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Rule Nisi.
Inferior Court sitting for Ordinary purposes,
adjourned Term, 12th June, 1837.
IT appearing to the Court that Howell Elder
in his life time executed his bond for titles to I I
William Appling, for one House and Lot in the : ,
town of Watkinsville, occupied by Mrs. Ste- i 1
?hens, and a Lot fronting said lot joining Bar- ! .
nett, and the Land joining said Lots and bound- ■
ed by Murray and Harden, now in possession '
of Mrs. Stephens; and it further appearing to ;
the Court that said Bond has been regularly as- :
signed to David Stephens deceased, and the con- ’
dltions of said Bond having been complied with I
It is therefore ordered that the Administrator of'
the said Howeil Elderdec’d. be directed to make
and execute titles to the said House and Lot,
and adjoining premises embraced in said Bond’
within the time prescribed by Jaw to the heirs
general of the said David Stephens deceased
or shew cause to the contrary—Ansi it is fur' l
ther ordered that this Rule be published once a
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from the minutes of said Court, this 13ihJiine
1837.
GREEN B. HAYGOOD, D . c . c. o.
June 17, —7—m3in
win®
MteceUcmectis.
From the Southern Literary Messenger
bade>s hassjcre.
High in her mountain-home, mid mists and clouds. |
Columbia’s Genius sat: in waiting crowds
Around her throne, her chosen spirits were —
The winds their coursers, and their car the air.
On either side were placed in fit array
The mystic symbols ofher mighty sway ;
The Eagle perched upon her judgment seat,
The horn of plenty rested at her feet—
In her right bandgthe olive-branch she bore,
And on her spear the cap of freedom wore.
Ranged on her left were symbols of the strife —
The drum, the clarion trump, and shrilly fife ;
Whilst o’er the scene, upon that mountain-cloud,
The starry-banner floated free and proud.
’Twas thus the Genius sat —when lo! in view,
A spirit messenger arrived, and flew
Straight to his mistress’ feet, and there he said
His tale of carnage, wo and horror dread.
That tale he brought from the far Southern land,
Where late had freemen died by savage hand.
Uprose the Genius then—with passion pale
And wild with grief, she told this mournful tale :
“From Tampa's wild and wave-worn shore,
And o’er that dreary desert-land,
There moved a small, but gallant corps, I
A dauntless and devoted band,
Onward they moved in firm array,
The savage wilderness to thread —
Danger and death beset the way
Yet onward, onward, still they sped.
Within the leaders’ breasts there burned
A flame of chivalry as bright
As ever tide of battle turned,
Or fired the soul of errant-knight;
The dusky forms of savagefoes
Lurk’d round themes they march’d by day,
And round them nurn’rous night-fires rose,
When darkness cheek’d their weary way.
The Withlacoochee now is pass'd—
The tangled hammocks dense and dark —
Each heart throbs high, each pulse beats fast
Fort King must soon be reach’d. Hark! bark! i
A rifle’s shrilly crack is there,
And then a long-drawn piercing yell
Camo thrilling on the forest air.
Like shriek of tortured fiend from hell. |
One moment more —and rifles flash’d I
From out the grass —from ev’ry pine.
The gallant Dade his charger dash’d
Fast to the front and cheer’d his line; ‘
Another moment, and he's down —
The charger and the chief are slain;
And messengers ot death flew round,
Fast as fall storms of summer rain.
Now furious grew the desp’rate fight,
And well each soldier made his stand—
Oh ! ’twas a great and glorious sight,
The prowess of that little band.
They waver’d not, though countless foes
Their deadly fire upon them pour’d ;
They waver’d not, though round them rose
The fiendish yells of that wild horde ;
But reckless of the baltlo’s storm, —
The bullet-shower that round them fell, —
Though ev’ry tree had found its form —
Its dusky form and savage yell,—
They hurl’d defiance back again,
In echoing thunders of the fight:
Oh! they were bold and desperate men,
Whom foes might slay but could not fright—• '
And well they aim’d their answering fire ;
Upon the savage monsters there,
Hurrah ! they feel it and retire—
And wav’ring now the red men are ;
Hurrah ! hurrah ! on ev’ry side—
Those Indian-men their fires slack ;
Hurrah ! ’tis changed—that battle’s tide —
The savages are falling back.
Dear was that triumph as 'twas vain,
And short-lived, too, as it was. dear ;
Two thirds of the small force were slain, —
Again the savages appear.
And ranging now in circle wide,
The heathern monsters take their stand,
And pour their fires from ev’ry side
Upon that little wasted band ;
Who still undaunted keep the ground.
Though thin their ranks, their means so slight—
Fenced with imperfect bulwarks round—
Yetstill they join th’ unequal fight.
Where were thy bolts, great God of Heaven?
Why flew they not to save the brave 2
Were not thine armed angels given
The task that little band to save 2
Oh '. were they not commissioned then
To execute, thy vengeance dire
Upon those wild and heathern men ’ —
1 To scathe them with thy lightning-fire I
Alas ! alas! no aid came nigh,
And hope from man or heaven was past;
Unvanquished still those freemen die,
Defiance breathing to the last.
j ’Tis done—the last sad act is o’er
Which closed that bloody tragedy;
But to the last each soldier bore
The bearing of the brave and free.”
The Genius ceased—and solemn was the wail
With which her minions chorus’d that sad tale ;
Wild w ere their answering cries of grief and wo,
And deep-toned was their sympathetic glow.
Again the Genius rais’d her hand on high—
Weak was her voice and tearful was her eye :
“Go pluck that flaunting banner down,” she said,
“And shroud its folds in sables of the dead ;
Strike the deep drum in numbers sad and slow,
And let the tile’s shrill notes accordant flow ;
Give to the triumpet wild and niournftflbrentb.
And sound the freeman’s saddest dirge of death.”
1 rom the .New Y ork Coinniercial Adv.
LETTERS FROM El ROPE.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PALACES IN PARIS.
Paris, December 1836.
I suppose that I must bestow a passing no
tice ou the public edifices and palaces of tins
great city.
And first I shall begin with lite. Palace of the
Tuileries, as being the residence of royalty.
The Palace of the Tuileries, taken in con
nexion with what may be considered as its ap
pendages, is probably the most remarkable pa
lacein Europe. It stands in tho estern part
ot the city, on the north side ot the fiver Seine.
It stands at right angles to the river, from winch
it is separated by a wide street, and tiers to
wards the west, or rather uorthwc-i, for lais is
the course of the river at this poi: • In front
of it liethe beautiful garde .-d . Tuileries,
then the Palace de la Concorde LmiisX'l,
as it was formerly c n; n.d t.nthir on, the
Champs Elysecs. r.e v. .< t:i extn tni:y
of the Cuatups Ely. .oa :i elevated ridge,
star,ds the splendid irtur. •pirn! arch, just, comple
ted. This arch is at the Barrier de i’Etoile.
and from it runs a. v. ide vista down to the cen
tre of the Pal.ice of the Tuil-rics, passing thro'
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the middle of the Palace de la Concorde, and
the garden of the Tuileries. This vista pre
.soi.ts a very fine vt u, as seen from the Palace
of the Tuileries. The river Seine runs along
th'o south side ot the garde:) of the Tuileries,
the Pulacs: de la Concorde, und of the Champs .
Elysees, separated from (hen by a street, while
on the north ru.s the rue Rivedi, a consider;!- ;
ble part of the distance, with a noble line of ■
lofty buildings, some of which are public and 1
some private, which lace the garden, the pa- 1
lace, &c. Such is an outline of what is tn
front of the Palace. In the rear, at a distance 1
of more than 400 yards, stands the old Palace <
oft.be Louvre. It is quadrangular, and lias an I
immense open court within, it mis not been <
occupied as a palace since the early days of 11
Louis XIV. Ou the side next to the river and i
parallel to it, runs a building, of the same height
as the Louvre ; from the Louvre to the south
eru end of the Tuileries. This is the famous
picture gallery of the Louvre, as it is called.
It is about 1,350 feet in length. It was com- ■
menced by Henry IV, and finished by Louis
XIV. It has been long contemplated to make |
another gallery para Hui to it v from the northern j
end of the Louvre to the northern end of the
Tuileries, and in fact it was commenced by
Bonaparte, and made, about a fourth or a third
part of the distance. It will cost a vast sum
of money to build the remainder, and buy out
I the private property which would be enclosed.
As it is now, in the part of this would be par
allelogram next to the Louvre, there are many
private houses rearing themselves up and in
tercepting the view of the Louvre, to one stand
ing near the Tuileries, while the part next to
the Tuileries is clear, paved with stone, and
called the Palace Carousel. A trelissed wall,
parallel to the Palace of the Tuileries, and at
the distance of some 40 yards cuts off a por
tion of this palace. Near the gateway leading
into this court, and immediately opposite to
the centre of the Palace of the Tuileries, stands
a triumphal arch erected in ISO 6. It is nearly
45 feet high, 60 feet broad, and 20 deep. It
is a structure of stone and marble, the body of
it being ofstone ; and the eight columns being
of redish marble. On the top are four bronze
horses and a car, made'afterthe pattern of those
of Venice, which Bonaparte had placed here,
but which the allies in 1815 decreed to send
back to the city whence theyXame.
i Os the treasures of art which are to be found
j in the Louvre and its gallery, I need say no
{thing. All the world has heard of them. It
I would be a work unneeded to speak of them
; particularly. There arc many fine paintings
here; but the number is far less than it was
before ths allies came to pluck the jackdaw’,
m 1815.
The garden of the Tuileries is certainly very
beautiful. 11 contain about 65 acres of ground.
> Its flower pots immediately i.i front of the pa-
; lace, the pond of wat r, the dense forest of
i trees with its refreslii.g cooii-iss in the sum- I
i mer, and a large nunib. t -itu s. render it a
j most interesting spot. Al ui- id most remote
from the palace, are tw >t. r: .j. ■-.< *o . each
side, covered with smaller wnt-'h give
variety and beauty to the whole.
The Place de la Concorde has tritherto al
ways appeared t> me to be a;. un.-,. ere ? ..c ;
but it is now undergoing improvements which
will make it very beautiful, it is a square, and
was formerly surrounded with a fosses. It.
will now be divided into plots of various shapes,
adorned with the statues of French statesmen, j
. which formerly stood on the bridge de la Cot.
1 corde, in front of the Palace du Bourbon. In
s the centre stands the beautiful Egyptian obe
; lisk, recently set up, which, with its pedestal, is
' about 100 feet high.
The Chumps Eiysees are a large space of
j ground, mostly covered with a forest of oaks,
i &c. It is the resort of thousands of people
!on Sunday, when the weather is fine. Never-
I theless it lias never appeared to be a very at
i tractive place in my eyes. The garden of the
> Tuileries is far more beautiful. It is visited
j daily, when the weather is fine, by thousands
i of men, women and children.
As to the palace itself, it is certainly irnpos- '
■ ing in appearance rather than v ry beautiful. I
j As it was commenced bv Catherine, de Medicis, j
I and finished bv Lotus XIV. it displays a want I
• of uniformity, which strikes one u pleasit tly. i
It is said i> be 908 l i 1 gth, and 108 in {
width. Many of*tli<- r,>;are splendidly fur
nished, a.- ruigbt b. supposed.
The Tuileries and its environs were the
■ scenes of many ot the most iuterestinti—-many
I of them horribly so—ot the events of the first
■ and second revolutions.
i The Palais Royal.— This celebrated place is
s near the Palace of the Tuileries. It fronts on
i the rue St. Honore. The palace is not very
. imposing in appearance, being too low sores-
> feet. Immediately back of the palace itself, i
1 is an open area, on the farther side of which, !
I parallel to the palace, is what is called the Pas- ;
; sage Vitree. It is a low passage or arcade, as j
; we should call it. on each side of which are :
shops, cases, Ac. &c. The roof of the centre :
i part throughout is formed of glass. Beyond]
; the passage is the beautiful garden of the Palais |
I Royal, which is an extensive parallelogiam ;
] with rows of trees on each side, and plots of i
. flowers up the middle portion, with a beautiful [
j pond of water in the centre. Thu whole is i
■ surrounded by rows of splended shops, over i
< which are cases; gaming establishments,Ac. '
( This garden is one ot the most interesting
| spots in Paris. 11 ere some of the most inter-
I esting scenes ofthu revolution occurred. It. is
! frequented day ami night, bv thousands. It. is
; kept tn a fine state, and is under far better re- .
| guiations than formerly. It is owned, to a
1 large extent, by the king.
j Palace of Likvembourg. This beautiful pa
lace stands nearly in the centre ofthat portion i
ol'the city which is on the southern side of the
river Seine. It faces the north, and along its .
front passes the rue \ augirard. The front is :
■ a low terrace of one store, with a dome over
I the great, archway. I n the interior is a court
j or area of 360 feet bv 300.
! This palaeo was built by Marie de Medicis
]in the beginning of the 17i.il century. There ]
■ was former'v a hole! m ih.- soot, owned bv the
I duke of Epinav Luxembourg, whence isdenv-
; ed the mime of this palace.—Tills palace has '
'] passed through a groat, vuiiety of vicisitudes. 1
■ It was once the residence of Cardinal Riche-
I lieu. Uuimg the iirst revolution, it was fora
I while converted i .to a prison, and afterwards
the Directory lived i.i it. Bonaparte made it
j his residence for a lime, w lien he was first con
j sill. Si.'Ce 181 lit iris been employed, among
i ether purposes, as th- place for ‘he meeting ol
the < 'haniber oi peers.
| ’i'll, re arc mmiy sp! • I ’i-.l rooms in this pa-
Im-.*. — i'hoso v. Inch were occupied In Marie
i de .Medicis remm.. ~ -i.riv us they were i.i her
i time. Tm v arc aiiorneu with some fine painl-
I legs. The gullcry et p.i'iitings in this palace
, ■ contains some inn o:.s . by modern French ar-
I tisls. The hall in which the peers hold their
* moutings i.s scim circular, and has a diametei .
of 77 feet. It is georgeously adoi'i The
statues which stud the walls are elegant, and
made by the best artists.
I mmediately b.-ck of the palace, to in south,
lie the gardens of the Luxembourg. 1 hey are
larger than those of the Tuileries, are more ir
regular in shape, but are, to my mind, more
pleasant. The large octagons-pond of water
•with its beautiful jet, the numerous grass and
flower plots, the wide extended avenue reach
ing from the centre of the palace to the obser
ve tory, the numerous orange trees, and the two
forests which these gardens contain, are all i
captivating objects, and render the n a most de- i
lightful place and promenade when the weath
er is fine. In the summer, and indeed during <
the whole year, when the weather is suitable, i
these gardens are frequented by vast numbers |
of people- The statues iu the gardens display
sad traces of the revolution when most ot them [
were shockingly mutilated. t
4. Palais Bourbon. This large palace, or t
j rather assemblage of buildings, stands ou the :
j southern side of the river, in the western part I
jof the city, and just opposite to the end of the i
i bridge de la Concorde, which is often called t
Pont de Louis Quiiize. It was built about 100 t
years ago. There are many things here wor- j
thy ot being seen ; but the principal is the hall !
of the Chamber of Deputies, which is truly i
splendid. Ihe front of this palace on the Seine,! 1
was erected by order of Napoleon at a vast ex-; f .
pense. It is thought to be the most beautiful ' '
specimen of architecture which has within late '
years been produced in Paris.
5. Palais de. I Elysee Bourbon, in the rue du
Faubourg St. Honore, contains many very beau
tiful objects. It was occasionally inhabited bv
Napoleon ; he spent most of his time there du
ring the hundred days. The Emperor Alex
ander, Wellington, and other great personages
lived there when iu Paris. The apartments are
very elegant
9. Palais de Justice. This place stands on
the Isle de, la Cite. It consists of a great mass
of buildings erected at different periods, since
the fifth or sixth century. It was fora long
period the royal residence; it is now devoted i
to judicial proceedings. Here are held all the I
courts of Paris, as well as ths Court of Cassa
tion, which is the ultimate tribunal, for civil and '
ordinary criminal cases, in the kingdom. — j
There are many halls in this palace well wor
thy of being seen, for their historical associa
tions.
7. Hotel de Ville. This celebrated building
was erected in the 16th century. It. stands
near to the north bank of the Seine, and faces
an open space called the Place de Greve.—
This Hotel do Ville, or City Hall, is the seat
of the perfecture of the department of the
Seine.
It is the place where the municipal affairs
of the city of Paris are mtmajed. Mirny ol’the
most interesting scenes ot the war of the Fron
l de, and of the first revolution, occurred here.
Here, too, it was that the deputies assembled,
in the late revolution, and elected Louis Phi
lippe to be King of the French, upon the nomi
nation of General. Lafayette. i
8. Hotel des Invalides. This great estab- !
lishment stands in the southwestern part of the 1
city, and faces the Seine, though at a consid- 1
arable distance from it—ltts one of the lar- ] 1
gest establishments of the khd in the world, j
being capable of contaiuiij, it is said, seven ! (
thousand men. At preseit there are three | I
j thousand two hundred soldiirs, and three hun-1 1
drud officers iu it. Its beaitiful chapel, its !i- ] <
brary, the dormitories of th inmates, the sil- I I
verservice presented by M:ria Louisa, are ob. 1
jects well worthy of being seen ; as are also I
the old soldiers and officer walking or hob- 1
bling about in groups. Tluesplanade in front,
reaching down to the river is one thousand 1
four hundred and forty feet ing and seven hun. ’
dred and eighty wide. Tis great establish- *
incut is a monument of thegreatness of Louis I <
XIV. Time does not pemit me to go into a ■
more minute notice of it.
9. Not far to the west <f the Hotel d F- j
v:.Sides is the Ecnle Rayah Alditaire, ■ <:
t bv Louis XV. and long us-d for that punriw. .
I bin which was in the revolrtion cot.verted into j
j barracks for soldiers. It 3 an extensive es-1 1
I tablisbmetit. it stands at th beau of the Camp ) 1
Ide Mars, an immense field,of a regular paral- ! '
• li-'oiirauiinic form, being i7OO feet by 1310. i 1
There are four rows of thesson each side, with I
sleeping embankments. 1 ts the place for ] :
grand reviews.
10. The Bourse, or Exchaige. This is the . I
most splendid building et th: kind in the world, • I
and occupies the site of the >ld convent ot the j 1
Filles St. Thomas, which was suppressed du-; 1
ring the first revolution. Tie Bourses is2l6 1
feet long by 26 wide. It it surrounded by a ■
peristyle of 66 CorftAhian columns. The i
i front is to the west, and is approached by a ;
| flight of steps as long us thi building is wide. !
The grand Salle de la Bourse, where mer- !
i chants meet from two to tiveevery day, is 116 I
| feet long, by 66 wide. It is su'rounded by.
i arcades, adorned with coloured tnarble. On;
] the walls, in the arcades, are inscribed the chief |
I commercial cities in the world. There is a 1
i gallery rumiiug round the hall, above the ar- :
1 i cailes, This elegant building was commenced |
'in 1808, and completed in 1826. its roof is j
! wholly made of iron and copper. There is a •
large skv-hght it; the centre. The roofer
i ceiling, is rich in sculpture. The whole build- ’
I ing is warmed by means of pipes, which con
vev heated air from a furnace »ud boiler m the \
cellar.
11. Place Vendome. — This is a beautiful |
' place, surrounded by fuse looking houses, tho’ j
; perhaps too low- to be entitled to the epithet, ot'
i irnposinir. It is near to the garden of tho Tui
' lories, on which the rue Castiglione imrnedi- ;
. ately opens, while in the opposite direction the
I rue de la Pais leads to the Boulevards. This
’ pl,ice is nearly square, being 459 feet, by 420. .
; It derives its name from the Duke of Vendome,
i .1 son of Henry IV., and the celebrated Ga-
■ brielie, who once owned the site and buildings ■
! which then stood on it. For a long period an
j equestrian statute ot Lnuis XIV. stood in the
i centre. But it. was destroyed on tho 10th of
’ .‘eugiist, 1792. At present the famous tri- '
j uniphal pillar which Napoleon erected to com
] rncmorate the victories ot his campaign oi -
i 1805, in Austria, stands on the same spot. It
j is 135 feet high, and tho diameter of the shaft
'is 12 feet. It is built, of stone, and covered !
I outside with bronze plates, made out of 1200 ;
; cannon taken from the Austrians. Ou the top
stands a colossal bronze statue ol Napolean, LI.
frit in height, and weighing 5112 pomaL.
'i’li;- pedestal mid shaft are covered with hss
relief figures, denoting the various battles, Ac.
of the campaign. The cost of the erection of
j this grand monument was one tmlhon and a '
' i halfof francs <>r ;a-arlv : 5300,000. I'lic pms-
I p< et from the top in line v. eufiier is very < x
i tensive.
; 12. Jardt ii des Plantes. This Celebrated es-
j tabhsluncnt isou the castor:: sid'- <4 i’ari ; , and
■ on the southsi i ■ ot the Bain ■. which it due vlv
sac-s. It was founded in 1635 by Louis XIII. j
a "I has gradually increased ever since, until
now it is without a rival in the world. It con.
sists Ist, of a botanical garden, with largo hot
houses and green houses ; 2d, several galle
ries or rows of buildings, in which are arrang
ed collections belonging to the three kingdoms
of nature; 3d, a gallery of anatomy ; 4th, a
gallery ot botany; Gib, a menagerie of living
animals ; 6th, a library of natural history ; and ,
7th. an amphitheatre, laboratories &c. for pub- 1
he lectures on every branch of science connec
ted with natural history. These lectures em
brace 12 courses.
I will net attempt a more minute description
of this great establishment. Nothing short of
u visit to it can give one an idea that can ap
proach to being adequate,
And now 1 must pass over a vast number of
public buildings and objects, such as the Mint,
the Consorvatoirs des Arts and Metiers, Muse- '
um of Artillery, many interesting places, such '
as those of Louis XIV, Louis XVI. Chatelet. |
&c. I have not time to notice these things, ■
interesting as they are. [ n my next I shall '
take some notice of a few of the most celebra- |
ted churches.
AMERICANUS.
The author of “Mephiatopheles in England,” is out]
in anew work, called “Eureka, a Prophecy of the Fu- ]
Hire.” The following is part of the Song of Captain :
Death:
I hoard a voice upon the sea.
That pierced the waters fierce and free—
The loud winds running wild with glee—
Brought it to me ; <
I heard a voice the land breeze Ixire,
That thrilled the mountains to the core,
And shouted out from shore to shore,
“Who are the free !”
Reply, reply aloud, air, earth and sea 1
Shout to the listening stars —“Who are the free 2”
The cities heard, but heard in vain ,-
It stirred the hill, the vale, the plain;
The forest monarchs young again
Seemed’they to be ;
But all beneath the conscious sky
With trembling heart and quailing eye,
Looked round and raised th’ accusing cry
“Where are the free 2”
Reply, reply aloud, air, earth and sea!
Shout io the eternal sun—“ Where are the free?”
I saw a gallant band at last,
Upon the boundless waters cast,
Daring the Guile and the blast,
Rocks ant. the sea ;
Thay heard the voice that pierced tho tide,
And all in one pr<ud cause allied,
With tones that th Q world, replied—
“We are the fret'?”
We have no masters m the earth or sea!
Our home is with the —We are the free.
From the New YorkXranseript.
A MONKEY DISTRIBUTLjg TYPE.
A printer who served his time j n London
derry, (Ireland,) tells a very good »pry of the '
imitative genius of a. monkey. lanimal
was the property of an apprentice bc~ who
having won him at a rafHing match, b:\ U ght
him home and tied him to his stand.
There Mr. Skipjack, who was an observing
character, had a fine opportunity to learn the I
printer’s trade, at least as far as it could bt j
learned by merely watching the movements'
of others. How far he profited by it will bu
presently seen. If he did r.ot, in the end, make
the most satisfactory progress, it was certain
ly not for the want ol close observation on his
part.
He watched the movements of his young
master with the most profound attention. He
observed how he set the type, and how he dis
tributed them. But it was the latter which
most especially struck bis fancy. He saw the
' id throwing the bits of metal about him, into
the -arious departments of the case, from A
,w to Amhersand; and his monkey fingers
.-.cb-j-: to be employed in a similar manner.
. last ar opportunity was afforded him.—
. . rentice and all hands having gone to
di :; . the monkey was carelessly left on so
long a string, that he could easily leap upon
the case, and have abundant room for his “free
and easy” movements, when there.
On the upper case, were a couple ol gal
leys full oftvpe already sot fur the next paper.
U pon these the monkey commenced his distri- |
bulion.—He was not at all careful about ta
king a single word at u time; or distributing l
the types according to the alphabet. On the I
contrary he clawed them up by handfuls, and
distributing them iu the most preposterous
manlier; throwing them about him on ail sides,
without carring whither. A went into B s box
B into C’s, and C into D’s, or in how great
disorder the various letters became mingled to
gether. ...
Ina word, the monkey, with alibis imita
tive ingenuity, was doing nothing bytter than
making pi of the two galleys full of type.—
And this lie accomplished in the most rapid
mid effectual manner. Afraid least the prin
' ters should return from their dinner before he
1 had accomplished his job, he threw with might
j and main, and had nearly finished his peiceofl
journey-work, when the boy’s master who ha« ,
first returned to the office opened the door and .
1 beheld tho new printer at work.
So tickled was the man, m spite of the mis- j
] chief the monkey was doing, that he burst into
u roar of laughter, and called all hands to wit
ness the ludicrous movements of their brother
' typo. They came just m time to see him throw
the last handful of the two columns of type,
which hud taken a mail a whole day s labor in
det'ing.
The inonkey having completed hisjob, much
toliisown satisfaction, turned round and looked
' the printers iu the face, grinning and chatter
' Ingas if to congratulate them on the accession
of the strength they had gained to their office. ;
; But whatever the men might have thought ■
iof the industry of their new cotrtpeer, they
■ were not altogether satisfied with the maimer .
in which he did his work. It was therefore
' resolved mem com. that skipjack should handle
no more tvpe in that office.
| Bm the discredit, he suffered in the office
wns of no little service lo his reputation out of
; it; for the story of his distributing the two col
! umus getting w ind through Londonderry, he
. became a very profitable object for a new raf
: iling match; and his owner pulling him up at
forty chances at. five shillings each, got ten
! pounds sterling for an animal that had rendered
himself so I’.iiiious among the types.
Claimant of the British Throne. —\ Mr.
Wood, a paymaster of a Regiment in the lo
' e.ian Islands, has lately come out. as a natural
1 smi of George IV. and Queen Caroline. He
stales hts name to be John Guelph, and iii.it he
is prepared to prove his birth beyond the pos
sibility of a doubt when the proper time ar
i rives." He is represented to be perfectly sane.
' a.id a highly rc.-pectcd officer.
j From the New York Commercial Advertiser.
The Weal ih of England.
It is a common error, in this countrv, to im
agine that the riches of England are derived
from, and dependant upon, her comtaieTce •
and the influence of great 'asmoke is
shoxvn in the many wild supposition*'that have
been hazarded, touching the effect of our com
ntercial and financial difficulties upon the fi.
; naneial and political condition of the wonder
ful little island.
lh.‘ trmh is that the merchants of England,
wilh ad their great capital and vast extent of
operations, held but a very small portion of the
riches existing in the country; and this truth
can be made apparent by u few simple consid
erations. Look at the squirearchy, for in
stance ; the thousands of country gentlemen,
with their comfortable incomes of three or five,
]or ten thoun-.ii.d pounds per annum, derived
| exclusively from the soil; a,.d the enormous
| fortunes of the obility. Estimate, if it can be
] •stiniiitethu immense amount of treasure in
I tho cornu,ry, existing in the form of plate and
; jewels. Mnyat a single dinner given in Lon-
I d tile 18th ot June, goi t a.vj silver plate
I loth value of a million and a half of dollars
I was hibited at once; all the property of one ■
ii Jividua'—the Duke of Welli gton That
; <• 2-.-brated perso <age could have relieved from
I their difficulties all three of the great Ameri
| can houses which have been compelled to stop
i simply by turning over to them his dishes and
j tureens, and vases and candelabra, Without di
i minishmg his income by a farthing; and there
j are fifty’ noble ladies in London, any one of
| whom might have put ’lie Messrs. Brown &
j Co. in ample funds for all emergencies, bv
merely making them a present of her diamonds.
Without taking the crown jewels into the ac
count, it is no doubt susceptible of proof that in
London alone there are gold and silver plate
and jewels to the amount of two hundred mil
lions of dollars ; and it must be remembered
that mighty as is London, the wealth of the
kingdom in wrought gold and silver is very far
from being centered there. Au immense quan
tity ot it is scattered among the castles and
country seats ol'the nobility, such as Alnwick
Castle, Blenheim, Chatworth, Belvoir, Woburn
Abbey, Bowood, and a hundred others which
we could name, and among the lovely man-
sious of ttie country gentlemen, with which the
whole surface of the island is dotted in thou
sands. Then think of the libraries, and galle
ries—the immense and almost priceless col
lections of pictures, and statutes, and other
costly works of art, in which no country in the
world is richer. Why the whole mercantile
wealth of England is but an item in her riches
—a mere item, of comparatively trifling mag
nitude. The non-payment of our debt, if it
were not paid, which thank Heaven it soon
will be, so far from inflicting a mortal blow
upon the.prosperity of the kingdom,would never
be felt or thought of, except as a handy theme
tor a surciisn'), auw directed
republican honesty and honor. 'T4< e fortune
of the Duke of Bedford, or NorthumberlairSi’DT
Devonshire, would clear off the whole of it,
and nobody but his grace be a farthing the
poorer. - i
i - 1
l British National Debt.—A. correspondent of 1
I the Livcriool Chronicle, presents some curi- 1
I ous statistics of the National Debt of Great *
I Britain, tn which it is calculated that its amount ‘
is so enotmous that if laid down in sovereigns '
side by sile, and teaching each other, the line !
of gold would extend nearly 10,000 miles, or 1
more thaiT 3-4 tines around the moon! If 1
laid down in ban! notes, end to end, they will 1
form a bet long enough to go four times round (
the earth! If tie debt was put in one-horse 1
carts, eaih load-d with half a ton ot geld-—-
tho cartswouldextend in one unbroken line
36 1-2 inles! If the carts were loaded with ! 1
i the debt n silvir, they would extend 676 miles, j 1
or from.ohn CGroat’s House in Scotland to ,
the Lart's Eid in Cornwah ! If the entire
population of he world (man, woman, and 1
child.) ivas iail under contribution, it would
require 16 shi'ings from each individual, and
£ 4 iron ever family to pay this debt! If all
the god in tin world could be brought to Eng
land, I wouldnot pay one quarter of the debt!
The vhole crculati’ig medium (gold, silver,
Bank of England, country, ami joint-stock
banknotes,) nisses more than one and a half
j times everv war through the Exchequer in ;
pavuent of ue Government taxes, to sav no-i ,
tlr'i"of punchiai taxation’ " i *“ ztoftowum oi the Manjinotii Cave
j of Kentucky, is suspected by many to run pret-
lium the Ihckwiek Patters. 1 l . v nearly through the whole diameter of the
' earth. The branch terminates in it, and the
[ffepor? of he Committee of the Brick-lane i explorer suddenly finds himself brought upon
" Branch if the United Grand Junction Eb- brink, standiag upon u projecting platform,
. T *. .... ,•,•i j surrounded on three sides by darkness and ter.
enezer Tmpenmce -4ssociaZzon. u , . } . ~ .
, , ju- . I ror, a guit on the right hand, a gulf on the
“your cimmittee have pursued their grate- : e . , .. , ® . =. .
.... , i i .u est, and before him what seems an mtsrmina-
ul labors luring the past month, and have the ~ ’ 5J ■ , , , . .
, , ,I ble void. He looks aloft, but no eve has Vet
mspeiikahe ploasure of reporting the follow-| e^hdihe nf th< great ov'er.a,.cb
mg additional cases of converts to lemper- notbing . is therß but Ule flushing
ill!CC: ! of water dropping from above, smiling m it
“H. Wdker, tailor, wife, and two children. ; s ] loo t 3 b y in the unwonted gleam of th« lamps.
I When i a Ji'itcr circmm-tnnces, owns to having ; pj e j oo ks below, and nothing then? meats his
been in tie constmit habit <_f bringing ale and I g| anO p t save darkness as thick us lamp.black ;
beer; snrs he is not certain whether he lit. > but bfc hours a wild meuruful melody of waters
not twicer, week, for twenty years, taste‘dog’s I tbe W oiliugs of the brook for the green and
nose.’ wh’ch your committee find upon inqui- j sunnv channel left in the uppsr world, never 1
irv.tote conipeu. ded of warm porter, moist moro " t 0 be revisited. Down goes* ruek, turn- j
i su<’ar, gin und msmg, (a groan, and “so it is!' < b j e j over tbe € liff by the guide, who is of the |
| from an eldmit :uale.) Is now out of work I O pj n i on that folks wm» hither to- see and hear,
I and pennyless; n> ks it must be the porter —i nol to muse and be melancholy. There it
| [cheerslor the loss of the use of his right hand; i cras h! —it has reached tho bottom,
!is not ceitain which, but thinks it very likely ! \: o _ ba rk ' it strikes again —still
i that, if he had drank . olhing but water all his I fj| ul g i Will it never atop? One’s hair be-
I iife/his lellow workmen would never have | gi|)s ® bristle, us he hears the sound repeated,
! stuck a rusty needle in him, and thereby occa- ; growing less and less, until the ear can follow
i smned ins accident. [Tremendous cheering. ]! ? QO | ouger . Certainly, i f the Pit of Frederic.
! Has nothing l«t cold water to drink, and never s h«H beelevan thousand feet deep, the Bottom
! feels thirstv.-—f;G rent applause.] I ],. ss Pit of the Mammouth Cave. must be its
“Betty Martin, widow, one child, and one I ( .q U;l |. f or , minutes, at 'least, we can hear
! eve. Goes out charing and washing by the ■ tbe 3 tone descending.
daw never had more than one eye, but knows ;
( her mother drank bottled stout, and should nt j
i wonder if that caused it.— cheer- j
1 in<r 1 Thinks it not impossible that it she had
i alwavs abstained from spirts, she might have
I hai l two eves bv this ti*e- [Tremendous ap-
I plause. j ’ Used atevery place she went to. to
have eight! un riiec a. day, a pint of porter, ami j
, a Mass of spirits—but since .foe became a
me'lnbe-r of the Brick-lane Branch, has a.ways
i ( j oix amled three ami six-pence instead. [The
•iniiouneenient of this most interresting fact
was received with deafening enthusiasm.]
“Henn Beller was for many years toast
; master at various corporation dinners, during
j which time he drank a great deal of foreign
i wine; may sometimes have carried a bottle or I
two home with him; is not quite certain id j
that, but i- • are ifhe did, that he drank the;
coi te its. ;•>.' ! < verv low and melancholy, is
very fi''< i ish; and has n constant thirst upon
hiui; tlm,ks it must Im the wine he used to
drmk—[cheers. | Is out of employ now; and
n ., verb "m-hes a drop of foreign wine by any
i chance- - | tretnendous applause.]
Vol. V—No. 10.
“Thomas Burton is purveyor of cat’s-meat
to the Lord Mayor and Sheriff, and several
members of the Common Council. [The an
nouncement of this gentleman’s name was re
c< iv d with brcath[ess interest.] Has a wood
1< —duds a wooden leg expensive golngJbVe?
the .tones, used to wear second hand wooden
gs, and drink a glass of hot gin and water
r- guiarly everv night—sometimes two. —
[Deep sighs.] Found the second hand wooden
legs split and rot very quickly; is firmly
persuaded that their constitution was under
mined by the gin and water. [Prolonged
cheering.] Buys new wooden legs now, and
drinks nothing but water and week tea. The
now legs last twice as long as the others tised
to do, and he attributes this solely to his tem
perate habits.” Triumphant cheers.]
1 The author of‘-Jack Brag,” narrates an a
tnusing itreident which ■ ecu red to bis hero
(an English cockney) while stopping at a ho
tel in a village near the sca-sliore. The wait
ing maid chanced t<> be n poor orphan, but
possessed of unusual beauty. Jack, wbo was
always smitten With a new face, soon oonceiv
ed an ardent pnseio for the pretty waiter, and
while cogitating on the subject one night some
hours after ha had retired lo bed, the door gent
ly opened, and to hia surprise and pleasure,
Fanny, the pn tty waiting maid, stood before
him.
Affer a good deal of hesitation and timidity,
she inrbrmed him that, unexpectedly, every
bed in the house was occupied, and she was
trader the necessity of asking if he would be
so very kind as to spare a part of his. Jack,
(• ow fully conscious that he bad not overrated
his powers of faficiuation) gave bis assent
wilh the /greatest pleasure imaginable,” when
in steps Mr. Van Slush, a North Sea trader,
who was six feet four in height, four feet six
in circumfrence, and wet to the skin. "I dank
you vor much, sir,” said he to Jack, “vor de
commodazun; 1 zleeps zound.” “1 dont un
derstand,” said Jack. “Bot I too,” replied
Van Slush; “Vanny ask you -vor alf de ped;
you zay yes; I affnotzlept dry vor deze dree
veeks, von vay and odder, so Vanny pring up
my bipe and my bacco, and zom prandy and
vnter, he’ll ass a zwig before I durn in.” IV,
York Evening Star.
Cleakiield. August 17, 1887.
I A Fox Stohy—no hoax.—Ou Tuesday
morning last, Air. John M’Phersou, a citizen
residing in tho vicinity of this village, was
I greeted by tho barking of a fox a short step in
the woods. Attar culling bis dog, he proceed
ed with him to the spot. When within a short
distance, he espied a red fox barking up a tree
in quite an open Woods—and hissing his dog
thought to enjoy some sport. The dog ran at
full speed to the root of the tree, the fox in the
mean time making much ado by barking up it.
But the dog, instead of attacking the fox, fell in
with him, and he too barked up the tree. The
master of tho dog having in vain tried to set
him op tho fox, and his curiosity at length be
ing drawn to the discovery of what kind of
game was up the tree, soon found it to be a
house cat which had taken returje there from
are m , fox
its native instinct no doubt) fn«r cetnpinetr
succeeded in riviting the dog’s attention to the
cat on the tree, as the only means of saving
his hide, as au attack of the dog in such a place
would leave him but little chance to escape.—
Soon howeverthecat leaped from the tree when
it was seized by the dog—the operation of des.
patching it was witnessed by the fox; al
though not permitted to take part on account
of the dexterity with which Mr. McP. han
dled a huge club. Reynard, however, did not
wait to see the last ot the cat; he knew a thing
worth two of that, for he gave himself sufficient
time to make u sate retreat while the dog was
still engaged with grimalkin.
We were passing at the very time very near
ly the place, and heard distinctly the barking
of the fox. The conduct of Reynard on this
i occasion reminds us ot, and we believe the
■ motive was the same, as that of pickpockets
; and other offenders when hotly pursued by bal-
I looing “ mad dog”—“ lire,” iStc., eo as todi-
I vert attention. This was identically the case
| with Reynard, for he hashing been a trouble
j some visiter on account of the clandestine man
’ ncr with which he seizes poultry in the ueigh
i borhood. — Democratic Banner.
THE ART OF WRITING.
The Rev. J. Williams, in his “Narrative of
. Missionary enterprise,” gives the following
interesting anecdote:
I •• In the ereclion of this chape’, (at Baro
i tonga) “a striking idea of the feelings of an
untaught people, when observing for the first
■ time 'the effects of written communications.
I As I had come to work one morning without
! mv square, 1 took up a chip, and with n niece
I of charcoal wrote upon it a request that Mrs.
Williams would send that article. I called a
j chief, who was superintending his portion of
! the work, and said to him. ‘ Friend, take this,
I go to our house, and give it to Mrs. W dharns.
* - He was a singular looking man, remarka
' blv quick m his movements, ami had been a
~,-reut warrior; but in one of the numerous
' battles he had fought, lost an eye, and giving
me an inexpressible look with the other, he
said. •Take that!—she will call me a fool
and scold me, if I carry a chip to her.’ • No,’
I I replied, ' she will not: take it, and go imine.