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TO MBM MISS.
J. A. TURNER. EDITOR.
VOLUME I.
dkiflimil.
FOR TffE I.vnFFKNPEVT PRESS.
THE INVALID.
iiV DAVID L. ROATH.
Oh, Death in Life !
Tlie hours tlieir course so slowly roll.
The clock sounds like a funeral toll.
A closing strife
With all belonging still to earth.
Xhat bends to tears or lights to mirth.
I lie and mark
The glorious progress of the sun
I' util the weary day is done,
And all is dark;
And as the shades still deeper get,
I wonder that 1 linger yet!
All through the night
Strange figures haunt mv troubled sleep,
trround my couch and laugh and weep.
With devilish spite;
And morning, making nature glad,
Finds me all unrefresh'd and sad.
I hear the hum,
As busy thousands onward move
To do the work of wo or love :
Not one would come.
However sunk in misery.
And change his wretched state with me!
I look within,
And seek for something from the Past,
To buoy me up against the blast—
I try to win
My thoughts from dwelling on the pain
My sinking frame may yet sustain.
The Days of Youth!
Wlut>- from the World my heart was free,
And .Toy was ever near to me,
And Hope and Trutli
In loving tones their lessons told—
i.-.-ssoasforgot as I grew old!
The store of wealth,
To gain which 1 have fought for years
1 I- Tittle that the conscience sears,
For simple health
I would exchange without a sigh—
< 'h that 1 could this blessing buy!
Put all is vain!
The bed on which I weary lie,
1 ...ne from wliioV I cannot fly:
My bed of pain!—
Until the life, now but a thread,
Leut and I am of the Dead!
IttisrclliintDus.
FOK THE INDEPENDENT PRESS.
* • Thomson ism , ’ ’ Hot an ic~
ism , A'c.
When first the truths of Thomsonism ;
v/erc heard to issue from the cheerless j
h-nths of a New Hampshire forest, so |
'tartling was the sound, that it awoke !
the slumbering jealousy of a powerful I
profession. Uttered by one unknown !
t ) the annals of the famed, they would
fain have been consigned, in sovereign
contempt, to the abysmal vortex of
eternal forgetfulness, but for the bold
id--with which they courted scrutiny.
The blighting anathemas of presump
tuous arrogance, and the burning sa
tyr*- of learned wit, were alike power
h*ss for their destruction. Strongly
tiny appealed to reason, till common
1 sense seized the banner-staff, and un
| furled to the breeze the glorious mot
|to of -i Medical Reform,” beneath which
I rallied fearless spirits, akiu to those of
| ; '.T -verity-six.” Then contempt became
I malice, and ridicule,'-persecution. Lc-
Igislative despotism swayed her ebon
in the very birth-chamber of
Sfireedom. The Arclyimeden lever of
Irnind —the press —with a influential
craft as its fulcrum, was subsidized, and
lJustice foully suborned, until, by the
I hands of his enemies, the immortal
I Thomson was christened as the grand
| heresiarch of Medical Philosophy.
To dissipate the impenetrable gloom
luvhich has enshrouded, like the fore-'
pshadowings of death, the highest tem
poral interests of the world, tench -
i less light, of truth dawned upon Thom
pson’s mind, growing brighter and
■brighter, as it passed through each
I successive sign of its ecliptic course,
I until it has at length poured its noon
tide rays upon the wo-draped'couch of
'-•disease, and the cypress-wreathed cor
f ridorsof the grave. Here, the god
like philanthropist, whose heart beats
high with the noble resolve of devot
ing the bloom of his youthful years to
the acquisition of wisdom, which shall
lit him tor the holy functions of a sa
cred cilice, and the vigor of his ma
tured powers to the alleviation of hu
man misery, may leafu ecunmCic prin
cipies, w Inch, g sfepgijfl| primordially
from cornmou-seuse, arid approved by
reason* expand Under the genial influ
ence of inductive philosophy, into the
irrcfragable apothegms oUcertain sci-
% MlccMn journal:—ilcbcitcti to'literature, |t)olitics, anti#eiieri[ Ipnctlaitii.
once. Here, too, the writhing victim,
deep amidst the quivering fibres of
whose tortured frame the barbed ar
rows of disease have sunk withcauter
| iziug force, may find a balm for his
; cankering wounds, more certain in af
fording relief, than the Moly of the
j Egyptians, or the grand eatholicon of
i the Greeks.
The superiority of the Thonisonian
system, as regards certainty, arisse
from a triple source. The first, feature
which presents itself, is the unadorned
simplicity of its principles. Among
these are the unity of disease, the
I power and mildness of its therapeutic !
! processes, and their accordance with !
! flic laws of life. No vague conjec
! tures, nor hypothetical speculations,
j concerning the analogies and contra
! rieties of the modifications of disease,
: spring up here to perplex, with theo
retical difficulties, the mind of the dil
igent physician ; but by resolving all
' abnormal phenomena into one ’morbif
ic action, it opens the portals of Patho
logical science, and bids him explore
j the fields of controlling influences, in
j order to adapt the principles of his gen
; eral treatment to the eccentric modifi
i float ions they may produce ; while the
practical lessons taught him by the
Physiological laws of the human con
■ stitution, define with exactitude the
| general indications to be kept in view
in the treatment of every case, and the
j peculiar character of the remedies prop
j er for their fulfilment.
The universal applicability, hence,
jof the Botanic remedies, constitute
| another ground of certainty. In noth
ing did Thomson evince more superior
ity of intellect, than in selecting reme
dies that act concurrent V the a at\ the
parts of the animal organ in
their admirable combination yu what j
is usually called “acourse of r Tv,-h hui 10 /' j
so as to secure the greatest i. ve ar i.W' Tj
| good, in the si, ylcst space offline, and j
, with the smahU Lumber of means!'— |
. In this we beyjld, not the fortunate |
i inquisitivenese of casual discovery, but !
| the exalted powers of inventive genius !
: By the adopt ion of such a Meteria Med- !
: iea, he obtained command over the de-1
; ranged functions of the various organs, i
I and proved that disease, wherever lo
! cated, could be cured by general means,
! varied only in being specially applied
!to the organ or tissue affected; and by
: the institution of the process, in which
| these general means are so combined as
j to fulfil all the indications of cure, he
I demonstrated the universal applicabil
; itv of his system to every modification
1 of disease.
The certainty of these means of cure
may be traced, thirdly, to their opera
tion in accordance with those laws, of
the animal economy, by which the
phenomena of vitality are produced
in the inception of life, and perpetuated
through the entire period of existence,
until they have reached the utmost
limits assigned to mortality, when, by
the fiat of the Eternal, the wheels of
life are destined to cease their weary
revolutions, and the dimming taper to
flicker in its socket.
Whether these laws result from the
co-operatioft of combined causes, or
originate from the specific influence of
some isolated principle, they are never
theless definite in their action, circum
scribed in their bounds, and certain in
their tendencies. They constitute as
well she recuperative, as the conser
vative powers of the constitution. The
harmony of-our remedial agents with
these laws or powers, is demonstrated
by the fact, that they possess no ten
dency to disorganize the most subtle
tissue, or derange the most delicate
function of the admirable frame work
qf; man.
/Here, however, I would not be mis
apprehended. In maintaining on this
ground the superiority of Thomsonism
over every other system of medical
practice, I.would not be understood
as claiming for it infalibility of suc
cess. By the incomprehensible agen
cy of unknown causes, the best direct
ed efforts of the most skilful practition
er* may be paralyzed, and the livid im
print, of death’s iron grasp be imaged
on the pallid features of the hapless
patient. Human wisdom is too short
sighted, and human energy too impo
tent, to succeed in every ease. A ten
der biul upon a fragile-stalk, nourish
ing the canker worm within the fold
ed petals of its own bosoin, and expos -
"eel to the pel.tings of warring
c-lements without, and. gontemling’pas
sions with in, eveu though gorgeously
—“WITHOUT M'U.III, I\lT'OSl OR •tI'I'VUTIfKV ”
EATONTON, GA,, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1854.
decked by the hand, and sweetly per
fumed by the breath of his Maker,
man lives but to die. Withered by the
sun that expands the blossom, and
chilled by the dews that refresh the
flower, his ephemeral existence can be
sustained only by omnipotence. Yet
|as that omnipotence, in the cxecu
j lion of his purposes, wisely adapts ap
propriate means to the ends to be ac
complished, the frailty of our tenure
on life demands a careful investigation
of the means proposed to strengthen
the feeble ligaments, which hold the
chafed spirit an unwilling prisoner in
this ‘“house of clay while
prompts the adoption of those least
equivocal in their action, and most cer
tain in their tendencies.
The next feature of Thomsonism
that merits our attention, is its safety.
Many of the considerations which I
have urged in substantiation of its
certainty of principle and practice,
might be again adduced to prove its
superiority in this respect. Its univer
sal applicability, as deduced from the
general action of our simple remedies
on the entire organism, and the fulfil
ment of all the indications of cure, as
well as its harmonious co-operation
with the laws of vitality, and the re
cuperative powers of the constitution,
go far to establish the innoxuous na
ture of each individual remedy it com
prises, and the salutary effects result
ing from tlieir proper combination and
judicious exhibition. Here, again,
science sheds the lustre of her brilliant
light to demonstrate that, what, with
out her aid, might have been regarded
as the dim outline of conjectural spec
ulation, is, when closely examined, the
well-defined form of truthful Philoso
phy. Medical Botany acquaints us with
the physical properties and medical
qualities of the remedies used ; while
Chemistry shows their perfect .compat
ibility, and their proper combinations.
Therapeutics teaches the indications to
be fulfilled bv their exhibition. Phys
iology and Pathology, as developed by
anatomical research, prove their adap
tation to the purposes of the curative
process ; and the principles and prac
tice of medicine, together with the
cognate branches, instruct us in their
skillful administration in the various
forms of disease ; all establish their
perfect safety, and their unrivaled ef
ficacy.
This is a matter of no small impor
tance to mankind. The life-long mis
ery inflicted on thousands by the em
ployment of remedial agents, possess
ing no affinity whatever with the con
stituent principles of the living body ;
having no harmony with the fixed
laws of vitality, and tending only to
organic leision and functional derange
ment, presents a fearful picture at which
sympathy sheds full many a tear. But
when wc enter the noisome vaults of
the charnel-house, and behold the
mouldering bones of those who have
indiscriminately fallen a prey to the
heroic medicines in countless multi
tudes, like the crushed populace of the
fated Jerusalem in the terrible on
slaught of Rome’s conquering host, we
shrink from the desolation around.—
As we emerge from the pestilential at
mosphere of the carnage chamber, we
ask in despondent tones, if there is no
escape from the alternative of death ;
and we are pointed to the temple of
Medical Reform, where we may read
the holograph of the immortal Thom
son, bequeathing the priceless legacy
of innocuous botanic remedies.
To the invalid, worn down by a
long pilgrimage of woe, nothing is
so desirable as a speedy deliverance
from the accumulated ills with which
he is overburthened. On the score
of expedition, the Thomsonian system
stands without a rival. Disease, the
force of which required long days of
painful agony, and nights of restless
tossing on a burning pillow, before it
could be broken, may, by a proper
medication upon the reformed princi
ples, be cut short, sometimes in a few
hours, and at most in a few days ;
leaving the ensanguined rose of health
to bloom in pristine beauty on the
cheek, and the fire of vivacity to en
kindle again on the wasting features.
Physio-Medico.
Covington, .August 7th, 1854.
# ' • '
It is estimated that no less than 31,-
500,000 of the people inhabiting this
globe have passed into the valley of
the shadow of death during the* year,
iqxq ■ ° ‘ •
English and dimer lean
Orators.
Nothing strikes Englishmen so much
in reading debates in Parliament and
Congress, as the superiority of the lat
ter in vigor and information to the
former. The Americans are, by far
better speakers than the English.—
There are few good speakers indeed
in England ; and as to orators, there
are none, with the exception of Mac
aulay, and he is almost done up. Dis
raeli is nothing urdess he is personal;
he has not the slightest pretensions to
the higher order of oratory, such as
distinguished Burke, for instance. ILe
never enunciates great truths in po
litical or social philosophy, and works
tuem o”t, “S tllC great man jU.lt men
tioned. Disraeli is model is the profli
gate Bolingbroke, who was an atheist
in every sense of the word, for he had
no belief in human virtue, send he was
only actuated, like his modern disciple,
by ambition and revenge. Disraeli’s
object is to attain the summit of hu
man power in England, which can be
granted to a subject. He has no de
sire "to benefit his country and the
world'—his onlj- wish is to show what
talent can accomplish and to confound
those who despise him as an adventur
er. He has all the indifference to
country, the hatred of mankind, and
the pride of race which distinguish the
people from whom his family have
apostatised. The very reverence which
he assumes for the English aristocracy
is mockery. lie despises them as a
worn out and doomed caste, unworthy
the privileges they enjoy, and he only
courts them to make them the step
ping stone to his ambition. Disraeli
is an English Mephistophiles. Look
again at Gladstone. This man is noth
ing but a fluent casuist, and is looked
upon as a sort of Brummagen Belial.
Lord John Russell would never have
occupied the position lie does if it were
not for his social rank and family in
fluence. Palmerston speaks well-on
subjects lie understands ; but there are
scores of better speakers in Congress.
Such men as Miall and Lucas in the
House of Commons, although both of
them are journalists, are miserable fa
natics. Their only aim is to exalt
their own sect and to curse all others.
Fox, the Unitarian, is a good speaker,
for he is an admirable thinker, and
on education his orations in Parliament
arc philosophical and exhaustive of the
topic. Bright and Cobden are un
doubtedly the best speakers we have
in England, and bear the greatest re
semblance to the business orators of
Congress. Bright surpasses Cobden
in that he is more discursive in his
studies, and understands more great
questions. Both, however, grasp a
subject boldly, exhaust it thoroughly,
and have remarkable powers of persua
sion. They are crotclietty on many
points, which mars their usefulness. —
No one can deny the fact that there
are no orators in England, now living,
with the exception of Macaulay, equal
to the great ones of bygone days, such
as, for instance, Chatham, Pitt the
younger, Charles James Fox, Grattan,
and Burke. In this humbug, Barnum
age, as it may be called, such orators
would not do in England. They would
be too exalted, and the country would
not be worthy of, nor appreciate them.
England really does not seem to be
so good a country for rearing good
busines speakers and orators as the
United States. Even English lawyers
have declined. There are no such men
now as Erskine, Plunkett, Curran,
Flood, Brougham, Scarlett, Follett,
and others who flourished years ago.
The barristers and judges here are but
very inferior men as orators. Baron
Platt is an old woman, and got his
judgeship because he was standing
counsel to the Times newspaper. Bar
on Maule is only fit to write jokes for
Punch. Judge Coleridge is more fit
ted to wear the cowl than a judge’s
wig. As for the present Attorney
General, he is fluent, but there is not a
spark of oratory in him.
The most prominent of the several
attempts made to manufacture paper
from wood or straw is that patented
by Couptkr & Mellier and prac
tically applied in this country by Mr.
Nixon, at Manayuk, Penn., where the
paper used by the Philadelphia Ledger
is made. This process is described at
length by Mr. Beaumont, the agent
of the patentee," in a communication
published in the New York Tribune.
It seems that the conversion of vege
able fibre into pulp for paper is no
novelty, but that Melmer’s process is
the first that has proved sufficiently eco
nomical for practical use. It has gen
erally been spoken of hitherto in this
country in its applications to straw,
but by its means an oak or a poplar
board or any other fibrous substance
can be converted into pulp a? well, and
the only reason for using straw ex
clusively is .that it is the most con
venient and economical form in which
vegetable fibres are found. Mr. Beau
mont states from good straw 45, per
per cent, of fibre or pi up may be ob
tained. The inventor claims that while.
the manufacture costs something more '
than with rags, the raw material is jso
much cheaper—•only about one fifth
the cost of rag paper—that the former
can be sold at a handsome profit J<
One of the Ean&ingburg
Stays.
r i he Troy jail has often been made
the home of very curious characters.—
At the present lime there is one young
man confined there, whose operations
have been of the most extensive char
acter, reaching from Lansingburg on
the east to Cincinnatti on the west,
and as far south as the South Pacific,
ithout tracing his early history,
which is not necessary for our purpose,
we propose to briefly sketch his opera
tions for the last month, and exhibit a
case which, we hope, w ill teach a mor
al, if it does not adorn a talc :—Ar
riving at New York from'the Isthmus,
lie made his way to the town of Peek*
skin, where he put up at the best hotel
iu the place, made a flashy display of
gold chains and finger rings, exhibited
a libeml supply of coin, and was very
profuse in his patronage of the bar
and livery stable, in short, pursuing
such a course as would make the
greatest possible impression in the least
possible time. He at once became the
lion of the town, and his company was
sought after, not only by the sterner
sex, but fair damsels put on the most
“killing airs” to attract his attention.
The result was, that he was introduced
into families of the first respectability,
and ladies of education and refinement
were but too happy in complying with
his invitations to carriage rides, where
he acted the part of gallant. In short,
so rapid did he do up the work that in
five days he had so far driven his scheme
that a young lady of sweet sixteen was
willing to link her destiny with him
for life. A young man of this village
who happened to be there, went through
with a mock marriage, giving a certifi
cate ; this was not enough for our lie
roe’s purpose. It did not bring him
into that confidential relation with the
young lady’s family which he so much
coveted, or entitle him to a dividend
from the drafts forwarded from Cali
fornia by the young lady’s father. —
Consequently an evening walk was
proposed, the residence of the Metho
dist Minister sought out, and the young
lady, unconscious of the real character
of the man at her side, pronounced the
fatal words which will forever cast a
shadow over her life. A fee of
$25 was handed over to the officiating
clergyman, and the certificates furnish
ed the parties. The denouement soqn
followed. On their return to the res
idence of the young lady, the mother
was informed of what had taken place
Horrified, she would listen to no such
story. The girl was locked in a room,
while the mother cast about for the
means to avert the impending ruin.—
It had been whispered to a brother of
the gifl that the young man was not
what he appeared to be, and that the
criminal records of Rensselaer county
would show him up in his true charac
ter; that a police officer of Lansingburg
at this very time would be very glad
to see him. “Charley” was distinctly
told by the mother that he could not
“bring disgrace upon her family, and
live.” The result was that the broth
er was despatched to this place the
next morning ; found the stories were
too true —that several indictments
were hanging over the fellow’s head—
and, armed with proper papers, re
turned to Eeekskill to have him arres
ted. Officers Seaman and Brooxs went
after the prisoner the next morning,
and in a few hours his anticipated plea
sure vanished into thin air; his career
was brought up against a jail. He took
his departure from Peekskill with one
wrist locked in a handcuff, while offi
cer Seaman made the other part of the
same fast to his own wrist, (rather un
comfortable position for a newly-made
husband to be placed in.) In this
shape he reached Troy, where he will
prooably have time to reflect upon his
past career, the unrequited kindness of
his friends here, and an impending fu
ture. This brief chapter, we think,
should also place our females upon
their guard agaiast the numerous trav
elling mountebanks who infest the
community, destitute of character, and
whose object is to ruin the innocent
and confiding. In this instance the
mother’s shrewdness was too keen for
this fellow’s duplicity, and her prompt
ness of action prevented the consum
mation of his deep laid plot.
[ Lansingburg Democrat.
•f Poor Man's I Pish.
I asked a student what three things
he most wished, and he said:
Give me health, books and quiet,
and I ask nothing more.
I asked a miser, and he said, “money,
money, money.”
I asked a drunkard, and he loudly
cried for strong drink.
I asked the multitude around me,
and they lifted up a confused cry, in
which 1 heard the words, “wealth, fame
and pleasure.”
I asked a poor man, who had long
borne the .character of an experienced
Christian ; he that all his wish
es could be met in Christ. He spoke
seriously, and I asked him to explain,
lie said: .
“I greatly desire these three things—
first, that ,'I may be '.found in Christ;
secondly, that .1 may be like Christ,
thirdly, that I may be with Christ.”
much of liis
Tele % rah between Europe A*
,im erica.
We take the following extract from
the European correspondence of cm of
our exchanges:
Meanwhile, while we are zealously
alive to the duty of setting the Old
World on fire, and carrying slaughter
and extermination among their inhab
itants, we are, on the contrary, anxious
ly thrownm open our arms to the New.
The project of connecting, telegraphi
cally, England and America is serious
ty engaging public attention. The
more daring engineers are sanguine of
the practicability of laying a sub-ma
rine cable directly across the Atlantic,
from Galway to Capo Race, in New
foundland. The principal question is
whether, if a line were laid, an electric
current can be passed through 8,000
miles of cable ? By an enormous bat
tery power this possibly can be ac
complished, through wires suspended
in the air; but can it be effected along
a vast length of gutta perch a coated
wire, passing through salt water? —
There is such a thing as too great an
insulation, and Professor Faraday has
shown that in such circumstances the
wire becomes a Leyden jar, and may
be so charged with electricity that a
current cannot, without the greatest
difficulty, move through it. To es
cape this, another proposition is to car
ry the cable from the northernmost
point of the Highlands of Scotland
to Iceland, by way of the Orkney,
Shetland, and Ferroe islands, to lay it
from Iceland across to the nearest
point of Greenland, thence down the
coast to Cape Farewell, when the cable
would again take to the water, span
Davis’s Straits, and make right away
across Labrador and Upper Canada to
Quebec. Here, that it should lock in
with the North American mesh-work
of wires, which hold themselves—so to
speak —like an open hand for the Eu
ropean grasp. In this way the cable
required would in no point exceed one
of nine hundred miles in length.
Kossuth’s Poverty.—Mrs. Stowe
seems to have hunted up all the cele
brities when in England, among others,
Kossuth:
“We found him in obscure lodgings
on the outskirts of London. I would
that some of the editors in America,
who have thrown out insinuations
about his living in luxury, could have
seen the utter barrenness and plainness
of the reception room, which had
nothing in it beyond the simplest ne
cessaries.
“I inquired for Madame Kossuth,
and he answered, T have not 3’et seen
her to-day, adding, ‘she has her family
affairs you know, madame; we are
poor exiles here ; and fearing to cause
embarrassment, I did not- press an in
terview.’
We may be thought inquisitive, but
we should like to know what has be
come of the $70,000 the Hungarian
swindled out of Americans.
[Nw. Jour.x o Cour.
English and American.—Mr.
Cobdcn, the celebrated English states
man, tells the following:
Once an editor of a small American pa
per called, who had been making a
tour through the rural districts of Eng
land. He said that he had asked some
mowers how they were prospering.—
They answered, “We ain’t prosperin’
—we’re hay’n.’ Said Cobdcn, “I told
the man, ‘now don’t you go home and
publish that in your paper,’ but he did,
nevertheless and sent me over the
paper with the story in it.’ I might
have comforted him with many a sim
ilar anecdote of Americans —as for
instance, the man who was dead set
against the tariff, because he well knew
if they once got it, they’d run the old
thing right through his farm;’ or those
immortal Pennsylvania Dutchmen,
who, to this day, it is said, give in all
their votes under the solemn conviction
that they are upholding General Jack
son’s Administration.
Affability of Queen Victoria.
—The qUeen is perfectly idolized by
the people; she mixes among them fa
miliary ; but while she pats the heads
of the children whom she meets in her
early walks, she takes care to mingle
a graceful dignity with her condes
cension. The.royal children, after they
have worked in their gardens, go out
to walk, and they are especially instruc
ted to be courteous to whoever falls in
their way. Sometimes her Majesty
will enter a cottage —perhaps at the
dinner-time of the occupants —and, sit--
ting down at the table, partake of the,
food.—- London Atlas.
Life in* New York. —A somewhat
celebrated and vain physician, living
in the Fifth Avenue, New York, went
to Europe with his.family last week.
The fact was duly chronicled in the
papers, but lest, it should not be ? seen,
a notice was stuck on the front dopr,
“Gone to Europe.” This was a sufficient
invitation to the burglars, so they ef
fected an entrance .on the doctor’s
house, one night, and spent a week in
his residence, eating and drinking
what they could , find, stealing what
they could carry away, and with an,
air" of. impudent familiarity, gassing
themselves off as temporary tenant-.
TERMS, $2,00 A YEAR.
NUMBER 18.
Supreme Court of Georgia.—
Judge Penning decides that the Su
preme Court of Georgia is co-equal
and cq-prdinate with the Supreme
Court of the United Statcs, and not in
ferior and subordinate to that Court.
That as to reserved powers, the State
Court is Supreme; that as to the dele
gated powers, the U. S. Court is su
preme, that as to powers, both dele
gated and reserved —concurrent powers
—both Courts, in the language of
Hamilton, are “equally supreme;” and
that as a consequence, the Supreme
Court of the United States has no jur
isdiction over the supreme Court of
Georgia; and cannot, therefore, give it
an order, or make for it a precedent:
The Czar is now employing every
means to induce the Christian popula
tion of the districts which he is forced
to evacuate, to accompany his army, and
to emigrate to Russia proper. Where
promises and blandishments are not
sufficient, the cattle of the peasant are
seized, and his crops mowed down, in
order to force him to emigration.—
About 6,000 Bulgarians irom the Dop
rodja were in this way induced to cross
the Danube with the retreating Rus
sian army, and it is said that the same
system is to be carried into Wallachia.
Not able to conquer the province, the
Czar has given orders to make it a des
ert.
Six at once. —A German woman, in
a one horse wagon, passed through
this city on Tuesday, going from her
residence a few miles west of town on
a visit to her husband, who had beeu
taken sick at the place where he was
working in the country cast of town.
She had with her in the wagon, snug
ly propped up in a wine basket, six
children, all the product of one birth.
They were not much bigger than ap
ple dumplings, but seemed to be wide
awake and kicking. They were six
months old, all boys, and all as near a
size as possible, except the runt of the
party, which is described as being the
smallest mortal of its age ever seen.
We state this with serious misgivings
of its truth, relating it as it came to us,
at second hand, from an eye witness —
a lady of character in this city—who
saw and counted the children, and had
the mother’s word that they were all
hers at a single birth. —Dayton Ga
zette.
“ Big Words.” —A fashionable lady
in Buffalo once said to a friend: —
“My new house, now ‘directing,’ is
to be sublimated and ‘splendiferous.’ —
There is to be a ‘ Porto Rico’ in front
and a ‘Pizarro’ in the rear, a ‘lemon
ade’ all round it. The water is to come
in at the side of the house in an anec
dote’ the lawn is to be ‘degraded’ ami
some large trees are to be ‘supplanted’
in the ‘critic’ in the rear.”
This is the same lady that told Gov.
Clinton how remarkably stormy it is
apt to be when the sun is crossing the
“ Penobscot.”
An honest Dutchman, in training up
his son in the way he should go,
frequently exercised him in Bible
lessons. On one of these occasions he
asked him:
‘Who vas dat vould not sweep mit
Botiver’s vife?’
‘Shoseph.’
‘Dat’s a coot boy. Veil, vat was de
reason he vould not shleep mit her ?’ .
‘Don’t know —shupose he vasu’t
shleepy.’
A Deacon’s QuoTaTiON of Scrip
ture. —Mr. Secretary Marcy recent
ly told an anecdote at a dinner party
in Washington, which runs thus: He
said that a lew weeks since Gov. Sey*j
more of New York wrote to him, thatj
since he had vetoed the liquor lawohe v
had received various letters from gen
tlemen in various parts of the State,
they approving of his course in the
premises. Among them was one from
an honest old deacon, who resided in
the centre of the State, which commed
cd his action in the strongest _ terms.
The old gentleman alluded to, inform
ed the Governor that he was deeply in
terested in the debates of both sides
of the question, and did not let one
“jot or little” escape him. He had,-
too, he said, “looked up” his-bible
from Genesis to Revelation, in order
to see how the liquor question was|
there treated, and after mature delib
eration he came to the conclusion that
all the great and good men, as Noah,
Moses, David, Solomon and Jesus,
were uot only partakers of the “ rosy,”
but recommended it to others; in a
word, in his researches he found only
one instance (that of “Dives,”) wherej
a man called for Cold water, and then ,<
he* was in h— l, where he ought to he . ,
Cure for Corns.—Mr. Cooper, in'
his “Dictonary of Surgery,” has the
following infallible cure for corns :
, Take two ounces of gum ammoniac;
two ounces of yeJMy wax, and sum
drachms of verdigris; melt them tn|
gpthcr, and spread the composition on
soft leather p efft away as much pfjH|
corn as you can,‘then apply the pla«Kg|
and renew it ever. t.>rt|i
corn is away.
rp,
I town so modest*' that he will not cm
. i.r.e-e an opportunity.