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Sweet Potato CofTea.
Some time ago, we saw in a Memphis paper,
a recommendation of aweet potatoes as a sub
stitute for coffee. The freak took us, day or
two since, to make a trial of it, by way of -
periment. ' ,
Yesterday morning we drank of the 'proceeda' ,
at breakfast and hope to do so this morning. A .
medium sized sweet pot a toe was pared, and
then, while in the raw state, sliced. These ,
slices were then cut across-wise, so that when
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Suggested by David's picture of Napoleon a deep
in hi study, taken horlly before the
battle of Waterloo.
.Steal softly I fr the very room, . j
( The stately cham' er of m rest
Imparl a gapping awe anil gloom
' 1 I7ni the raah intruder' breaai
Heie kneel an.l !ok ! but breathe not, lest
Thy Br mm material breath alnne
Should wake that eye immortal Ms?,
Th it. like the Last Archangel'a gate.
Might acoin ihee into atone !
He sleep 'while F.arth around him re Is,
And mankind' million boat combine
Against the areptre sword which seal
Their ftte from I.apliiml to the Line
While, like a pianl ronaed from wine,
Grim EuM sailing, watches liim.
1'he Wariiur Lord of Likh'a field
O'er Jna'a mu1 who stioi.lt hta shield
I a huxtied in slumber dim !
He alrcps ! The Thunderer of die World
For or.ee ha h, wearied, dropt the 1-o't.
WVk strokes spit empire bp and hurl'd
-- To dual each p'liple. mantled dult, .
Mid havoc, ruin and revolt ! ,.
Ijo, lull'd I ke a hshv by it nurse.
The Imperial Eagle fnlde thi wing
I ' Quirsrent. whoae awakening spring;
Hh-dl aliake the universe !
He aleepa ! and si'ence bids the tone
Which rleft the Alp' etetniil v-allis ,
. And bridged hi pa'hway to a thnme
Altove the Avaltnrhe'a halln ;
Haik ! ho that victor-voice appals
- Tale AuHlria'a battle line, when first
i , Ha craahed gaunt Nature' lar asunder,
And meteor.girt inflame and wonder,
I'pon Marengo burst !
He aleepa and dreama oh, for the aenae
Of some auhlimer sphere to know
Where at raya the fierce intelligence'
' Which scourged the nations here below ! ,
To the Empyrean doth it go !
And would its wild ambition atrain
To grasp the balance of the skies, -V
And syatema, aun ami alara comprise
(n ene tremenduu teign !
. He dreama and smites! The conqueror's brow,
(Jall'd with the Wrealh'a triumph! pride,
Lanka grandly dim and placid now.
Aa if young Evohikn never died ! '
'. ' Aa If VicinriotM Homtcid ! . :t .... ,;
, The ruh of Borodino' stream
Hi bony legion' freezing r roans,
And icy Russix's f.iresl moan
Are heard not in that dream !
The plan and pencil in hi band
Have drop'd, aa thnigh their erTirt fiil'd
To draught the crimson skeich he ncaun'd
In Pate' vact volumo seven-se d'd ;
But earth shall see the page leveal'd,
' And hear it fiery purport too,
Until bercurd ng brail'shlon! top . -And
carnagi'.clogied ihy sickle diop ,.
. Outworn, red Waterloo !, . i
He dreama and smile!. Von blue-sea priaon
L neagee r ortune crowneil bird ;
Ar.d Prance, eiulting France, ha'a iWn
Through all hefbordera, Irumpet-atirr'd ! '
He heed it not ; aome awiou'd word .
... Haiti ahewnbiiu Ocean' distant wave
Thundering the moial of hia story.
And rol'lng hmindless a hi glory,
Round St. Helena' grave.
A wy, bright Patntei ? tell thy frere,
8elf.a1 rafted Philosophy, '
. Whose ready, reaenniiig tongue would swear
. . That blow of Despot cannot be , ,
Fr.im crested care one moment fire
'" Till him thy Life imparling eye, '
' ' " Nieoiaow'a shiiiig hour aurvey'd,
. And w ith one deaihiesa glance hath made
Immortal now thk Lia ! HAROLD.
Fly i no Machine. The flyinff man of New
Orleans had better make haute, or he will be
too late. From the following in a Farts jour
nal, it will be eeen that he has a competitor,
not in the field, but in the air, who a already
making Kitne headway.
'An aeronaut named. Schwartz has just made,
at Lyons, an experiment of a new eyntcm of as
cnibion. lie ruspe.nda himself at the bottom of
ha balloon by man of straps and cords, bind
ing hia body, legs and fret in a manner einii
lar to tlii une4 by painters and other work
men, when employed on the outride of houses.
Ills weight is calculated at 2 lbs. beyond the
ascending force ofthe balloon. To obtain this
buoyancy he employs a pair of large wing,
mado of light frame work, covered w ith cloth,
aud which, when fixed to hia arms, have th
appearance of two ancient bucklers. TlieM
wings, whose ascending power is equal to 14
lbs, wliPri'once they have raisrd tho man and
the balloon, serve to direct their movement.
'To effect a descent, it is merely neeeesaay to
allow them td fall by the side of the man, and
his state in relation to the balloon becomes the
same as when they started. ' On the Uth in
stant, Mr. SchwarU raised himself by this ap
paratus to the height of about 40 yards, and
then alighted again after traveling a abort
i distance." i
" Ermrfi. The following simple, beautiful,
' and appropriate metaphor was inaenbed upon
" the tombstone of an infant :
It itikleJ, w i rihaled, and went te Heaaen."
But the blundering compositor of an obacure
paper, in printing it, made the following typo
graphical error :
It rled,eiUUL and went to Jtvtuuu !
. An Interesting leetnre, si , Astronomy. .
' Dr. Lardnbr is at present delivering :
course of Lectures at Savanna hv From an
editorial notice of on of them on the subject
of the heavenly bodies published in the Savan
nah Republican, .we make the following in
teresting extract.- ., i
The Doctor began by saying that although
telescopic observation does not enable us to
ascertain the fact, that the planets are inhabit
ed, yet there is a masa of concurrent testimony
which is almost conclusive. ' If one were to
land on an islund, and were to find there hone-1
es well warmed and protected against the
weather, well lighted tip, and having al! the
comforts and necessaries which men require,
one would feel perfectly assured that such an
island contained organised beings like our
selves, even though no human creature were
visible.'
In like manner, when we investigate the
movements of the heavenly bodies, we find a
similar adaptation of their economy to the wants
of beings like ourselves. It is ascertained that
they have atmospheres, clouds, and diurnal
motion, the vicissitudes of seasons and all the
other phenomena which mark the character of
our own globe. It is a curious fact, the planet
Merctny which is nearest to the sun, has an
atmosphere more charged with clouds than any
other planet of the solar system. This wise
provision is obviously intended to Fcreen and
shelter that orb from the intense solar light and
heat which might ' otherwise make existence
intolerable there. So dense is the covering of
clouds around Mercury that it is quite im
possible to obtain more than occasional glimpse
of the disc of it.
This is also the case with Venus, though
not to so great an extent. Sir John Ilerschcl
has succeeded after much careful examination
in joining together the observed portions of
Venus, so as to make a tolerable plan of its
surface. Its diurnal rotation taken place in a-
bout the same time as that of the earth. This
was ascertained by a German Philosopher, who
on observing the crescent of Venus with his
telescope, noticed that the extreme point or the
tip ofthe horn of the crescent became gradual
ly blunted, and that after a certain time the
point was a gradually restored to its luminous
appearance. Continued observations showed
thai this succession of appearances was perfect
ly regular, and that it occurred in a few
minutes less than 24 hours. The explanation
of this is that a mountain at this plan; cast a
sliadow, which shadow, by the diurnal motion
of the planet, was firtt lengthened, then reduc
ed and finally disappeared, to return again at
intervals perfectly regular.
Kir John IJersliul ascertained the diurnal
motion of Mars, by noticing a speck on i's sur
face and watching its return again to the same
point. This took place with the utmost regu
larity, showing that the days and nights on lie
planet Mars, were nearly ofthe same deration
as our own. As the distance ofVtie planets
from the tun increases, the clonda become less
and less dense, allowing a greater portion of
solar light and heat to reach the more remote
ones.
It is a singular fact that as a general rule,
the distances ofthe planets from the sun goon
nearly doubling; at each remove. There is
however, between the orbiU pf Mars and Ju
pitfr an unusually wide space. This led to
the conjecture that there ought to be a planet
there, in order to render the plan completo. It
waa by accident that the first one of the four
small planets or asteroids existing there waa
discovered. It is presumed that other frag
ments exist, though too email to be seen. These
asteroids Ceres, i'allas, Juno, and Vesta, are
supposed to be the fragments of a broken planet,
The fact that they are not perfect spheroids,
but angular masses, c ornea in aid of this suppo
sition. Another fact which is singular, is that
their paths as calculated, appear to proceed from
the same po nt, and it is demonstrated loo, that
these orbits must at regular periodical times
carry each of thctn through thesamo position
In the heavens.
A German Philosopher has made most
singular cilcMltttioii in regard to the distances
of the planets from the sun. llo has construct-
d a table as follows: '
0
4
4
M.
3
4
. 7
V.
6
4
10
11
12
4
10
M.
21
4
49
4
li2
4
100
u.
4
W
s.
28 S5
J.
The reader will observe, that the upper
lines of figures begin with tero, and then goon
doubling each time, starting with 3. i
The constant quantity 4 ia added to each of
these numbers, and the reaulte from addition
show the representative distances of the plan
eu from the sun, . beginning with Mercury on
the left. Observe tho blauk which occurs in
the vacuity between Mars and Jupiter. It is
between thero orbit that it was thonght i
planet ought to cxiat, corresponding to the die
i. Ofi and hrrA tllA frairnAnlr
iiauiv , ... . ... fc ......... j - -,
(asteroids,) or wrecks of 'a shattered w urlJ,'
have been discovered, It will not fail to strike I
any one as most wonderful, the singular mathe-
t . . at... . ... - !
maticai system oy wnien ine Architect or the
Universe, has measured and ordained the po
sitions, of the heavenly bodies.
Cornstalk Angar.
The manufacture of sugar from corn stalk
has been attempted with success in several
parts ofthe United States. Tho Cincinnati
Chronicle notices a specimen produced in
Wayne county, Illinois. It states that the su
gar is well grained, and aa good as the New
Orleans sugar. It was made With the aitnplest
kind of machinery, constructed by a carpenter;
and the process is said to be easy. The circu
lation is that a thousand poundi of this sugar
may be made from an acre of corn.. At this
rate the business will be profitable, and cannot
but open a new and vast source of production to
the West. The produce of an acre in corn
sold on the farm, will not, says the Chronicle,
average, on the richest lands, twelve dollars.
year after year. If an acre ofthe same land
will produce one thousand pounds of sugar, at
four cents per pound on the furm, the product
will bring forty dollars. It ij scarcely proba
bietlint the expense of manufacturing will ab
sorb the difference between these prices.
The manufacture of suffer from the Beet has
become an extensive business in France.- The
sugar beet, we presume, would grow very well
in the' fertile linds of (ho West Would not
the experiment be worth trying ! The propor
tion of saccharine matter in the sugar beet
must be greater than that ofthe corn stalk. If
we are not wrong in our statistics the sugar
crop of France from the beet is annually great
er than the crop of Louisana from the cine.
The production of Sugar from the corn stalk,
if it can become generally profitable, must tend
greatly to the enhancement ofthe agricultural
resources of the West. This neve, diversion of
an important staple, together with the manu
facture of oil from lardwill have the effect of
lessening the mass of bread stuff now crowded
into market, and for which no sufficient vent is
found. In.proportion as a diversity ofoccup.
tion ia introduced, the danger of over produc
tion in any particular branch of industry is di
minished. It is this general principle which
points out tho propriety of encouraging domes
tic manufactures since their extension, by af
fording employment to a large portion of the
population, who become consumers and non-
producers of bread stuffs and provisions, cautes
the market for agricultural products to be enlar
ged. Every new variety of production aids al
so in promoting the national independence ; it
increases our home resources, and widens the
bias ofthe national prosperity.. By the same
means the arts flourish, and scope is given to
the intentive genius of a people, Biif. Amer.
iloanoBs or War, Lol bcruzier was one
ofthe most able and efficient military officers
in the French service, under Napoleon, and
from his Military Memoirs a correspondent of
the New York Evening Post translates (lie fol
lowing from Chapter IV., Battle of Austcr
litt
"At tho moment in which the Russian army
waa making its retreat, painfully, but in pood
order, on the ice ofthe lake, the Emperor Na
poleon came riding at full speed towards the ar
tillery : Yott are losing time ! he cried S fire
upon those masses they must be cngulphed
fire upon the ice !' The order given, remained
unexecuted for ten minutes ; in vain severa
officers and myself were placed on the slope of
a hill to produce tho greater effect ; their balls
and mine rolled upon the ice without breaking
it up. Seeing that, I tried a simple method of
elevating eight howitzers ; the almost perpen
dicuUr fall of the heavy projectiles produced
the desired effect. My method . was followed
immediately by the adjoining latteries, and in
less than no time we buried 3T,000 Russians
and AubUians under the waters of that lake."
A Deer Reim iku mo two Wolves On
Thursday last, Mr. Mick was going up the Pe
nolxcot River with a load ofhay, when a deer
ran out of the woods on to the siiuioth ice, pur
sued by two fierce wolves. On the ice the
deer could make no headway, on account oflii
constant slipping; and the wolves voraciously
seized his hind quarters, tearing ofthe hair, an
then seizing the flesh and devouring it The
deer struggled in vain to escape, and rent the
air with its mournful bleat ' Mr. Micbjtimpei
from his load, pulled offhis boots that he might
not slip on the ice, seized his hatchet, and hast
ened to the scene of action. As he approached
the wolves growled their dissatisfaction, but
left their prey, which, though about six pound
of flesh had been torn from it, was not ye
prostrate. The deer was aluin, dressed, sus
pended to the load, and the team started for th
lumbering camp. ' The late rains have caused
so much of a crust to the snow that the wolves
generally and they aio quit numerous fin
the deer an evjr prey ; and "in this way a 5 real
many are destroyed in our forest Biwgnr
Whig.
The Wild Woman. i
It will perhaps be recollected that about a
ear and a pa If ago, the St Ioui papers gave
n account of a woman who had been discover
ed in the woode near that oity, almost naked
nd apparently quite wild. : It appears that aha I
had lived in this manner until lately, when the
severity ofthe winter drove her to a human ha
bitation, and there," being much exhausted for
want of food and badly frost-bitten, she expi
re,!. ' ' '.
Previous to her death she became quite ra
tional, aud gave the following account or her
self, which we condense from the St. l-ouis Or
gan:
She was born in New-Jersey, whence with
her parents she hail removed to Cincinnati,
where they lived until she grew up to woman
hood. A young man whom her father did not
like paid his addresses to her, and they eloped
for St. I .on is. At Iouisville he persuader! her
to take lodgings with him as his wife, promi-
ing to go with her to a clergyman and get
married in the morning. lie left her in the
morning to go for a minister and never return-
ed. All day she remained almost distracted
wiUi fear lor the satety of her lover, whom she
could not think had abandoned her, but finally
he learned that he had taken a boat going down
the river in the morning. The shock of her
feelings was so great that she fainted and fell
n the street. ' She was taken up by some
kindly disposed person who, as soon as she re-
covered, paid her nBssarre back to Cincinnati,
Her heart almost failed her as she approach-
ed hot home. She could see her father's resi-
dence as the boat passed along up the river, and
it was her intention to go directly home, and f
throw herself upon the mercy of her father and
mother, and tell them how she had been decei-
ed. On approaching the doorof the dwelling, I
there appeared to be an unusual bustle in the
house, and on entering she saw her father ly
ing dead upon the floor. The old man had
heard which way she had gone, and took pas-
sage on the unfortunate steamboat Moselle,
which blew up al Cincinnati, and being one of
me untoriunaie suiierers, the body bad just
been recovered and brought home. As soon as
the mother saw her, "There," said she, "there
is you? murdered father !" She ran from the
house, but not before her mother s curse was
upon her. She says it rang in her ears for ma
ny a long day and iiirht as she wandered
through the woods.
It was then summer, and at times severe
hunger would induce her to go near the habi-
. . I - I I 1 I
inuone 01 mc peopio, as sue wanuereo aiong
mrougn tne country ; and at one lime sue sup-
ped in and took the hoccakefroru the fire, while
the farmer's wife was gone to the spring ; at
other times she caught the fowl from the fence,
and devoured tliem raw. How she lived so
long, she is unable to tell ; but berriea, nut,
fruit, and such game as she was enabled to
catch, have been her food ; and for two winters
she lived in an old deserted cabin on the banks
ofthe Missouri. She filled it nearly full of
dried leaves in the fall, and would creep into
them in cold weather. Somebody burnt down
the cabin last fall, with some little stores of
nuts and dried fruit she had laid up for the win
ter ; since which time she haa been sleeping in
a large hollow tree.
She says "My clothing being almost en
tirely gone, the cold was very severe, and I
thought I would come to a house and get them
to bury me. How I have suffered no human
tongue can tell, but I had ma.ie up my raimi to
die in the wild woods, and never again sutler a
human being to speak to me ; but my resolu
tion failed, and I am indebted to the kindness
of this poor family for wlmt little comfort they
could afford me on my death-bed." Viltshurg
Chronicle.
Remember that the villain who by perfidy
wrought all this ruin the murderer of father
and daughter is shielded from all punishment,
and is, in the eye of the Ijiw, an innocent and
honoruble man I Who mAe such laws and re
sist their alteration ! Tribune.
Sr. Pai l's Cum k, (xnon.) A writer in
the Hartford Courant thus describes the clock
works in the tower of this cathedral :
The pendulum is fourteen feet long, and the
weight at the end is one cwt ; the dial on the
outside are regulated by a smaller one within ;
the length ot the minute hands on the exterior
dials is eight feet, and the weight of each ss-
venty-five pound ; the length ol the hour hands
is five feet five inches, and a weight of forty-
four pounds each ; the diameter ofthe dials is
eighteen feel ten inches, and the length of the
hour figures two feet two and a half inches.
The fine toned bell, which strikes, is clearly
distinguished from every other bell in the me-
iropolis, and has been distinctly heard at the
distance of twenty miles. It is about ten feet
in diameter, and ia said to weigh four and a
half tons. The bell is tolled on the death of
any iiiemU r of the royal family, of the lord
mayor, bishop of London, or dean of lh ca-
tlivdral.
The whole expense of building the cathe.
dral was about a million and a half pounds ster-
ling in the United Ststet currency about six
and two-thirds millions of dollars.
Animal Wrstthar Prophets.
. By carefully noting the changes in the con-
duct in certain animals, a person of ordinary
sagacity will be able to tonn a tolerable cor.
rect opinion in relation to the state ol the wea
ther. It will be seen by the following extract
from an English .Meteorological Journal, that
those interesting animals, the tpider and the
leech, possess in a remarkable degree the pro
perty of predicting changes in the weather :
Spiders generally alter their webs once in
twenty-four hours; and a rule has been dedu
ccd frorn tli8 by an allcnlive observer of these
natural prognostics, whereby to foretell the co
ming change. If they thus alter their web
between six and seven in the .evening, there
will be a fine night ; if t!ie morning, I fine
day ; if they work during rein expect fine wea
ther ; and the more active and busy the spider
is, the finer will be the weather. If spiders'
,vebs (gossamer) fly in the autumn with a south
wind. exrxct an east wind and fine weather.
If garden spiders break off and destroy their
webfl amj creep BWBV continued rain and
bowery weather.
The leech also possesses the peculiar proper-
ty of indicating approaching changes of ofthe
weather in a most eminent degree. In fair
and frosty weather it remains motionless and
rolled up in a spiral form at the bottom of the
vessel ; previous, however, to rain or snow, it
will creep to tho top, where should the rain be
of long cjntinuance, it will remain for a con
siderable time if trifling, it will descend
Should the rain er snow be accompanied with
wind, it will dart about with great velocity, and
seldom cease its evolutions until it blows hard.
If a storm of thunder or lightning lie approach
ing, it will be exceeding agitated, and express
its feelings in violent convulsive starts at the
top of the glass. It is remarkable that how
ever fine and serene the weather may be, and
to our sense no indication of a coming change
ejther from the sky, the barometer, . or any 0-
ther cause, yet, if the leech shifts its position,
0r moves about sluggishly, coincident result
wjll undoubtedly occur within twenty-four
hours."
1 -
Cure fr n Founder.
The following speedy cure for a foundered
horse, is from the Southern Farmer :
As soon as you find your horse is foundered,
bleed him in the neck in proportion to the
re,lneM of the founder. In extreme cases
vo( rai DleP(1 him M onsr M he can Btfln,i up.
Then draw his head up, as common in drench'
ing, and with a spoon put far back on his tongue
strong salt, until you get him to swallow one
pint. Be careful not to let him drink too much.
Then anoint around the exlges of his hoofs
with spirits of turpentine, and your horse will
be well in one hour.
A founder pervades every part of the system
of a ,,orgei The phlegms arrest it from the
b, . ... arr,8t9 from ,h. fe.. Bnd
limbs.
I once rode a hired horse 99 miles in two
days, returning him at night the second day
and his owner would not have known that he
had been foundered if I had not told him, and
his founder was one of the deepest kind
I once in a travel of 700 miles foundered my
hnrje three times, and I do not think that my
jurney was retarded more than one day, by
UC Iniatbrtune. havinff in all cases observed and
practiced the above prescription. I have known
a loundered horse turned in ai nigm on green
feed.
All founders must be attended to immediate
iy.
A Dr and DetiR F10 ht. The Illinois
Free Trader givea the following account of
battle on the prairies:
A large deer was discovered from the win
dnw of a neat little cottage on the prarie.
few days since, by two young ladies, ss it wss
passing from Bureau Timber to !vst Grove,
Tlny immediately pursued the noble anima
with two small divjs, and soon caught it Tl
Compassion ofthe Indies, however, wassornuc
awakened on seeing the bl-od trinckling dow
I from its ears, from wounds inll rted by the dogs,
that they drove ihem oft. But the animal be
ing crazed with pain and fear. vry nngallatit
y reciprocated this act of kiriln-s by pitching
j at the ladies with all the fury of a hunted
per. The crust ot the snow, however, being
atrong enough to bear the ladirs, but not strong
enough to hear the deer, thev succeeded i
fely reaching the fence, trom which the
threw a rope over his horns, snd, with not a lit
tie difficulty, tied it in the form in which la
diesusually tie their head bands. One of them
went ahead and lead the deer, while the other
followed, and whipped it along, until they got
to the house, where they fastened it to th
1 fence, and were in the act of "knocking it on
1 the head" with an axe, when their brolhercame
I to tkeir asatrtance.
the operation was over, the pieces were square
nd precisely ofthe magnitude of ordinary dice.
These were toasted slowly over the fire, as one
oes coffee. The moisture ofthe potatoe grad
ally evaporated, and in about the time that
coffee would be prepared for the milk, the pola
toe substitute waa ready for the same process.
The grinding was carried on easily and per
fectly, and the grains came out prettily from
the mill. The beverage was made yesterday
y tho French method of dripping, and we have .
seldom drank a cup with greater pleasure.
This potatoe coffee ia as strong and dark in
ppearance as any other, and only differs in
taste from "Havana'' by reason of a slight re
semblance to cocoa. It takes very little ktigar, '
nd is a substantial, cheap and, no doubt, heal
thy drink. What else tries it ! H. O. Crt$.
I this a Good Bank ! The Bank ofFrance
has in her vaults, eight hundred barrels of five
franc pieces, each barrel containing filly thou
sand dollars. The gold is packed away in lea
den cases, containing twenty thousand francs
each, in the neighborhood of four million, of
dollars in each case ; and it is represented that
an entire apartment in the vaulted department
is filled with the cases, some of which have not
been opened for forty year. H. O. Bulletin.
Uvion or thk Ocbans. The works prepara
tory to the commencement of cutting the ca
nal through the Isthmus of Panama, it is said,
are advancing rapidly. The entire length of
this canal will be 40 miles ; its breadth, at the
surface; 135 feet ; and its depth 20 feet M.
Morel, the engineer, estimates its cost at 560,
000 sterling.
BenoLD now obbat a Matte a mttlb .
Fire Kimdi.cth. -The following is from the .
Providence American, an Administration pa-
prr, of 1339, in which is proved that General
Jackson's election to the Presidency waa in
consequence of ahog'a breaking into mischief
in Cranston, Rhode Ialand, a number of years
ago. t he proof runs mus: uenerai Jackson
owes his election to the victory of New Or
leans ; that victory depended on the existence
ot the war; that war was declared in the Na
tional S-mate, by a majority of one. Jeremi- ;
ah B. Howell, a member from Rhode Island,
voted for the war. Had his competitor, James
Burril, occupied his seat, he would have voted
against the war. Mr. Howell was elected by
the easting vote of the preaiding officer of the
Rhode Island legislature. The tie was occa
sioned by the absence of a member belonging
to the political party of Burril. He was pre
vailed upon to absent himself through the in
fluence of an individual at variance with Bur
ril on account of a law suit respecting the
depredations of a hog, in which suit Mr. Bur
ril was the prosecuting attorney. Had it not
been for the hog there would have been no quar
rel. Had there been no quarrel, Mr. Burrill
would have been elected ; the war would not
have been declared, and the hero of New Or
leans would never have been known to one
quarter of the people over whom he was cho
en to preside.
Connubial Hooks and Eym. Amelia Sim
cox, in a letter to a Western editor, unbosom
her wrongs as follows :
"I married Simcox eight years ago, at which
time my gowns were fastened by eight kooke
and eyes. Now, sir, you will readily conceive
that no woman can completely hook-and-eye
herself. When she become a married wo
man, the hook-and-eye duty naturally devolves
upon the hutband. For the fin-tyearof mr
marriage, Simcox, like an affectionate husband,
hnoked-and-cyed the whole eight the second
year he somewhat peevishly restricted his at
tention to seven ; the third to six ; the fourth
to five t the fifth to four J and so on decreasing,
until this morning the anniversary of our
eighth wedding day when you would have
supposed him ptaessed by the fondest recol
lections, he dropped another hook-and-eye, in
timating to me that for the term of his natural
life he should restrict himself to one the hook-and-eye
at the top. As I know, Mr. editor,
you have a crowd of female readers, I thought
It a duty I owed to my sex to warn them,
through the medium of your columns, of ths
craftiness, and I must say it the selfiKhneesj
of Man. They will, I hope, take warning by
my condition, and ere they enter into matrimo
ny, alipulate for a due performance of toilet at
tention on the part of their husband. While)
in our pride, we women remember that mar
riage has its bonds, let not the men forget that
it his a!o it JJrfht ? ry." "
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