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BY WM. WILSON.
VOLUM IV—NUMBER 43.
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Ordinances of the Town of Wash
ington.
PASSED, JUNE 5, 1657.
SECTION L.
The marshal shall have power to enter peace
ably any private enclosure, and to examine any
place where he may suspect the law is being
violated, and to search any negro house, but
shall commit no violence except in the mode
rate punishment of persons of color. If his
entrance on enclosures or into negro houses is
obstructed so that he cannot ••liter he may ap
ply to the white person having jharge of the
lot to order the removal of such obstruction,
who shall accordingly remove it under a penal
ty of five dollars.
section Li.
It shall be the duty of the marsh'a’i to pat
rol within the town limits and the immediate
vicinity thereof, and any whcic within the
corporate limits that ho may think proper
from the ringing of the bell at night until day
liguc. He shall examine all ann every person
of color if found in the streets;.and if such
persons not being nsua’ly resident within the
town limits, have no pass, or if tiny colored
person shall bo drunk or gambling, or behav
ing in a disorderly manner, or shall be found
anywhere under circumstances inducing a
reasonable sus| icion of their being runaw ys
or criminal, he may in his discretion i ithet m
oil them not exceeding 39 stripes, or may
put them in tha Guard House, or both, and it
shall be the duty of the marshall at till times
to preserve order within the corporate limits.
SECTION Lit.
It shall be the duty of the marshall to
cause the bell to be rung as follows; From
21st of March to 2lst September at !)£ o'clock,
on all nights except Saturday, and on that
night at 10 o’clock, a id from 2isf. Sepfenth ;•
March at 0 o’clock on a'l nights cx
ca/t Saturday night, and on that night at 9j
gfcock, P. M.
SECTION Lilt.
, Free persons of color arriving within the
corporate limits shall within ten days, pay to
the marshall f eu dollars. In case of neglect
or refusal to pay the same, such person of col
pr shall be committed to the Guard House and
JO receive ten stripes per day until the same
is paid, or he be delivered by order of flic
board, or by other due course of law.
section rav.
No person of color shall occupy any house
but that of some white person residing on the
same square within ft ty yatds thereof, wi.h
out a license to the owner, hirer, or guardian
pf such colored perso i. who shall pa - livedo!
lars for the same, o;> • granted at the discre
tion of the board. It such license is granted,
the applicant shall give bond with approved
security in the penalty of fifty dollars, condi
tioned for the good boh tviorof such person of
color, and for his keeping an orderly house du
ring such time as the !>•> unlinay prescribe, mid
also for the payment of all tines that may be
imposed upon him with.a that time. Hut such
bond shall in no wise t -nd to prevent or sup
ercede the ordinary process of collecting such
Sacs. Such licensed residences shall be sub
ject to all ordinances respecting dwelling
houses. White persons permitting the occu
pancy of houses contrary to this ordinance
may be fined two dollars for every day. and
.colored persons so occupy ing shall be liable to
receive five stripes, and if free to be fined two
dollars.
SECTION LV.
No slave within the corporalc limits shall
hire his own time from his master,'or have the
use of his own time thereiu by virtue of any
contract made with his master out of those
limits, unless in cither case a duplicate li*
cense shall have been granted by the board,
one to the master and the other to the slave,
expressing therein the length of time within
which he may do so.
Nor shall a free person of color hire himself
within the corporate limits, unless a duplicate
license as afoiesaid shall have been granted to
Tis gnardian and himself. Any white person
‘offending against this ordinance, shall be fined
‘one dollar for each day, ail every colored
person so offending, shall be liafble to receive
five lashes, and if free be fined two dollars for
each day in which such person of color shall
be thus illegally employed. And the fact of
any person of coler being found employed un
der his own* contract and not producing his
license, shall be presumptive evidence against
*him; and if found so employed after notice to
such owner or guardian of his having offered
to hire himself, it shall be presumptive evi
dence against such owner or guardian, and
‘sufficient fora conviction if not repelled.
SECTION LVI.
.; .. ,
No colored persou shall be considered as a
hired or house servant within the meaning of
this ordinance, when the person to whom he is
such pretended servant exacts only a partial
or casual or nominal service from him.
, SECTION LVII.
- Any slave residing within the corporate lim
its and hot under the control of some white
person therein, or any free person of color re
siding therein, who shall not have a guardian
in the county, may respectively be treated as
runaways.
section Lviii
No person of co or shall retail spirituous ii
tpiors within life Corporate limits. Nor any
such person Set dr keep A table, or otherwise
sell ar hawk any beer, cake, dressed or other
Victuals, or driuk of any kind in a street; pu
blic place, or any house not occupied by a
white person, within the corporate limits with
out a license, foe which he shall nay two dok
If any such person shall be found offending
hereiu it shall be the duty iff the Marshall to
seize all such articles, anil lie shall also seize
and sell the table, stauds and ware wheron the
same shall be exposed, and inflict oti each of
fender ten stripes, and if he be free he shall
be liable to be lined two dollars tor each vio
lation.
section ui.
If any slave or free person of color shall be
convicted of having intoxicating liquors not
supplied to him by lus owner, employer, or
guardian, he shall be punished with stripes not
exceeding thirty-nine on his naked body.
Any slave or free person o. color convicted
of being drunk, or playing cards in the streets
shall receive the same punishment.
Any slave cr free person of color convicted
of selling intoxicating liquor, or of keeping it
for sale or distribution shall receive on his
naked body not exceeding sixty-five stripes.
And the marshall shall in every case keep the
offender iu safe custody for trial.
section lx. , 1
Any white person trading with a person of
color within the corporate limits on the Sab
bath day or in any night after bell ringing,
and before sunrise, without written permission
from the owner, or employer or guardiau of
such person of color, shall be liable to bo fined
two dollars. And any colored person so of
fending shall be liable, if slave, to receive 25
lashes, ami if free ten stripes, and shall more
over be liable to tho flue aforesaid. And if any
colored person shall be found on the Sabbath
‘day or within the aforesaid hours of any night
in any store house or lipling shop or in the
yard or inclosure appertaining thereto, hnless
sent there by the person having the charge
aad direction of him, it shall be taken as ore
sumptive. and unless explained shall be con
clusive evidence against such colored persons
and against the owner ami the keeper of such
store house or tippling shop of a violation of
this ordinance. And in all such cases it shall
be the duty of the marshall to repo’t such per
son to t lie next meeting of the board, and al
so to notify them to appear to answer for such
offence.
section LXI.
No white person shall trade W'tji a person
of color at any time within tii rporate lim
its by purchase, sale or barter in any cotton,
fodder, meal, flour, corn or other r 1 ’ ‘ hat
ever, or any tobacco, meat or p. -iy above
the value of one dollar, unless suet, colored
person has a written permission from his own
er. employer, or guardian, specifying the kind
arid quantity of such articles, under the penal
ty of being fi led in asumitot exceeding five
dollars. Any person of color offending as
aforesaid or trading with a person of color in
any of the articles aforesaid, the buyer and
seller shall be liable to receive each, if slaves,
50 lushes and if free ten. and shall moreover
bn subject to the fine afotesaid. Hut colored
persons are i*''! ■ i y and permit.
milk, small f '—- ■■ = ‘TIImV|
rrtTftrrr.-wefncn ‘.., T melons, and such Other
articles as in the op'yiiou of the board arc ge
nerally vended by them for their own ns;.
SECTION LXil.
No colored person shall keep any horse,
honied cattle or hogs within the corporate
Uni ts. It shall be the duty of the marshall
to taic up any of the afpresail animals that
lie mavfiud. be ongiug to .my person of color,
and after five days advertisement to sell them
and pay the proven Is thereof to the trea uuer.
(Inducting besides Ins other costs, for horses
five dollars, for horned rattle one dollar, and
for hogs twenty live cents each for taking up.
But the owner of stt.da animal. being a white
person, may have such animals before sale, mak
ing affidavit tho he is the owner, before any
member of the ooard; or may have the pro
c edsof the sale thereof on making such affi
davit, an 1 paying the s lid fees and costs to the
marshall.
SECTION LXHI.
Any person of color not usually resident
within the town limits being found therein on
the Sabbath day. or any other holiday without
a written permit, and apparently not sent by
those having the charge or management of
them, or having, or offering at any time to
sell or purchase, any prohibited articles, or
being drunk or behaving in a disorderly or
noisy manner, may be whipped not exceeding
ten stripes by the marshall, and be confined
in the guard house during that day and until
one dollar to the marshall and all other costs
shall be paid.
FIRE.
SECTION lxiv.
• Thcrcshail not be within the town limits or
within 400 yards thereof, any wooden
chimney; nor shall fire be kept or used in any
hobse not having a chimney; or ii) any china-i
ney not extending ac least eighteen mches
higher than the highest part of the house or
in a house in any other manner which three
members of the board shall deem dangerous.
The owners or occupiers of houses offending
herein may be fined three dollars for every
day such chimney shall stand after notice to
remove it. and for every day on which fire
may be hffd or used at any one time tlicrin.
It shall be the duty of the marshal to extin
guish such fires wherever he may think tho
danger imminent. And it shall bo bis duty to
prescribe the disposition and direction of stoves
and stove pipes.
section lxv.
A sum not exceeding ten dollars shall be
paid by any owner or occupier of a bouse hav
ing a chimney which shall be seen burning
within the limits of the town within 400 yards
thereof, except when it is raining or immedi
ately thereafter.
SECTION LXVt.
If any white person shall sec fire carried
or had by a colored person in such place or
manner as such white person may deem dan
gerous, he may instantly extinguish it and
may indict on such colored person ten stripes.
And if any white person shall be seen to have
or carry fire so as to be downed dangerous,
such persoo .may be fined cot exceeding five
do. lars.
SECTION Lxvil.
No person within tho town limits shall set
up a plank or other kiln, or have fire in the
open air for butch :ving. Nor shall any fire
be kept iu the open air within the corporate
limits which iu tho opinion of the marshal Or
any three members of the board is dangered-
Nor shall any person burn rockets or crackers
or ..ay kind of fire works within the fova lim
its, except cn set occasions of rejoicing. Any
person offending herein triay Be fined ten dol
lars, and each day on which such fire, shall be
seen burning shall be a distinct offence. It
shall be tbc duty of the Marshal to citfngqisb
$n suh fires fcrewitii,
“www-vskiiW-slKmw,'’
WSHINGTON, GEORGIA, FBUjaY JULY 3, 1857,
SECTION liXTIII.
The marshal shall procure four public lad
ders, of different sizes, well painted, and pre
serve them in some safe place.
section lxlx.
Any person who shall within tho town limits
or within 200 yards of any dwelling
except his own, in the corporate limits shoot
off and discharge any fire arms except at times
of public rejoicing or on some necessary occa
sion or by accident may be fined two dollars
for every such offence.
TO BE CONTINUED*
■■■ . ———SB
JOCtoL
Tlie Inquiry.
Tell me, ye winged winds,
That round my pathway roar,
To you not know some spot,
Where mortals weep no more 1
Some lone and pleasant dell.
Some valley in the West.
Where, free from toil and pain,
The weary seul may rest ?
The loud wind dwindled to a whisper low*,
And sighed far pity, and it answered “.No !”
Tell me, thou mighty deep,
Whose billows round me play,
Ktiaw’rt taaa some favored spot,
Some Island far away,
Where weary man may find
The bliss for which he sighs ;
Where sorrow never lives*
Aim! friendship never dies ?
Tin loud waves roaring ia perpetual flow,
Stopped for a while, ad siglipd to answer ‘.No !’
And thdU|9Crcnc3b moon,
That with such holy face,
Doth look upon tho earth.
Asleep in nights embrace,
Tell me, in all thy round.
Must thou not Hocn some spot
Where miserable man
Might find a happier lot ?
Behind a cloud tho uioan withdrew iu woe,
AnJ a sweet voice, buts ul, responded, u No ? M
Tell me, my sacred soul,
Oh ! tell nc, Hope and Faith,
Is there uo resting place.
From sorrow, sin and death ?
Is there no happy spot,
Wnero mortals may be blessed—
Where grief may find nbuliu,
And weariness a rest T
Faith,’ Hope an! Lo7.>, b33n to mortal*
given,
Waved the bright wings, and whispered—‘Vcs
Arise dlait roiis.
Sectionalism.
“Wli-itN iii ii n iir.- ?■’
The influence of more epithet wis probable
not half so great in the time of Shakespeare,
ns it Is at present, but even then a large major
ity of people were controlled by it. .Things in
themselves indifferent, bceoine bad or good in
I the estimation of very many persons, accord
ing to the inline by which they are called, and
stran.ee to say, bad names carry with them
more power to injure, than good, ones lo to
biess. Whether this results from the fact
that hate is more active than love, and its
))hrases are framed with intenser point and
piquancy, or that there is more evil than good
io ihe world, and men prefer abuse to praise,
wc do not know, but so it is, and it has been
from time immemorial, a dexterous device to
embody in terms of reproach, an opposition
which perhaps could not bo sustained by ar
gument, and even if susceptible of defence,
would not be ha’f so influential. Foster, in
in bis essay on the use of the ‘Epithet Roman
tic ’ very clearly elucidates this subject, and it
is astonishing how many sensible people are
intimidated by a verbal shadow. In some
communities ‘gambling’ is abhorrent to the
public moral sense and universally denounced
but ‘speculation - is perfectly legitimate, as if
gambling on cotton or stocks was really differ
ent from gambling on horses or cards. But
wc did not intend to descant on this subject at
large. We took up the pen to call attention
to a particular instance. Whenever a citizen
of the south, seeing perhaps, more clearly
than’his fellows or more deep'y feeling the
wrongs imposed upon this portion of the coun
, try ; appreciating more fully the dangers
which environ our inssitutions, and the cer
tainty of ruin sooner or later- uules something
be done to arrest the impending penil; when
actuated by impulses of ardent patriotism he
employs warmth of expression, he is immedi
ately denounced as an ‘agitator,’ and his opin
ions arc pronounced ‘sectional.’ Now we beg
to say first that ‘loyalty’ is always ‘sectional.’
It to love the spot of one’s birth, the home of
one's parents the scenes of one's childhood, the
community of one’s early association, the State
of one’s nativity or adoption, the section in
whichone lives, in fine, if to loves one’s own
■country better than any oaher. be wrong, then
is ‘sectionalism’ in this modern interpretation
wrong, but not otherwise. The purpose of
the Democratic party is not to destroy those
local.prejudices which chatactcrizc different
sections but to exclude them from the action
ot government, and to prevent their indul-
geuec. to the injury of others, who arc under
no obligation to respect or obey them. We
do not expect, at least and o not require, a Nor
them Democrat, as part of his creed, to pre
fer Southern institutions to bis own, abstract
ly, but we ask and require that he should
afford us all the protection and aistar oe
which as equals, wc are entitled under
siitution.
No matfor wbgpwttf bw Ws individual sen
timents >va cyiwlot expect him to corporate
us slavery. That is the
busing'and duty of the South, independent
of • /political party. It is for us to organize
ani expend our ib'tttutions as a section, hav
ing one common bond and one common inter
est ,to protect ourselves by strengthening
every defence and enlarging tiic ared of slave
ry; aad wc ought to be active and speedy a
bout it, Our objection to tbo course pursued
by Governor Walker is not that ho entertains
a preference for Kansas as a free State, al
though as a former citizen of the South, soot
an oplniop is disloyal; but we protest against
his using the influence of {iis official position
■to brine ahv,.,* ‘ yp e do not
blame N*s4liern men for desiring Kansas to
Im free, if it can be accomplished fairly, ami
the pot*. r thus acquired is to be used lawfully
and not against us. But it is the imperative
duty *m'j Southern man to do his utmost
to pretest such a contingency, and it is tho
duty of the authorities to interpose no obsta
cle, -fcVtflb not ask anybody to like slavery,
if pereti* are not convinced by tho argument
which air.otfrts to demonstration in its favor,
we aremdifferent to their private notions ;
but wt ftttiist that we arc equals under the
Government, and we intend to bo nothing else.
If to cMWotir rights, to denounce our enemies
auffjaccuwvs, to use every fair means to ex
ply opfTMoiircrs be ‘sectional,’ then ought
the Souf/Tt.) be ‘sectional.’ The New York
News think it very ‘sectional’ for Southern
men tU iwriemn the course of Gov. Walker,
but wc (so not. H's conduct has been wholly
iudifensvHe and ‘sectional’ in the narrowest
sense of the word, for he has favored, in every
way opo-a to him, the frecsoil party. He has
gone out of his way to declare what the free,
independent Convention of Kansas shonld do
in adopting the Constitution. lie has Listed
on its rc-sijjinistion, and done so on the fore
gone conbiusion that it. would thereby exclude
slavery. His whole address is taken up with
an elaborate argument to show what brilliau
prospects await it, as a free state ami as a
crumb oi comfort to the slaveholders who are
thus cheated, lie vaguely hints at the forma
tion of a slave state out of a portion of Kansas
and the Julian Territory. We arc not un
reasonably. If a majority of the bona fide
cilizcnfMNHCansas prefer the- exclusion of slav
ery. it vnli be excluded ; and the mockery of
adopting, ti form of government which will be
immediately changed, would result in no prac
tical aHhflmage ; but Gov Walker’s position
encourages the immigration to the Territory
of the hireling emissaries pf the Northern Aid
Societies, who will only remain long enough
to control the character of the State institu
tions an-.i return. Tho decision made by
them will not be the dccisioti of a majority
of residents who are to be affected by tho dis-
of this question. Gov Walker's
duty oßviously imposed upon his neutrality,
at least official silence.* In making his sugges
tions, wbfpti assume the form of dictation, he
is transcending the limits of his privilege, and
trespassing upon tho province and prerogative
of tho Convention. With the destiny of
Kansas th£ Democratic party Inis nothing to
do farther than to secure to all who go there,
justice aud equality ; but tho settlement of the
issue, tlS(Alter it shall become a free or a slave
State, is duroty ‘sectional.’ in which struggle
each section is entitled ft! use its best endeav
ors carry out his own policy.—./Wo
bile RcgntCt- _x ,
Tho Drinking Revolution.
prei.iet, F, cause, like all other great revolu
tions fraught with interest to mankind, it has
risen so gradually and imperceptibly as to.of
fer no (loanee to our tastes and no shock to
our prejudges. It is unpretending and unde*
inonstrullvj, but none the less interesting on
that account. Its battles are fought, not
on the stthat iu saloons, and result in the
shed instead of bllood. This
groat move neut is the Drinking Revolution—a
contest for tipremaey between those old con
servatives, Ahiskey ana Brandy on one side
and those it. licals, Beer au I Wine on the oth
er. V;
It is not difficult to see that the milder be
verages mijet ultimately win a triumph over
their iinqdflfiory antagonists. They are daily
growing more and more in the favor of imbi
bers, wliipi- Whiskey and Brandy, emascula
ted and rfprived of their ancient virtue, by
the villai tous adulterations to which they are
now subjected, arc fast losing their old hold
on the aii'eotion of the public. There is an
‘awful qrrrtfny of whi.,key drunk’ yet, indeed ;
but. manifestly not us much as was swallowed
tea years ago. Old drinkers whose habits arc
formed, aiM* who experience considerable dif
ficulty themselves to new
ones, stilUrth'wa to their fiery friends in spite
of their dll literacy, but young imbibers, whose
p.aetice sth-iic bar dates from a time since the
introduction,pf Lager Beer and Catawba, e
vince a preference for these drinks which will
u'timately establish them, in the United
States; as &utioaal drinks.
Ineverdcity, breweries, are being multi
plied to satisfy the prodigious and prodigious
ly increasing demand for Beer ; and the wid
ening blu. bes which annually multiplied vine
yardstpnfeM -wer the landscape of M,s3ouri,
Ohio and other States, attest our growing par
tially for inane made wine, and our tiiscnthral
inentjfron Jor, igu drinks. The claims of Beer
are powor.rlly supported by the commands of
fashiop, toe. It is very fashionable to quench
the thirsJ_£ithliomely Lager, as the oceans of
it swallowq * iilDcer saloons by respectacle
young me*•'prove*. Indccd.it is said that
young Auffricans are better customers at beer
houses thai < le-Gcrmans themselves ; for the
founcmptAMMft'S'i.iss after glass of the foam
ing manner of Doesticks at
Niagara I'ißl.Nliilc a phlcmatic Mynheer will
drown a nwltiudc of sorrows and troubles in n
single mug.
We o.vc much to the Germans; bat when
they shall have “uecceded, by covering our
hill-sides with vineyards and building brewe
ries, in the poisonous decoctions of
fered to < 8 under tho name of Bourbon
Whisky ;tt4Jivench Brandy, and establishing
the use of tlie less injurious beverages of home
made beer in 1 wine, our indebtedness to them
will be befond the power of calculation. They
havecoimteueed a revolution, which success
fully carried out will make them our benefac
tors, and Jo inorc for tbc cause of Temper
ance than til the teetotal societies ever orgau-
K prohibitory laws ever enact
ilews, l'2th.
i Birthplace to be Cover
—The London Art Journal
iliVtQjnany to learn that ar
in progress for. cpvering with
glass, or rteuer for putting into a huge glass
case, the ftausc in which Shakespeare was
born,, at Spatford-on-Avon. The houses on
both sides have >ecn taken down, and the mon
ument now-stands alone- The objeet of this
course, r tjs protect the house against the ef
fects of weather, and the further influence of
uinc. We question, however, the taste of the
arrangement, and fancy it will be a step from
the spblimfe to the ridiculous.’
CFThp vciy latest novelty in dress in Paris
is crinolipft efttves. Now, then, stand offeutire
>y-
iUiuo, Hie Talking Bird if lava.
Wonders will never cease. How few per
sons have heard a bird talk in plain, good En
glish ?--f Wc have all listened so pretty Poll
when slit .says, good morning,’ but pretty Poll
has no Aumnaud of language,—she is not an
adept ill etymology, syntax and prosody—She
cannot talk syligistieally, like the talking bird
of Javas-she ••ainiot. like him. give three prop
oaitiqns—as for example; ‘My name is ‘lino
—Mind is a pretty bird—llow do you do ?’
We ard aware that the present Queen of Eng
land once had a parrot that said “good morn
ing Vie,’ but never eould pronounce the words
‘Quecu Victoria,’ and on account of an unfin
ished Mcreation was suddenly neglected or
turned over to the understrappers of Windsor
Castle.
There.is a talking bird now living in Mod
ern Athais that has either been remarkably
well educated, or has intuitively caught the
true spirit of the liteary atmosphere we are all
perniittod to breathe, and this bird talks com
mon sense in good plain English. He is a
rare curiosity, mid wc do not believe that our
old friend Audubon ouid have sent a bullet
through Miim's head, wlni for the sake of
curichinghis superb Ornithology with another
beautifuliSpccimen. especially if Mino had
said to the distinguished ornithologist in his
winning and good natured manner . —‘Good
morning, sir.’
We saw tlio talking bird, Mino, at his home
in Tremout street. No. 74, a few days since,
and were much astonished and pleased. It is
difficult to give an adequate cl,-scription or him.
He is about the size of a crow-blackbird, al
though a little heavier. His length from the
tip of the bill to the cud of the tail feathers,is
about twelve inches. Helms a yellow bill
one inch in’length. His plumage is remarka
bly beautiful, when it glistens in rays of sun.
It is a very rich variegated purple and green.
The wings are nearly black, with white bars
near the ends. The feathers on the head arc
very short,'line and thick, and resemble the
richest glosY of dark velvet. He lias a long
and beautiful la,ipel of bright yellow extend
ing from efth side of the back of his head to
the nape of his neck ; there is also a small
yellow oblong mark on each side of its head.
His legs and claws are yellow. His tongue is
long, pointed at the end, broad in the throat
and flat, thus differing from that of the parrot,
which is rout'd, short, and somewhat curved.
Mr. James Maun, the well-known taxuler
mist of this, city, informs its that the Mino
birds, so called, are natives of Java, and that
they are rare even in this island ; moreover,
that they seldom talk. They have a great
appetite, and will eat, voraciously, cooked or
raw meat, bread, potatoes, and fruit, although
they appear to relish simple meal mid milk.
Mr. Maim possessed a Mino bird, some years
ago which could whistle, and imitate different
sounds, hut it could not pronounce words.
•The bird Mino, ill Tremolit',; ‘ et, • prop
"f Y*r- has Am’ tenor voire,
and shows ml ai trcty ,:k'.tte termed irrretu
gence. Wo I rave seen several per ..mis looking
admiringly a; him, uinl have beard Idffi say
in the most liistinet manner, after he lias gaz
ed intently apparently listening to the con
versation ‘My name is lino.’ At',er wait
ing some litre, as ? he expected a compli
ment t lie I :stowed upon him, he tias raised
his beautiful head and proudly said :—•Mino
is a pretty b rd.’ If no person offers any words
of praise, lie jumps about his large cage a few
times, turns liis back to the astonished spec
tators and indignantly and emphatically says,
in a sharp tone: ‘Go away .'—go away!’ He
then gives it loud and hearty guffaw, exactly
like the ‘lis ha ha !’ of a human being. Os
course, cviiy person laughs tit the droll bird
and the dip,l bird laughs again, and says :
‘Good morliug.’ When he sees his admirers
disperse, hi tells them tn the plainest language
to ‘Shut tlit door.’ If he is asked his name in
an affectioiiite manner, ho will immediately
reply :—‘My name is Mino—How do you do?’
When he liars several persons conversing ear
nestly togiher, without taking any notice of
him. he cxilaims :—‘What are you talking
for?’ The word* are so suddenly spoken, and
the sound i o closely resembles a human voice,
that one is really inclined to r ply that it is
none of yqir business ! But Mino is polite,
well educated, and very amusing, although be
is vain anil fond of flattery.
Every anise that wc have given wc heard
Mino speafc in the course of fifteen minutes ;
he could probably bo taught to extend bis
knowledge of the English language, that he
could do ill! the talking tit the next session of
our Legislature for nothing, and thus save
considerable money to our tax paying citi
zens. It is a fact that, when he is in the hu
mor, he speaks the Maylay language, soto voce
and apparently for his own gratification. Wo
hope that -Mr. Elihu Burritt, the learned
blacksmith, wili listen to Miuo's foreign lingo
and give us a translation of it for, mayhap,
some long lost linos ot an ancient poet may yet
bo preserved to usby this very remarkable
bird. Ho certainly manifests a certain degree
of intelligence, lie apparently takes pleas
ure in listening to ordinary conversation and
lias extraordinary imitative power. If he had
the enthusiasm of an Audubon, WiUon, Buf
lou, Couvier or Gould, wo should place tnis
bird in a rank above all other birds. His
owner, Mr. Chesloy, who will b s pleased to
show his pet to the public who choose to call,
has refused otic offer of five hundred dollars
;or him, aud another offer of six hundred. The
Mino lives to a great age. and is said to
be the only bird amongst the five thousand spe
cies known in the world that talks f.oin the
lungs and perfectly imitates the hufnrn voice.
—Boston Traveler.
Coal Formations of the World —The
proportions of the superficial coal areas of the
principal coal predneing countries of Europe
and America, may bo thus stated : United
States, 133.132 square miles ; British Ameri
ca. cS.OOff square miles ; Great Britain and
Ireland, 1,830 square miles ; Spain, 3103
square miles; France, 1710 square miles;
Beltrinm, 518 square miles. Thus it will be
seeifahnt tho United States lias a superficial
coal area more than three times as great as
all the countries of Europe. And it should be
remembered, too, that the coal basins of the
United States arc but partially explored and
dclincd. In regard to production, however,
rhe contrast is altogether in favor of Europe
thus : Great lirh<unjnnd Ireland produce .Ml,
500,000; Belgium 5,00(1,000; France 4.141,-
617; Prussia, 3,500,000; Austria 7000; while
the United States, with a eoal area more than |
three times,the extent of all Europe, actually ‘
produces but4.400,000 tons.—A'. O. Buiieu.i. !
ty The Tobacco cbew’r is said to be, like j
a goose in a dutch oven—alway s on a pirk „ - }
T. M. DANIEL, Editor.
TERMS—S 2 PER ANNUM
From the Baltimore Patriot.
,l.\ew Motive Power to Supersede
Steam.
We have been aware for some time past that
Professor Salomon was engaged in our city
constructing his patent‘‘Sulph. Oil Carbonic
Acid Engine,” an 1 that his prospects of suc
cess were highly encouraging. More than
ten years has the Professor labored upon this
favorite theme of his mechanical and scientific
genius, occasionally encountering ditliculties,
but by tloee application and unbending enter
prise, he finally found his efforts crowned with
abundant, success.
We called yesterday afternoon, much to our
gratification, and saw the engine in full suc
cessful operation, where it had been working
without interruption, several days, in Cypress
alley, between fPratt and Lombard streets.
This engine, being merely a model, or experi
mental one, has of course, some imperfections,
and may be greatly improved, bat it is calcu
lated for four-horse power, being a common
rectilineal or reciprocating steam engine, dif
fering in no material feature from those in
general use. The patent novelty consists in
t ie motive power and its application, which
wltoly supersedes steam. This motion is pro
due and by a compound of do. sulphiated bi.
sulphuret of carbon, coal tar and volatile, or
fixed oil, which, under certain influences of
beat becomes powerfully expansive and thus
gives momentum. Though only a four-horse
engine, it has performing the estimated duty
of ten hoises, and lias been so doing since put
into operation, nearly a fortnight ago.
The fluid, or gas, constituting the motive
power, is used over and over again, with scar
cely any diminution or waste, being thrown,
after performing its work, from the heater to
the condenser to the heater again, with thor
ough renovation. The beater where the gas
or fluid is introduced is submerged in a cistern
of beaten oil.j kept hot by a gentle fire. In
this condition the gas expands, gaining” its
power, and passing through pipes and valves,
acts upon the piston, giving motion to the en
gine. The appliances arc simple, easy of
comprehension, free from complication, and
nut subject to accident or disarrangement.
Thus a s. eady, active force is at all times
kept up.
The cost of this fluid is estimated at ten
cents per gallon, and it is demonstrated that
eighteen gallons, by careful attention will run
an engine of the capacity here noticed for one
year. Its'components are such as not to freeze
even at ninety degrees below zero. The a
inouiit of fuel is in a proportion of fifteen lbs.
of coal to one hundred pounds, compared
with a s.team engine of the same dimensions,
whilst more than double the force can bo
brought into requisition. The engine which
we saw in operation has a piston of twelve in
ches stroke, crank G inches. Jt was doing the
service of ten horse power under the break of
a wheel II feet in dianteter, !>foht 11 in ‘les'tty
ci re inference, pressed between two
-ui rAu! side, ainl it friction ldoak on each bar
of 7 inches in length, and 2} inches in width,
on mi iron rim of 2 inches, under a weight of
112 po .mU, making jJU revolutions per min
ute.
To those versed in mechanics Ibis will in
dicate the engine's capacity, or the power ap
plied thereto by this wonderful agency. The
heat causing the result here noticed was only
2-16 Fahrenheit, or GJ pounds working power,
under exhaustion, and an atmospheric pressure
of 15 pound- adverse, which adds that much
to the act vo agent. By trial with steam in
the same proportion, under a similar condition
with 2G7 degrees of heat, the amount of pres
sure was only 25 pzttiids to the square inch,
and When tested the engine moved hut slight
ly and stopped. Thus there is clearly demon
strated an almost incredible superiority, or
advantage of this new motor, in its application
over steam. Besides the advantages abovo
noticed; we are told—and indeed, it becomes
apparent to practical or scientific observers—
that explosions is impossible, and thus a mo
mentous point is gained in obviating all dan
ger.
Professor Salomon was burn in Prussia, and
has been a citizen of the United States over
twenty-seven years.
Swearing.
“Trust not to the promise of a common”
swearer,” says Francis Quarles, in hisEnchir
dion, ‘for he that dure sin against his God for
neither profit nor pleasure, wiil trespass a
gainst thee for his own advantage. He that
dare break the precepts of his father, will ea
sily be persuaded to violate the promise to his
brother., There is good common souse in this
advice, and it would he well if it were general
ly acted on- There are. no doubt, many g.eat
scoundrels who never swear, and perhaps a
few men of otherwise good conduct who some
times transgress the commandment, but of the
‘common swearer' —the man whose every oth
er word is an oath, and who cannot perform
the most trivial or even disgraceful act without
profanely invoking the name of the Supreme
Being, hut little good can he said. He may
he successful in business, shrewd in worldly
dealing, andeourageous in facing danger, but in
qualities that make up the truqgentleman and
tlio Christian, he is wofully deficient. Take
the man who is well read in good literature,
who i.s agreeable to those in whoso society ho
is thrown, and who3o name is but another word
for boner and probity, and lie will never be
found one who
‘Unpacks his heart with Words,
Ann t ilts to cursing like a verv drub.’
Unhappily too many of our young men
think it a mark of good breeding and social
dignity to interlude their discourse with oaths
and curses, wishing to appear, says a quaint
old writer, that they are* on familiar terms
with the Killer of the Universe, if they are not
with the aristocracy of the land. How mistak
en an idea this is may bo seen by the dislike
iii’ ii of really goad breeding evince to the so
ciety of these swearing pretenders. Our ris
ing generation, with the human failing of
learning that which is good, are sadly tainted
With the vice c.f profane swearing. lie who
doubts the fact has only to pass a group of
boys at play in the street to be convinced. —
Nor is the practice confined io the childreu of
the poor or tli o degraded . the well dressed
sons of the ‘better classes’ are very apt to bo
those who swear the loudest and the most per
tinaciously. Are the parents of such boys not
aware that ‘hard swearing’ is frequently a pi
oneer to more flagrant vices and crimes ? Wo
wishing those addicted to this vice would hoed
the advice of ‘holy G-corge Herbert:’
‘Tako not his njune who made thy mouth
in vaiu;
It gets t.... nothin,', su'd hath no eX' 1 ts<*.
Bust old wnu) plead a pleasure, avarice
! gain . .
[. But the swearer through his common sluuw
T .eta his soul run for nought,’