at the inquisi
tive foreigner with a scowl, which he meant to
The French
man, nothing daunted, once more approached
his hairy visage to that of his companion, and
repeated his question—
"Vat you do viz de pietair— hein!"
"1 am taken them to Salem," replied the quiet
gentleman, gruffly.
"IIa! you take 'em to sell 'em?" chimed in the
shrill voice of the Frenchman. "I be glad of
zat, by gar! I like ze pietair. 1 buy 'em of you.
How much you ask?"
-They are not for sale," replied the sleepy
gentleman, more thoroughly awake, by the way,
and not a little irritated.
" Hein?" granted monsieur, in astonishment.—
" Vat you say, sare?"
" I say 1 don't want to sell the pictures,"
cri the other at the top of his voice.
" 1?, gar! c'est thole? exclaimed the French
:r» n. Ï :s eye beginning to flash with passion.
'• it is one strange circumstance, parblue! I ask
you vat you do viz ze pietair. and you say you
will not seil 'em! Vat you mean, sare— hein!"
I ''I mean what I say, replied Ike other, sharp- I
j i v . don't want to sell the engravings, and I
! didn't tell yon I did."
!• '• Morbleu!" sputtered monsieur, in a tone loud
enough to attract the attention of those of his
. fellow-passengers who were not alreadv listen
j in? « Morbleu! you mean to say 1 'ave not any
j ear? Aon Monsieur! By gar, I hear ver' well vat
| you tell me! \ou say you sell ze pietair. Is it
'"' cosl ' ' be one Frencninan. zat you will not
sell me ze pietair?
The irritated gentleman, hoping to rid himself
of the annoyance, turned his back upon his as
sailant, and made no reply.
But monsieur was not to be put off thus. lie
laid his hand on the shoulder of the other, and
showing his small white teeth exclaimed—
" Sacristie! Monsieur, zis is too much! You
'ave give me one iusult, and 1 shall 'ave satisfac
tion!"
"By gar, monsieur, continued the Frenchman,
"you are not one gentleman! 1 shall call you
one poltroon —vat you call 'em?—coward!"
"What do you mean?" retorted the other,
afraid the affair was beginning to be serious, "I
bav'nt insulted you, sir!" _
"Pardmmez. monsieur, but it is one grand m
^ ^ Americ hai , s not _ but in France
me blow your 1) ,.. uns out f or zat i"
'-For what, pray?"
"For vat? l'arbleu! you call me one mentuer—
how you speak 'em—liar? you call me one
liar!"
"Oh, no sir. You misunderstood—"
"No by gar! I 'ave got ears. You say you will
sell ze pietair; and when I tell you vat you say
ze contraire —zat it is not so!"
"But I did'nt tell you I would sell the pic
tures," remonstrated the man with the engra
vin 6»> ^ginning to feel alarmed at the passion
manifested l>v the other. 14 1 ou misunderstood
"I teel you no! It is not poseebl'l When I ask
you vat you do viz ze pietair vat you say?"
"I said I was taking tlicru to Salem."
"Yes parbleu!" exclaimed monsieur, more an
gry than ever—"you say you take'em to sell
'em."
"No—no," interrupted the other; "not to sell
them, but to Sa-lem —the city of Salem."
"Ze city of Sel'em!" exclaimed the French
man, amid the roars of laughter that greeted
his ears.—
"Sacristie! Zat is one grand mistake. Par
don, monsieur! QueZ bete! Ze city of SeU'em?
Ha—ha! I will remember zat, by gar!"
And lie stroked his moustache with his fin
ingers, while the man with the pictures once
more gave way to his drowsy inclinations.
Editing a Paper .—The majority of readers
seem to think that no tiling can be more easy
or pleasant than to édita paper, but of all the
different employments by which men make their
bread and butter, there is none, we firmly be
lieve, that so taxes the mind, temper, and flesh,
as that of editing a paper. There is none that
requires a nicer tact, a sounder judgment, a
more constant application, a quicker wit, or a
kinder heart. A churlish temper could never
succeed as an editor: nor a narrow minded
man, nor an ignorant one, nor hasty one, nor an
unforgiving one. An editor must of necessity
turn himself inside out to the public. He can
not be a hypocrite any more than a husband
couW j)e a ^. poente t * his wif( , He must ex _
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Wonders of Chemistry . Aquafortis and
the , air trcath <: are made °/ «aie mate -
na1s - «8»» aIld , s P mts , oi
are s0 , 111 ^«^cal composi
t)on > that ; in *lu shirt can be converted into its
°.^ v n £ ot • s r , . i p a ^' a , ^? ar !n |° "P 1 *
pose himself in all that he does, as much in se
lecting the thoughts of others as in publishing
his own, and therefore the best way for him in
the outset is to begin frankly, to save himself
from after contradictions and mortifications.—
Whoever succeeds tolerably well as an editor,
is something more than an ordinary man, let his
contemporaries say br think of him as they will,
—Holders Mag.
rits of wine. Wine is made of two substan
ces, one of which is the cause of almost all
cdmbusùori-on burning, and the other will burn
with more rapidity than any thing in nature.—
The famous Peruvian bark, so much used to
strengthen stomachs, and the poisonous princi
ple of opium, are found of the same materials.
j t . s j sor t 0 ' sot my upper
a i nn£r broth, when su
u Well, what was it!"
^feClellsni 's Experience.
'•Tell us about the fight, Jo."
"Why, you see, boys, it was one of the tightest
places I ever was in—.lack, give us a light, will
you? 1 never seed perzactly as many men
round one poor fellow afore: an' 1 would n't a
cared much then, ef it hadabeu in a place wliar
I knowed the ropes;but 1 never had seen Louis
ville: but. somehow. 1 thought ef I was to get
into a fite, 1 'd show some right tall licks. So, I
takes off my homespun, rolls up my sleeves,
when all at onee suthing struck me."
"Who was it?"
"Why, I'd noticed a tall feller on the outside
of the crowd pick up a rock; but it was n't him,
for he threw it down again; another teller, a Ma
jor something, had an eternal big hickory stick
in his fist, and—"'
"Was it the Major?"
"No, I don't believe it was;as he'd walked
away before the skurmage commenced; and I
didn't see him any more; beside, he did n't look
like a man what would maltreat a stranger; but
as I was a savin,' suthin' struck me."
"Whereabouts did it hit you, Jo?"
"Oil the head. As I was sayin,' I had just
got myself peeled, and had sort a singled out. a
pope-eyd lookin' ftl!#r just afore me, and was
thinking to myself, you 're my mut, sure, when
suthin struck me."
"Did it knock you down?"
"llold on, fellers, do n't be in such a sqump
tion—no, it did n't knock me down; but—"
'•Sort o' staggered you?"
"No—can't say it did much: but, as I was a
saying, the pop-eyed feller looked as ef he
thought he was about to catch the orfullest
cowhallopin he'd ever seed in his born days;
and I'd jest a doubled up these pertater grab
bers, calculatin' to plant one of em on the tip
of his nose, and knock both his eyes back inter
the nateral position, when, as I said before,
suthin struck me."
"Was it the pop-eyed feller?"
"Aim, si?-ee! I knowed from his build I was
a quicker motioned man "an he,was; and had
r lip stiff, and drawed
uthin struck me."
"Why, an idear that I'd better be a makin'
tracks from them diggings fast; and boys, if
you'd only ben about tliar that morning, you'd
a seed old MeCracken a making' the fastest
time fur two miles and a leetle better, as ever
was made in Jefferson ! Whoop ! and if you've
got any more of that baldface, pour it out!"
Albert Gallatiu.
The following biographical sketch of the
distinguished patriot, Albert Gallatin, whose
death we recently announced, we take from the
Republic of the 15th inst:
Born in Geneva, Switzerland, on the 29th of
January, 1761, an orphan from his infancy, he
was educated by distant relations, and in 1779
was graduated in the law faculty of the distin
guished university of his native city. He was a
pupil of the celebrated historian Mulier, and a
companion of Dumont, the friend and literary
executor of Jeremy Bcntliain. In opposition to
the wishes of his"friends, Mr. Gallatin at an
early age emigrated to the United States, and
landed at Boston, July 14, 1780. Recommen
ded to the notice of Dr. Franklin by the French
moralist, La Rochefoucauld, lie soon found
himself in the midst of all that was good and
great in the society of the country. After a
brief sojourn, however, in Boston, he proceeded
to Maine, where he served under the orders of
Col. Allan, commander of Fort Machias.—
Even thus early in his -career, he was enabled to
prove how sincerely he was attached to the
cause of the country, by advances he made from
his private means in a season of want and
difficulty.
la 1782 lie became Professor of Freuch at
Harvard University, from which, however, he
soon removed to Virginia, and at Richmond
was engaged in prosecuting claims of a foreign
mercantile house againstthatCommonwealth.—
Ile there acquired the friendship of Leo, Henry
and other distinguished men, and-for a long
time meditated establishing himself there. This
idea he, however, ultimately abandoned, and
fixed himself in Fayeite county, Pa. In 1789
he was elected a member of the convention to
amend the constitution of the State. In 1790
and '91, he was a member of the Legislature,
and in 1792 a member of Congress. In 1796
he was elected a Senator of the United States,
but was declared not entitled to a seat because
not eligible under the constitution; he, however,
occupied his seat for two months. In 1794
Mr. Gallatin returned to Fayette county, having
during his absence married the daughter of the
distinguished Com. Nicholson, of the navy of the
Revolution.
About this time the whiskey insurrection
broke out and Mr. Gallatin was conspicuous
among that portion of the community support
ing law and order. In October, 1795, he was
again elected to the State legislature, and on
the same day (October 14) was chosen to
Congress from the district composed of Wash
ington and Alleghany counties. Ile took his
seat in December, 1795, and represented the
district in three consecutive terms. On the
inauguration of Mr. Jefferson as President Mr,
Gallatin became Secretary or the Treasury.—
This was in 1801. The efforts or Mr. Gallatin
to extinguish the national debt are well known
and proven by the fact that between 1801 and
1812, under the system commenced by him,
$52,400,000 of the .$100,000,000 owed were
paid. In 1813 he was one of the commissioners
to Ghent, and hilo absent from the United
States negotiated the commercial treaty be
tween the Union and Great Britain.
From 1816 to 1823, he was Minister to
France, and in 1817 went on a special mission
to the Netherlands, and in 1818 to England, to
wliich country he became Minister Plenipo
tentiasy in 1823. In 1827 he returned to
America, and established himself in New York.
From this period he, though deeply interested
in political matters, never participated openly in
public affairs.
As a writer, Mr. Gal Latin was well known.—
His essay on the northeastern boundary, his
treatise on Mr. Jay's-map, and his works on the
currency, commanded universal attention. Soon
after his removal to New York, Mr. Gallatin
became President of the National Bank of New
York, and was unceasingly diligent in his efforts
to promote the interests of the commercial
community. For some years past Mr. Gallatin
has contributed much to historical and ethno
logical science, and has finally sunken to the
grave with unblemished reputation as a man,
and with the highest position as a statesman,
citizen, and scholar. Alone and unknown, he
exalted himself to the highest point the laws of
his adopted country permitted, and made his
career a brilliant commentary on the perfectness
of American institutions.
MY GRAVE.
I would that when 1 die,
My form might lie
Where branches wave and wild flowers bloom.
Where a clear stream glides by,
There would I love to sleep,
Where birds gay anthems keep,
Stirred by no memories of departing days,
O'er which we wake to weep!
What if the melody,
Though glad and free,
Of birds and brooks be lost upon mine ear?
Perchance some changeless friend might linger near
To sigh lur me. ^
Kind friends will think of me,
Not as one whose home can bo
Where nought but pain and sorrow dwells,
And grief across my bosom swells—
But as an eagle bird set free!
Then let such sleep be mine —
Let Nature's music, o'er my place of rest,
Breathe out some simple song I liked the best,
In tongs divine!
Guilford , Conn., July, 1849.
Female Temper .—We like to see a wo
mon of spirit and life; for a dull, supine, prosy
woman is a poor affair indeed. And we have no
particular objection to see the "sparks fly" oc
casionally, when something really r occurs. We
like to see her joyful, happy, playful and live
ly: and if she lias a little spice of waggery, wo
can put up with it very well; nay, we like it all
the better. But a cross sour temper we have no
good opinion of, for a woman who can never
look pleasant, but is always fretting and scol
ding, will make ail unhappy home for all within
her house. And we had as lief undertake to live
in a barrel of vinegar in a thunder storm, as to
live in the house with such a woman. Solomon
was right when he said, "It is better to live in
tlie corner of a house-top, than to dwell in a
wide house with a brawling woman." Let a wo
man wear sunshine on her countenance, and it
will drive the dark clouds from her husband 's
face, and joy will thrill through the hearts of
her children. Let a woman's words be soothing
and kind, and everything is happy around lier.
Her influence will be powerful. Others will
catch her sweet temper, and all will strive to see
who can be most like her. Sweet ness of tem
per in a woman is more valuable thangokl, and
more to [be prized than beauty. But may Hea
ven keep us from an untamed shrew, whose
looks are worm wood, and whose words are
gall! We would rather take Daniel 's place
with the lions, than to think of living within
gunshot of such a termagant» If women knew
their power, and wished to exert it, they would
alway show sweetness of temper, for then they
are irresistable.— Boston Olive Branch.
A Dog that Chews Tobacco .—A friend
has just related to us a curious fact in natural
history, respecting a dog. In North Attleboro,
in this State, there is kept, hi a manufacturing
establishment, a large mastiff", who takes as
much comfort with a quid of tobacco as does
the most inveterate lover of the weed. So ha
b'tuatedhas he become to its use, that he must
have it, and will set all day in the centre of the
workshop, chewing away with great a appetite
and a good relish. Ile became thus much
like a man, by playing, when young, with
"old sogers," as the end of cigars are profes
sionally termed. In such play he would oc
casionally lind a "soger" in his mouth, until at
length a taste was formed for the tobacco which
has since continued to increase, and now, he is
what he is. We believe this to be the "only
instance on record"' of any animal but man and
one species of worm using tlie weed from pure
love of it.— Boston Cabinet.
Great Family Gathering .—The descen
dants of Richard Haven, of Lynn, are to have a
great 'family party' at Framingliam, Mass., on
the 30th inst. Five years since they had the
second centennial celebration of the family, and
it was then voted that a committee be raised to
call the family together again in 1849, and this
call is in consequence of that vote, and tlie gene
ral desire on the part of the relatives to comply
with it. At tlie meeting in 1844, some fifteen
hundred of the cousins dined together, and it is
supposed that a Irnich larger number will meet
at Farmingham this month. An oration and
other services proper to the occasion, to say
nothing of a good dinner, will be furnished.—
The circular says, "that all the family, and all
those that are or that expect to be connected
with it by marriage, are invited." Committees
of reception and arrangements are formed and
every effort will be made to accommodate the
"members of the family."
0*A publican's wife in Suffolk, whilst at
church, fell asleep, and let fail her bag, in which
she carried a large bunch of keys. Aroused
by the noise, she jumped up and exclaimed—
"Sal, there's another jug broke."
A Heavy L etter .- -Eleven dollars and six
ty cents postage was recently paid in Boston on
a letter from San Francisco. It contained six
teen ounces of gold.
CT Knowledge of the world depends on the
Dower of drawing general inferences from mai
vidual examples; and he is the most likely tobe
correet who has the greatest number of
at command.