Newspaper Page Text
86
which quarter the troops had succeeded in
driving the insurgents. On Monday the
troops with concentrated energies succeeded
in putting the rebels to flight, and before
night that league of desperadoes to whom
for two days the choicest troops of France
had yielded thousands of victims, was dis
persed and flying in all directions.
There are thousands of rumors afloat con
cerning the insurrection —many of them im
probable and some impossible, but the facts
are fearful enough to strike every hear* with
terror. At least ten thousand victims of this
sanguinary outbreak poured out their hearts
blood in the streets of Paris. The soldiers
suffered the most and although they obtained
the victory they bought it at a dear rate. It
is stated that at the barricade Rochechouart,
defended by less than two hundred men, one
thousand of the National Guards were slain,
while only two of the rebels were killed.—
I might give you a hundred details of the des
perate courage of the insurgents, Ammuni
tion was carried about in coffins even, and
women among the insurgents sold the excited
soldiers poisoned wine to drink!
The archbishop of Paris, was shot dead in
the streets while attempting o quell the tu
mult. Five general officers and live members
of the Assembly were also slain.
When the flight of the insurgents took place
in the direction of Vincinnes, —nearly six
thousand were taken prisoners and lodged in
the cells under the various palaces and the
Hotel de Ville and in the prisons of the city—
which were filled to overflowing.
To trace out succinctly the progress of this
terrible affair would require several letters.—
I have only glanced at the surface. The ob
ject of the outbreak was undoubtedly the pil
lage of Paris—nor did some of the insurgents
hesitate to bear banners inscribed with these
ominous words—Pillage! Rape! Death!
The National Assembly sat in terror, and
indeed, at one time the success of the mob
seemed inevitable. The bravery and fideli
ty of the Guards are beyond all praise—and
have saved Paris from annihilation!
The position of Lamartine in this affair is
to me exceedingly perplexing. Now we have
rumors of his arrest, and anon they are con
tradicted. It would seem however, that he is
in some way implicated with Rollin, Blanc,
and others, in the insurrection, and yet I can
not believe the supposition. Time willdevel
ope the mystery; but of one thing I feel sure,
that it was the result of deeply laid and cun
ningly designed measures, at the bottom of
which there must have been intellect and pow
er!
The new Assembly is composed of moder
ate Republicans and this fact is an augury
of good ; if indeed we will venture to imagine
that anything good can come out of Paris.
Gen. Cavaignac is spoken of as the Presi
dent of the Republic. The prisoners will
probably be sent to the Marqursas—though
the proposal to that effect in the Assembly
was bitterly opposed by Caussidiere.
This astounding rebellion has overshadowed
all other events, and I shall not trouble you
with English or Irish affairs in this letter, ex
cept to say that the formation of armed clubs
in Ireland is on the increase, indicating prepar
ations for a movement at no very remote day.
The Government is of course, forewarned and
therefore forearmed.
It there is no further insurrection in Paris,
o outbreak in Ireland; in short if nothing
transpires in the next ten days, to absorb the
public attention and throw in the shade all
common affairs, my next letter shall include
a variety of details concerning affairs in Lon
don, where at present however, even Jenny
Lind can scarcely drive out of the people’s
minds the sights and sounds of horrid wai.
This will reach you by the Niagara. She
takes the place of the Hibernia detained for
repairs.
Faithfully yours,
E.F.G.
©OITaS IB 53 Ba aTfHIEA IE I?
21 Column (£rcctci> to JFuu.
DUTCH TESTIMONY.
A steamboat once was all blown up:
Some passengers were drowned ;
An awful lot were “ missing,” and
A dreadful few were found.
’Twas some time after that a case
Came up before the Court,
Wherein ’twas asked —“ Where last was seen
The Reverend Haas Von Woort 1”
The witness who was on the stand,
Was Dutch as “ Zour Kraut ! ”
He and the reverend gentloman
Had been on board the boat.
His answers —being under oath—
Had been both clear and just,
Until he came to that one point
Wherein the boilers burst.
But then they were somewhat confused;
Three times his honor asked —
“ When was the last time saw’st thou him 1
Tell us the very last.”
For a long time the witness scratched
His head, as if in thought—
At length his brightning visage told
The date exact he’d caught:
“Te bilers burst — an every ting
Vosh scattered all aroun,”
An’ ash schmoke-bipe and I vent up,
Ve met him comin down.”
Cambridge Wit. —At a college, symposi
um, one of the party happened to tumble
down, when a boon companion roared out, —
“ How came you to fall I” “Notwithstand
ing” hiccupped the prostrate, attempting to
rise and begin a speech, which was marked
by a hearty laugh at his first long, and un
propitious word. An imitator thinking of
playing off the same successful humor, stum
bled in the nexl jolly meeting of the kind,
when he was luckily asked the same ques
tion, knowingly said—“ Nevertheless,” and
stopped,—astonished that no laugh followed
his joke.
- >
Mathews’ Last. —Mathew’s attendant in
his last illness, intended to give his patient
some medicine, but a few minutes after it was
discovered that the medicine was nothing but
ink, which had been taken from the phial by
mistake, and his friun 1 exclaimed :
“Good heavens! Mathews, I have given
you ink!”
“Nevermind, my boy, never mind,” said
Matthews faintly, “ I’ll swallow a bit of blot
ting paper.”
1 —i
Quincy vs. Bvles. —The celebrated Dr.
Byles having paid his addresses unsuccessful
ly to a lady who afterwards married a gentle
man named Quincy, the Doctor on meeting
her said, “ So, madam, it appears you prefer
the Quincy to Byles.” “Yes;” retorted the
lady, for if there had been anything worse
than biles, God would have afflicted Job with
it.”
< i
A Musical Pun. —One day, as Dr. Decker
and Judge Putman were listening to the mu
sic in the inauguration procession at Cam
bridge, the doctor said—
“ 1 have heard that they have a college band
here, Judge. Do tell me if these persons, who
are playing so well, are students'?”
The judge readily replied—
“ They may have been students , my dear
doctor; but I should call them footers , now.”
Murder in the Second degree. — A good
story is told of an officer in an Odd Fellow’s
Lodge, who was rather green in the perform
ance of his duties. He was engaged in his
part of the duty of initiating brothers into the
degrees, and ma le rather crooked work of it.
A wag who was present was asked his opin
ion of the performances. “ I think,” was the
reply, “that should be tried for murder
in the second degree .” —Lynn News.
i —i
Coming Home. —Reading an anecdote of
Admiral Lee, the other day, we were much
amused by the coolness and nonchalance he
is said to have once evinced. When a post
captain, the officer of his watch came down
to his cabin one very rainy and tempestuous
night, and called, “ Sir, the sheet anchor has
come home.” “ Indeed,” responded the fear
less son of Neptune, “I think the sheet an
chor is in the right. I don’t know what the
d— would wish to stay out such a nierht as
this” °
A young dandy, who supported an enor
mous moustache, asked a lady what she
thought of his looks. “ Why,” said she “ you
look as if you had swallowed a pony, and
left the tail sticking out of your mouth.”
Newspaper Analects.
THE HYENA.
Dr. Sparman tells a curious story of a hy
ena, which was told him at the Cape of Good
Hope. One night the soldiers had a feast
near the Cape, when one of them, who was
a trumpeter, drank so much that he could not
stand up. His companions not wanting him
in the room with them, carried him out of
doors and laid him down by the side of house,
to get cool and sober. The trumpeter laid
there, and went to sleep, when a hyena came
along, and thinking him dead, began to carry
him away, so as to make a meal of him with
out being disturbed. It was sometime before
the man awoke, so as to know the danger of
his situation. When he did so, he found
himself on the back of the hyena, who was
making off towards the mountain with him as
fast as possible. Being horror-struck at find
ing himself in the power of the ferocious
beast, his fear brought him to his senses and
seizing his trumpet which hung about his
neck he sounded an alarm. The beast think
ing he had only a dead man, was as much
frightened at the sound of the trumpet, as the
man was at his situation, so that dropping his
prey, they scampered away from each other
as fast as possible. It is not probable that
any other man but a trumpeter would have es
caped so easily.
1 >
MUSICAL GENIUS.
John Sebastian Bach entered a parlor where
a large party were assembled, while an ama
teur was extemporizing upon the piano.—
The performer had just struck a dissonant
chord, as he caught sight of the great master;
and he immediately sprang from the piano,
without touching another note. Tne host was
advancing to greet Bach, when, to the sur
prise of the whole company, the latter, unable
to endure such a painful termination, ran past
him, and reaching the piano before the keys
had ceased vibrating, resolved the discord,
closed with a popular cadence, and then turn
ed and made to the host his entrance com
pliments.
1 i
ABOUT FISH.
Humanity demands that fish should always
he taken with a hook and line, otherwise the
poor things are liable to he driven insane.
Female fish are fond of flowers, and plant
great quantities of roes in beds.
Fish are remarkable for their fondness of
learning, very aged individuals of the species
being often found in schools.
A Cockney remarks that fish are entirely
unlike Achilles, their’eels being almost invul
nerable. They possess no property and there
fore have no hairs. Fish are distinguished
for justice, possessing its attributes in a re
markable degree, many of them carrying the
sword, and all the scales.
The larger species are religious, and prey
continually.
The females are domestic, and make their
own beds.
When fish approach too near the top of the
water, it is supposed that they take cold in
their heads, although they do not cough, they
are liable to hawk V
Fish should avoid small heavy substances
which descend into the water attached to
lines—frequently it leads to their destruction.
None but honest persons should be allowed
to go a-fishing, there are such opportunities
to “hook.”
Although fish have no paper money, in
fact nothing but shiners, they often make a
run upon the banks. They have no fondness
for any kind of fruit except currents.
Which is to be the Man I —The opinion
prevails more and more generally, that the
solution of the present state of things will be
an attempt at monarchical reaction, whether
in favour of Louis Napoleon, who has been
already saluted, both in the departments and
in the capital, with cries of “ Vive 1’ Empe
reur !” or in favour of the Duke of Bordeaux,
who quietly looks on and bides his time. At
present, however, I think the chances are in
favour oi Napoleon- Whichever course the
reaction may take, it will meet with an ob
stinate, and perhaps bloody, resistance from
the ultra-democratic and anarchical parties.
—Paris correspondent of the Daily News.
Labor in the United States.— lt has been
officially stated that there are 3,719,000 per
sons engaged in agricultural pursuits in the
United States; in manufactures, 781,800- in
commerce, 119,600, in learned professions,
65,200: in ocean navigation, 55,000, and in
internal navigation no less than 33.000.
©pinions of tljc JJrm.
fisaT 1 We shall offer no apology for quoting
occasionally the language of our contempora
ries concerning our efforts, except that custom
authorizes it. Our friends will be glad to
know that the Gazette is appreciated in many
quarters, and those who are not yet of us may
be induced by the praise of disinterested par
ties to regard our Journal as deserving of their
support. We might multiply these extracts
to a great extent; a few, however, will suffice
to show which way the wind blows. Ed.
The “ Southern Literary Gazette is the title
of anew paper which has been recently com
menced in Athens, by Wm. C Richards, the
first three numbers of which have been receiv
ed by us. As its title imports, it is designed
to be a parlor journal, adapted to the wants
and tastes of Southern readers.. It is a neat
little sheet, handsomely primed,, and presents
a very fascinating exterior; Out like Antony
Lumpkin’s letter, “the inside is the cream of
the correspon ience.” The Gazette affords
weekly a most agreeable and entertaining re
past in the wide field of literary journalism
evincing tact, skill and ability on the part of
its editor. It, therefore commends itself in
more favorable terms than we can employ, to
the kind consideration and liberal patronage
of an intelligent public. Terms, $2 a year,
in advance. Ad iress W. C. Richards, Ath
ens, Geo.— Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel.
A Journal from the South. —We take
pleasure in noticing the aivent of an able
weekly paper, devoted to Southern interests
and Southern literature. “The Literary Ga
zette,” published at A thens. Ga., is under the
able management of W. C Richards Esq.,
well known in thai section of country as the
late editor of the Orion Magazine. The num
ber before us is filled with original contribu
tions, from such writers as Mary E. Lee,
Charles Lanman, etc., etc. A clever paper
entitled “The Listener,” not by Caroline Fry,
is the gem of the collection. We sincerely
hope the Southern public will support this
journal by ample patronage. It is an imperial
quarto of eight pages Teims $2 per annum.—
Neal's Sat. Gazette.
The Southern Literary Gazette. —We
are pleased to see this effort to furnish a South
ern public with light literature of domestic
growth, in a fair way of success. The gene
ral tone and style of the editorial department
is creditable, and its columns are enriched
with occasional contributions from writersnot
unknown to fame.
We cordially wish it may realize all that is
expressed for i t by a fair correspondent.— Geo.
Constitutionalist.
The Southern Literary Gazette is
the title of a spirited, tasty, and well-tilled
quarto, which has lately found its way to our
sanctum, from Athens Ga. The paper i§
brimiul ol choice matter, original and select,
and the typography is worthy of the contents.
As the publisher has spared no pa ns in getting
up the sheet in a style creditable to the South,
we trust the people of that section will not
permit it, as in the case of too many other
papers, to languish for want of a generous
support. The Gazette is published by Wm.
C. Richards , at $2,00 per annum.— Yankee
Blade , Boston.
Southern Literary Gazette. —The iirst
number of a weekly imperial quarto, bearing
the above title, lies before us. It i> published
at Athens, Geo., and is edited by W. C. Rich
ards, Esq., a young gentleman of fine literary
taste, with whose writings we have been con
versant for the last eight or ten years. The
Gazette looks well.— Western Lit. Messenger.
A Journal from the South.— The “Great
YVest'’ is not alone in appreciating the neces
sity ol extending the field of literary enter
prise. A Southern candidate for popular la
vor, has appeared at Athens, Georg a, which
bids fair to maintain an elevated position
among the weekly literary papers of the Un
ion.
The fact of the establishment of a Journal
in which talent and capital are investel, in a
section of our country remote from metropo
litan influence, is a cheering evidence of an
unceasing demand for mental aliment, suited
to the sectional taste of a growing and widely
diversified population.
The Literary Gazette , is the title of a hand
some imperial quarto of eigut pages, edited
by Wm. C. Richards, whose literary labor*