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An Aid ward Mistake —A farmer
who had bought a calf from a butch
er, desiled him to drive it to his
farm, and place it in his* stable,
which he accordingly did. Now it
happened that very day, that a man
with a grinding organ and dancing
bear passing by that way, began
their antics in front ot the farm.
After amusing the farmer for some
time, the organ man entered the
farm house, and asked the farmer
if he would give him a night’s lodg
ing. The farmer replied, he could
give the man lodging, but he was at
a loss where to put the bear.
After musing a little, he deter
mined to bring the calf inside the
house for the night, and place the
bear in the stable, which was done.
Now the butcher, expecting the calf
would remain in the stable all night
resolved to steal it before morning;
and the farmer and his guest were
in the night awakened by a fearful
veiling from theout-building. Both
got up, and taking a lantern, en
tered the stable, where the farmer
found to his surprise, the butcher of
whom be had bought the calf, in
the grasp of the bear, which was
hugging him tremendously, for he
could not bite, being muzzled.
The farmer immediately under
stood the state of the case, and
briefly mentioned the circumstance
to the owner of the bear, who, to
punish the butcher for his intended
theft, called out to the bear, “Hug
him. Tommy,” which the bear did
in real earnest, the butcher roaring
most hideously the whole time.—
After they thought he had suffered
enough, they set him free, and the
butcher slunk off', glad to escape
with his life, while the farmer and
his guest -returned to their beds.
The annexed extract is not only
beautifully written, but it contains
much truth, which should be indeli
bly impressed upon the minds of
readers :
Deceit. — When once a conceal
ment or deceit has been practised,
in matters where all should be fair
anti open as the day, confidence can
never be restored, any more than
you can restore the white bloom to
the grape or pluin which you have
once pressed in your hand, flow’
true is this, and what a neglected
truth by a great portion of man
kind ! Falsehood is not only one of
the most humiliating vices, hut soon
er or later it is most certain to lead
to the most serious crimes. With
partners in trade, with partners in
life, with friends, with lovers, how
important is confidence ! How es
sential that all guile and hypocrisy
should be guarded against in the
intercourse between such parties !
How much misery would be avoided
in the history of many lives, had
truth and sincerity been the guiding
and controlling motives, instead of
prevarication and deceit. “Any
vice,” said a parent to a child,
“ any vice, at least, among the frail
ties of a milder character, but false
hood ! Far better that my child
should commit an error, or do a
w rong and confess it, than escape
the penalty, however severe, by
falsehood and hypocrisy. Let me
know the worst and a remedy may
possiblv be applied. But keep me
in the dark, let rne he misled and
deceived, and it is impossible to tell
at what unprepared hour a crushing
flow, an overwhelming exposure
may come.
Hailstones in India. — !n a paper
lately read before a Scientific Society
of Bombay, it is stated that hail
stones in India are generally from
live to twenty times the size of those (
at home, from six ounces to a pound
being nothing unsual. Hail in Eng
land rarely exceed the size of beans
or filberts, while that in India
is often the size of oranges or
pumpkins, and hardly ever less
than walnuts.
Tragedy first acted in Athens, on
a \vagn n> B< G 35.
What fs Dirt ?
Old Dr. Cooper of South Caroli
na, used to say to his students: —
“ Don’t be afraid of a little dirt,
young gentlemen. What is dirt?
Nothing at all offensive, when chem
ically viewed. Rub a little alkali
upon that ‘ditty grease spot’ upon
your coat, and it undergoes a chem
ical change and becomes soap. —
Now rub it with a little water and it
disappears ; it is neither grease,
soap, water, nor dirt. ‘That.is not
a very odorous pile of dirt,’ you
observe there. Well, scatter a lit
tle gypsum over it, and it is no lon
ger dirty. Everything you call
dirt, is worthy your notice as stu
dents of chemistry. Analise it!—
Analise it! It will all seperate in
to very clean elements.
•/
“Dirt makes corn, corn makes
bread and meat, and that makes a
very sweet young lady that I saw
one of you kissing last night. So,
after all you were kissing dirt—par
ticularly if she whitens her skin with
chalk or fuller’s earth. There is no
telling, young gentlemen, what is
dirt. Though lmust say that rub
bing such stuff upon the beautiful
skin of a young lady is a dirty prac
tice. * Pearl powder,’ I think is
made ofbismuth—nothing but dirt.”
The English have been attempt
ing to learn something more about
the trade and commerce of Japan.
An English man-of-war, the Mari
ner, Commander Mathison, recent
ly visited the coast of Japan, and
ttown of Ragarda, twenty-five
miles only from Jeddo, the capital,
if we mistake not, of the Empire.
As usual, he was treated civilly, but
requested to depart. After making
some surveys he did so. The Dutch
Chinese, and Russians, have a re
stricted trade with Japan. Several
American captains have made at
tempts to open the trade, but unsuc
cessfully. We understand adds the
Evening Post , that the house of Liv
ingston, Wells & Cos., of this city,
have offered to dispatch a vessel
from San Francisco to Japan, with
a suitable cargo, and valuable pres
ents in native California gold, if the
Secretary of State would appoint
an agent to proceed with the vessel
in an official character for the pur
pose of negotiation. No answer
having been returned to this liberal
proposition, the matter has fallen
through.
General Jackson's First Appear
ance in Co?)press. —When Mr. Galla
tin was a member of Congress, in
the year 1790, Tennessee was ad
mitted as a state into the Union, and
sent her first member to Washing
ton. One day, when in his seat in
the house, Mr. Gallatin noticed a
tall, lank, uncouth looking individu
al, with long locks of hair hanging
over his brows and face, while a
queue hung down his back tied in an
eelskin. The dress of this individ
ual was singular—his manner and
deportment that of a backwoods
man. The appearance of so singu
lar a character on the floor of the
House of Representatives, natural
ly attracted attention, and a member
at his side, asked who be was? Mr.
Gallatin replied that it was the mem
ber for the new State. “ Well,”
said his friend, “ he seems just the
sort of chap one might expect from
such an uncivilized region as Ten
nessee.” The individual in ques
tion was Andrew Jackson.
The Curate. —There is somethin",
O 1
says the Rev. Sidney Smith, which
excites compassion in the very
name of a curate! How any man
of purple, palaces, and preferment
can let himself loose against this
poor working man of God, we are
a loss to conceive. A learned
man in a hovel, with sermons and
saucepans, lexicons and bacon, He
brew books and ragged children,
good and patient—a comforter and
a preacher, the first and purest pau
per in the hamlet, and yet showing
dtat m the midst of lits worldly wis
dom lie has the heart of a gentle
man, and the spirit of a Christian,
and the kindness of a pastor !
A Troop of Ga zelles in the Desert. \
—I have often heard and read de
scriptions of the desert as a “ sea of
sand,” but we now found ourselves
in what might be called a “ sea of
stones,” with, it is true, here and
there, at wide intervals, a patch of
bushes, and the contorted form ol
theligeneous plant called skia , dot
ting the ground. This plant ex
hales a strong oder, something re
sembling rue, and is cultivated in
pots at Alexandria, on that account.
In the desert its more tender extrem
ities served as food for the gazelles,
small troops of which were seen now
and then browsing out of gunshot.
As we approached, they raised their
heads and appeared to listen and
wajtch, but the result of their,ex
amination was never, it seemed, en
couraging ; for off they invariably
went, cocking up their tails, at first
gently trotting, but by degrees
lengthening their steps, then bound
ing, scudding, flashing along, as it
were, over the vast level, now hud
dling together, now spreading into
a long irregular line, seeming at
times to outstrip the sight, but com
ing again in view, flitting awav
swiftly, like uncertain shadows, un
til at length they faded into nothing,
as a prolonged echo, after quiver
ing through the air, subsides into a
faint murmur, and dies away in the
distance. On one occasion, a moth
er and its fawn lingered to nibble a
green shrub, and our Bedouins be
gan to manoeuvre to get a fresh sup
ply of meat, one crouching down,
and another advancing obliquely,
but the cautious creature took the
alarm, and made way with her
young charge in double quick time.
I may here remark, that the agree
able musk-like smell of the excre
ments of these animals is doubtless
derived from the aromatic plants on
which they feed.— St. John's Adven
tures in the Libyan Desert .
Progressive Change.- Physical force
is a bad argument ; it knocks a man
down, but leaves social evils erect
—nay, frequently aggravates the
mischief. Moral power, on the oth
er hand, works gradually, ancigains
an impetus from persecution itself;
it has all the right on its side, and
wisely surrenders all the wrong to
the enemy ; conditions these which
try the patience for a while, but in
sure a triumph in the end. Not on
ly are the paths of wisdom those of
peace, but the paths of peace are
those of wisdom. Only in this way
for instance, will the amelioration of
labor in this country, so happily be
gun, proceed ; it is not by violence,
but by the gentle law of progress,
that the laborer will win an inde
pendent station. Link by link, the
chain of destiny is weaving, which
will necessitate the results of free
dom, if impatience interfere not
with the mysterious process. All
the greatest work of nature and art,
are conceived and engendered in
silence and in secret ; and even thus
the crisis of society are prepared
in the womb of time, during long
intervals of apparent rest, by “that
Divine wisdom which disposes of
events, both to individuals and to
nations. But let us not, by these
remarks, suppose it is intended that
a tame and blind acquiescence shall
be yielded to oppression and injury.
No, the necessity is greater to show
the superiority of moral over physi
cal force in procuring the remedy.
It is an observation of a great poet
that let a man live as long as he will,
the first thirty years of his life will
always seem the longest; and the
daily routine of our after years pas
ses like the round of a clock, while
the hands on the outside and the
movements within,mark the passing
of time to others, without a con
sciousness thereof in itself, till the
weight has run-down, and * the
I
pendulum stands still.
Some people think that the heart
can never be affeeted till it has un
dergone a battery of exaggerated
phrases ; and they drive nails into
ns by way of touching our feelings.
I The sale of the revolutionary gal-’
lery belonging to the quondam sec
retary of Robespierre, after having
been delayed, says the London At
las, is proceeding by private con
tract and by slow degrees. The
residue alone is to be submitted to
public auction. The number of vis
itors to the house where all these
historical souvenirs are exhibited,
have been few enough to disap
point the ardent lovers of the great
revolution and the admirers ol the
heroism of ’93. The interest crea
ted by the first announcement of
the sale, lias been suffered to pass
away, and the collection is not ex
pected now to realize more than
half of the price at which it was
originally valued. Every portrait,
every souvenir connected with the
great revolution, is to be found in
this museum. The autograph of
every member of the Continential
Assembly, the letter which Char
lotte Corday handed to Marat, and
which was found floating in the bath
from whence he was taken, after
the catastrophe which has immor
talized the heroine’s name—the
handkerchief which bound the bro
ken jaw of Robespierre upon the
scaffold, yet stained and discolored
with his blood, and many other sou
venirs of the like interest, are of
fered to the competition of the lov
ers of the horrible ; and we suppose
that Madame Tussaud’s agents
will not be idle, before this oppor
tunity of providing such fitting ad
ditions to her chamber of horrors.
There is, however, nothing so curi
ous in the whole collection as a vol
ume which was sold at a book sale a
few da3 7 s ago, and which was
knocked down to the Count de La
val for fifteen hundred francs—a
manuscript copy of the “ Contrat
Social,” written in aristocratic blood
and bound in human skin ! Yes, a
volume bound in the produce of the
hideous tannery once established in
the palace of Men don, and purpor
ting to be the offering of the work
men engaged in the speculation, to
the Mayor of Mendon, Jean Chau
zel, a pure and spotless sansculotte!
The volume, amid all the nauseoas
souvenirs which it inspires, posses
ses certainly one advantage over
the most valued works of the phi
losophers--it conve} T s a deeper mor
al lesson than any, and may be pe
rused with equal advantage both
inside and out.
“ As Big as a Piece of Chalk” —
The attempts of the early Ameri
can naturalists to describe the vari
ous animals of which they treat, are
not especially remarkable for their
precision, to say nothing of proba
bilty. Carver, in his description of
the porcupine, says that, “ in bulk,
it is about the size of a small dog,”
and an old book, entitled “ New En
gland Rarities,” is now lying before
us, in which the American “ounce”
is described as being “a wild cat,
about the size of two lusty ram cats!”
The writer further observes that
‘‘their grease is sovereign for all
manner of aches and shrank sinews”
—and says that he “ once found six
ducks in the body of one he killed
by the road side !” Dido et dux—
(according to Virgil)—but she was
no match for the ounce !
Seclusion of Women in Syria. —As
illustrative of the seclusion of the
female in Syria, the Christian as
well as the Moslem, a circumstance
was related to us by our consul’s
brother, which from a less authentic
source we should have deemed in
credible. A widower, on marrying
a second time, enjoined it upon his
son, then about half grown, never to
enter the apartment af his step-moth
er without knocking, in order that
she might have time to conceal her
face. This form was seriously
observed by the son, who, after the
lapse of some years, also married.
In turn, he requested his father to
observe the same rule which had
been applied to him ; and we are
assured that they lived and died in
the same house without seeing the
faces of oach other’s wives.—Expe
dition to the Jordon .
Paris, says a foreign Correspon- 1
dent of the Evening Mirror, is now
filled with celebrated people and
“ lions,” who are enjoying its win
ter amusements —I saw two splen
did specimens the other night at
a party, being no less personages
than Count D’Orsay and the Coun
tess Guicciola, Byron’s friend. In
crease of years and flesh have
much diminished (it an increase
can diminish) the Count’s personal
attractions; and he has arrived a
that period when the gast r onomic
begins to tell on the physical, and
the effects of good dinners to be per
ceptible. He is still, however, at
handsome, young, middle-aged-look
ing man, with a good natured, self
satisfied expression, and a “ toilette
bien soignee.” He is, however, at
that stage, when that odious, dandy
killing adjective, “well preserved,”
is applicable, and when he is ad
mired, rather for what he may be
supposed to have been than for what
he is. It is lucky that he has talent
and taste to take the place of
the personal when that ceases to at
tract. The Guicciola is apparently
fifty years of age, if a lady is ever
so old—is very much of a blonde —
quite embonpointish —and a little un
der the middle size. She has fine
Grecian features, a little too long—
a sweet smile and voice ; and is al
together quite attractive.
“ Never at any period within a
century and a half,” says the North
British Review, “ was the bar of
England at so low an intellectual
ebb as at this period. Superior in
tellects and brilliant talents are, in
our day, altogether wanting.—
There is no Erskine, no Murray, no
Law, no Romilly, no Brougham,
no Copley, no Denmau, noFollett;
we have not even in our time, a
Best, a Garrow, or a Scarlett. It
will scarcely be credited by a lay
reader, but the fact is not the less
deplorably true, that, with the ex
ception of half a dozen men, we
can scarcely name a barrister who
can now address a jury, in an im
portant cause, with average ability.
Sir Frederick Thesiger, Sir John
Jervis, Sir Fitzroy Kelley, Mr.
Matthew Hill, and Mr. Cockburn,
may be mentioned as among the
best specimens, and among these
there is only one who can be called
eloquent, and Mr. Cockburn’s is the
eloquence more of the rhetorician
than the man of fervid and impas
sioned feeling.”
Do farmers ever reflect that all
food and attention consumed by an
imals without a corresponding im
provement, is so much money
thrown away. Every day in the
life of a brute, should be a day of
progression towards maturity,either
of working capacity or the sham
bles. Curtail your stock, sell, or
even give them away, till you have
reduced the number within your
ability to “ full feeding.” A prime
milk cow, fed, housed, and
cleanly kept, will produce as much
milk, through both winter and sum
mer, as four or a half dozen misera
ble brutes, half-fed; yet the last
will consume two or three times the
amount of food and attention appro
priated by the other.
Mr. Bunn, in one of his Mono
logues atthe St. James’ Theatre re
cently, illustrated the pedantry of
actors in adopting various readings
of particular passages, and ex
pressed his surprise that no
“ learned Theban ” had yet an
nounced to the world that Shaks
peare had foreseen the recent rail
way mania, or he would never have
made Touchstone allude to being off
with his “scrip and scrippage.”—
The account of the inscription
placed by a devotee of Shakspeare
over that portion of his library
which contained a copy of every
known edition of Shakspeare’s
works excited much amusement. —
It was as follows : “To authors :
Thou shalt not steal.” “To com
mentators : Thou shalt not bear
false witness.” “To actors : Thou
shalt do no murder.”
FRIEND OF THE FAMIM
E. J. PURSE, CITY PR.y-j-j, ‘
PROCEEDINGS OE~(;oi>~
Savannah, April 11
Council mat. ’
Present—His Honor, R. \V ayDf
Aldermen—Posey, Turner, Lini,,,,’ •’*
lory, Screven. Griffin, Cuminm,, ‘I ‘’ 1 ' 1 -
Purse, and Cohen. b ’ a^er,
The Minutes of the last meel ; n „
read and confirmed. The I Q f or s . ***
Fine Dockets were read and
Reports read.
The Committee on Dry Culture, tv
authorized by a Resolution of C ot] °
communicate with the Trustees of l<)
children of Joseph Stiles, report J?”
have performed the duty assigned to
and herewith submit the reply 0 f t t° le ®
tees. 6 Trils -
Savannah, April JO k-a
Gentlemen—We have your letter V
day and hasten in reply t 0 y ou so ° to ’
we will sell the Rice lands of the s • k:
Place, and the Highlands adjoining'^! J
between them and the Ogeechee
SIOO per acre for the former, and
the latter, with the understandingthau P
not cultivate Rice on any portion 0 f ( [ ie
ance of the tract; or sell the whole
per acre, and receive Bonds of the City j
payment.
Very respectfully, yours,
noble a. ijardee.
R. W. ADAMS
F. H. VVELiMN,
7 rustecs minors Joseph StiUs.
To Drs. J. P. Screven,
J. R. Saussy,
J. T. Posey.
Committee Dry Culture.
The Committee, in liieir rrpoit on the rw.
tition of the Trustees, advised the pure;,!.',
by the city of only a part of the Springfield
plantation, under the impresssion that the en
tire tract was not necessary, and that the
price of the Rice Lands could not exceed
S7O per acre, and of the high lands between
them and the Ogeechee Road, 840 per acre
The price asked by the Trustees is Sfoo
per acre for the former and SOO per acre for
the latter, which would make the purchase
of the portions ( >25 acres,) recommended
by the committee, amount to the sum of
$19,300. The entire tract of 9GO acres at
$29 per acre would cost only sß,s4omore,
or the gross amount of $27,640. The pur.
chase of all the land will make a safe and
judicious investment, and the Cominiltee
accordingly advise the acceptance of the
proposition of the Trustees for a sale of the
entire tract at $29 per acre.
1 o accomplish the necessary draining of
the Rice fields, 200,000 cubic feet of exca
vation will be required at a cost ot aboti
$940. As much more expenditure m\hi
necessary for moving and raising rfs®,
deepening ditches, and for contingencies, li
king in all the sum of SIBBO. The er*
cost of the 9GO acres of land, and thence*
sary improvements may be put down with
safety at the sum of $30,000.
The committee recommend the adoption
of the following resolution.
Resolved , That the Dry Culture commit
tee, associated with the Mayor, be authorised
to accept the propostion of the trustees of
the minor children of Joseph Stiles for a sa.e
of the entire Springfield plantation at
per acre, the consideratioc to be paid in
bonds of the city.
J. P. SCREVEX.
J. F. POSEY.
On motion of Alderman Purse, seconded
by Alderman Cumming, the report and reso
lution were received and adopted.
The committee on Public Sales and City
Lots made a verbal report,
that the prayer of the petition of T. Rober.
relative to an ice cream establishment,":
not granted, inasmuch as the land was i® ;:
lease, which report was on motion adoptee.
Petitions. —The Petition of sundry citizens
of Savannah and owners of property at
near the eastern end ot Broughton Stree
praying Council “ to select some other e s ‘
for the erection of a City Magazine in hen of
the place selected,” and setting
they are willing to pay the cost of ‘k ‘
now selected if another place be selects
build on, &c., was read and referred t° l -
Committee on Public Buildings.
The petition of the Owners and Occuj
of property in the south-western part “
city, known as Currytown and Sprk**
calling the attention of Council “totk- 11
ditionof the low grounds South ofth e 1
known as Stiles’field, ” and requesting tb
Hii
nuisance to be abated,” &c., was
n r
referred to the Committee on 90
The petition of sundry citizens of *- a
nah representing “ that the Centf lfr -
filled to repletion, it being impossik u
grave without disturbing the ren ,
those there interred,” “ that burial n
the city are prejudicial to health,’ aDur ..1
ing Council “to make such
rangements as will warrant the closing ■
City Cemetery at an early day/ “ “ . ■
and referred to the Committe on
Cemetery.
The petition of Robt. R. Rhode^ P
permission to make a proper return
ing returned 12 slaves as liable to clt^ e J
tion when he had only 6 in the city
January last, was read and rek’ lU
Committee on Finance.
The petition of Joseph
forth that he “ was fined $lO 0 1
trespassing on the grounds w . :■
stores on the Bay, by leaving cotW 11
for seven dajs, that he was UDti®r t e ■
pression that said grounds was the P r ° 5 . \
of the persons owning the stores,
read and rejected.