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Nl 1 iJ EDGEV1LLE, GEORG1A, SATLKDAV, JANUA HY 31, 182<f
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FRO* THE LOltDOO LITERARY GAZETTE.
NEBULAE.
In former astronomical papers, brief
sketches have been given of those won
ders in creation—subjects of n higher as
tronomy—which carry the mind beyond the
movements of this lower sphere, this re
mote province of the universe, to expa
tiate on the loftier pinnacles of the high
er heavens—systems of suns, performing
their revolutions about their common cen
tre of gravity, in vastly extended periods
of time—lost stars, those bodies which,
after shining for ages, gradually disappear,
and are no longer seen as glittering gouts
in tlie diadem of night—new stars, or
such us suddenly appear where no stars
were before observed, justifying the sus
picion, that these latter are new creations
which have commenced their measured
circling way, till the appointed period nr
pies of future systems of suns, planets,
satellites, and other tributary bodies ;—
these elements not in awful stagnation,
of Voorhurg, which is very near the ruins
1 have been mentioning. Your classical
readers will, not forget tlie account of that
hut through the whole, one Spirit inces-l Batavian (Sorunus) who lived at this pe-
forethe 15(h ofthislmontli. His tabf
bur, iqjd stables,willbewcllsupplied-
iiml he hopes to render comfortable
all who may call on him.
JOHN A. JONES.
(p* Carriages ami Horses will be kept for hire.
MHledgcviile, January 5, 1820.
MANSION HOUSE.
MILLEDGE Yll.LE,
GEORGIA.
rwyHE undersigned have engaged in business,
J under the firm of CARNES Sr MINE!!, and
purchasedthe old stand known as Mrs. Jenkins’, on
Hancock Sired, where they design keeping a
HOUSE OF PUBLIC
BJJPSIRTAIJJMEWT
ery little improvement to the lot, they
pleased to announce to their friends and the
nubbe generally, that their House, and its silna-
tiou, lias advantages far superior to any other in
illiliedgeville, occupied as an Inn, being retired
' from the crowd ; well arranged for families, and
perfectly convenient to Hie State. House, where
all business relative to Lands tire transacted.—
Friends and strangers visiting the seat of govent-
fuiftit, are respectfully invited to call and exam
ine the Mansion House. W. VV. CARNES.
C. MINER.
Milledgeville, January, 1829. 97
LAW.
MIIE undersigned having permanently settled
|_ in Milledgeville, oilers bis services to the
uiblic, in the practice of the Law, in tile several
ourts of the Uukinulgre Circuit, and adjacent
hiities. JOSEPH T. WILLIAMS.
Jan. 23. 92—tf
JaIe OF 114 HALF ACRE LOTH,
WITHIN THE TOWN OE
bv COLUMBUS.
Wf N compliance with an act of the General As
I Ja sL'itibly of tlie State of Georgia, passed on the
24th day of December, 1827, entitled “An ad to
lay out a trading town, and to dispose of tile lands
reserved for the use of the Stale, near the Coweta
Falls, on the Chattahoochee River, and to name
the sutne,” the Commissioners appointed under the
provisions of said act, will oiler tor sale, at public
outcrv, m the town of Columbus, commencing on
iJK, 23d day if MARCH next,
*frjrc tinniTd lots in said town of Columbus, enn-
gof ONE HUNDRED Sf I'UllTV FOUR.
tho realms of obscurity—the subject of
NebuliC, a still higher step in this wonder-
ous scale of progression, dimly telling us,
not merely of the existence of other suns
like our own, with each a splendid retinue
of planets, of solar stars connected to
gether by mutual gravitation, but of sys
tems of these, vastly separated in space,
yet almost infinite in the individual suns
that form the group, and these groups per
haps infinite in number, and scattered w ith
boundless profusion over the vast conca
vity of the heavens, while the whole of
each starry system is, probably, revolving
about some distant, stupendous, ant
speakeably resplendent, glorious centre. I tively perceive it us
Nebula; may he generally divided into two ijofij being nearly Id
kinds: one, a combination of innumera
ble stars, which, from their distance, have
the appearance of a faint cloud—a dis
tance so remote, as to leave the most pow
erful mind faltering in endeavoring to ac
quire au adequate conception of it; tiie
other, probably not so remote, though in
conceivably beyond our system of fixed
stars, composed of a luminous matter, of
the nature and destiny of which but a very
faint idea is furnished for conjecture.—
The most remarkable of this kind is that
in the sword-handle of Orion ; its irre
gularity of form suggests a resemblance
to the head of a monstrous animal, with
two horns of unequal lengths, making n
considerable angle with each other, the
lower one having an easterly direction ; an
unequal brilliancy occurs throughout, as
though one part was formed of accumula
ted luminous matter, assuming in some
snnily operating with sublime, unerring
energy—a process going on which illiini.
tnbly extends the fields of conjecture, as it
slowly urges its awful wav through this
boundless range—these mighty movements
and vast operations. How stupendous
the consideration ! Suns so immeasurably
distant, that the light of those which are
supposed to be contiguous, is three years
in traversing the space that separates them;
yet these connected with.each other, ami
innumerable others, by the simple princi
ple of gravitation—these stars, so nume
rous, that in the small compass of half a
degree, a greater number has. been disco
vered by the telescope, than the naked eye
can discern in the whole vault of heaven ;
anil vet there is ground for the belief, that
the whole of these millions and millions
of stars would melt into a soft tint of
light, supposed to be contemplated from
some remote point of space. The ga
laxy (to which belongs several stars of
the first, second, and other magnitudes,)
the cluster in which our sun is pinned, if
viewed from the bright nebula in the hand
of Perseus, would probably appear as an
assemblage of telescopic stars, ranged be
hind each other in boundless perspective.
Were we to pursue our flight to that in the
girdle of Andromeda,* it would diminish
ton milky nebulosity, and, still further to
extend our ideal flight, we should instnic -1
limly revealed—.is I
tided with the sur
rounding gloom, like those tmccrtaii ap
paritions which are only occasionally ecu
in tho field of view of a powerful teles
cope, when the air is refined and serene.
How grand is the consideration of the
| lenitude of space—no awful void, no
dread vacancy, no dreary solitude; inces
sant streams of light, from myriads of
systems, intersecting each other m every
direction, and bearing to the boundless
realms of creation, evidence of creative
power, benevolent design, and universal
dominion.
ijr.ptford. J. T. B.
riod, and whose dexterity exalted him, hit
ving shot an arrow in the air, to follow it
with another and shatter it in pieces be
fore it fell.
“ A grent number of tho tiles which
have been found among thu ruins hear the
incription ex. germ. inf. (Arm of Lower
Germany.) Some pipe-clay images have
been also discovered, and a considerable
Dumber of the coins of Trnjfii and Adri
an. Tim professor (Heavens) who has
charge of the excavations, compares the
buildings to some of the Roman nilhr in
England. Ho thinks, from the symmetry
of the whole edifice, that it was originally
only one extensive building, whose wings
he imagines he lias succeeded in tracing.
Such it appeared not to me ; for tho ground
is occupied by u great many small apart
ments, remains of baths, kitchens ami < -
vens. In ti pit filled with water, was found
a large water cask nearly perfect, covered
with an outer case of clny; the pit was
walled round with Roman tiles and bricks.”
ly engaged in the meleo, broke in pieces se
veral Turkish sabres, mid constantly arm
ed himself with a fresh one, taken from
tho Turks who were slain. Tho sub
stance from which these valuable sabres
are wrought is called taban\ and they are
proved to lie genuine when they admit of
being written upon with a ducat, or any
other piece of fine gold.”
Tlie story of this Russian Colonel is
pleasing to the imagination, which repos
es with satisfaction on the idea of a gen
tleman losing Ins head so unexpectedly;
hut it is not altogether consistent with pro
babilities, ns soldiers in action do not re-
who, as often as he was kicked and cuf
fed by tlie world, was sure to flog his wife
mid children, by way of balancing the ac
count. Another laid li.s nose pulled in a
hall-room, and instantly he posted oil" to
Ins lodgings and caned his negro. Lord
Byron used to swear when any thingwont
wrong with him—that old hear, Dr. John
son, swullbwed oceans of tea, and the im
petuous Alfieri mounted a wild horse.-—
livery one to his taste, and m this country
the taste is for n man to d u his news
paper incontinently, when ho become*
bilious. Let ns take a few examples.
A man wakes up with the tooth-ache.
quire an order to draw when the enemy is eats no breakfast, and gees off grumbling
* Tlie nebula in Atlromcdn is visible to tho un
assisted eye. and lias very much the uppearanre of
t comet, for which there is reasuii to b lieve it
has recently been mistaken.
' s eatf9S^
FROM TIIE NEW-YORlv EVENING TOST.
Roman Antiquities in Holland.—While
places the appearance ot solidity ; those j|, Italy excavations have been making a-
parts which mark die outline of tlie mouth
and eve of the fancied animal may be
better described by comparing them to
deep indented bays, nearly of a quadran
gular figure, well defined, and by its
brightness giving an intensity to the dark
ness of the sky that it surrounds, which,
in these openings, (probably by contrast,)
appears of an unusual blackness. The
brightest pan has by no mentis a uniform
aspect, but exhibits an unevenne
The sale to continue from djty to day. until all n
sold. One fifth of the purchase money xx ill be re
quired in advance, the Imluncc in four equal annual
instalments. ELIAS BEALL. like fleecy clouds ot a scirrhous or mol-
I’. L. DEGBAi'FENREID, j tied appearance, as if undergoing some
IGVCl!iSEW change of separation. This bright ii -
Commissioners for laying off the town of Co
lumbus, and the Reserve at Coweta Falls.
Columbus Jan 10, 1829. 57i
■HM/IEL be soltlin Laurens Comity, at the late
T » residence of Reubin Hicks, deceased,on the
pth day of March next, all tiie personal property
of said deceased, except negroes, consisting of
cattle, horses, hogs, and otherstock, household and
kitchen furniture, farming utensils, and a full set ot
blacksmith tools, together with other articles, too
tediunsto mention. Sale to continue from day to
duy until all is sold, and terms made known on
V Mie day of sale. THE ADMINISTRATE lit.
Jan, II, 1828. 97 td
k NOTICE
co-partnership heretofore subsistingbe-
-Bb .Wv'seji tlie subscribers, under the firm of J. D.
NlCIiOLS &.CO. is dissolved by mutual consent.
All persons iudebted to said firm, are requested
to make payment to Edmund C. Hathaway.
GUILFORD HATHAWAY
AMBROSE HATHAWAY.
JOSEPH 1). NICHOLS.
EDMUND D. HATHAWAY.
Mount Vernon, Ga. Oct. 1, 1828. f>7n
A NOTICE.
4 A LI, persons are cautioned against trading for
four notes ot hand, given liv the subscriber to Cross
R. Davis, to wits one dated some time in January
or February last, for .¥85, due 25th of December
following; two for $3lj each, dated some time in
November or December last, and due the 1st day
ot March next; and one tor $1350 cents, same date
and due the 1st day of June next; as I have paid off
said notes, or the greater part of them, and am de
termined not to pay them again, unless compelled
to do so by law. JAMES TABOR.
hu, 17.1829, 57c
A GREEABLY to an order of the Inferior Court
of Laurens County, when sitting for ordinary
Purposes, WILL BE" HOLD at die courthouse
door in Dublin, on the first Tuesday in March next,
the NEGROES belonging to Eleanah Loften, late
af Laurens County, deceased, consisting of two
likely negro women, and a very likely girl, about
12 veurs old. Terms of sale made known on the
day. ETHEL!)RED THOMAS, Adm'r.
Jan. 8, 1829. 5Gtd
GUARDIANS’ SALE.
W ILL be sold on the first Tuesday in March
next, in the town of Greenesborough, agree
ably loan order of the honorable tlie Inferior Court
of Richmond County, while sitting for ordinary
purposes, a LOT OF LAND in said town, known
and distinguished in the plan of srid town, by tlie
Wo. 11—eleven; and bounded as follows: on the
west, by main street; south, by lot No. 10—ten; east
by lot No. (58—sixty eight; and north by lot No. 12
—twelve. Soldas the property of William McGee
u minor.' Terms of sale, Cash.
. HOLLAND MCTYRE, Guardian
Flee .27. f)3td»
I ATI OUR months after date, application will bo
kJL made to the honourable the inferior court of
' Uecatur County, when sitting for Ordinary pur
poses, for leave to sell the lot of land No. 312, in
he 20th district of Early County, belonging to tlie
heirs of Augustus Leveke, deceased.
Oct. 10, 1828. II. F. SIMMONS, Guardian
t JOB-3? jU cf"?! *
SJAMR* E.’BW'4'EP AT TjriS *JTFtC)F.
irioti in some directions is abruptly termi
nated, and beyond ;t is seer, a fainter re
gion of nebulosity, while other parts gra
dually fade into that which is more diluted,
till it subsides in the gloom of the neigh
boring sky.
In these regions arc several minute
stars, one cluster of four, on the bright
part, of difterei.t colors, arranged in the
form of a trapezium ; live others in the
fainter part of the nebula, in tlie direction
of the southern horn ; other stars are scat
tered in and near the nebula, some of
which tire surrounded with tlie same mil
ky luminosity : one most striking peculi
arity is observed relative to these stars,
Unit the nebulous matter seems to recede
from them, so as to leave a dark space lie-
tween it and their brilliant points, as though
the stars were either repelling the nebu
lous matter or absorbing it. This is par
ticularly the case with those that form the
trapezium ; a similar appearance may be
observed in Sagitnrius,—a nebula is bro
ken into three parts, forming dark roads
through the luminous matter, leading to a
centre in which is situated u beautiful dou
ble Star. On one of the sides of the dark
openings before referred to, in the nebula
of Orion, are filaments or fibres of light,
which appear as if extending themselves
to the opposite side ; and on the sides of i
the head, in the direction of the northern
horn, are faint streams of light, not un
like the tails of comets; closely atljoin-
.iig to this nebula are several smaller.—
The whole sky for several degrees around
this constellation is not free from these ap
pearances; two, close together, one of a
spindle, the oilier of a circular form ; in
tlie centre of the latter is u sniull star ; a
sniuller nebula, at the entrance of one of
the dark openings, appears as if drawing
together into a star.
This is hut an imperfect description of
the present appearance of this magnificent
phenomenon, as recently seen bv Her-
chel’s 20 feet reflecting telescope; there is
everv reason to believe that it lias utidei-
gone considerable changes since it was
first observed by Huygens, in 16oG. A
careful comparison of the descriptions and
drawings of various astronomers seems
to indicate that the bright part of the ne
bula once extended over a larger spuce,
and that it is gradually receding towards
tlie stars that form the trapezium ; similar
changes are suspected in other nebula;;
in some instances smaller ones are formed
by the decomposition of larger. 1 hese
mysterious luminous masses of mattci
may be te/med the laboratories of the uni
verse, m which are contained the princt-
mong towns overwhelmed ages since with
lava, the government of Holland is em
ployed in uncovering tlie'reimmw of anti
quity buried at nearly us early a period by
the inundations of the ocean. At a spot
called Alircnhurgli, traces of an ancient
Roman villa or town have been discover
ed ; it has been purchased by the king, and
sixty laborers ure engaged in digging out
and laying bare its antiquities, tin; Dutch
not iin- newspapers contain minute accounts of the
progress of the undertaking. Urns, va
ses, rings, senls, lamps, coins and domestic
instruments bate been found without num
ber, and a Professor lias been appointed
and sent to the spot to direct the labors of
tlie workmen, and to see that proper care
is taken of whatever lie may judge worthy
of preservation. In an account given by
him of the undertaking, iie supposes the
placeto have been occupied with one btiild-
ingof great extent. Others who have sub
sequently visited it say, that it is obviously
a town or village with remnants of houses
of various sizes. As man; - urns of the
Lower Empire have been picked up there,
it is thought that the town could not have
been overwhelmed at an earlier period
than the fourth century. Coins, however,
have been discovered of a date previous to
tlie Christian era. Many of the vases are
of the most beautiful antique forms, and the
rings tire engraved with inscripitous. A
letter from the Hague, which has appear
ed in a Loudon paper, speaking of a visit
paid by the writer to the place where the
excavations are making, says :
“The most interesting thing thut 1 ob
served was, ti human skeleton of u female,
of which the Professor gives tlie following
account: “ The most extraordinary dis
covery of all is that of a human skeleton,
tlie uppermost half of which has been
found perfect in its original position. It
appears to lie that of a female, und is ly
ing with the head towards tin; east. Tlie
left arm is in a position with thu hand up
on the stomach, ns if it were supportinga
garment; the right hand rests opon the
bosom. Upon tlie throat, betvveecn the
cluviees, is a clothes clasp (/Linda), of the
shape commonly used by the Romans. On
the left wrist is a double bracelet, and up
on the left breast two loose clasps were
found. The head and the elbows rest upon
loose pieces of brick. This discovery is
the more remarkable, as the body lies with
in the circumference of the building, near
to the best preserved hypucauttum, of the
central parts. There are some slight in
dications that ush urns were also there.—
The impression it left upon my inind wus,
that it was the remains of some person of
distinction, who had died a violent death,
most probably by the fall of a building ;
and L am much inclined to think, from the
sandy appearance of the soil, and the im
mense quantity of household ornaments
daily dug out, that it was some Roman
station, overflowed in the third or fourth
century, by one of those calamitous visit
ations which mark the history of Holland
from immemorial time. The place was
perhaps dependent on, or may have form
ed part of the Forum Adriani, which A-
driau is know n to have established near
the Hague, supposed close to the village
Ischam's Picture of Charles V. In
one of his gossipping letters from Germa
ny, whither he had gone as Secretary of
Sir Richard Morysitie, Roger gives the
following description of Charles V. which,
in a few words, conveys us good nil idea
of his appearance, and of some traits of
his personal character, as might !>o ga
thered from the vvliolo of Robertson’s vo
lumes. There is nothing like seeing a
great man when lit; is divested of nil toe
jiomp mid circumstance which magnify
him in our eyes.
“ I have seen the Emperor twice, first
sick in his privy chamber at our first coin
ing. He looked somewhat like the par
son of Epurstone. He hud on n gown of
tufl’etty, anti a furred night cap of black on
Ins bead, Dutch-like, having u seam over
the crown. Saw him also on Si. An
drews Day, sitting at dinner. I stood
hard by the Emperor’s table. lie had four
courses; he Imtl sod beef, very good, roust
mutton, baked ham. The Emperor hath
n good face, a constant look ; lie fed well
of a capon. I have had a hotter from
mine hostess Barnes many times in my
chamber. II e and Ferdinando cat toge
ther very handsomely, carvingthoinselves
where they list, without any curiosity.—
The Emperor drank the best that ever l
saw: he had his head in the glass five
time's ns long ns any of us, and never
drank less than a good quart at once of
Rhenish wine.”
There is something exceedingly naive
in all this, and it reminds us of the coun
tryman who did not find the king “ nny
such great shakes, after all.” We can
imagine honest Roger Asclmm, watching
with tlie gravity of a judge, every morsel
th-it tlie Emperor took into his mouth, and
looking up at the great dial, to observe
how many minutes Charles’ head was in
the flagon, und perhaps slily making a
memorandum of his observations. The
Rhenish wine seems to run in his thoughts
a good deal, for he is perpetually lament
ing the necessity lie shall he under of los
ing this drink wlii'ii wc shall have returned
to England. In another letter he says:
“If you will know how 1 do, 1 think I
shall forget all tongues but the Greek afore
I come home. For understanding the 1-
talian, I am not well ; but surely I drink
Dutch, better than I enn speak Dutch.—
Tell Mr. D. Mndcn,I will drink with him
now a carouse of wine, and would to God
he had a vessel of Rhenish wine. * * *
Tell Henry Stilaud that [ am well acquaint
ed with Andreas Vesulius, thut noble phy
sician, and, asVuhan truly snith, the best
physician in the world, because he gives
hit\\pitcher-meat enough. * * * Keep
these letters secret.
This is the sage who, when lie visited
the Lady Jane Grey, mid found her read
ing Plato, expressed his lieurt-felt satis
faction that there vvas one woman in the
world with seriousness enough to derive
more comfort and pleasure from such a
hook, than in the amusement of hunting
with the nobility in the park.
[Boston Daily Advertiser.
advancing on them. According to an old
nautical story, tin officer upset at sea with
his boat’s crew, thought it necessary to
giv e tlie word to swim for the shore, but
wo conceive that such orders for self-pre
servation, if requisite any where, are only
requisite in the British Navy, in the mer
chant service of winch indeed seven men
lately suffered themselves to be bound and
butchered hv their Captain, from sheer
habits of discipline. As for the dexterity
with which the Spuliis sliced oil’that Rus
sian Colonel’s head while it was crying
drear, it reminds us of uu authentic histo
rical anecdote:—
A Sultan who was in every sense of the
word, a capita! swordsman, being dissatis
fied with his Vizier, signified to him his
sublime pleasure to take oil" bis lientl, and
in consideration of his personal regard for
Inin added, that he would do him 1 lie hon
or to behead him with Ins ow n hand.—
The Vizier Imped lie would spare him the
pain to his feelings. The Sultan assured
iiunlliat pain tin re would he mine. “Jus!,”
said lie, “ stand still, shut your eyes, and I
will, by wav of a sample, draw tlie hack
of the sabre along vonr iliroat. The cold
of the steel, which yon will then feel, will
lit; all that you will suffer when I really
proceed to your bona fide decapitation ” —
The Vizier accepted of this trial npu,i li
lting. The Sultan drew the sabre across
his neck not exactly in the manner promis
ed, then said, “ now open your eyes, and
tell me whether it hurt you”—“ not the
least,” replied the Vizier. “ Then shake
your lientl”—the Vi/.iertlid ns lie was hid,
mid liis lientl fell off, and rolled away on
tho ground. As the newspapers always
conclude, ii is needless to add thut the Sul
tan had in fact sliced the head from the
body, when pretending to shew only how
it would feel—Loudon Examiner.
Turkish Swordsmen. The following
paragraph is from Von Vnlentiui’s Mili
tary Reflections on Turkey:
“The superiority of the Turks in the
use of the sabre is founded partly on the
quality of the weapon .itself, and partly
on wlu/t may he termed their national dex
terity in using it. Tho Turkish sabre,
which is wrought out of fine iron wire, in
the hand of one of our powerful laborers,
would perhaps break to pieces, like glass,
at tlie first blow. The Turk, on the con
trary, who gives rather a cut than a blow,
makes it penetrate through helmet, cui
rass, &c. ami separates in a moment the
head or limbs from the body.—Hence we
“ ft's a slavish life that toe lead." * * *
* * * * Pass from tlie highest station in
life downward to the dregs of civilized so
ciety, & among all, in a greater or less de
gree, you meet, with the same discontent
ed feelings. The farmer, the mechanic,
the merchant, ami the professional man,
entertain tlie same opinion on this point,
and there is not one in a thousand hut will
tell you, if lie had not commenced his (ire-
sent course of life, he should have been
better to live in the world; and were ho to
begin again he should do something else.
It seems to ho a Jaw of human nature,
which none can gel over, that man should
ever be discontented with the situation in
which he is placed, and envy one where he
would find no more satisfaction, and per
haps less ease.
The plain matter of fact is, that every
situation is a slavish one. If a man is
poor, and compelled to labor for a liveli
hood, that man cannot reasonably expect
to live as he would live were he not com
pelled so to labor; if lie follows his busi
ness as he should follow it, he must labor
hard and steadily, early and late, in season
and out of season—nothing short will en
sure him a competency. It is not one kind
of trade or profession that makes a man
a slave, but it is the attention which ho be
stows upon that business. Home men of
tlie most simple culling in the world, sa- 1
crificc themselves upon tjic altar of appli
cation and industry, while others, who fol
low the most intricate handicraft work,
that demands more than all of their time,
rise in the morning without care, und, re
tire at ui'ilit without care. It is not the
trade, but the man, who wearies the system;
if lie do much of a less laborious employ
ment, it is equivalent to u smaller task of
harder work.
Mankind do wrong to keep up this con
stant croaking. Tiie task of all is hard,
und every one.knows it or ought to know
it. Man was made to labor—business of
one kind or another, is his element, and in
tin; discharge of its duties, he feels better
than in a continued state of idleness. By
indulgence lie unstrings tiie nerves and un
fits the organs to perforin their proper func
tions, and the mind, taking its tone from
the body, is consequently disabled and un
fit for enjoyment. Blue devils and hypo
chondria follow—the mind becomes taint
ed with melancholy...&the man who would
not become a slave to his business, becomes
n double slave, to his indolence. Every
to his place of business. He takes up bin
newspaper—finds something in it not ex
actly in accordance with his own opinions,
and instantly sends a note to tho editor*
with instructions to stop Ills paper.—II*
lias his tooth pulled in the course of the
day, feels the want of his paper the next
morning, and puts his mime anew to the
subscription list. “ Stop my paper !”—•
bawls A. B. “you arc opposed to the ta-
riIF, mid like n liberal man us I am, I will
not listen to \our arguments against it.”
“ Stop my paper,” shouts C. D. 4 you,
are a confounded Turk, and i’ll have no
thing to do with you.” “ Stop my paper,"
cries E. .F., “ you refused to insert a puft
for my newly invented flea-trap,*' “Stop
mv paper,” roars G. II., “ you have dar
ed to'express nil opinion of vonr own,
when von know that 1 thought differently.”
“ Stop my pater,” exeluims 1. J., “ I
cannot make a tool of you, and von will
not do for me,” anti so on till you come
to V. /. Magnanimous mortals, what
line editors you would make.
N. Y. Cou.
Built.!ph vj. Ives. A ease of»some no
vel!; mid nportunee tins been derided by
file Supreme (,'oiirt of the Stnte of New-
York. The action was brought upon the fol
lowing memorandum :
“May 14’It. 1891 Tide day, Stephen Ives,
hot one hundred dollars, to fifty dollars,
with John Phillips, thatNnpoleou Ronapart*
;vid,ai or before the expiration of two year*
('•trm the above dare, he removed, nr escape,
from the Island of St. Helena. It is under
stood between tho parlies, that if Bonaparte
should die within tiie above period of two
yearN, and on tho Island of St. lielenn, tlr.t
Mr.Jives loses the bet.”
Bonaparte died within the lime specified.
-The D]-trial Court, on e special verdict,
gave judgment for tho defendant, which was
affirmed liy the Supreme Court, the Chief
Justice and Justice Smith dissenting. The
majority declared,
“ Every bet about the age, or height, or
weight, or wealth, or circumstances and
situation of any person, are either maliciou*
or indecent, or impertinent nr indelicate; all
such lets are illegal, and that no court ought,
in any case, to sustain u suit on snr.li a wa
ger ; anil this, whether the subject of th*
hot was man or woman, or child, married or
single, native or foreign, io this country or -
abroad. I can perceive no principle of law
or jtisflep, which will require or permit the
tune of tho country nod its courts to he was
ted, to gratify the malice or curiosity, or
the caprice of the unthinking and imperti
nent. There me many things whicii polite
ness would not mention, and charily would
conceal, & 1 would not assist folly or mniig-
nity m making thorn public—I would not
as a man, and 1 will not as a judge. I hold
no bet of any kind about uny liuuian being
is recoverable in n court of justice.”
—
MELANCHOLY riUICIfE. £
A young female, named Unit e ,
the nigh! of the Kith instant, rerinmaied her
exlktepce by drowning, in the Itesin. The
evening previous, she hail retired to.hikl,
with another young female, at the house of
Mr. John Zimmerly, in (his borough, and
arose some time io tho night, unperceived
by her eouipauioii or the family, and pro-
reeded to one of the wharfs, ut the foot of
Fiench stieet, where, leaving her imtntlo
mnl shawl, she precipitated herself into (ha
Imsin. Hire was found early next inoming,
having drifted almost to the bhore. The de
ceased w«s about 2‘i years of a^e, anti was
a native of Whitehall, N. V., from which
place she came here, where she lias resid
ed about tvvo years. Hhe is represented ns
a young lady of tender feedings, amiable dis
position and industrious habits, and res
pected and beloved in families where she
tins lived. Depression of spirits, accompa
nied by delicAto heuith anil moat probably
aggravated by other cuuses produced tem
porary insanity, which, according to the
verdict of tlie jury, led to tlie fatal act.
[Erie Gaz.
seldom hear of slight wounds in an action \ movement is shackled, &. every necessary
of cavalry with the Turks. It is a well
known fact in the Russian army, that n
colonel, who was in front of his regiment,
seeing tlie Spaliis make tin unexpected at
tack on him, drew his sabre, mid was go
ing to command ids men to do the same,
when at the first word—draw, ins head was
severed from his body. *
“The highly tempered Turkish sabres
will fetch ti price of from 10 to 100 ducats,
even when they are not of fine metal.—
But, as Scanderberg said, such a sabre on
ly produces its effect when in the hand of
him who knows how to use it. It is rela
ted that at tlie storming of Ismael, a brave
foreigner, who served ns a volunteer in the
change of position or posture gives pain;
habit has chained him to a mental disease
that will attend him to his grave, and be
felt in the last struggle of dissolving na
ture. “ It’s a slavish life that we lead,”
sny all, high and low, rich and poor.—
None are content to he slaves, or able to lie
otherwise; so all use the universal privi
lege of complaining—and vent tjieirspleen
in words, which neither do nor can make
one hair black or white.
[TAtcrary Cadet.
^Jtopmy Paper.—Every man must have
some object whereon to vent his spleen—
“ erre.y etie bile” must have its way, or one
Captain Jones, of the barque Catharine,
states thut on Monday night, a decent dres
sed man cume on his decks vociferating
Hurrah for Jackson,” deliberately too$
oil his coat, saying he intended to die for
Jackson, and threw himself into the river.
The bystanders threw him a rope, which
he took, crying “ Hurrah for jaekson.**
But as tlie boat approached, to take him
in, lie swore lie would “ die for Jackson,”
let go his hold, and was actually drolut
ed !—Acw-Orlcans paper.
Eccentricities of No'Uketu-lotentilU at Noll*,
kein generally was when looking at works of an
cient art; in no instance, except when speaking of
F l.ixntan, did be depreciate the productions of
modern artists; on the contrary, lie lias frequent-
ly'said, wlisn lie lias been solicited to model a Lust,
“ Go taClianiry ; he’s the man lor a bust; he’ll
make u good liusto <br you; I always recommend
him.” He has been known to give an artUt who
could not afford to purchase it, a lump of stoue„
to enable him In execute an order, though at the
tame time i.e has thrown himself into a violent
passion with the cat, for baing the feather of an
old pen, with which hv had many years oiled the
hiuges of his gate when they creaked.
[AW/eiettAami his limit-
wS/lfSe
Tho bill to provide for an exploring ex
pedition to the Antarctic Regions, appro
priating Fifty Thousand Dollars there fur,,
Kusnaa army, and who wu* most apflve- gets the jnundico. Wc £>nce knew a maul has passed the House of Repre>eittaUr««.