I ,t e.l iT 0 •
~; P.: - BUBHLIII4.CDTT . OR. ANDAPROPRIETOR.
;11 -- 7
yob. x,JX.-77-51.1
TitE POUR MAN:B•ISIRAVE.
at tukA
No sable nil wiring klunie,
No dwelt and. torehlig6l 6 Blume,
No parting glance l no heavy tear,
Is seen to tall upon the bier;
There: is not one of mulct! clay,
To watch the coffin op its way c
No mortal form, no human brunet
Cares where the pauper'. benestrmy.raet.
But one deep mourner Iblkwed
Where grief outlives the funeral payer. ,
He does not sigh, he dos not Weep,
But will not leave the sodleashesp ;
'Tis he who wia the poor inin‘i'mate,
And made him more content 'wittilate—
The mongrel dog Who shared hie crust,
hall that stench
Holten& his listening hemlotialhough
He thought he.heard I !solos below ;
Ho pines to miss . the voice so kind,
And wonders why he'S leh behind.
The sun goes down, the night is cOhut—
lle need no food—be needs no home . --
Hut stretched eror; 'the &rimless bed,
Withdoleful howl Calls back the'dead.
The-passing glee may coldly dwell
On all that polished marbles tell
For ternp/es built on churchyard heath,
Are claimed by riches more than worth;
But who would mark with undimned eyes
The mourning dog that starves and dies 1
Who .Auld not ask, who would not crave
tuch Love and Faith to gum' his gravel
CIIARLOTTE CORDAY.
We give below some highly interceding extracts
from the third volume of Latuartine's " History of
the Girondists," which has been published by the
Ilorpors. The Ineptly of which Charlotte Corday
was the heroine, has never Loan so grapically de
picted as by the pen of Latnartine:
In a Logi nod thronged street which
traverses the city of Caen, the capital of
Normandy. at that time the focus of the
Girondist insurrection, there stood at the
bottom of a court-yard an ancient habits•
title, With gray walls, stained by the weath
er and dilapidated by time. This building
was styled Le Grand. Menoir. - A feun
tain with a stone brim, covered with moss,
oveupied one angle of the courtyard. A
narrow low door, whose listed hotel uni
ting in an arch over the top, exposed the
worn steps of a winding staircase u hieh
led to the upper story. Two windows,
with their small octagon panes of glass held
in lead; -work, .feebly lighted the staircase
and the empty chamber. The misty day.
tight in !his antique aed obscure abode im
pressed on it the diameter of vagueness,
mystery and ntelancholy,'the human fancy
likes to see spread as a shroud over the
cradle of deep thoughts and the abodes of
strongly imaginative minds. Here maid
ed, at the commencement of 1791, a grand
daughter of the great French tragedy wri
ter, Pierre Corneille. Poets and heroes
are of die same race. There is between
them im other difference than that which
exists between idea and fact. The one
does what the other conceives; but the
thought is wholly , the same. Women are
naturally as enthusiastic as the one, and as
courageous as the other. Poetry, heroism,
and love, inherit the same blood.
This house belonged to a poor woman,
a widow. childless, aged and infirm—a
Methane de ltretteville. With her had
lived for some years a young female rela
tive, whom she had adopted and brought
up, in order to comfort her old age, and re
lieve her from utter isolation. This girl
was .then in her twenty-fourth par. Her
serious but fine features—grave, yet very
beautiful--seemed to have received the im
print of this dull abode and sequestered
blistettee. There wia in her something
inot,,o(thie earth. The inhabitants, of
the, (Article& whop, POW her walking out
with her aged aunt onStandays in order to
go to church, or caught a glimpse of her
through the doorway, reading for hours at
tittle in the court-yard. seated in the sun
shine at the brink of the fountain, relate ,
that their admiration of her was mingled
with prestige andlrespecti arising from the
atretigth' bt Mind *birth beaming frirth
vultrar.e.Ye - " - 0 th, t`Present
oreeptglt tragic destiny, which anticipating
the event, stamps its mark upon the brow,
T.hip young creature. was,. , tall, without
exeseditg, the usual height of the high
.stituritd and wellineportloned women Of
Natinandy: l'oktiluinV grace an 4
li th ,c x1 0 '4111 4 PPekYs 4 ( 100, 1 4 . #!
stuf , itt her elope atelkietion. The m aor,
of the 'oath mingled itself in her complex.
Joh' 4itft ;tie high 'color of thOi'ivont s en of
the north. Her hair seemed bliMle*fielt
faateosit in *Urge massiarened•Yhtir head
or irtintOhimhietere bneadh tide Of het
brows t ,:`ls krilA colored! f it
PP)P.4 I o t , lbP itreisFlo l 4 AetellOPF 49FP ,
tilseper,and morellustrout than the wheat
in the annlight. 'Heuer:s i lage and
itigailtetiit t to het' temple, were
VP" Is! ) 1 , like the wave of the ocean,
which: es its tim from the shadow or
the day-beam—blue when the reflected,
bittPK, when called into animated
play... Loog- eye-lashes, blacker than her
hithh galit. the appearaime of great depth
of 'llll'OOC ' t iler nose; which united
IteAtote by an almryt4 Imperceptible curve,
was slightly expanded near the middle.—
anteino mouth disployed the well-cut
whose expression, impartible to de-
-----~— sr--
Pict, fluctuated between tenderises" *Rd sit
verity.requidly ,fornsed to breathe love and
patriotism.
•The projecting chin; divided by a deep
dimple, gave, to the lower part of her face,
a: character of maieuline resolution which
etintristed with the perfectly femieini.con 7
tour of herlofely face. Her cheeks had
the freshness of youth and the firm oval
of health. She blushed or, turned. pale
verysuddenly. Her akin' had the,,ivhole
some and• marbled whiteness of perfect
healthiness. Her chest wide and some
what thin, offered a bust of sculpture
scarcely undulated, by the
,eharapteristic,
contour of hersex— !Uranus wereftdL of
muscle, her hands long, and her finger.
taper. Her attire, comfortable to the hum ,
bleness of her fortune, and the retirement
in which she dwelt, was simplicity itself.
She relied on nature, and disdained every
artifice or whim of fashion in her dress.—
Those who saw her in her yonth as al
, ways attired in • a gown.of dark • cloth, cut
like a riding-habit, with a hat of gray felt
turned up at the sides with black 'ribbon,
round and like those worn by women of
rank
.at 'that period. The tone of her
voice, that living echo which bespeaks the
whole soul iu a vibration of the air—left a
deep and tender impression in the ear of
those whom she addressed ; and they
spoke still of that toneoen years after they
had' heard it, as of strange and unforgotten
music ineffaceably imprinted on the mem
ory. There were in this scale of soul,
notes so soaorous and deep, that they said
to hear was even more than to. see her, and
that her voice formed' part of her beauty.
She.was nineteen years old when the
monasteries were suppressed, and at that
time became the inmate of the house of
her aunt, at Caen. Here her indignation
was excited by a relation of 'the atrocities
perpetrated by Marat, Dapton, and their
compeers. She became intimate with
some of the leading Girondists, sympathi
zed with them in their hatred of Marat, and
swore to punish him for his cruelties.
The manner in which • she fulfilled her
oath is a matter ofhistory ; but Lamartine :
in the.following details, has thrown around
the story all the interest of romance:
She desired to make this murder a sol
emn immolation, which would strike terror ‘ 1
into the hearts of the imitators of the tyrant.
Her first idea had been to approach Marat,
accost him, and sacrifice him in the Champ-1
de-Mars, at the ceremony of the federation
which was to take place on the 14th of
July, in commemoration of the triumph of
liberty. The adjournment of this ceremo
ny until the republic should suppress the
Vendrans and the rebels, deprived her of
1 her theatre and her victim. Her second
j idea was to strike Marat at the summit of
the 'Mountain, in the very midst of his very
adorers and accomplices. Her hope in
this case was that she herself should be'
immolated the next moment, and torn in
pieces by the people, leaving no other
trace or recollection than of two dead 1
bodies, and tyranny destroyed in its own,
blood. To bury her name in oblition,
I
s and seek no recumpense but in the act it
I -I
I elf' ng saki her shame or renown but from
• her own conscience; God, anti 'the good
she should effect—Lsuch war . the last the
single ambition of her mind.. Shame I 0 4 ) 1
would pot hive for t h e family's sake. Re-1
nown she desired not for herself. Glory !
seemed to her a salkry too commonplace,
and unworthy of the disinteresiodness ofi
1 her deed, and but calculated to doterioratet
C her virtue. However, the conrereation I
she }u! had since she had arrired at Pa-
I ris, with liuiertet and others, informed
her that Marat would hot again appearin,
the Convention.. Thus it was necessary
to find the victim elsewhere, and to obtain
accesii, it has necessary to 'deceive him. .. I „
.Tliis was, resolved on ; yet was the die.,
simulation, which was .so foreign , icrthe
natural loyalty other nanire,.which ()hang.
ed the dagger 'into 1( snare; courage into
a stratagem, end immolation into aisassink
tion—the, first remorse fd . her enrilteielea,
and her first punishment, Charlotte deei.
ded on striking irblow,lint &igneousel
was'compelled to adept ei.isi.lielM,# 1 _
0
the -deed illicit .This Alis. 4i t i4l(pool ft :,,
oil. Conscience is just iia tho , prvlonce off''
posterity.
She rettoned' toiler chamber i nnd Wro -
to Marat a bill'et,'WhiCh stie 'sent to hie
&Or of the'friefid of the pen*. I have
just arrived from
" YU& frititS bfeoitntry anilteslne'preiume
diat' l Ydu time plegeure . ,in hearing of
the up i !9rti,infttp eyent4„gf that pßtgop,Af
the RaPtAblio. ,I, shall, present myself at
your abode about,one o'clock ; have the,
goodness to , receive ,me, and grant me'e
moment's conversation. I will put you
position to be of great service to
France."
Charlotte, r elying on the effect of this
note, went at the appointed hour to Maras
door, but could riot obtain access to him.
She then left with the portion a second
note, more pressing and insidious than the
former.
.4 I wrote you this morning, Maras," she
said ; "did you hays my letter? I ennoot
believe it, as they refuse me admittance to
i•.,
AI4IOII.III,NATION
=ME
GETTYSIItriG, PA. 18.1.DAIVENING,
you, / hope that to-morrow you will
giant me'the interview I• request...l re
peat that I am just from Caen and rhatb
iniportant secrets to disdose to iolffor the
Boleti Of the' Republic. r Besides; I am
persecuted for the cause of liberty ; tent
unhappy, and that I am so, should give me
a claim.on your patriotism."
Without awaiting his reply,' Charlotte
left her chamber at seven o'clock, P. M.,
clad with more than Usual care, in otder,
by a more studied appearance, to attract
the persons about Marat. Her white gown
was covered over the shoulders by a silk
scarf, which falling over her bosom,,fasten
ed behind, -Her hair was confined - by a
Normandy cap, the 'long lace of which
played about her cheeks. A wide green
silk ribbon was bound around her broWs,
and fastened to her cap. Her hair fell
loose down her back. No paleness of
complexion, no wildness of gage, no treni
ulausness of voice, revealed her deadly
purpose. With this attractive aspect she
knocked at Marat's door.
Marat inhabited the first floor of a dilap
idated house in the Rue des Cordeliers,
now Rue de • l'Ecble de Mecibine, No. 20.
His apartments consisted of an ante-cham
ber and a writing room, looking out 'on a
court-yard, a small , room containing his
bath, a sleeping room and dining-room
looking upon the street. It was very mean
ly furnished. Numerous publications
were piled on the floor: the n •
of the day, still damp from the press. were
scattered about on the chairs and tables ;
printers' •lads coming in and addressing
pamphlets and journals, the worn steps of
the staircase, the ill:swept passages all at
tested the movement and disorder which
surround a man much occupied, and the
perpetual crowd of persons in the hollse
of a journalist and leader of the people.
This abode displayed, as it were, the
price of poverty. It apPeareil, as though
its master, then all powerful oirci•Ap
Lion, was destrous of saying to his visitors
when they contemplated his squalidness
and his• labor, "Look at the friend and
madel of the people'! he has not castoff
his abode, manners, or dress."
This misery, though a display, was yet
real.
Marat's domestic arrangements were
those of a humble artisan. A female, who
con troled his house affairs, was originally
named Catharine Evrard, but was called
Albertine Marat, from the time when the
friend of the people had given her his name,
taking her for his wife one day in fine
weather after the example of Jean Jam
quez Rosseau. One servant aided this
woman in her household duties. A meg
senger, named Lourent Besse, did the out
door work, and when he had leisure, em
ployed himself in the ante-chamber in pack
ing up packets of the papers and bills for
the friend of the people.
The incessant activity of the writer had
not relaxed in consequence of the lingering
disease which was consuming him. The
inflimatory action of his blood seemed to
light up this mind. Now in his bed, now
in his bath, he was perpetually writing,
apostrophizing, inveighing against his en
emies, whileexciting the Coniention and
the Cordeliers, Offended at the 'HMCO of
the Assembly on the reception . of his mes
sage, he had recently addressed to it an
other letter, in which he threatened the
Convention that he would be carried in
his dying condition to the tribune, that he
might shame the representatives with their
cowardice, and dictate to them fresh mur
ders. He left no repose, either to himself'
or °there. , Full of the presentiment ofdeeth,
he ogly seemed to fear that hie last hour,
coming on too suddenly,, would not leave;
him time to immolate sufficient criminals.!
More anxious. to kill than to live, he has
tened 'to send before him as many rietints
as possible, and Co many, heritages' given
by the' knife to the artropleted revoitilitirs,l
which he desired to leave free front'
emies after his death,. The tertor, which
issued from Mamt's ouse returned thith
er tinder'another form, the' it nentling trait
of assassination.
Will:tate associates believed tuna theyeiw
art
.)pauy: daggercraised NOW bitil as,hel
!timid .ever .the head• of three hundred
thousand tiitizena. Ames to hit residence'
wasferbidden r as it Would , he tir•tirlams
, of lYttirMy. Note wad admitted
reeidehee 'bcf.sesnred friends r:4
I cers strongly recommended, and who had
kubniittetf to interregatoriest atid inStere ex
,
aUtlnattens. . .
I ChM:lolls was pot aWare erdiese roh
plOtough she„ had appreheUded
'them. She alighted from the coach. on.
theleppoaite side, of the street,' in fromt
of4arat's residence. The day was on
thOrtirre. particularly in the quarter datic-,1
ened by !Ay houses and narrow streets.
The '?Ortrese was at first refused to allow
the young unknown to penetrate into the
court-yard.. She insisted, however, and
ascended several stairs, regardless of the
voice of the "concierge." At these sounds,
Mann's mistress' half opened the door,
and refitted to allow a female whom she
did not know, to enter. The confused
sound of the altercation between these wo
men, one of whom entreated that she might
=IEEE
, "TE44E6 B AN6 titEE:4
be alloweti , to 'peak .to tie: friend of the
people. *ldle the other tiled to ehucthe
doot in her face, Merat's fare;
Wh coitOelletided, di Mil re* Indistinct
4i
Words that 'regaled him,'
,i at the visitor
Was the etntrig i er , frOm oni he had re
ceiv,ed two no4s, ,doring ',Pe day., . Ina
loud impetative yoke he ordered that she
shduld be admi t ted. !"'
Albertine, eithes from, lousy or 's
treet, obeyed, with much ill-will and grumb
ling. She showed the libling .girl into a
small closet where ,hlaratmts, and left, as
she quitted her,, the door half open ei that
she might hear the towestithieger, or the
mmallatemoVitinibifflrtilifißrfnefi. - -.—
, ,
The roots was failitly'lighted. Maras
ass in his bath, , yet in tiiiii , 'forted repose
of the' body, he Ahmed lifilmind noleii.
ere. ' A plank roughly jiiMied, laid across
hie bath, was 'coVeredpapers, 'then
letters and hall written lir 4ta for his pub
lication.' He held in hitt light hand the
pen Which' Ihearrival of 4 lieknowa fe
male hatisitsPentied on t
*Pages. This
was a letter to the Conreoon, to demand
of it the judgment and prOcription of the
last Bourbons tolerateil,it
,FraPPO-• Be
side the bath, on a, large , tick of oak, was
il
a leaden inkstand of the *sanest fabric—
the foul source which, foi three years had.
poured out so many deldierious outpour
ings, so many denuncittione, so much
blood. Marat,_ covered tin his . bath . by a
. , • thy with dirt and potted with ink, I
had only his head, shoulders and the upper
part of his chest and his
,right arm out of
the water. There Was n othing in the fee•
tures of this man te.effecka woman's eye
with tenderness, or'givepouse to a =di c
toted blow. 'pis matted ?air, wrapped in
a dirty
,handkerchief, with receding fore.
head, protruding eyes, prominent cheek
bones, vast , and sneering' mouth t juju
chest, shritelled limbs, and livid akin—
such- was 3larat.
Charlotte took care no(tO look him in
'"the face,. for fear her countenance might
betray the horror she fei,t at his sight.—
With down cast eyes, and her arms hang
ing motionless by her side, she stood close
to the bath, awaiting eitil Msrat should
inquire as to the'state of Norrnandy, She
replied with brevity, giving to her replies
the sense and tone ltly , to pacify 'the
demagogue's wishes. 'He then asked 'the
names of the deputies who had taken re
fuge at Caen. She gave them to him, and
he wrote them down, and when she had
concluded„said in the voice of a man sure
of vengeance, " Well, before they are a
week older they shall have theguillotine !"
At these words, as if Charlotte's mind
had awaited a last offence befiire it could
resolve on strikiag the blow, she drew the
knife from her bosom, and with superhu
man force plunged it to the hilt in Marat's
heart. She then drew the bloody weapon
from the body of her Victim, and IV it Fall ,
at her feet. "Help, my dear-L.-Help !"
cried Marakaed then expired.,
IMPORTANCE OF FRESH! AlR.—br.
con, cculting in New York upon the ha.
portance of air, a fact of Which builders do
not seem' to be Aufficintly aware in the
construction of houses, says the lungs can
contain about 12,pints gen, though 9 1-2
pints is inhaled at a single inpiration. In
ordinary and placid breathing we inhale
about 1 pint at an inspiration ; public sing
ers; when they “take breath," as it is call
ed, inhale from 5 to 7 pints. Eighteen
respirations take place in a minute; it
takes, therefore, 18 pints of air civet) , min
ute ; and 57 hogsheads every
_24 hours to
supply the lungs. Sevemy-two puleations
occur in one minutc,,astl 193430 ish24
hour*. The.tlarit . yeinens Wood: passed
and repainted from., the veins through,the
heart, ,to be purified into vermillion , color
ed arterial blood, by cornet With froth sir
in the lungs, amounts to 24 hogsheads in 24
bouts. It is then 4oht through the artei
lee t o nourish the !We syetem;dietrAute, ,
tts iiiafit'y, to hs recovered agitio ,from
fresh air in the lungs. From the construe,
1 4/4 01 some. or , 9 ur, ptiblip,,bi t ildie gs it
woukkate ct u 14 4 41144,40dpi ! thought Alec
pinto of air were sufficid g. in place, of
hogsheads:
~ _~. ,
, .
GOOD , S*i..—l T he taioctin )
Whig states that Thomas littler, Es 9„ 17;
candy Doll his ritmit;'Sito i l tils'imittar F'uoit t s.
.town, Waiitiogtort county. at 090 per sprat.
OVvk? PteleaFfPringqi ;
Kentucky Nu seet , One 'ye'er; to the 'i p ie.
It
gle?itatket of 'eitieittuiti, over 120, 0
tor, ivhdit realiz e d to the. Owocrel nes ' ,
0000;060. ' ' '
4 ,.' 411 1?! ,ie YP U Riiinyttwi 41, anOr
gepsm en oh die place . ?'" , None cept by,
,rep.abation means.'' den, why
am lawyers like fishes t" .4.1 don't med.
die -wit dat subject, at all," Why, harp
day am fond of nalaiTa."
1 FREEMAN Rosi, an omnibus driier In
Cincinnati, was killed in a !hocking. !nun
' ner on the 113th inst. in ascertaining if a
gun he was directed to carry to a distance,
was loaded, he placed the muzzle to his
1,1
mouth, and openi ig the hammer of the cap,
endeavored to bit; into it. Ills foot slip
ping, the gun we MT. His braini w iii
blown out and his hemlines body Is , a
shocking spectacle.
• „
TIN Mitt,t l TlVS"
Wool, the travel , seid flare/ .
Bien* Vino, ie a:eitiet
*aq - 00
pisheii:offieer. The kdiewieegeed
wh . iTh Toblial4lB;tishappentif iti
camp, mat, have excited .tlie,bgry Mita
(4eneril sea degree. While A164110(6
maique a Merlein Wee, l ' eeintel tatb his
Presence Whine demeanor. im-
Fretance Orientals arciliiireetianeoleation
which ' ' II
gwia;4 l Oir
The General, could not speak 19piohlh,
and his laterpretei 14811614 k
long sPeOgßon Of a eI4CITYISI49Ihe
itiriraViiires4 the gtinentl' took
porhalisitora taogei. 2 komieised at that too-
went to straggle past.
“Cien!i here, my cwinef* l o
geseMl:: an sir otisonchtiloutoe..tito
Sucker doffed his bettered castor and al
tered the, tent. ,L'. 4
"Do.youapeakMexican?" inquiredtbe
"Why, general. I rather guess not."
"'Well, can you tell• me of some one
'rho can I"' ,
..Yes.sitse—l.justeaa," answeredtha
man.
“Quick, *bet; bib know whom be is, { ”
demanded the irnscible commander:4
..Why, here,":drewled tbe linpertnrba
We sucker, laying his hsnd on the Mex
ican with whom it vas desirecttn'eornmw
nicate--"he can't speak an y,tking
Capt. Tobin left just then.
EXAM INATISS DAY:4IIB liCienbe ,of
school examination is veViAtelt YTei
plained by a school-master's aneedote
A country school teacher; ptiliming for, in
exhibition of his school, selected a•cliss of
pupils, and wrote down the qtnattiono, ind
answers, to questions, which be woidd put
I mldlhe on efamination day.'
The day came, and n eaniethe'lloixible,
all but one, The mile-took their placett
as had been arranged, and all *ent glibly
on mail the pie/Lion for the absentee, v►,heq
the teacher asked : • •
.•In whom do you believer.'
•
The pupil who sat n e s txbe vacant seat,
without noticing• whose ituestion it was,
replied :
"Nip°leon Bonaparte:' , •
"No, not!' angrily. •exclaimed the teach
er, "in whom do yoti believe?"
"Napoleon Bonaparte !"
Here the teacher began to smell the rat;
and Feld
"You believe in the Holy Ghost, do you
"No !" said the pupil, amid roars of un.
controlable laughter, "the boy that - be=
lieves in the Holy Ghost hasn't cantle to'
school to-day : he's at home, sick abed."
LONG ISLAND DARILDIS.-.-Otlr teINISTS
have all heard of the Long Island Derbies:
Ajollier sot of niggers than they are, do
not show their ivory or swingthelil4els.
They too hove a great comic originality a
bout them, and we have often labghed
heartily at anecdotei concerning them,
A few years ago, at a afro camp-mist.
ing held near Flushing, the colored preach-
er in the course of his diutosure, , said, "I
tell you, my blabbed bredern, dat de deb .
bil is a big bog, in 040 ob due days he'll
come along bete and root you all out."
An old negro in one of the anxious pew*,
bearing this, raised himself from the straw,
and clasping bja hauds,exclaimed in the
agony of his fear
“Ring, Lord ! Ring him!' Trty'Bud•
gel. •
Spurn:so 'Parmt.-+- - isputioned.snipti
weeks shice'im inieution qt . neon! 411 1 145,
by which a ;beet of paper could; be , split.
The following account from the London ,
Globe: shows that this Operation has heel:
performed in a"iiiiirmati:hliite'alarmi Ug to
those Whose Wealth coneists in hank note* :
"The governor and directors of the Bank
ikgkinli hilving--tatett informed qrf. the
exitionlitiary Ingettuity of NO::
and that* he was able to split not only a
newspaper, but a bank note, sent for him
in order to teat his skill. • That' his task
might be id difficult as poseible, they pick.
ed out Ons orthe old .24 notes, which
are printed' on paper much thinner than
did notes of the'present day; and told hirO
to iplit it if he could. Mr. B. took' the
pole home with him, and returned it the
punt day in the state he had promised.--
The'lliper watt not in the slightest degiee
.torte and seemed as thongh it had just
come from the 'manufactory, so little was,
its appearance affected by the operation.
The directors remunerated Mr. Baldwin
for hie ttouble, but could not elicit from , hi m
thiineatishi employed. This discovery I
:is connidered of much importance in con.
nexionAilith the papet currency.
BLACK AND WIIITS 'MUSIC.---101 Phila
delphiathey have several bands connect
ed with:the fire companies, some of which l . PROMPT Acrum—Mr. Rialey f. sayarthe
lately resolved that they would not parade Centreville (Md.) Sentinel, a triVolling
1
with blaCk bards . To resent ibis pointed merchant, had his pocketAxtak,iontaining
attack. Various colored musical origami , about $12,000, stolen fr om hint at a'tavera
lions' met, and unanimously - resell s hi Greeitaborough, Caroline county:4'6'w
.to withold their services from the fire s
.. days ago. On charging a fellew, who,
a riment on the occasion of the next tri- ~ w as in the tavern, with the theft, he forked
en l ,ial parade, unless all white Intificians over instanter, and inade iricks in double
ar excluded therefrom. ' quick time. • '' .1
POMILATION AND PROPS Yon 1848.
The folloieifile Comparison of the esti
mates of th population and crops of the
United Statej for 1847 , and '4B, is taken
from the tet4Cl , accompanying the annual
report' of the Commissioner of Patents,
submitted to Congress a few days since.
Outwit an'increased yield of every article
icloptea tin; sustenance of man or beast
:—Anitillthough the increase of our popu
lation Is rapld—one million nearly in a
single year—the increase of food ie pven
grenter. Tlni population in 1840 was 17,-
080,4b3 :
.; , . , 1847.. 1848.
~ . 411114- p oiptiatfciti; 20,746,400 94,650000
No; bestial. wheat, 114.246,500 128,384,000
" " ' 5,610,950 6,222; )50
44 " oat', 187,887,000 163,500,000
." lye, 119,2211,700 32,952,000
N, N j , bookwbool, 11,873,500 12,538,000
„ 4 „ 1t0r000r0,559,350,000 583,150,000
" " potatoes, 100,986,000 114,470,000
tons of hq, 19,819,900 15,73.5,000
27,900 20.000
PIO II 4 106 40 00 1•_ 220,184,01)0 218.91)0,000
, c0tt0n, 1,041,600,000 1,068,00,000
~
Jim, 109,090,500 119,199,600
11.4111 fm6 seen by this table that the aggre
gine number of bushels of vegetable fond
Taiaed ,, ia the Utilted States exceeds one
ittefidia/inclieiyenig millions—or in (par
,
tert—tlte Anode of computation in England
—about ons , Aundred and thirty-four
OIL or Arstusn roil RATs.—lt is a well
known feet that rats entertain an irresisti•
bla fondnecit for aniseed. A gentleman of
lb's:puttee( Beyley, residing in the Hemp.
' 14 4 toad. hadocaagioni a short time singe,
tO.take downi small bottle of essential oil
of from a cupboard in his kitchen,
which, he accidently let fall, and the bottle
watt,broken and the contents escaped upon
'the ; floor. , Before this accident not a rat
befior kwci years been seen upon the prem.
but in day or two afterwards they
made their appearance; and at this time
swarm to so greet an extent that every etrort
L9' extermiliate . them has hitherto proved
un,
'Sri' ow 13,AW' tm FZET.---Dti
,
vitt T!iomvf,. the 4 0 ,t1hiny ,Cnitivatcir,
, eaye
,that, soft vosp. rubbed into the
boKo,n of the hoolliyhenviiiiin, , and before
the honing leave the etiblb, will prevent
the nolteeticin of balls of snOv4
Man% *omitit:Lt. NO Man knows what
he Can fie to do
what he mut t . ; :When:Men have thought
themselves obliged to set about any busi
ness in good earnest, they have done that
whiCh thilr Indolent:reined° them suppose
impassible„,
A FRI RN DLY ECOO!eifION./k &Write
looking felloW , Went up Wan obi gentloma
and holding out hil hand iumarked with a
smile
t'My dear air, I eanOt cell yet% by name.
but ketn cure we , heti been 'together souse
sviiet.e." '•
"Nreelp' vy 1109: 4 - maid the OW gentle:Mo.
''for I imam beim, in. some. very bad com
finny is my dogs."
GoLo..it,Votoserm:4-1/Ve understand
'that the goltirdigging at Stockton & Heiss's
location' is still 'very' successful. 'The a
mount kilted ih January. with fifteen or
twenty, hands, was aboutll2o,ooo,and the
amount thus far in this month is propor
tionally et Much. A deposit of 800 oun
ces bee jut been made at the Mint. The
olw machinery was not in operation ''hen
the ,above results were obtained. The
succem of this Company is quite equal tol
. Ahe average gains in the famous valley of
.the Stier:4l3lol4i.
Rears' (
LTepttra.-The legislators of
.Wiscuusin; who appear to blt • wiser
'their gorteratitta Aso other people, have
'passed a general. Wooss it might be called,
to alter names ; the power to do so; Upon
the Opt ication'oi l any " in habi ta ot," being
vested in the bottriVof Sup,ervisers for ev- ;
cry town. The inhabitant is to apply ;
the.board id to exernitie ant: . decide ; if it
approie, the change - is to be made and re
corded in the register of deeds for the
county, aid no , further care , or trouble is
to be expected. We shall have Wiscon.
sin, in time, a land of dieser:
' A Nkw 'EXPattrannt.--41 'couple of
chaps hit 'upon the following expedient to
'naive ,the needful. One was to feign deed,
'and, to..be not, into a bag by. the other, and
sold to a physician in the neighborhood as
a fit subject for dissectitin. The bag Was
procured, the' felloW 'fied up in it, and at
s meridian" carried to, the doctor.
The bargain was soon finished, the money.
pocketed, and the seller was upoh the sill
fif the door taking hie leave, when the sub
ject in the bag began to kick."
"Stop,' stop l" cried the doctor, ""the
ruan jan't dead."
..No matter," cried he in the door way,
"you can kill him when You tuant him."
TWO DOLLARS:PER Alillt4/lA;:::i.;
INEIO SERIES.---NW*`,
For the Star end Humor.
FRENCH POT-AU-FEU.
Out of this earthen pot come* the isveritessropl
and bouilli, which have been eneltlutingly fatossil
■s having been the support of severallenentikaml"
of all classes of society in France, from tbeitilidatiel
to the poorest individuals; all pay' tribute twills“
excellence and loot th. In fact this scrop
are to the FrCnch what the roast 7 beefttniiPlttii•
podding are on a Sunday to the English: Ito dio
oar in France is served without sotip, and iao
soup is supposed to be made without thepo l l? 7 ,
feu. Generally, every quarter of a century Isokos ;
a total alteration in fashions and politips--uoetkA
say also in cookery, which must be P PrO *WS* ,
not only. So the fashionable, but more strongly toll*
political world, humbly bending its indispeasalds ,
services to the whim and wishes of crowned"
heads, which invariably lead the multitude. For)
example the bills of fare of the sumptuotut abater";
which used to grace the tables of Louis 1f1r4. 1
XVI., and XVIII., of France, were all very dllFeivii
ant from each other,' and none of them arer&inreit'''
copied to grace the sumptuous and leturictiti
bles of the E.npire ;even the very features of theta
having undergone an entire change in our day. ;
Every culinary invention, taking its title and on ;
gin, from some celebrated personage or extraonli.;
nary event, every inuovotion of 'actoltery, like p:,
change in fralteon, causes us to forget thaseallehe
es which they have superseded. I haves* doubt
but that, if seine correct historian could collect:
the bills of fare of dinners from various Cinnabar. ,
and nations, which crowned head's havitparlia. ,
ken of, he might write a very intetesting.soltiettri. '
der the title of "History of Cookerj," hi 4WD
we should be able closely to trace the' original'
,
.history of di ff erent countries, especially in Praia. ,
,
where Cookery was first cradled, and has ever since!,
been well nursed. Nothing can stamp the anni: ,
versary of any great event so well as a •
suroptu. , ,
ous banquet : peace, war, politics, and even raft- ,
ion, have always been the cause of extraordinary.
and sometimes monstrous gastronomic meetings. ,
for a proof of which our readers will be presented 1
in this number, with a correct bill of flea (found ha it
the tower of London) of a dinner given by the Ilea •
of Warwick at the installation of the Areb Dish-' :
op of York, in the yi.ar 1470.* In time (davit
valets ore engaged sketching on immenao cattnai
see tho horrors and disasters of a bettle,'While
peace they sketch tho anniversary banicons
the victorious, in honor of the event . (rern)nding .
user the realm after a storm,) and we ma r jahl.; .
cerely hope, for the,Credit of humanity at large, i;
'that a disastrous battle May have its hundraltist of,
'anniversary banquets, without, a fresh combak..-.,.
Butt* return to the humble hut indispenwhie act- .
once of cookery. Every thing seems to prove to,
us, that it has always performed an important
part in political events, and has been •esposed4o,
as many *lterations. Still, amongst so many
changes, an old favorite has boldly paasedthrought
every storm, and has fur ever established it antinomy
power upon F rance's cha ugeuble soil. The broWn ,
cheek of this detni-immorial is daily seen mite:.
'menting the firesides of millions, and merely a6'.'
quainte the children, the firet thing in the mitre-,
log, that semething good is in preParation for their -
dinner. This mighty vessel is called in Freuett
"Pot-au sou;' being a brown earthcn,pot,.Which
costs about a quarter, and which with care wane„ , t
last twenty years ; the more it is used, the heiter
soup it makes. In it is made that excellent,
and wholesome luxury, which for :centuricahes i i
/
been the principal nourishment and support of Om
middle and poorer clesees of Franca at a'vorr PA•••• , ,
fling expense, It is not upon the table* of the,
wealthy, that the best of this national soup low
be obtained, but upon the right or left side oldie
entrance to the noble mansion, in a irquitre,,Ovil r .,
or octagonal room, commonly called "ha Loge phi
Pastier," or the I'orter'e Lodge, as nearly .every
porter has his portiere, that is,a wife, who•answeiet
thedoor (while her husband is doing theftrotiage,4
polishing the floor of the apartraebt). While par ling
the string or wire, which loosens the lock valet,,..
people in, with one hand, she Ikinle.ihe
feu with the other.
filisuld she be fortunate enough to pewees twe
eyes, she would keep one upon her potinejtos,,
and the other upon the individual, who had, prob.
ably, come only to make inquiry, hut unfortunate.' •
ly for In Mere Martin, (whom we shall hive
pleasure of introducing to our readers, as a gra..
tronomigue wonder in her simple style,) shev
but one eye, Which she almost entirely devoted to
the ebullition of the pot-au fru ; having heen
titre there two-and-thirty yearn, she knew must poo.. •
plain the habit of calling by their yoke, and Meet -' • •
to answer them even without turning her ettitkl?je .i.
I head. But what brought her domestic cookeriiti
such high repute, .hot she was not to he excelled
by any portiere of Paris, was, that' one day bete
master, M. le Comte de B—, (seb'o *mei
gentlemen mid great epiettre,), came - hninisfreits :
long ride, while she was performing her humble-4i;
occupation of pouring the soup into the tureen; •
triple knock came to the door, which immediately
opened as by electricity, and in irrsdlagpi.
ed master, w i tiO came to the door oftlrlo4ge, t tlik
pay his duties' to his old and faithful serYancrrylrils i t,
an exhalation of the moat delicious fragiance per
fumed the smell ionement froth the bailing ergs=. " ' '
somas, which attracted his scientific, ifieniiod t
after a short. inquiry, he . discovered bean old braink,. ,
pan the Aloriously, moulting hot anuetterne,
"(ping with avidity a spoon by the side. .testal,
(muCh to the astoni,hment of LI MereliftMllo),
several spoonsful,' pronounced the first deliciens.
the second excellent, the third delightful, br'fset.'
magnificent. Can you spare 'any Of it 1"'
said, 'addressing the worthy. dente. - a Yogi" *del
she, but lam sure, Monseigneur does tint Meter .114
it." But indcerki do," replied ber r and,ifolt
had been inwere.lqould have obtained euch,ie li
treasure, ['would have had nothing
else 4 1 air
dinner to-day; 'and ifYou were bet'sofal. @dinned'
in yeers, would not' object to inake'Yrt onvirni
bleu." The earthen. pan iris •imixtedialety'4ei..." l
',eyed upaitaire to the dining4stim; and Aiordteial
on the. table of his Eleignande,' wive ' .1
4 dlnner was waiting for.himaelf and friendlik 6.16
ate immortal pot : a/ilea titAtir% 09 mirth
'tray, with'iteltandle hali , ibrokint oQ glade,
hemalp, of the dinner, to the grepttlippoymefaij i
the cook, %Thu hod th,oCt4m.h the "ft itoll* I
displayed in dressing ii coed rerkerch;
Mt much offended at, thei seitioX of his Issitepk . "
master, iih'o AegliklbilithMliMil 1 44111 1 0fr.:6•W ., , ,
luck with his pq
d e s 4.lE
lay a friendly letiadhCtked 10 Irsil(Numritifiti, ~•!:
We, Nall ate • arlitifithiliakek, 0011114
• , NI. La:
•••