TKIIMS OF THE "AMERICAX." 11ENRV B. MA8SER, 3 PoausntK ing JOSEPH KISKLYS Paoraiir.as. orrici in mht ithiit, ha acta. T II E AM EUIUA.N" i published every Satur day at TWO DOLLARS per annum to be paid hlf yearly in aJvance. No paper discontin ue till all arrearages ate paid. No subscription received fur a lees period thin an mouths. All communications or letters on business relating to the ollke, to insure attention, tnunt he POST PAID. The American Boy. t JOHN H. HRWITT. Fnther look p anil see tint t flu, How gracefully it flicg; Those pretty atrippn ihev srrm to be A rainbow in the rkira." It is your country's flag, my son. And proudly drinks the light. O'er ocean's waves in f,ir ign climes A symbol of our might. Father what fearful noifp is that, Like thundering in the clouds ? Why do the people wave their hats, And rush a'ong in crowds!" It ia the voice of cannonry, The glnd shouts of the free, This is the day of mrniory dear 'Tis Freedom's jubilee. "I wish that I was now a man, I'd fire my cannon too, I'd cheer as loudly ss the ret But f.ither, why don't you !" I'm getting old and weak but still My heart ia big with joy ; I hnve witnessod many a day like this Shout you aloud, my boy. 'Hurrah for freedom's jubilee ! (iod bless our native land. And may I live to hold the sword Of Freedom in my hand !" Well done my boy grow up and love The land that gave you birth A home where freedom loves to dwell, Is Paradise on earth. 811 ALL I SUTKKIlt A LEAF FROM LIFE. "IFnpe ever gets the better of Distrust." 'We must part then,' said Rosalie 'is it foI Ah, Eugene, 1 confess 1 tremble for you. Thrown out under such circumstances at thin time of life, to push your way in the world What toils, disappointments and suf ferings may await you! What chances can there be for the young, poor, and friendless, where prosperity laughs at misfortune, power tramples upon weakness, and temptation preys upon inexperience! 'A dreadful picture is that you have drawn of the great world, my dear IWaliV said Eugene, entiling. Suppose we view it in an other light ! Let us consider it us one vnst and glorious amphitheatre, in which genius industry, exertion, and talent, are striving tor the rewards which await the meritorious. 'And how many heart,' rejoined Rosalie, sadly, 'are broken in the conflict I How many arc trodden down by the jostling aspirants ! It'one succeeds, yet how many fall ! llesides, others have friends to help them on you have none. None but one, and she can only aid you by her prayers. Others have wealth you are poor. Your path is solitary before you. Neither influence nor fortune smiles upon it.' 'Is it then under the most favorable cireuni blunces that the greatest and most successful characters arc formed !' replied Eugene, proud ly. The cak of the mountain forest is not nurtured in a hot hnuec, but it strikes its roots and rears its branches amid the winds and storms of its native skies. Jxjok around you, Kosalic. Is it the nursling of wealth or for tune, who lias been dandled into munhood on the lap of prosperity, who carries away the world's honors, or wins its mightiest influences ? Or is it not rather that man whose earlier years, like mine, were scarcely chceied by a single proffer of aid, or smile of approbation, and who lias drawn from adversity the elements of great ness ! You take it for granted that I shall be weak, unsuccessful, unfortunate. I have con fidence to believe I shall be neither.' 'You know not the future, my dear Eugene. How many misfortunes may be in store for you! And at the best, how much toil, how many anxieties, how many sorrows, may cluster a round your destined path, and must inevitably attend upon the duties and difficulties of the most arduous of professions '.' 'Out upon thee lor a bird of ill omen V said Eugene, laughing. 'Do you not know that fortune ever flees the faint heart I And as to ditliculties, the greater the obstacle the greater the conquest the greater the glory. You speak of sorrows they are in a degree of the common lot of all.' But most have friends, or other blessings to aid in bearing them.' True.' U'lt you, if you fall if your favorite object eludes your grasp if your vision of ambition flees before you, or vanishes away if treach ery betrays and wounds you -what have you then for consolution !' 'Hope, Rosalie hope, and your sweet self.' Nonsense ! this is nonsense, Eugene.' Ry your leave, no: and so says that smile, which, pardon me demands return. There! I've done the deed V and now suffer me to tell you, RoMtlie, that there is nothing which industry will not achieve, when combined with perseverance, and directed with au undivided aim to one great object. Absolute acquiescence in the decision of the By Matter & Klsely. Think you that poverty is a sure prelude to failure ! Do you recollect what Rngidcau, the counsellor of Josephine, told her on the eve of her marriage with Napdeon! You area bout to do a very foolish tiling, madam you are going to marry a man who has not a second shirt to hia back !' But you are not exactly a Buonaparte, I apprehend,' said Rosalie, smiling. Humph! well, never mind; I like splendid examples.' 'Buonaparte was a soldier, and not a law yer. He was also aided by a rare occurrence of accidental circumstance?,' continued Ro salie. Well, we will talk of lawyers then. A wealthy English gentleman once asked lxrd Kenyon what he thought of the probuble pro spects of his son in the legal profession. Your son does not want talent,' was his reply; 'but he must first spend his own for tune, many and spend his wife's foitune, and then there will be some hopes of his succeed ing at the law.' Now, luckily, my dear, I have not tho preliminary of spending two for tunes to go through, before 1 may succeed at law.1 This is very true, but not very comfortable, Ird Kenyon to the contrary, notwithstanding,' said Rosalie. 'What think you, Rosalie ! There was a young shoemaker, out here in Connecticut, once on a time, who took it into his head to be a lawyer !' 'A shoemaker !' 'And why not? He was two and twenty years of age when the ideaor fancy first struck him entirely uneducated except in a poor common school, and not only dependant, but having others depending upon him. Was this folly V 'What then V 'Why, he took his book and placed it before hiai thus; and with his hammer in his hand, he read and hammered, and hammered and read, from morning to night, and lire ixrsu.' And what was the result V 'He did become a lawyer,' I Fiispectrd as much,' said Rosalie. And a member of Congress,' continued Eugene, 'and Chief Justice of this State; in fine ' In fine!' 'In fine, Korcr Sherman.' 'Roger Sherman !' ejaculated Rosalie. 'The same. Shall I speak ofFrauklin !' 'Oh la !' said Rosalie, 'his history is worn out already.' 'I could tell you a tale of English lawyers for variety.' 'Wlmt is It !' All in gtxid time. There dwelt, during the last century, in the town of Berwiek-upon Tweed, (which by the way, my Lord Coke says is no part of England so I am wrong in Newcastle iipon-Tvne)a coul merchant or corn merchunt, which ever you please, by the name of Scott. lie had two sons, John and William. Owing to disembarrassed sircumstances, he was not able to afford them the advantages of a university ed neat ion, and could only send them to a grammar school, in their native town, were they accordingly. Lcgan and completed their classical education. Was not this au inauspicious beginning !' 'CJo on go on,' said Rosalie. '.Hy, remember that these youths were in- tended for the bar in England, too, v. here the friendless and untitled are obliged to con j tend with ten limes the difficulties which op pose them here. What would Rosalie have I : i .i ii .i . n sum, suppose wis junn or iiiiuui were a lover of her' s, and he were about to leave his home for the metropolis the groat Loudon to commerce the study of his profession in the Inns of Court ! No matter go on.' Well, John and William occupied the same chambers together, and pursued the same studies, poor, friendless, and unaided, for twelve long, tedious years, (these English lawyers, by the bye, have to undergo something of a quar antine.) Twelve years they devoted them selves to their solitary pursuits. At the end of that time the elder was admitted to the bar. 'Ah! how did he succeed !' Why, but badly at first. His awkwardness and timidity stood in his way ; few expected anything ot him ; and some even ridiculed his attempts to succeed. But he found a friend. Friends are not such bad things after all, my dear. Ilia friends aided in bringing him out, and after some years of obscurity, he suddenly burst forth upon the world, a stir of tho first magnitude. Ilia business rapidly increased; he became a member of Parliament; then At torney General ; then Hit John Scott ; and then Then what !' 'liord Eldon, and Hih Chancellor of Eng land.' And Wil'imn V 'Was made Judge, and became Lord JStowell.' 'Bojlj Lord j' UNBTOY AMEBIC AN. AND S1-IAMOK1N JOURNAL. majority, the vital principle of Republics, from wbir.h Siiubury, Northumberland Co. Nothing more or less, my dear girl. And the decrees of one were as right and irreversi blcaa those of Minos; while the decisions of the other are splendid monuments of his geni us, acuteness, and wisdom.' Well, perhaps you may succeed. You are certainly sanguine enough, and confulcnco is half tho battle.' 'Possunt quia posse videntur, You ac knowledge so much, do you, my sapient little counsellor! But you were speaking of toils, Rosalie. Now, as to this matter, I would adduce the opinion of liord Chancellor King, (I like these great names) whose motto was 'Litbor ipse voluntas.'1 'Really, I am much tho wiser.' 'Which, being interpreted, doth signify, as my Lord Coke would say Labor is itself a pleasure.' Tin 're is no contending against Fuch au thorities. You give up, then, do youV said Eugene, laughing. But stop,' said Rosalie; 'because Scott be came l.ord Chancellor, and Sherman Chief Justice, it does not follow that you are to be ' 'Lord Chancellor or Chief Justice ! Not ot all, my dear. But it does follow, I appre hend, that with industry and good fortune I may, in the '!ar west,' provide for Rosalie and myself a home anil a livelihood. So good bye don't try, now. God ble.'s you, my dear girl.' Ilt. IIK1.L, ON FOOD. Messrs. llaswell &. Johnson have published, in a veiy handsome style, a duodecimo volume, from the pen of Dr. Bell, of this city, conlain ingan examination of the properties, qualities, and, occasionally tho history of whatever con stitutes the food and drink of man a work of much research, and containing the means of great utility. We are struck with the author's account of the rise and progress of the common potato : The Potato. It is now pretty generally understood that tho potato is indigenous to Chili and Peru, in which countries it grows wild. The plant is very common about Yalparaiso, and Mr. Cruick sliank says, that he has noticed it along tho const for fifteen leagues to the northward of that port. There is one peculiarity ascribed to the wild pl.int, by this gentleman, viz: that the floweis are ul ways pure while, lice from the purple tint so common in the cultivated varie ties. Amidst conflicting testimony and opin ions on the subject, we must give to Sir Walter Raleigh the credit of introducing tho potato. Its introduction by him into Ireland in 1610, is well authenticated by corroborative testimony. Among the anecdotes told of this enterprising voyage, it is said that w hen his gardener at Younghall in the county of Cork, ha'1 reared to the full muturity of 'apples' the potatoes which he has received from the knight, us a fine fruit from America, the man brought to his muster one of the apples, and asked if that were the fine fruit Sir Walter htiviii'examitied it was, or feigned to be, dissatisfied, that he order ed the 'weed' to be rooted out The gardener obeyed, and in rooting out the weed found a bushel of potatoes. The discrepancy of opinion respecting the date of the introduction of the potato in Europe, seems to have arisen from confounding the com- moil and street potato. The latter was iiitrodu- ccd into Europe long before the former, and it seetns most probuble that it was the upecies brought from New Grenada by Haw kins. Potatoes were at first looked upon as a great delicacy, and cultivated by a very few. Tho Royal Society, in 1GG3, encouraged a more extensive cultivation of them, as a means of preventing famine. Previously, how ever, to lOsi, they were raised only in tho gardens of the nubility and gentry ; but in that year, they were planted, for the first time, in the open fields in Lancashire a county in which they have ever bince been very extensively cultivat ed. Their growth was more rapidly extended in Ireland than in England, and they have long furnished from two-thirds to four-fifths of the entire food of the people of Ireland. Potatoes were not raised in Scotland, except in gardens, till 1728, when they were planted in tho open fields by a person of the name of Prentice, a day laborer at Kilsyth. Some of the good people in Scotland were op posed, at first, to the new vegetable, declaring that "potatoes are not mentioned in the Bible." some of the priesu in the Ionian ie'ands, at a la ter period, exponents probably of the prejudices of the people, manifested their hostility by al leging that the potato was the forbidden fruit, the cause of man's fall: and of course its use was both immoral and irreligious. Of a piece with this was the hostility of the French to the grow th of the potato in their country, in their voting against a benevolent gentieman who took pains to fik-ter its culture, under the pic that he had invented the potato. The potato was introduced from England into the Netherlands and iuto Germany, in the car- there i no speal but to force, tho vital p'in itle and Saturday, April 16, is -VI. ly pait of the last century. It was firt cuitivs led in Sweden in 1720, but notwithstanding the exertions and reemmcudation of Linnsm. it did not come intogeneral cultivation until 1764, when a royal edict was published for the encour agement of this! branch of husbandry. In France, much of tho final success of it more extended cultivation, was due to the ex ertions of the benevolent I'armenticr, who per severed amidst open opposition and ridicule "rfall kinds. For a while, the king, I-oiiis XVI, and bin coutt wore the flower of the potato in the button-hole of their coats, a 4 a means of enlist- i'ig popular favor, or, what at any tiir.e was equivalent, fashion, on its side. The dearth, in the fust years of the French revolution, ser ved to direct attention more utid more to the cultivation of the potato, which, after a time be came geneial. To it were the people of Franco and some other parts of Europe indebted for protection against finninc, in the disastrous years of l'r'iti and 117. We might suppose, however, from the following incident, that pre judices against the root were not so great in all pa tn of France, even at the time in which Par menticr was laboring k hard in its favor. In the seven years war 1750 170?! a small dctatchment of the French army, w hile in Sax ony, having its supplies wholly cut off, the sol diers subsisted for eight or ten days entirely on potatoe?, obtained from the fields, nor was the manner of living considered among them a by any means a hardship. Less than thirty years before this event, the potato was unknown to the agriculturists ot Saxony. About the middle of the la; t century, the culture of the potato in Switzerland, which vas begun in 1720, hud so much increa sed, that it constituted the food of two thirds of the people. In the present dny.it still lorius a leading article of food among the peusantry of .hat country. It likewise makes a very prominent figure in the produtive hus bandry of Poland, where it is cultivated to an extraordinary extent In 1'27, as much as 2S8,1?5 kovzecsof potatoes (each kovzec being nearly equal to two hundred weight) were pro duced in that country. In Italy, within the present century the cultivation of the potato has been greatly encouraged ; and the traveller, in the city of Naples, for instance; must re mi ruler the large ves.els filled w ith boiled po. tatoc?, in the public streets, and near the royal palace itself, (torn which, at a cheap rate, the poor and lazaroni cun procure a wholesome meal the supply of their fivoiite inaccaroui being deficient or too dear, The potato was introduced into India come sixty or seventy years sl'o, and it is now sue. cessfully cultivited in Bengal, and has been in trod uced into tho Madras provinces and Java, the Philippines and China. But in common it does not thrive within the tropics, unless it be grown at an elevation of 3,000 or 4,000 feet above the level of tho sea, so that it can never come into very general use in those regions. It has been well remarked by Mr. McCutloch, "So rapid an extension of the taste f jr, and the t uhivbtion of an exotic, has no parallel in the history of industry, it has had, and will continue to have, the most powerful influence on the con dition of mankind." In the United States, potatoes ore cultivated to a great extent, ami forma regular part of the ! duily food of a vast majority of tho inhabitants. ! Duruiir the vearlSiO. there were uuwnrda of a hundred m.llions of bushels raised, of which the state i f .New York yielded tlurtv millions. Penn- sylvanin more than nine millions and a half, Maine upwards of ttn millions, Vermont more than eight million?, Now Hampshire six mil lions, M issuxliUsctl five millions, Ohio about the same quantity. From the most nothern to tho externa southern limits from Maine to Ixiuiniaua, we find this esculent root largely cultivated. In this country, the potato has Hi proper rank, as on article of food auxiliury at all times, aud in reserve on extra occasion.-, but not as in Ireland, the chief subsistence. Potatoes eaten raw have been found to ho among the best remedies lor tho i:urvy, ;.a well as an excellent preventive. A London editor in describing the city resi dence of the Duke of Wellington, says, his bed is so IK' r row that "his grace can bcurceiy tarn round in it " Why bhotild his giuce wish in turn round in his bed? Forull purposes of inuj col;ir convenience, a turn cVi.r utuoUU lor any holiest sleeper. An English Captain hailed an American vessel, and asked w hat hu was laden with. The master w ishuig to set otfhia cargo to the greutest advantage, answered, with a flourish of Bos toman rhetoric, 'Fruit auJ limber.' Tho fact was, the cargo consulted of potatoes and broomsticks. A Dutchman in soma town in York State kept a grocery. Over his door appeared the name of Peter Mors! ;' very lately, Peter got married. anJ rvcxt morning there appeared mi his sign 'Peter Mnre i' Cn' A few dsya uflrr, he took it down, and when his sign re. appeared it was found to read 'Peter, Worse.' im neilm e pr tit .it lUnpnism. Jmiaaa' Vol. II Ac. X1X. yfJSaSaaTwJJ I'nvr or IIi;mH. T:ic riches;, r N. Y. Democrat of Saturday Fiystliiil llogun v,ia brought up for examina tion on I,-r:dhy .ftcrHmu. 11,4 cojpsel, Messi. Ciijjin and Gilbert Tiiid objection to the validity of the process by which he was arrested; the principal of which was, that a Justice of the Peace hss no author ty to issue a warrant for the nriest of a person charged with having committed a crime in a county in which the Justice does not re side. These objections were answered at leng'h by lhn counsel for the people, Messrs. E. Ii. Wheeler and A. Went worth ; but as the Court wished time to dec-do in the premise?, at 7 o'clock, the prisoner was remanded for ex amination at 9 o'clock, Saturday morning, if the Court should, in the mtMntitne, overrule the objections raicd. If', however, the objec tions should be deemed valid, the prisoner was probably discharged previous to that time. After the publication of Hogan's braggado- cia letter, that he would trivel when and where he pleased, in the United State?, relying upon his own government for protection, a close watch, it appear?, was kept on both sides of the line ; a'ld information having been recei ved of his arrival in Rochester, a warrant was immediately issued by Justice Bncf:an, upon the affidavit of Dr. Theller. The Rochester paper adds, thht various reasons are assigned for his sudden re-appearance. By some it is imputed to a love afl'uir ; by others to a desire to lionize hinirelf by having a trial, knowing that he would be acquitted. Those w ho instigated his arrest, assert that the most positive proofs of Ins guilt cun be ob tained. This we doubt We cannot believe that an individual as vain r.nd conceited as Ho gan is represent d, would reodily engage in any blood-shedding scrape, though his over weening vanity might lead him to assume a portion of the glory of the transaction. We should not be surprised if the whole should come to a farcical conclusion. If so, we shall not fuil to show up the author of this attempt to kindle anew the flames of discord along the frontier. Ilogan has been a journeymen printer. He has ulso served in some capacity (clerk we be lieve) under Sir Allan McNabb, and ia now a student at law. 'I here is one liiiht in w hich this case assumes a serious aspect. It has boeu decided by the highest legal tribunal in this State, that the persons engaged in the Sehloiser outrage are amenable to the laws of New York, and until that decision is reversed by competent authori ty, nil who come within her jurisdiction are li uhle to imprisonment and trial. The affair excites but little attention ; our citizens being mostly in favor of dismissing the fellow with proper marks of contempt. A Third McLeod ! Wo undcrstaud that a person, whoso name we forgot, known to have been engaged in the Caroline affair, came over in the "Gore" on Thursday. He took passage to Cobourg, but not being awakened at that pert, he found himself at Rochester in the morning, lie came up ta the city, spent some time with an acquaintance in Feeing the place, and departed unmolested when the steamboit sailed, much to the chagrin of those who sre bent upon creating excitements. This watch ing steamboats in order to seize obnoxious per sent, is disreputable in the extreme, and should be frowned upon by every well disposed citi zen. Rochistcr Democrat. Dr. Molt, of New York, lias come out in favor of the use of Tobacco ; he says it is a preventive, or perhaps a cure for Laryngeal Phthisis and Hron c.hetis. If that is the case, there will g less difficulty in answering the ques tion why theclerirymen fifty years since were not trm.ihieil with broneheal com plaints as much as they now are, as we believe in olden time few clergymen nc ylec'ed the weed in all its forms, and a pipe some two feet loiii was almost as necessary to i-Ieiicil dignity as was a larye white wig, a cm ked hat or a cane; hut tenipora inufjiita ami pipe, cocked hal, cane and vvi h ue yotie. V. S. Gaz. Cator Hr.a.- Quite a lively inte rest is manifested in the cultivation of the Castor llt'dn in (Hmoi for the pur pose of inaniifacUn iiii ca'or oil. Du t iu the last four months oi.e firm man ufactuied Irom 18..100 bushels of beans, .i7,7oO gallon of oil. A Swixciaii Mi i tui iik The freight train on tho Ve.tern Rjilroa.l, on Saturday last, contained no less than one Ihouiand unJ nine ty Swixe from Western New York the freight of which emsoedej $e)0. Ece. Gaz. Spwihmi or AciiHACv. A recruit was s.-hcj by his officer, "What's your height!" Lo w hich Put rrplied "The man that measured me told mo it wan rive foot t-n,or ten foot fiv ; 1 am not exactly sure which ; but it tt'a eiUier the inc or the other." PRICES OF AO ritTKSINtt. t square 1 insertion, . fo SO 1 do 1 do . . . 0 75 I do 3 d - - . I 00 Kvry subsequent itiwrlli n, - 0 SS Yearly A4ertiscmentr, (with the privilege n Iteration) one cslHrnn $26 j half column, flH, three squares, $1? ; two iqunret, f 9 ; one square, $.". Without the ptivile of alteration liberal discount will be made. Advertisements left without direction as to tKe lenqth of I i inn they ae nt be published, will ta continual until ordered out. and charged accord ify. Sixteen lines make a square. The Late AeeliUut loth Missouri. A (fentlcnian wholell Washington in the ttea mcr Chesapeak, which arrived hero yesterday, states that on Wednesday, he was on board tho Missouri, and obtained the annexed information. The ship was under a heavy head of Ftcam, go ing at the rate of thirteen miles an hour, w hen through dome carelessness or inattention of the pilot.sho was run upon a shoal olf Port Tuliacco Matthhs' Point about fifteen miles below Po tomac creek. She now lies buried in the sand, with but a few inches of water on one side, whilt there is something like eighteei or twenty feet on the other. All on board expressed the be lief that there would bo great difficulty in gel ting her off, and it is feared that when she is clear, she will be found to be so much injured as to require much repair. In reference to the melancholy loss of life, wu ha ro conflicting accounts. Our informant states that there were twenty six per3-nf, in cluding Lieut. Borden, in the boat which went with the anchor that fifteen, with the lieute nant, wero drowned, and ten were picked up by boats from the ship. Another informant, whosa statements are regarded as entitled to much cre dit, says that there were but fifteen men, inclu ding the lieut on board that they were pro ceeding from the frigate, but the anchor not ha ving been properly secured, and the boat listing; it probably blipped off, and wil'i the chain, ci ther capsized the boat, or entangling thoso on board within its bight, every person was irittaut ly killed or aftewarda drowned. The body cf Lieut. B. has been found, and was to bo inter red yesterday. Some other bn.lics have a'so been recovered, and to of them nra paid to have been cut almost in twain, while the other are much mansled. Bultimore Hun. Mamtactires in the Soith A Letter to the Editors of the National Intelligencer, from a respectable gentleman in the Stite of North Carolina, under date of March Colli, 1-12, says: "We have now in this State twenty cotton factories, worked by, 1 presume, more than 1,800 operatives ; and, although North Caroli na will not intrude herself upon the time of Congress with petitions for a discr minating tirifl", yet she is to be vitally affected by it, in the success of thoee large factories recently es tablibhed. I am now shipping a lot of good directly to New Bedford, and expect to supply that market with a proportion of what they io qnire for shipment around Cape Horn. South ern goodsstand high in New York, Philadelphia, and other markets into which they have beea introduced." Americun Sentintl. Superstition. The New Hampshire Standard records a most singular in stance of the fatal effect which super stition may have on a weak mind. It may be premised that the breaking a looking glass is regarded as the precur ser of death in the family. The story is this: A lady arrived in Exeter, N. II., last week, having a female servant with her. On tho day after the latter broke a looking-glass. She became greatly alarmed at the trifling circum stance, covered over the j:!ass with a handkerchief, and turned it to the wall that she might not see it. Haunted by the superstitious idea, she became sad and dejected, and went to bed on Wed nesday, two days after the accident, poorly and miserable, retiring earlier than usual on account of her illness. The next day she was worse, and her mis tress desired lier not to get up. On Friday one of the most experienced of medical gentlemen of the place was caU led in. He found hoT free from bodily pain, but suffering utider a perfect pros tration of strength and spirits. She continued to sink, till 12 o'cloc k next day when she expired, a victim to the ab surd superstition of tl dreadful conse quence of breaking u looking glass. How To learn French. A friend of ours on a recent visit to l'aris, thought it well to make a virtue of necessity; and, in order lo practice only the lan guage of the country, so to acquire fa cility in speaking it,' resolved to board in a house where no I'nglish resided. IJeing satisfied in his particular enqni ries in this respect, he agreed for his "pension" for a month, ?nt his luggage, and occupied his allotted apartment. The first day' dinner had arrived, and he had brushed up his French to meet 1ne numerous trtv who 6at down to it. I Beside tlie head of tho establisti4t"t there were twentv-tive nt taMe, anr they were all American ! (I'luL fp Astronomers say that Encke's met is now approaching lte caith i rnte if 1v mi1liMis of miles pe The collision will i Midden, "hardest fend ofT. llouscker better look out for theii crocl i ,Perf ta' h'A. Cat-
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