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NEW SEMES—VOL II, NO. 31.
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ATHENS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1849. ^
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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 43.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
Thomas G. HIght,
’DEALER IN DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, Ac.
Callcg* Avn«e. next *••• *• **.0.
Terror-cheap tor cash or country produce.
Athene, Jen. 55.
ASA M. JACKSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
April 55,1848. ly Watkisbth-ik, Oa.
A. Alexander X Co.,
IORUO*,'MEDICI NES.^RAISITa^ OILS, GLASS AN
<(AiyeWth* Wegro and Mortar,) College Avenue,
Now.ClMU ly ATHENS, OA.
poitrs.
r lonimu, at.
C. & w. J. PEEPLES,
Attoraeye el Lew,
(Orriccf in Atuzxs asd Gaiszsville, Oa.)
tMT Will continue the juaetice of Lew in the coun-
ttiae of Clarke, Walton. Jarknon, Gwinnett, Hall, Haber,
•ham and Franklin, of the Weatern Circuit; Clierukec
mpkin and Fcnylk, of the Cherokoc Circuit; am!
A. Alexander k Co.
WKOLKIIAUC AND RETAIL HE A LEU* IS
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, Ac.
Wo. 5, Qrai.it* Row—A then*, Go.
Thomas W. Alexander,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Lawkesi-xviluc, Gwissett C
X^TAny bu-.tncM nil rurtml to hi. “r. .ill m«jt wii
prompt attention. ly Feh. 10,1848.
Tlie breozt was Binging in the light.
And I w»* *inging too.
The moonbeam* by upon the hill.
The eluulows in the wale.
And here and there a leaping rill
Was laughing at the gale.
One fleecv cloud upon the air
Was atl tliat met my eyes;
It floated like an angel there,
Between me and the skies,
I clapped iny Itands, and warbled wild.
» child.
As lie re and there I flex
For I was but a cai
And did as children do.
The wave* came dancing o’er the sea,
In Itright and glittering bands;
Like little children wild with glee,
They link’d their dimpled hands.
Thev finked their hands, but ere 1 caught
The mingled drops of dew
They kissed ray feet—a* quick as thought
And away the ripples flew.
Tlie twilight liours like birds flew by,
A* lightly and as fre
Fore
•and *
night u
n the skv,
government. A regular survey took
place, and tlie result was the frightful
discovery, that the churches, palaces,
and almost all the southern parts of the
city of Paris, rested upoitiinmese irreg
ular excavations, and stood the greatest
risk ere long sinking into them. A spe
cial commission was immediately ap
pointed to take the proper steps (or
averting such a catastrophe; and the
necessity of such a commission was
made strikingly apparent on the first
day of its operations, by an accident
the Rue d’Enfer. A house in that street
From the Dublin University Magazine.
Chinese Jugglers.
Some of ihe performances of the Eas
tern jugglers seem incredible.
The revolutionary disturbances im
peded the operations still requisite to
render the vast quarries and catacombs
of Paris stable and safe. The ordinary
vaults became, consequently, full of
cracks, water filtrated through the roofs,
and fresh downfalls seemed impending.
The air was rendered noxious by the
want of circulation. In 1S10, M. de
Thury, the architect, began to make
new repairs. He built new pillars, and
formed channels for removing the wa-^of unbelievers and skeptics, had
Air was introduced simply but j h a J opportunity of judging, as eye-wit-
which period we observed the cloth j Aristocracy,
gradually rising in a conical form ..vet] There are men—we blush to call
the spot where it covered the flower! them men—who turn up their noses at
pot, until it had risen about a foot and a \ tlie mechanic, anti hutnhle laliorer.—
half, when the cloth was again with- Being liberally educated as it is called
drawn, and to our increased amazement' —they look down with a sort ol c
we beheld ihe tender plant grown into a j tempt c
hose, who in some cases liave
small shrub, regularly formed, clothed I contributed to their support. “You
with verdure, and having its branches need not despise a spinning wheel,
covered with buds and leaves. The said an old lady to her pompous son
placing, re-covering and re-mutter- j “ lor many a night have I worked at it to
were all severally renewed, and i get money to
effectively, by lathing the upper half of
sunk down in an instant, eight-and- j a broken bottle, with the neck oulei most,
twenty metres below the level ol its ■ into the walls which supply the houses
court-yard. above with water, and which had been
When all the labyrinths of the quar-i made to descend through the quarries
Ties were inspected, and plans taken of to the ground below, like so many round
them, the alarm of the Parisians. was.| lowers. By uncorkingihes^.buule-necks,
far from being abated. Every quarrier l air is let in at will. As regarded the
had habitually w.orked it appeared,' catacombs, the bones lay ’in heaps thir-
where he chose o’where he could ; and, * ly yards high in some places, and the
in many cases, excavation was found j workmen had to make galleries through
running to almost interminable lengths, them, ind pile them along the walls ■"
W. H. H. WHITE,
merchant Tnllar,
or to Alexander'* Drug Store, College Arena
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
William A. Lewis,
ATTOllWEYAT LA IF,
Ccmming, Forsyth Oe, Ga.
If Will practice in the counties composing the Che
rokee Circuit All professional ami other business en
trusted to hi* management, will meet with prompt and
!faithful attention. Dec. 3.1847.
And held
They
tabling tlie!
fjnn, too, with unturned sides,
ed beauty gave;
And a* a bark at anchor rides,
She rode upon the wave.
Tlie sea was like the lieaven above
As perfect and as whole,
Save that it seemed to thrill witli love,
As thrills the immortal.bouI.
The flowers, all folded in their dreams,
Were bowed in slumber free,
By breezy hills and mnnnuring streams,
O. & A. K. CHILDS,
Watch-Makers and Jewellers*
he*, Clock*, Jewelry, Silver, rioted and Bri
II. T. Peeples,
GROCERIES, DRY GOODS, HARDWARE,
T. S. REYNOLDS,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL CONFECTIONER,
Jack*on-Strrtt—A THEWS, GA.
T. BISHOP,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCER,
Wo. 1, Broad Stre*L~.A THEWS, OA.
A. J. BRADY,
DEALER IS DRY GOODS d GROCERIES,
No. 7, Granite Block, Brosd-*treet__.AT1IENS. GA.
FERRY * CO.,
MAT»,^TaI»»?IIOOT», SHOES, TRUNKS, fce
Broad Street—t THEWS, GA.
y chanced t
No guilty tears had they to
No sins to be forgiven;
They closed their eyes ami
Right in the face of beat
while the pillars that had been left were
found, in almost all cases, to be totally
insufficient to bear permanently the
enormous weight above. In various
stances, the roof had sunk considera
bly, and in others, large masses had
actually fallen, rendering it almost
marvellous that the city should not long
before have become a mass of ruins.—
The great aqueduct of Arcueil, which
passed over this scene of hidden peril,
had in reality suffered some shocks, and
if the risk had not been timely discov
ered, it can scarcely be doubted that
the ultimate issue would have been, the
t her bleeding heart
world of our*,
ughing wind behind
hair—
A playing with my hai
The breezy linger* of th.
How cold and me
1 heard the night hit
It* soft encliantinf
I never lieard such *•
egular order. Such as exhibited dis
ease, were arrauged into an osteologi-
cal cabinet. In short, order and securi
ty were, for the first time, truly intro
duced into the arrangements of this
subterranean world. ,
The catacombs of Paris remain, gen
erally speaking, nearly in the same con
dition as left by RI. de Thury, though
various miuor improvements have been
added, to render the place more interest
ing to visitants. Three staircases, of
which the best known is that of the Bur-
riere d’Enfer, conduct the modern vis
iter into the vaults. On entering, i
black line is to be noticed traversing
charging of the quarries with water
and the sapping of the city. The com-! the centre of ihe passages, and forming
mission began its work of cure, aided J a guide through them, which the most
by a very large body of workmen.— j familiarized visiter cannot safely neg-
Great pains were taken in cutting gnl- j lect. On the right and left^ofthe first
lenes trom labyrinth to labyrinth to as- j gallery, that ol ihe Rue bt. Jacques,
certain the extent of the mischief, and j several others are seen stretching away
in vaulting and propping every part j under the plain of Mont-Rouge.-—
that seemed to require such support.— The visiter cannot penetrate far until be
The extent of the quarries, however,' sees startling marks of the fall o. rocks,
rendered the labor gigantic, and, long and beholds stalactites hanging down id
ere matters were permanently put in j abundance from the walls. In the gal-
order, the happy idea of convertingj l er y under the Rue bt. Jacques, is also
these excavations into receptacles for j f een l he great aqueduct of Arcueil. with
the refuse of the charnel-house of the i its supporting columns. # ,
Innocents, had occurred to M. Lenoir, j By various sinuosities, the visiter ar-
the inspector of the city police. The j rives at the gallery offoot Mahon, so.call
suggestion was made public, and ap-. e d frornasculplured view of thetakingof
proved of by the council of Stale, who, j that fort, executed by Decurc, an mva-
tn 1785, decreed theopeniug oflhe char- j hd soldier. He perished ^hereby a fall
nel-pits of the Innocents, and the re- j the rocks, while the chiHP* yet
moval of the bones of the dead to the * n hi^hand. ^A fountain
quarries. The first step was to make a
those who have had the benefi; of ocular
demonstration, that they must appear
to those who have not had that oppor
tunity affordod them as the tales, or
long-hows, of travellers. For our own
part, we must confess that we should
have ranged ourselves among lhe ranks j i^wereall’Mvcrafly “renewed." nod | gel money "to°.en.l you to school.—
after the lapse of half an hour the cloth j There nru women, too, who will not
- u- was once more removed and the amaze-j touch a needle with their delicate
nesses, of the truth of the facts which , , he . tatl , r3 was considerably ! hands, who laugh at the poor ondtn-
we are about to describe. ! augmented by discovering that the shrub j dustrious, who learn trades or work in
Having received marks of attention ; * clothed in blossoms and How- 1 the factories for a living. “ La! how
and hospitality from various friend. i ; „ arance re3em b|i,,g ,hosc of unrefined they are,” she says with a
was incumbent to return such civilities, . 6 scornful smile..as she lounges on the
and it became a shlijectof no little sohci- . £ casket of wondcrs> the 1 sofa, reading the last pink novel. Wo
tude how we best might cater for their! leak-wood box. was called into requisi- ; once knew a lady—shall wo call her
amusement. This latter, it must he ^ d 0re \], hav ing been opened, hidv ?-of this complexion. She was
confessed, at the period was a matter^ wonJer . worker therefrom a loudly h,-laboring a poor, hard wnrk-
ol no small difficulty, in a new colony Uommon round earthenware while and jing girl, calling her low and unrefined
like Hong Kong, composed of raw ma- about two leel in diameter, ! —“ Why,” said she, “her father was
“rials, and unltcked into shape. At j^ lhereon aboul . Ullll „ r un b„il- 'nothing but alow mechanic.” “Yes.
length, lifter frequent consultations ^ this he handed round iu the remarked a woman present, “ her fathor
•* ■ h manner’previously described, and we j was a mechanic. I knew him well, for
took the platter examining it more nar-t lie lived in the same neighborhood with
rowly than any of the former articles, 1 your mother .when she went out a wash-
resolved that this time there should be j ing.” There, reader if you had been pre-
no mistake. All this time, it must be sent, you would have seen a strange
kept in mind, that although the necrom-1 confusion of face, and heard a vain at-
ancer could see the box, it was kept] tempt to utter something too prickly to
closed, at a distance from him, and he j come out. Il stuck in her throat. When
never approached it during his opera- we hear men or women speak rightly
lions, so that it was perfectly impracli-1 ol the industrious part of the communi
cable lhat he could abstract any thing! ty, we feel just like tracing back their
from il during that time. He now put j genealogy. We have done so in sever-
the plate of rice in the centre of the i al instances, and you would be surpns-
ige.consism.g an(J covere d it with the cloth, and , ed at what we learned. 1 he most ar-
lords of t e aUl ,,g down, he varied the perform-j istocratie man of our acquaintance is
this time by pulling his hands un-. the grandson of a fiddler; ihe proudest
the cloth, scrupulously keeping his i woman, the daughter of a wash woman,
s covered up to the elbows, and ! Il betrays a lack of good sense to con-
with our compradore (who is a bead
servant or butler,) ns to the practicabil
ity of inducing a celebrated juggler of
Canton to transport himself to Hong
Kong, and exhibit his various acquire
ments to us “ red bristled barbarians,”
the aforesaid compradore announced
to us, with much official importance,
that the celebrated individual had ar
rived in the island. Invitations, in due
course, were issued and accepted with
alarcity—recreation of any kind being,
at that period, in that lugubrious colony,
rare—and a large assemblage,consisting
for the most part of the
creation, arrived on the evening in ques
tion.
The room in which the performan<
Miscellaneous.
Catacombs of Paris.
Lampkln & Gobi),
DEALERS IS DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, dt , .
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, | .
Wo. 1, Mitchell* Block, Athi
entrance into the quarries by a flight
of seventy-seven steps, and to sink a
shaft from the surface, down which the
relics of mortality might be thrown.—
, At the same lime, the workmen below
The origin of the great catacombs, or . walled off" lhat portion of the excavation
I receptacles for the dead, attached to ] designed for the great charnel-house,
1 ‘“pilal, is iu every point of j ant ] properly supported the roof. On ] again * but
eftd by the worktprf^aSTir basin
made for their use, with a serial! subter
raneous aqueduct. Il was first called
the Well of Lethe; and was inscribed
with a couplet from Virgil; but a Scrip
tural quotation, more appropriate to the
place, now marks its site; “ Whosoev
er drinkelh of this water, shall thirst
took place was'denuded of every arti- ,
cle of furniture, with the exception of j
chairs, which were arranged close to the
walls, for the convenience of the spec
tators, thus leaving the floor unmatied,
and a clear and wide arena for the per
former. At the hour named the great
attraction of the evening was introduc
ed by the compradore. He was atlired
in the ordinary dress of the middle
rauksof Chinese,which consists ofloose
jacket and trousers, with while calico
stockings and black silken shoes, em
broidered with blue, and white felt
soles, two inches thick ; he had no cov
ering on his head, and was followed by
his coolee, or servant, bearing an un-
painted teak wood^box, of about three
feet by two feet in size, who placed it
in the room and retired. The ju
commenced operations by placing
box in" the centre of the room ; he then
then commenced divers manipula
vehemently and loudly muttering his v
incantations; this continued for the j h
space of half an hour, our necromancer j
never budging from the sjH»t, or chang- ,
ing the attitude which he had first adopt- j
vhbso
Newton & Lucas,
r GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE. Lo,
Wo. 2, Granite Row iTHEWS, GA.
R, J. MAYNAKD,
(Over th* “ Southern Danner" Office,)
curious and interesting. I’revi- lbo 7Y1, of Aprif,'17S0^ all The prepara- ] water I shall give him,shall never thirst
lions beintr comnleteil. the new cala- ! Lul the water that I
Barbcriue and Halr-Dronlng.
HANSEL, DILLARD,
R ESFECTFU LI.Y infixm. thr dtixons of At!
and the public generally, Umt he will, at all tirw-,
lx* found at hU Shop, happy to accommodate those who | the
ously to the latter end of last century,
the burial-places of the city were in a
condition at once disgusting and des
tructive to human health. One of the
early French Kings had bestowed a
} piece of the royal suburbs and grounds ]
of the inhabitants as a place of inter- 1
men!,and this spot, the site subsequent-
j ly of the Church of the Innocents, con
tinued for nine or ten centuries to serve
as the sole or principal receptacle for
l i the dead in Paris. Not only was this
se, but the cemetery was also ap-
him with their patronage. Athens, Aug.’48. ] plied to its purpose in a manner unusu-
“ piTvg ^ I ally dangerous. Large pits were form-
D AU.KY-3 Af.,;™/ P°.’ ExttAttor.in.Avdim- 1 cdicacli .djout thirty Icel deep and uven-
mediafe relief in all Bum*, Scald*. Pile* and ly feet square, and tulo these coHins
Rheumatism. For sale by . _ j were lowered, one tier above another,
A. ALEXANDER*CO, "Xout any intervening earth, until the
YAW HOIITEW At BARRETT, j pj| S W cre filled. Each was then cov-
coach-makers, ATHENS ! cred .with a thin layer of soil. The
Bao leave to inform their friends and the \ e l f
egg? publicgtroeralir, that they have removed to j common number of bodies cast into ev-
t * "—their NEW SllO
, lot twlow the
—where they hat
'VEHICLES, and are constantly manufacturing all dc-
. amounted to from
twelve to fifteen hundred; and,
thirty years preceding 1780, nearly
ninety thousand bodies bad been thus
deposited in the cbarnel-holes oflhe In
nocents. Once in every thirty or for-
AiA Notice. 1 ty years, it had been customary to exe-
UmBk Th* subscriber still continues to keep open culfi t |, e J r Jghttul task of opening and
1 emptying these pits; but i„ the case of
3Ian and horse, per dav, St 50 ; great numbers of the older one, this
.■ -."i-wimiS ! rusk iitul long ceased to be fulfilled, and
— —— ! they accordingly remained unmoved,
PIANO-FORTE AND ORGAN. j though so choked up with the matter of
tions being completed
combs were consecrated with much so
lemnity, anti on lhat same day the work
of removal began. Bones and partial
ly-preserved coffins were brought by
night to the shaft in funeral cars, fol
lowed by robed Priests chanting the
service for the death The nature of
the task, the glare of the torches, and,
above all, the hollow rattling and echo
ing of skeletons, boucs and broken wood
their fall down the shaft, sent back,
as the sounds were, by the vaults be
low, reudered the whole scene peculiar
ly impressive and awful.
But the relics of human beinj_
their ordinary condition, were not the
most remarkable part of the materials
transferred from one site to another on
this occasion. The pits of the Innocents
exhibited immense masses of the soft
white substance called adipoi
which the bodies had. been converted,
,. „. look with contempt upon any
ious person. The good respect and
goodn
ss wherever it is found.
“Never Catcli a Weasel asleep.”
A quack naturalist was lecturing to a
|country audience upon his lavorite
‘w t observed sundry movements un- ! subject. An intelligent bearer notic-
dcr the cloth at divers limes, and in va- ing some wretched blunders as he pro-
rious places ; il appeared to he raised ; ceded, al last called him to order with
from the ground, until the whole pre- | -“ Hold, good sir ? you have.once..la-
seated an appearance not unlike the ] ted that a weasel has hirty-two teeth,
uneven surface and undulation o! the | and just now remarked that lthaslbtr-
inodelof a hilly country. Al the exp.- ; ly-tour. “ e XJ.1 n..1 . — Does
ration of the half hour, he arose and re- tlie numskull imagine, said tho lectiir-i__
moved the cloth, walking round and er, looking .around among ihe crowd,
carefully gathering it up by the tour j lhat there is but one weasel» 1 was
corners^which being thus raised disoov- [just speaking of aoenur.W
ered to our view, arranged in sy.nmetri- individual trom that alluded to ,m the
cal ortler, six dishes or plates similar to commencement of my lecture Be.tdes
that which had been handed round, hut] It may be supposed that the first one
of various sizes, and these were filled , had lost two ol his
teeth, before exami-
stripped off his jacket, thus appearing ycooked "edibles peculiar to ! nation was made.”—This was of course,
in a state ol nudity from the waist up-1 nlr ^L and among i|,cm was a ! perleclly salishtelory.—Manchester Met-
wards, having a while cloth twisted . of bai | ad rice . but where the dish j sengcr. ,
around his loins. ... I of unboiled rice had vanished or wheuce
ply pi
shall give him, shall
be to him a well of water springing up
into everlasting life.” Il contains a few
goldfish, which seem to bear that dark
a bode, very well, as we find them men
tioned by visiters of both 1S18 and 1S32.
A few other inscriptions are to he found
here, such as Dante’s famous line :
Leave hope behind, all ye who euter here.”
A fire is also kept burning, in an anque-
ly-shaped vase, to purify the air of the
vaults.
A mineralogical collection of some
interest has been formed from the vari
ous strata composing the sides of the
galleries. But the most interesting col
lection here is the Museum oflhe Dead.
On approaching the catacomb galleries,
ihe visiter finds the vestibule to be , in
the form of an octagon. The gale is
Hanked by two pillars,.and is inscribed
above with some lines of poetry. The
| interior of the catacombs is arranged
* | with propriety and decorum. The
drinkelh of the He nextopenedhbhox, and took there- ; h tl j erC , amply provided... ,
from an ordnutry bj-or bowl, about; ^ with ready V.=ed food, it ^
ix, leaving '‘exposed ( h conce ivable how he could | J'
pletely to oor view ; he then walk- , have arranBeil lllese sis ,11,1,08 without ; <1*
ed round the room, allowing each
eighteeunnehes in diameter,
the lid of the box,
vidual separately to inspect the basin,
"e it—the whole of the time
talking in his native language, which
we afterward learned was a species of
incantation. We were all sufficiently
satisfied that the basin was an ordinary
one, and perfectlj’ empty. He then
placed it on the floor, about five feet
from the box, untwisted the cloth Ir
round bis waist, which was in €
about a yard and a half long, by
wide,and which be threwovr - * 1 ”* 1
preading il out, continuing
A Beautiful Extract.
Labor /—Why, man of idleness, labor
you in the cradle, and has nour-
pampered life ; without it,
silks and wool upon your
back would be in the silkworm’s nest and
i_ j have arranged the*
' moving from one spot, asi those^which , the shepherd’s fold. Forth®
larlhest from him, when the cloth , lncanesl l(l j„g ministers to human
of heaven,
was removed,
ably bo-
arm. The con-
viands with hi s
yond the reach of hi
juror recovered the
magic cloth.
After some time, we observed the
cloth gradually rising again in the ccn
tre, until it assumed a form somewhat
| conical, the apex of which was removed
about two feet or upward from the floor;
during the whole of this rising or ascend
ing process, the manipulate'
> toil; and even the air, by
; ordination, is breathed with
nly the drones who toil
! indebted I
I God’s wia
la bop. It , - . .
~ 1 not, who infest ihe hive of activity hko
j masses of corruption and decay. Tho
lords of the earth are the working men,
who can build or cast down at their
will, and who retort the speer of the
r .„,| “ soli handed,” by pointing to their tro-
retnaiiieu ■ -« : i er art, science, civiliza-
anity are known. Work
toil! thy.royally is yet to
ledged as labor rises on-
_ . *,7*11” , phies, wherever art, science, <
without removing fiom the spot where i an( , | lM(nun i, y are known,
he had originally squatted ; but he now ^ 0 |
assumed the erect posture, and again, ^ a J knov
for the last time, he raised the cloth, wart | lo t | ie highest throne of power.
Work on', in the language of a true poet.
I when wonder upon a
and which had been noticed under ... t -.-, „
ilar circumstances at former periods.— i crypts holding the divisions- of piled
Adipocire had some of the mingled J bones have each of them different names,
qualities of wax and tallow, being capa- j some of which are appropriate, others "
ble of use in the manufacture of can-! absurd. There is the e^vpi or niche of w «* er
dies. Respect, however, for what had | eternity, for example, that of Death,
once been the human body, of course j and that of the Resurection ? each mark-
dictated the^COnsigumenrof the masses jed by corresponding tn^eriptions.—
of adtpocire found in th® pits of the In- j There is also a niche for th*e T victims of
noccnts, to the new catacombs under the revolution, with some Latin lines
the paioe de Mont-Rouge. J above, which may be rudely English-
The catacombs of Paris received in ed—
the contents of the smaller ! *• These, when fierce Discordh*d usurped the throne.
bonders! There
I were the six dishes, which we had seen
each | arran S e:l flal and symmetrically upon
S ECEIVEDtonkTAsplendid SixOcureRosewood corruption as to rise above the level of
Raao-Forta, ofStodaxt A Dcxmah, New York.: , :; n ; n „ «t r pcl<: and seriouslV to j SUCCeSSSI— —
A T £4r nflcct the air in the' gmnndflat, o/the cemeteries
»»A^^“SSS : i 'Antons the iu T „ropri.t e ly named
31 1MS - At Mr. Mitchell. Hutch „„„ 00 „ bl f c ‘ ia °i| ha d been interred ' lion found a ready anil roomy abode; crypts may safely be reekoned those to
Dry Good,, Groceriez, & e. ,fnXee^ery!V .he lno“en,s: and and when the popnlar lury demolished
jwt,rairri«rnmA.w»Mfc as tbc mouldering bones, even when a number of the churches, the bones and some others, hate been applied.
ItWrauBjAramMUD? W "'Iu““ere cleaned out’tvere merely'lmlged in them after the old fashion, I An a bom. as might have, been antic,-
ss i **** — j - re r ved “-SLT.srrs'i rr'.t-cmarx ” r!>eQdases
i i»g a U o a ° a 11 \ haf H h ad “er Mmb.^d^^'^ihu^ipD. o f i The other galleries of th^sc great ex-
Nov.t.1848 i ** ^ sZTjlel ^c“e other minor cemeteries in and 'cavations need not he named or des
When aU men of sconce and sense; around Paris. Between ISOS and 1811, scribed m detail. One general feature
the neces*, new excavaitions made in the Cemetery j marks them alb and it is worthy of men-
lt the basin,
w during all.
the time his mumbling. In about hall
a minute he raised the cloth fr«»in '
basin, exposing it to view, when, to (
astouisliaicnt, it was filled with limpid :
water, and a fish of 3 or 4 inches long
was swimming about in il He took!
up the bowl, and handed it
spectator, as he had previously done, j :\ , ‘'l‘|r"i ar ” ort l e r r> commencing with the ;
and we satisfied ourselves that there j j arg ^ t al the bottom, each dir* 1 °°-
' Anecdote of Judge Parsons.
The bar of Essex county (Mass.! had
made it a rule that no lawyer should
ta ke into his office more than three 8ttt* *
the basin, he replaced it in the box. anil p“^”"" empt;ror 0 f t | ie conjurors now ! deut3 . Bur it so happened that tho
took therefrom a green flower-pot, filled l look }| - |3 j eave w j t h a chin-chin,” i celebrity of Parsons, then a practising
with mould, which was about twelve . me;uiill g, in good honest English, fare* > lawyer in Essex, had gamed him more
inches in height, and eighteen in duune- . we jj. h ; s coo lee removing the teak-! ,j,. m his dec share, and be was accused
Holding this In one hand and ex- ] wood buXj and some of our own domes-! before the bar, of having five students.
ocular deception, hut that Hie ccmdinVorder, being of diminished s
was indeed veritable and lbe I unli i t g e smallest crowned the top, the ]
fish a living one. . j f ( >od remainifig in the dishes, thus form-'
After we bad sufficiently satisfied j j a pyramid of alternate layers of,
rsclves, by examining lhe contents of j ea ^ihenware and viands.' 1
hibiting what appeared to be an orduia- j lics carr yj n g out the flowering shrub, in I i£ e cfenied the charge; but it bein S
ry seed in the other, he handed them | a j| j l5 pristine beauty, and the pyramid ■ c learl\' proven that ihe re *
round for inspection after the previous; v ;. llM j Sf D f t he latter ol which we h
WARE-HOUSE AND COMMISSION BUSINESS
r*TnXo»tta» .and 1 "; rrc l f !ginn *"§ ,nc of the IntitKeni's fl>r7he passaae'of a ca* i litin.iis tferoindltig us mnst furcibly that
pectaeles, but are to be la*
...ented as the possible sources of ca-
i the course of the next few years.— | lainiiy and ruiq.to ihe. grea^
iTi—- B<*i attention will bt |iren to the »le of cause of peril and alarm chanced to ■ nal, rendered it necessary
Cottooxad other prodoce, and the pmrha« of Easging gjjjmtc the city of Paris; but, fortu- j large qnantity o! adtlitional relics
“liSJSSSTTSr ty I nalely the oue was found capable of catacombs ; and a few oilier cllt
JU***, — serving t» a rcmcily for the other.— ami crtncteriM wcre emptied ,nm thorn
T tlie tm^rnedilalo vie pity ot P r-, and noure.l into tkero in all an immense ; lonoetl. Conslnul ailenlitm l.. them is positioa to
»«*»,■.»« P-risi- imperatively dvmaiifiea ,.. secure the
vifiplMMcloMitby oot«,Aiit t> neceesaiy tint . ° ’ . * . -nnnlv ans did not adopt the catacombs, as i safely of the capital of France, and the
SSTSriiiSE. •£?£%
« .—i :„».i r.;**l*» clerics above ground, though under ground above, l tus *is necessary
eoa’parativelvcxeellentrcgalatiuas• “
a— PITNE& A ENGLAND.
Brota Ffatct. N«rr. 2,1848. 5m
fashion ; he then made a cavity in tlie no dou j,| they partf>ok
mould* and placed the seed in iti cov- our frienH the emperor,
ering il carefully with the earth; be at-. ,| )em t | own with sutidry <
terwarrls set down the flower pot w here , f avor ; le sam s ] l0 o.
the bowl had previously rested, cover- — —
ed it in like manner with the cloth, and |
recommenced his mutteriugs, after j
which he withdrew the cloth, and we
beheld a young and tender plant in the ;
flower pot, about two inches above the
mould. This was of a beautiful bright j
green color, with the leaves folded about
ihe stem, one within the other, a*^
illy a healthy plant, bav ! —
freshness peculiar, w. one
A prudent and well dispot-
member of the “Society of I fiends, .
jrave the following friendly advice s •
P . .. . . , T. > I •» rt
lice five young gentlemen aiming at tho
in puny wnit | aWf i t was a matter of curious specu-
and washed | a iion among his legal brethren how he
ups of their -'would get himself clear of the accossr .
1 tion. “ Whv gentlemen,” said he, ‘‘I*.
1 have positively but three student*, and I
believe 1 can prove it to your entire sat-
'sfaction. It is true, I liave fire young
my office, bui then one of them, ts
rnct;« j was considerably undermined. Little
a LOTorNcsrqrii<*ytam s down tobt^’*of attention was paid to the matter till
‘ Not. 98, U4^ - , fi. T. PEEl’LES. J '_*fhoU§« drousCC SZ ftars mart re —- v lCsl J
_ all that
hich has;
John,” said he, .“. I bear thou art| u dandy, uni theother afiddler!"
s "“ O^rcplfod Jolin, •• I am.” | RT Ol.! how many ties there are to
“Well, rejoined the man of di ah, ‘Ubiutl the soul to earth. When the
have one little piece of advice to give , strongest are cut asunder, and1 the spir-
ihee, and that is, never to marry a wo-1 u feels cast loose from every» n
worth more than thou art. When J which connects it with
tresnnuss pcuuu... ; , r man wnrlli more than uiou an. will,-,, • \ .. . y •» m c
just burst from the parent earlli, but oft. married wjr<Jj j was worth just! impctcuptibly docs ono little tendril^at
Wh.u J.otanical species we are not in a fi( . ^ alld sbe was wort |, sixly-two ^ , e r another become cmwiued about It,
nositioa to determine. This was hand- ' t whenever any difference an d draw it back with gentle power. .
,„„:id by the enchanter, and exam
ined bf all, with the same leqlings and
expressions of surprise, but with no less
care and accuracy, than the water and.
fish which preceded it.
He again plaped it in its previous po
sition, re-covered it with the cloth, and
ecnmmenccd his incantation,s which
cents; and whenever any
has occurred between us since, she has j
always thrown up the odd shilling.
• CT Eighty one newspapers a
too, of which 14 are daily, 9 se
weekly. ,
Polishing.—A person jn a public com-
I pany, accusing the_Irish nation as be-
pnbtbtiedtn Bus- j 0 „ t he most unpolished in the world,
i-weekly, and 581 vvas an swered mildly • by an Irish gen-
I tleman, “that it ought to be otherwise,
for the Irish met with hard rubs enough
EEa lit 9BJ
W-Tbere .« 330 Churches™
tt New York city. > r