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VOL. X.
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tsttllanexms.
j France under the Domination of a
| Pretori an Guard.
i The empire of the first Napoleon was
The Hot Springs of Arkansas. j military in the strictest sense of the term.
Prof. I). D. Owen is now engaged in Bis qualifications^* a military man, and
a Geological survey of Arkansas. In a j llis exploits raised him to that position,
communication to the Little Rock Dem- I Adored hy the people, he was not less
ocrat, he says of the celebrated Hot 1‘l |e i<J (, l of the army, who looked upon
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June 10th, 135S— lv.
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Cassville, Ga,
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Mtrcb 18, 1858—It.
Springs:
There are said to be soipe thirty or
forty different sources whence hot springs
issue to the surface. I examined person
ally and look the temperature of twen
ty-five, and found them to vary from
106 deg. to 149 deg. of Fahrenheit ther
mometer, manufactured by Kendall <fc
Bro., London. It is said that the hot
test have been found to range as high
as 150 deg. to 156, but it is a question
whether this difference is to be account
ed for by variations in the scales of dif
ferent thermometers, or whether the
springs are themselves intermittent in
their temperature. I only found one
rising as high as 149 deg. one 147 deg.
two 142 deg. the others ranging from
134 deg. downwards.
These Hot Springs of Arkansas are,
so far as 1 have been able to learn, the
hottest springs in the States east of the
Rocky Mountains; for the “ Hot Springs
of Virginia” only range from 100 to 106
degrees, according to the accounts pub
lished of those springs in 1854, bv John
J. Moormen. M. D., and the average
temperature of the “Warm Springs of
Virginia” is stated, by the'same author,
to be only 98 degrees of the Fahrenheit
scale.
From the numberof these springs and
the variety of temperature,. baths of
any required temperature might be fur
nished to invalids and bathers at a mo
ment’. notice. At. present however, they
are all conducted into a common gutter
that, supplies the reservoirs over the
bath-houses, and, when drawn oft" for
the douche or for the bath-tub, the wa
ter is usually at a temperature'ns hot as
the skin can bear it, and often hotter.
Those who have not been accustomed
to appreciate degrees of heat by. the
Fahrenheit thermometer will he able to
form a correct idea of the temperature,
from the fact that the hottest of them
are just the right temperature to scald
hogs and take featheis oft’ chickens.—
The. water i’ one spring is conducted
into the kitchen cf the hotel, which
there serves for a variety of useful pur
poses, and economise fuel.
Where these hot springs have flowed
down the slope of tlie hill they have de
posited in their course calcareous tafia,
which has coated the entire surface
down to the edge of Hot Spring cieek
witli a crust and wall of porus carbon
ate of fline; some of which, recently
formed, is still in the state of a soft
mud; other portions aie more or less
indurated. But lit tle of it has, howev
er, acquired the solidity or retained the
purity of color of the travertine deposit
ed from the hot springs flowing from the
flanks of the Appenines, in Italy, and
which has been employed in that coun
try in construction of St. Peters and
some of the most noble and elaborate
architectual structors of that country,
and-forms the precipitous and pictur
esque cliffs around Tivoli.
My chemical reagent case being at
my camp in White county, where the
geological survey is now progressing, I
have not been able, on this occasion, to
make a thorough test of the constitu
ents of the hot springs; but I have ap
plied such as I could obtain in Dr.
Hammond’s office, at the hot springs,
and find the following ingredients:
'Carbonic, acid, lime, magnesia, and
alumina ; also silica, chlorides ; probab
ly both of soda and potash. •
Judging from the curative properties
of these waters, I expect to find in them,
when they come to be thoroughly ana
lyzed, carbonate of potash and soda ; as
well as iodides and bromides of these
bases, since, in roost eases, grandutar
swellings and visceral obstructions seems
to be removed and reduced by the use
of these waters. To detect these salts,
him as one of themselves. With these
latter, his will was law. They had only
to receive an intimation of his pleasure,
and they hastened to do it. Probably
no man ever before had such complete
sway over so vast a number of soldiers.
The throne of the present Napoleon
is likewise supported l>v the bayonets of
the army. Without this prop it would
probably have long since fallen, for he
has not the hearts of the people, as the
old Etnperor had. It seems to be sus
pected. likewise, that his authority oyer
liis army i* much less absolute than was
that, of liis uncle. Indeed, there is rea
son to believe that the army is the ru
ling power in France, and that the Em
peror is but a puppet in their hands, as
the Emperors of Rome, in her decline,
were in the hands of the Pretorian band.
The following circumstances, to which
we believe we have not before alluded,
although it has been the subject of a
vast deal of newspaper comment, seems
to confirm this opinion :
A certain M. Perie, editor of a jour
nal in Paris, which, from what we can
learn of it, we take to be of the same sure -
character with the London Punch, or
Charivari, lately made some humorous
strictures upon the army. The strictures
were said to have been written in per
fect good humor, and were not of a
character to give offence to any person.
Certain officeis of the army stationed in
Paris, however, took it in high dungeon.
They met to the number of forty-three,
at a cafe, and determined that the edi
tor should be forthwith challenged. A-
uiong so manv, the challenger could
only he determined on by casting lots.
The person immediately sent his cartel,
which was accepted, and the whole body
of discontented officers went to witness
the combat. It was not of long dura
tion, the editor having slightly wounded
the challenger in the sword-arm, which,
according to the rules of the duello, o-
peiied the way for a friendly parley. In
this parley, the editor apologised, expres
sing his deep regret at what had occur
red, and declaring that he had never
meant to offer any insult to the offieers
of the army. Not satisfied with this
apology, and being bent on taking the
poor editor’s life, another officer, said to
be one of the most expert swordsmen in
France, came forward and struck him in
the face. The consequence was anoth
er due', in which the editor was run
through the body, and desperately, if
not mortally wounded. It seems the
whole body of officers, forty-three in
number had conspired against his life,
and he was to be compelled to fight
them all, one after another. We believe
the editor was still living, at latest ac
counts.
Now, we cannot believe that any ru
ler is so lost to all sense of shame, as to
countenance, of his own accord, so foul
and infamous a conspiracy as this. Yet
this is the attitude which Napoleon III
maintains towards the world with re
gard to it. He has not had one of the
conspirators arrested, has not spoken
one word in reprehension of their con
duct, lias even gone so far as to prohib
it all comments of the press. Not a word
has been published about it in any of
the Paris papers. All these things uni
ted prove to us, what we had not believ
ed before, that the Emperor of the
French is in the hands of a Pretorian
band, and that they will strip him of bis
crown and set up the Empire to sale,
whenever they feel so disposed.
The transaction in question has de
veloped another state of affairs which we
were not prepared for..We allude to the
Memphis Notes hy the Yard.
Quite an excitement occurred in Memphis,
Tennessee, on the 13th inst., in consequence
of the failure of the «.Citizens' Bank'’ of that
city, by which many poor men ^nearly all
the depositors were of that class) lost their
all. Threats were made to demolish the
The Eighty-three Millions Roorback.
The New York Courier <fc Enqoirer,
in a long editorial about the “heedless,
ruinous extravagance” of the adminis
tration, had tiie following:
“It exceeds anything of the kind ever
before known to the country. Mr. Buch
bank building. The Avalanche gives the fol. • anan has been iu power but little more
lowing incident as having occurred on that, than a year, and yet has pushed the cost
day: ..When the crowd gathered around the j of government from fifty-eight millions
Citizens'Bank yesterday morning, composed l—which had been complained of and
mostly of mechanics and working men, with I justly to, as an excessive figure—to over
here and there a woman, and at intervals,
some poor market man, we observed a little
fellow with a wonderfully exagerated nose,
who had a package of the Bowlegs notes in
his hands—some one asked how much he
had, he said, .these bills amounting to three
hundred dollars, are the profits on my labor
for six months past—look at my hard hands
and see how I have toiled; I have a wife
and children, for whom I must buy bread,
and for whom 1 must provide a shelter and
a home, but gentlemen it is ail gone, they
may be housMess wanderers, and homeless
beggars, if I should knuckle to this n isfor-
tune. It is all gone.’ This little gentleman
with the Slankenbergius nose which we read
about in Tristam Shandy, at this point in
bis speech .humped’ himself, and began to
lay his wildcat bills in a row down the cen
tre of the 3treet. When they were thus dis
tributed he turned to the crowd saying.—
.•Gentlemen and ladies, I will sell thisd—d
infernal stuff at ten cents a yard, tape mea-
The crowd roared, and good humor
was thus substituted for the angry feelings
for sometime manifested, and which, hy any
accident, might have resulted in the demoli
tion of the Bank building.”
complete separatio^cf the people and
the military. The*sympatLy between
The Designs of France against Eng
land.
The Paris correspondent of the New
York Commercial Advertiser writes:
“ It may be asked, \l hat are the real
intentions of France toward England?
I heard yesterday a counsellor of State
say this: ‘It is not our policy to quar
rel with England, because the interests
of the two nations are too closely iden
titled ; but she has heaped upon us late
ly insult after insult to such a point that
France is ready now for war, and only
waits an occasion ; she will not seek the
occasion, but if it conies she will accept
it with delight. England is counteract
ing us in every measure we propose in
the interest of the East, she is leagued
with Austria to assist in this ungrateful
work ; she insults us gratuitously and
boldly in her pailiamentarv discussions
on the slave trade, and in singular con
trast with her servility to tlie United
States; she exercises a most impudent
surveillance over our vessels and our
coast; she has just acquitted two more
of her propagators of assassination, and
she bas never vet given the Emperor
one word of satisfaction on the refugee
question. Is it curious that our forbear
ance, even in presence of the immeifse
interests which unite the two countries,
should be on the point of giving way ?’”
Crows in the Corn Field, or wiiat
“Poll” got for Telling a Lie.—Mr.
Parker Tilton, who resides at the lower
part of the city, has had a very intelli
gent but roguish parrot residing in his
family for the past fifteen years. The
bird has always been allowed the privi
lege of the yard, and frequently would
stray into the adjoining fields. The par
rot had been taught to keep a watch up
on the crows that visited the corn field
of Mr. Tilton to pick up his corn, which
information he had frequently imparted.
On Tuesday last, “Poll” took her usual
stroll, and this time concluded to de
ceive her master, whereupon she vocifer
ated as had been her custom, “ Crows in
the corn-field.” Mr. Tilton, hearing the
voice of his sentinel, crept softly up to
the enclosure and levelling his gun in
the direction of the rustling corn, dis
charged the contents. On arriving at
the spot, to pick up the slaughtered de
predators of his crop, to his great sur
prise he found only the mangled re-
EIGHTY-THREE MILLIONS.
The cost of carrying on
the government according
to the Courier’s figures a
year ago was 858,000,000
The cost of carrying on the
government for 1858, ac
cording to the Union and
the National Intelligencer,
will be, by the appropria
tions 53,500,000
Important Decision.
On yesterday morning Judge Lumpkin de
livered *n opinion involving an emancipation
clause in a a .yrill—in a case of this kind : A,
the testator, had made a will in which he
bequeathed certain negroes for life to B.—
After the death of B the negroes were to be
tree aod carried to a free State or to Libe
ria. The Court decided that this clause in
Fast Press.—The New York New*
of June 30th says: We went yesterday
to the Sun Buildings upon invitation, to
see for the first time, M. S. Beache’e
new fast press which prints both sides
of the paper at the same time and when
: n perfect order must be capable af tur-
ling out twice as nianv sheets in a giv
en time as any other press in existence.
the will was void under our emancipation j J l’ e experiments of which the one jes-
acts—that the negroes weie free eoinstanti j terday was the second, the inking apa-
the termination of the life estate in Georgia, i I us having undergone some improve-
and, as a matter of course, contrary to the | 'Rents since . the first have keen mad«
spirit and policy of our laws in relation to | "’til one cylinder, although the machine
emancipating slaves. The learned Judge |' s calculated for eight cylindeis, and it
took occasion, in delivering the opinion of ■ ' s s 9’d ’l then turn out about 35,000
the Court, to say that his views had under- | sheets per hour, printed on both sides.
gone a change in regard to the scheme of 1 ., _ I , , , , .
. t . i Mr. Brandvtoddy a three reasons for
African Colonization—that he had been a : . - } , . • r
j . 1 not dmikimr are verv characteristic ot
warm advocate of the purposes of that Soci- » -
ety—he had written and spoken in favor of
it—had given money to it in times past; bnt
he was now satisfied he had erred, and con
vinced that the negroes were better off here
—that emigration and freedom were injuri
ous rather than beneficial to them, and that
the Colonization scheme itself was not only
a failure, but a swindle. Right, Judge
aud this is one of the decisions which the
people of Georgia will not overrule.— Tele
graph.
Our Federal Family.—As the late
fourth of July was the first case and in
stance accoiding to usage and custom
of the adoption of the federal number
32 for salutes and flags, we append the
following list of dates for convenient re
ference.
Since the original confederacy "as
formed, nineteen States have been ad
ded to the Union. Their names and or
der of their admission have been as fol
lows :
Vermont,
1791
Missouri,
1821
Kentuckv,
1792
Michigan,
1836
Tennessee,
1796
Arkansas,
183C
Ohio,
1802
Iowa,
1845
Louisiana,
1811
Florida,
1845
Indiana,
1816
Texas,
1846
Mississippi,
1817
Wisconsin,
1848
Illinois,
1818
California,
1850
Alabama,
1819
Minnesota,
1858
Maine,
1820
it is almost always necessarv~to concen-j been opened for names of^citizens who
trate the water by boiling down large j will pledge themselves to fight the offi-
quantities of the water before the chem-; cers who conspired against Perie. A
ical reactions of these substances can bei vast number of names have already been
brought out. The same remarks apply j enrolled. There is already open^ war
to the detection of arsenic, which, how- ; between the army and people. -W here*
ever, is usually best detected in the de- j will it en< f 1—Richmond Whig.
posits and sediments. No sulpkretted
them has been very intimate heretofore, i ma j ns of his favorite parrot.—Newburg-
But it exists no longer. A book, has port Herald.
hydrogen was detected in the unconcen
trated water of the spring examined. I
did not have the means of testing for
the*presence of either nitrogen or oxy-
gen.
A House Made of Skulls.—Mr
Hutchinson, an African traveler, says
no sight ever seen—not even the room
of horrors in Madame Tassaud’s shocks
one so much as the first view of the Bon
Hereafter, during the.regular and svs- "J ju-ju-house. The pillars of the two
tematic progress of the geological sur- doors are formed of human sku s msi e, ^ C0DCCTICU Ulr „
vey, I hope to be able to report in de- the ground paved with them; an ^ ^ of
tail in regard to the chemical constitu-1 ’arts erected, on which is a dead rguna, tribute j e wii
ents of these remarkable Hot springs of; an< ^ ^ ie "’Role of this K fabricated o le
Arkansas. I am induced to' believe, ssn,e materials as are used in the pillars
however, that their effects in the cure of cf the tloor - T ’ vo j»S h columns of them
diseases are due as much, if not more,; sre beside the altar; a string o ^ jaw i gt4t esmeu; lastly the freedom of the one!
to their elevated temperature than u> bones ts hanging by the wali; ami these, w i,i c h we have always contended,
their chemical properties; for thermal j 5 0U are '"formed, » re bones °' ' el . r ! defence of which we once fought, bas
waters produce always powerful effects, i er *f mies Ancio "y country, which , acknowledged by the only power that
r - - J -|oins the Bonny territory, and with e
Maritime Policy of the United States.
The Washington Union, to vindicate the
maritime policy of the United States, shows
what reforms in the marine police have been
effected through our instrumentality: Trib
ute to the Mediterranean pirates ceased long
ago, because we preferred to pay it in the
unacceptable currency of shot and shell;—
the creation of a special sea police through
the Quintuple treaty was next preverted
through onr vigilance, and the freedom of
the eeaa preserved; our Jong maintained
principle that <• free ships maae free goods,”
was conceded during the Crimean war, as
international law; the
unjust tribute levied by Denmark in the
shape of Sound dues was refused, and a
wrong that had the sanction of centuries
yielded to the enlarged views held by Amer-
both on the vascular and nervous 6js-j „ , ,
tem, and remove, through the pores of| w h°m a few years ago, they waged a
skin, with the copious perspiration in-, ^ urlous war -
duced, effete, obnoxious, and abnormal j Beccift r0R Hafhne«.-Go without
has been disposed to contest it In al» these
acts, says th# Union, it is impossible not to
acknowledge that onr Government bte ml
wmys been in the right.
matters. However, the chemical con- dinneri and M if you don’t feel happy
tents acting more on the secretary and j vheB itl „ tinM5
grandular organs, .often aid, materially i ^
in removing obstructions and regulating j gpp* The P/vGr-h-cp-r who Ml from a cob 1 July, amounted to *6,000,000,
the secretions. I WM of figures is mid So be eoavatawnt- • ering the business proatration, is not so bad
pf The revenue of the General Govern-
■Mat for imports for the year ending the 1st of
84,500,000
Four millions reduction in one year!
So much for this abominable “eighty-
three millions” statement I It is not
President Buchanan’s ruinous expendi
ture ; but the falsehood of black repub
licanism that “exceeds anything of the
kind evei before known in the country.”
Did theseconcoctors of wholesale false
hood ever hear about Ananias and ^ap
pliira ? And what they met their fate
for ? What monstrous violations of truth
it requires to sustaiD the cause of black
republicanism !
Type-Setting and Distributing Ma
chine.—Mr. T. Alden, of this city, bas
invented, after many years of experimen
ting, a very ingenious machine for the
c imposition and distribution of types.—
The mysteries of the invention caunot be
explained with sufficient brevity for these
columns, but the chief merit of the thing,
in which it excels otliei contrivances of
the kind, is: that the type are set and
distributed by one and the same ma
chine (by keys,) instead of separately as
befere. The processes by which the lit
tle bits of metal are caught up aud put
down again just iu the right places, with
never a blunder except when the human
agency at tbe machine makes one; the
way in which the type are fed out and
returned again through an endless round,
so that the distribution keeps up a con
stant supply for the compositiou ; and
the cunning devices by w hich a thous
and little practical, difficulties are over
come, are evidences of a marvelous in
genuity on the part of the inventor, and
show what thought and perseverance
can accomplish. Mr. Alden thinks that
a good compositor, accustomed to man
ipulate the keys, would be able to set
and distribute about 15,000 ems a day.
The cost of the machines will probably
be from 81,200 to 81,500.]—New York
Journal of Commerce.
New York City.—The N. Y. Daily-
Times exposes the existence of a “Free
Love Club” in that city. In spite of tbe
foray of Captain Trumbuli,. two years
ago, ibe system still exists in onr midst.
Tbe Free Lovers, beaded by Messrs. Bris
bane and Andrews, bold weekly meet
ings, aud a portion of tbenr live togeth
er in a house in Sluyvesant street, ‘un
der the shadow of St. Mark’s Church.’
The ‘Unitary Household,’ as it is called,
is a large four story brick house, where
in some twenty persons dwell. They are
divided into seperate families, and each
family has a suit of apartments to itself.
The expenses of the household are paid
by common assessment. Here the doc
trine of affinity is carried out, probably
to its fullest extent. The Free Lovers
are said to be very successful in propa
gating their opinion, and now propose
to hire a hotel with eighty rooms, and
carry out the system on an extended
scale. Mr. Brisbane is sanguine that his
theory will live and progress until all
the world will become Free Lovers.—
New York is in a fair way to realize his
expectations.
Somebody has been asking the Knick- 'days, would ye write an answer to it i
erbocker hard quesiions: ; „ _ * Z
The last is. “What constitutes a Ma- ' ** Editor Juried P«INTER.-The
lerialistr We will try to answer that: ed '. ,or ? f *‘ ,e *<*»■
question in tbe language of Baron You-1 '/v.ng h.s hand at “setlmg type. H.s
dullbrainz, who, when the fashionable
An Ocean Trip in a Balloon.—J.
Steiner, of Harrisburg, Pa n proposes to
cross tbe Atlantic in a balloon, 100 feet
in diameter. He says iu a letter to the
Telegraph:
1 am satisfied in my own mind that
with such an apparatus T could cross
the Atlantic in 75 hours, and the whole
cost would not be moie than 820,000.
The balloon, net work and valve would
weigh about 20,000 pounds, and the
boat and rigging 3 1-2 tons; will leave
about 8 tons ascending power, for pro
visions, passengers and ballast. It would
require three good ocean navigators, and
one astronomer, besides myself. I would
suggest New York as the starting point,
and ain certain that I would strike with
in two hundred miles of any given dis
tance in Europe. I would suggest Mat
as the time for making the experiment,
and would make the attempt iu 1859
if I could get the government or oth
ers to assist me.
A Letter.—“Hillo’ Misther Postmas
ter. and is there iver a letter here for
Dennis O’Flaherty ?”
“I believe there is,” said the postmas
ter stepping back and producing the let
ter.
“And will you be so kind as to rade
it to me, seein’ I had the misfortune to
be edieated to rade niver a bit ?”
“To be sure,” said the accommoda
ting postmaster.
He then opened and read the epistle,
which was from the “old country,” con
cerning his relations there, etc. When
lie had finished Dennis observed :
“And what would ye he axin for the
postage on that letter!”
“Fifty cents.”
“An<l its chape enough, your honor,
but as l niver think of axin ye to trust
me, just kape the letther for pay; and
say, Misther, if Fd call in one of tlu se
that gentleman.
“Take something to drink ?” said hi*
friend to him one day.
“No, thank you,” replied Mr. B.
“No ! why not 2” inquired his friend
ill great amazement.
"In the first place,” returned Mr,
Brandy toddy, “1 am secretary of a
temperance society that meets to-day,
and I must preserve my temperance
character. In the second place, this is
the anniversary of my father’s death,
and out of respect to him, I have prom
ised never to drink on this day. And
; n the third place, I have just taken
something.”
furor for “Germanics” had filled London
with Teutonic professors and pretenders,
lectured before one of the “learned so
cieties” of the great metropolis. The
Baron was a decided Materialist—hold
ing, as he did, that “de s’ing zat was
made was more superior zan de maker
a proposition in the enforcement of which
he used the following irrefragible argu
ment and illustration: “I say once more
again, zat ze s’mg as is made is more
General Arnold.—During the trait
or Arnold’s predatory operations in Vir
ginia, in 1781, he took an American
captain prisoner. After some general
conversation, he asked the captain,
•What he thought the Americans would
do with him if they caught him V The-
captain declined at first giving an an
swer ; but, hpon being repeatedly urg-
ged, be said, ‘Why, sir, if I must an
swer the question, yon will excuse my
telling you the truth: if my countrymen-
should catch you, I believe they would
first cut of your lame leg, which was-
wounded in the cause of freedom and!
virtue at Quebec, and bury it with tli<r
honors of war, and afterwards hang the
remainder of your body upon a gibbet/
Hard Times in Kansas.—The Kan
sas Herald of Freedom gives a discoura
ging view of the times in Kansas. Jft-
says:
We pity the man who is compelled to*
raise money now in Kansas-. We were
told by a money lender, the other day,
that he was receiving from TO to 20 per
cent, per month for tbe use of money,
and had beeu paid at the rate of 20, 25 1
and 30 per cent, per month to discount
notes. The lowest rates-, on good secu
rity, for the use of money, seem to range
between three and five per cent, per
month. Business in nearly all onr Kan
sas towns is nearly suspended. Men worth
twenty or twenty-five thousand dollars
cannot self property at anv price to re
alize even a few hundred dollars. Real
estate can be bought at ruinous rates,
persons being compelled to self to real
ize ready money, pel haps to save their
credit. Hardly any branch of businesa-
is sustaining itself.
Laurens Hamilton.—Si New York ex
change says:
Fifty-four years ago; on the l'lth of July.
1804, the duel was fought between Aaron-
Burr and Alexander Hamilton, at Hoboken,
near New York city, which resoJted in the-
death of the latter. Mr. 0. fell mortally
wounded at tlie first fire, on the same spot
where a short time previous bis eldest sow
bad been killed in a duel. He lingered until
the afternoon of the following day, when fie-
expired. And while we write this his grand
son, who a few days ago-was in tho full final*
of youthful health and vigor, now lies iw
the cold embrace of death, although hi*
memory will ever be green in tbe hearts off
his gallant comrades of Ibe t.Seventh.”
Important Principle Settled.-—A
suit was brought against a benevolent socie
ty before Justice Sanford and a jury, ew
Wednesday, by a member, to recover bene
fits claimed to be due from May 25 to June
21. The defence set up was that the mem
ber was not sick, and if he were be could
not sue a society of which he was a member
for benefits. The testimony of physiciea*
proved that he was ill and unfit for labor.
—Newark Advertiser.
first effort appeared under liis editorial
head a few days since, and will be found; yheUry gave”a"v7rdict fo7tbefi.il
below. He will no doubt be “one of
them” some.of these days.
a Ne^\ pri5 er
This is aur first effort et typo setiiuS. mo
presume that it will si[om t-f t wo can
loarn fes)—Me aie sElf-tAuGH l’ too !j—
Wo wunt no qolp, Me wiLf hwve it j;3bt
without aSsisTanc-E! j,he ^ooj Mill
ueed no connection ‘we don’tnnjend io
tri E^erv day.: but »e wilj lei iqe
bliintezs tjnow thut Me ure oNe of ’em.
tAqK aqouj tqe srt of primiug! wHy
superior zan de maker. Per examp.:—
I am de coachman zat make de w’eel of . • • . • . . - . -.a
ze coach—now zat w’eel of ze coach, lie j 11 s ^ ust as ^ ™ T n f? 0 J a O
roll a souzand Uaile, but I cannot roll I ^ , . , . . ,
Or, I am ze w’at you calf cooper;! Tiuee a wasted young lady in nugle s
he make ze tub of win'e-be bold five j aa ? an abundance of flounces gracefully
sail to tbe bead U the table, and, with
sonzand gallon, but I cannot bold more
as five bottel! So you see tat. ze s’mg
as is made is more superior zan ze ma
ker /” Baron Yondullbrainz was a Ma
terialist—warn't he I The fact seems
undeniable.
Mr. Hanlon of tbe N. O. Trne Delta,
shot and killed Mr. Gibbs of tbe N. O.
Crescent, in a duel fought near that city
on tbe 29th nit.
a voice as angelic as a tenor Ante call to
tbe waiter fur a plate of cold pork and
heaqs, is tbe roost trying thing romance
can encounter.
There’s luck now, sure enough! Tbe
English have a general in India by the
name of Begum. If he should fall into
tbe hand of the enemy be will not be
tbe first bee-gnra that has been taken.
JCST It >b calculated that a fluent
sneaker utters between seven thousand!
and seven thousand five hundred word*
in tbe course cf an hour’s uninterrupted
speaking. Many orators, of more than
usually rapid utterance, will reach eight
thousand aud even nine thousand. But
one buudred and twenty-five words »
minute, or seven thousand five hundred
an boiir, is a fair average.
Liberia.—Revelations have recently
been made in the British House of Lords
and by tbe French. Ministry for Foreign
Affairs, by which it appear* that Liberia
itself has gone into tbe slave trade, and
is selling iis fellow-negroes jostthesame
ar if it was a colony of white men. Thi*
is certainly an extraordinary develop
ment !
Who Will Join !-h Freeport. Illinois,
they have a society called the » Aeti-poke-
yonr-nooe-iato-othor-poople'e-boeinMO eoeie
ty” That’s a good iaetitetioa.