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Vol. (iXo. 25 Whole No, 233.
2.E3T FE1T1TEP. & CO.
Manufacturers of
I'MRELLAS, PARASOLS, and SIN SHADES,
No. 143 Market Street,
Philadelphia,
rNVITE the attention of MntchanlR, Manufac
turcrs, &c, &c., to their very eitensive, elc-
cant, new stock, prepared with area! core, and of
fered at the lowest possible prices for rash.
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ed, ia to consult the mutual interest of their custo
mer and themselves, by manufacturing; a good ur
tic e, solliriR it at the low-i st price for cusli, anil
realizing their own remuneration, in the amount of
sales and qu'ck returns.
Possessing inexhaustible facilities for manufac
ture, tbey are piepared to supply order to any ex
tent, arid nspic. fully solicit the patronage of Mer
chants, Manufacturers and Drillers.
OTj" A laiRe assortment of the New &tylu Cur
tain Parasols.
Philadelphia. June 1, 1844. ly
HERE'S HOTEL,
roioii:Kiw tremoxt norsn,
Ao. 11C Chestnut Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
THE sFHsCltlBBR, recently of
Readme, Pa., would inform the pub-
lie that he has fnted up the above cape
la&Jciais and convenient rstnblisliment, and
will ol ays be x ady to entert dn visitors. Ml' es
ta'hlishcd reputation i i the line, it is hoped, will
-afford full assurance, that his guests will be sup
plied wi'h every coinf rt and accommodation ;
whilst bis house will bo conduced under such ar
rangements aa will secme a chancier for the first
responsibility, and satislactory entettaininciit for in
lividu.il and families.
Charge for boarding $ I perdav.
DANIEL IIEKR.
rhiladelphia. May 25, 1844 1 v
To Country Merchants. '
Coots, Shoes, Bonnets, Leghorn and
1'alm Leaf Hats,
fi. V. & Ii. B. TAYLOll,
mt the S. E. corner nfMnrh t and fifth Sts.,
AJ3X X.PIII A,
OFFER fur tale an extensive im--oitinent of the
above articb a, all of which they hell at unusual
ly low piices, and pafticul.uly invite the attention
of buyers visiting the ritv, loan lamination ef
Iheir stock. G. W. & 1,. B. TAYLOR.
Philadelphia, May 25, 1844. ly
"Ryq.fK.ir I'Oit .?,:.-The small linn,
jjj containing about 100 acres, about 2 miles
a Ouve Northum erl.ind, hdjoining lands of Jesse C.
llorton, John Leghou and otheis, will be sold
cheap, if application is ruaile soon to the subscriber,
Nuiihury,' Aug 31. H. B. MSSEK.
F
L4 SI-i:i. The highest price will be
given for Flax s'eed, bv
Aug. 31. 1844. H.
B. MASSER.
pOTTAOR BIBLES. Five copies of H e Cot
tge Bible, ihe i henpt st book ever published,
fontaining the comrnentarv on the Old and New
Testament, jost received and for sure, fur six doll ira,
ly June 15. H. B. MASSER.
REMOVA1..
J) OCT Oil j7li. MASSKK,
KEsrEOTFFLLY informs the cit
izens ut Smnluirv anil Its vtcrtmy, that
he his removed bis office to the white
building in Msilict inuie, east of Ira
T. Mcmcnl's st.ne. and immediately opposite the
J'ost nllice, wbere he will lie happy to receive calls
iu the line of his profession.
Suribuiy, May 4ih. 1844.
iiXvl i iPe V A X s
Talent Fire and Thief Proof Iron
Chests, Slate lined Refrigerators,
with Filters attached when
lenuired.
ST.1TS t, WATSOIT,
Vo. 76 South third .9., opposite the Exchange,
PHILADELPHIA,
M ANl.FAUl Xlir: ami
preserving
'JZZZL Books, Paper. L). eds. Jew t ly,
-'Ulil, If'ilver, fee., &c, made
of Bod r Iron, (and not over Plank as iiiiety-five
out of every one hundred now in use and for ale
are made.) lih first rate Locks and DaviJ Evans4
Patent Keyhole Covers inular to the one exbil'it.
ed at the Phibidi lphia Exchange, for three month
in the summer of 1843, when all the Keys were at
liberty to lie used, and the Chest not oiened, al
though the experiment was tried ly at least 1500
persons. One of the same Locks was Hied by
itohl-r, at tbe Delaware Coal Olfice, in Walnut
street, above I'hud, but dij not succeed.
(Ej" IIoisiiiiK Mai bines, Iron Doors, superior
Lockv, and all kinds of Iron Kail. litis, Seal and Co.
pying Presses, and Smilhwnrk geni rally, On hand
or manufactured at the shortest notice
OCj CAUTION I do hereby caution all per.
sons ag iinst making, using, selling, or causing to
be sold, any Keyhole Coven for Fire Proof Chests,
or Doors, of any kind similar in principle to my
Patent, of 10th July, 1841, and also sgainsi Lining
Refrigerators Willi Slate, for which my Patent is
dated 21th March, 1844, as any infiingenient will
be ilealt with according to law.
DAVID EVANS.
PhiUdelphia, April 13, 1844. Iy
rORESTVILLB
mi ass uicirr day ciahks.
rHE subcriber has just received, for sale, a few
J. of the above celebrated Eight Day Clucks,
which will be sold st very reduced prices, for cash.
Also, superior 30 hour Clocks, of tbe best make
and quality, which will be aold for cash, at $i 60.
Also, superior Brass 30 hour Uorks, at f 8 00.
Dec. 3, 1843. H. U. MASSER.
"OTONE WAKE for sale.
O 320 Mtone Jugs, from I quart to 3 gallon,
60 Stone Jar, from 3 to gallon. For sale,
ehaap, by Oct. 14 H. B. MASTER.
1IN
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1tertl'-i-,n'iumFire Bnj rw,ef ,,,o"f
fellHWiklTtieroii Che-ts, for
WASIIIVOTOV
FAREWELL TO It I S ARMY,
Decemiier 4th, 178H.
Can tyrants hut by tyrants conqucr'd be,
And freedom find no champion and no child,
Such as Cnlumbia saw arise, when she
Sprang: forth a Pallas, arm'd and undefiled t
Or must such minds be nonrnish'd in the wild,
Deep in the unpruned forest 'midst the tonr
Of cataracts, where Nursing nature smiled
On infant Washineton ? Has Earth no more
Such seed w ithin her breast, or Europe no such
shore? Bvko.n.
The Revolution was over. The eight years'
conflict had ceseed, and the warriors were now
to separate forever, turning their weapons in
to ploughshares, and their camps into work
shops. The npectncle, though a sublime and
glorious one, was yet attended with sorrowful
feeling ! for, alas ! in the remains of that lit
tle pallant army of patriot soldiers, now about to
disband without pay without support, stalked
poverty, want and disease the country had not
the means to be grateful.
The details of the condition of many of the
officers and soldiers at that period, according to
history and oral tradition, were melancholy in
the extreme. Possessing no means of patri
monial inheritance to fall bark upon thrown
out of even the perilous support of the soldier
at the commencement of winter, and hardly fit
for any other duty than that of the caniji their
situation can be aa well imagined as described.
A single instance, as a sample of the situa
tion of many of the officers, as rebited of the
conduct of Buron Steuben, may not he ntni.-s.
When the main body of the army was disband
ed at Newbitrgh, and the veteran soldiers were
bidding a parting farewell to each other, Lieu
tenant Colonel Cochran, an ajed soldier of the
New Hampshire line, remarked, with tears in
his eyes, as lie shook h"n Is with the Iiiron :
For mys-clf, I could stand it ; but my wife
and daughters are in the garret of that wretch
id tavern, and I have no means of removing
them."
"Come, come,' said the Baron, don't give
way thus, I will pay my respects to Mia. Cicli
ran and her daughters."
When the good o'd soldier left thrm, their
countenances were warm with gratitude, for he
lett them all he hi.d.
In one of the Rhode Island regiments were
several companies of black troops, who had
served throughout the whole war, and their
bravery and discipline were unsurpasfed. The
Baron observed one of these poor wounded ne
groes on the wliarf, at Newburgh, apparently in
great distress.
"What's the matter, brother solc'icr !"
"Why, Master Biron, I want a dollar to get
home with, now the Congress lias no further u.-e
for me."
The Baron was absent for a few moments,
and returned with a silver dollar, which he had
borrowed
"There, it isall I could get take it."
The negro received it with joy , hailed a slnnp
which was passing down the river to New York
and, as he reached the deck, touk ofThis hat, and
said
"God bless Master Baron."
These are only single illustrations of Ihe con
dition of the army, at the close of tbe war. In
deed, Washinotun had this in view, attheelo-e
of his farewell address to his army at Rocky
Hill, in November, 17N1.
"And being now to conclude these, his la--t
public er 'ers.to lake his ultimate leave in a short
time of the military character, and to bid a final
adieu to the armies he has fi long had the ho.
nor to command, he enn only Bnin nfW, in
their behalf, his commendations to their coun
try, and his prayer to the (lod of armies.
"May ample justice bo done them here, and
mny the choicest of heaven's favors, both here
and hereafter, attend those who, under divine
auspices, luve secured innumerable blessings
for others.
With these wiahes, and this benediction, the
commander-in-cliK'f is about to retire from ser
vice. The curtain of separation will soon be
drawn, and the military tcene to him will he
doted forever."
The closing of this "military scene," I am
about to relate.
New York had been occupied by Washing
ton on the 25th of November. A lew days af
ter, he notified tho President of Congress,
which body was then in session, at Amnionl is,
in Matyland, that as the war waa now closed,
he should consider it his duly to proceed thence,
and surrender to that body the commission
which he had received from them mote than
seven year before.
The morning of the 4th of December, 1783,
waa a sad and heavy ono to the remnant of the
American army iu the city of New York. Tho
noon of that day was to witness the farewell of
Washington he waa to bid adieu to his milita
ry comrades for ever. The officers who had
been with hiin in the solemn council, the pri
vates who had fought and charged in the 'Lev
vy fight,' under hia orders were to hear hia com
mand no longer the manly form and dignified
countenance of the "great captain," was hence
forth to live only in their memories.
As the hour of noon approached, the whole
garrison, at the request of Washington himself,
was put in motion and inarched down Broad st.
to Francis' tavern, his head quarters. He wish
ed to take leave of private soldiers alike with
the officers, and bid them all adieu. His favor
ite light infantry were drawn up in line facing
inwards, through Pearl street, to tho foot of
White Hall, where a barge was in readiness to
convey him to Towels' Hook.
Within the dining room of the tavern were
asfemblcd the general and field officers to take
their farewell.
Assembled there were Knox, Greene, Steu
ben, Gates, Clinton and others, who had served
with him fiiithfully and truly in the "tented
field," but, alas ! where were others who hail
entered the war with him seven years before.
Their bones crumbled in the soil from Canada
to (Jeorgia. Montgomery had yielded up his
life at Quebec. Woosler at Danbury, Wood
hu'l was barbarously murdered whilst a prison
eralthe battle on Ling Islund, Mercer fell
mortally wounded at Princeton, the brave and
chivalric Iiurens, after displaying the most he
roic courage in the trenches ut Ynrktown, died
in a trifling skirmish in South Carolina, the
brave but eccentric Lee was no longer livinsr,
and Putnam, like a helpless child, was stretch
ed upon the bed of sickness. Indeed, the bat
tle field and time had thinned the ranks which
entered with him into the conflict.
Washington entered the room the hour of
separation had come. As he raised his eye, and
glanced on the faces of those assembled, a tear
coursed down his cheek, and his v rice was tre
mulous as he saluted them. Nor was he alone
men,
"Albeit unused to the melting mood."
stood around him, whose uplifted hands to co
ver their brows, told that the tear, which they
in vain attempted to conceal, bespoke the an
guish they cnu'd not hide.
After a moment's conversation, Washington
called for a glass of wine. It was brought him
turning to his officers he thus addressed them;
"With a heart full of love and gratitude, I
now take my final leave of yon, I most de
voutly wish your latter days nniy be as pros
perous and happy as your firmer ones have
been glorious and honorable." He then raised
the glass to his lips, drank, find added, ' I can
not coir.e to each of you to take my leave, but
shall be obliged to you, if each of you will take
me by the hand.
General Knox, w ho stood nearest, burst in
to tear, and advanced incapable of utterance
ashington grasped him by the hand, and
embraced him. The officers came up succes
sively and took an affectionate Ivave. No words
Were spoken, but all was the "silent eloquence
of tears." What were mere words at such a
scene! Nothing. It was the feeling of the
heart thrilling, though unspoken.
When the last of the officers had embraced
him, Washington left the room, follow ed by his
Comrades, and passed through the lines of light
infantry. 1 1 is step was slow and measured
his head uncovered, and the tears flowing thick
and fast, as he looked from side to side at the
veterans to whom he now b'ide adieu for ever.
Shorlly an event occurred "more touching than
all the rest. A gigantic soldier, who had stood
by his side at Trenton, stepped forth from the
ranks, and extended his hand.
"Farewell, my beloved general, farewell. ''
Washington grasped his hand in convulsive
emc t on. in bulb of his. All discipline was now
at en end, the officers could not restiain the
men, as they rushed forward to take Wa.-hing-ton
by the hand, and the sobs and tears of the
soldiers told how deeply engraven upon their
a flections w as the love of their commander.
At length Washington reached the barge at
White Hall, and entered it. At the firBt stroke
of the oar, he rose, and turning to the compan
ions of his glory, by waving his hut, bade them
a silent adieu their answer was only '"n tesrs
officers and men, with glistening eyes watch
ed the receding boat, till tho form of their no
ble commander was lost in the distance.
Contrast the farewell of Washington to hi
army at White Hall, in 17?3, and the adieu of
Napoleon to his army at Fotilainhleu, in 1S11 !
The one had accomplished every wish of his
heart. His noble exertions had achieved the
independence of his country, and he longed to
retire to the bosom ol'his home his ambi'iou
was satisfied. He fought for no crown or scep
tre, but for equality and the mutual happinena
of his fellow being. No taint of tyranny, no
breath of slander, no whisper of duplicity, mar
red the fair proportions of hii public or private
life but
"He was a man, take him for all in all,
We ne'er shall look upon his like again."
The other great soldier was the disciple of
selfish ambition. He raicsd the iron weapon ol
war, to crush only that he might rule. What
to him were the cries of tho widows and or
phans! He pussed to a throne by making the
dead bodies of their protectors his s'epping
stones. Ambition aelf, wero the gods ef his
idohtary, and to them he sacrificed hecatombs
of his fellow men for tho aggrandizement of
personal glory. Enthusiasm points with fear
ful wonder to the name of Napoleon, whilst
justice, benevolence, freedom, and all the con
eommitants which constitute the true happineoa
of man, shed almost a divine halo round tho
name and character of Washington.
Health nl Cleanliness.
A newspaper can not do better service to hu
manity in general, and its readers in particular,
than recommending personal cleanliness. We
aro very much afraid that we are not as clean a
people as we might be. True, we are in ad
vance of the Chinese, with w hom soiled linen is
no crime, or the Poles, (i-iVe some or" the speci
mens of the poorer orJt r,) or sundry European
people but nevertheless there is great rum
for improvement. A class of petsons who have
leisure, as it is called, to bestow upon their dress,
certainly do wash themselves daily; but we
have a shrewd suspicion that the groat mass of
the community do not. Now one of Franklin's
mixims was, "strict attention to habits of perso
nal cleanliness,,' and this when he was a very
busy working man. What he did ns a work ins
man, in this regard, all others can do. With a
clean skin comes improved health, temper and
morals. Tho thief is invariably dirty in his
person, even though he may sport a clean shirt
by way of demonstration.
In Boston there is much written about all
matters of mental and physical improvement.
Reform are the reignino idea there. The vir
tues of culd water is particularly insisted upon
in that quarter. From our authority, tbe Bos
ton Social Reformer, we extract the following
paragraph on this subject :
'From one to five pounds of decayed animal
matter piss olT daily, by insensible perspiration
from a human body. The white dust which collect-!
on the skin, sometimes calleifgoose flesh,
is) refused tna'tcr of the system. Viewed with
a solar micro-eope, it looks like a butcher's curt
of putrid tin at. If the ports of the skin arc clo
sed and iinpi tccplible perspiration is stopped,
this corrupt matter is thrown upon tbe lunoa(
liver, or intestines, cau-iug colds, consumption,
fevers, &c, &c.
The remedy is to be found in the specific
that will restore the system to its proper bal
ance, upon the natural avenues, for the discharge
of poisonous accresMons, and relieve the inter
nal organs from burdensome clos that are
thrown upon then).
('old water has been proved to be this reme
dy in a pre-eminent decree. It is nature's ow n
I remedy. And nothing but its simplicity, its
j commonness, and the almost universal hydro
phobia which prevails, eonM have kept its vir
tues so Ion;; concealed."
These are as important considerations to in-
i divuluals, indeed more so, than any of the poli
tical questions of the day. Without health, life
is not worth having, and health is dependent on
i leanliness. It is very common to observe small
pot-house politicians taking the deepest interest
in the a flairs of the nation, and neglecting their
dearest personal interests by their filty and in
temperate habits. A man will think more of
Texas and Oregon tlmri he will of his teeth,
skin and stomach ; but what is either compara
ble to health, to the wondrous joy, and exulta
tions ef spirit which that alone confers ! The
same observation applies to the pursuits nf trade
and all occupations. Men are keen in getting
a living as it is called, when they lire diguing
their graves by neglecting the rules f..r life.
rir.l.i. Ltdgtr.
The Uir.LK. A French officer, who was a
prisoner on his p.irolu at Raiding, met with u
liible. He read it, and was so struck with its
contents, that he was convinced as to the truth
ol Christianity, and resu'ved to become a Pro
tertant. When his gay associates rallied him
lor taking so serious a turn, he said in his v. lull
calioii ' I have done nu mere than iny school
fellow, Beruadotte, who is become a Lutheran."
'Yes ; bin he become s.i," saiJ his associates,
"to obtain a crown."
"My object," said tho Christian i.tTioer, "is
ti e same. We only dillVr as to the place. Tlie
object of RcriHidotle is to obtain a frown in
Sweden ; mine, to cUaiu one in h.-aven. ?"!,'
lish I'uptr,
Carriers' Addresses ure generally magnificent
elusions ; but that which the HartforJ Cmrant
presented tu its readers this season, is the rarest
specimen of the sublime. We give an extract:
"But lo ! Piilmeto'i chivalrous Boal !
Her bottled ire burtt cork and seul !
She foams and rave, in rampant spunk,
Like dog distraught or monkey drunk !
Swears she'll hitch on a red-eyed Dragon,
To dire liellontt's carnarie wagon :
And pull, slam bauz, war' dreadful trigger,
F.re she'll give up one single nigger."
Thetxtnict can only bo exceeded by the
following, wiittrn n ( delisted uuthor:
"Oh, Hurr ! oh, Turr ! what have yeu done !
You shooted dead Oieat Hamilton!
You sneaked behind a bunch of thistles,
And thooted him dead with a pair of hos pis
tol "
I'ps and Downs of Life.
It is useful as well ns interesting to notice
the changes, for the better or worse, which ten
or filteen years serve to operate in a communi- i
ty. Mr. Cist, of the Cincinnati Advertiser fur
nishes the following instances in that city :
I know a business man on Main street, who
was refused credit, in 1H0, for a stove worth
twelve dollars. He is now director in one of
the banks, and is worth $l.rn,rXK) at leaBt. E
vcry cent ol this has been mado in Cincinnati
during that period.
i know another business man, also on Main
street, and was refused credit, in 132.), by a
firm in the drug line, for the amount of five
dollars. In 1830, that very firm lent that very
man $5,000 upon his endorsed note.
I know an extensive dealer in the city, now
worth $100,000, and who can command more
money, on a short notice, for sixty, ninety, or
one hundred and twenty days, than almost any
man in Cincinnati, to whin I, as clerk for a
grocery house, here, in lSlil, sold a hogshead of
suyar, with great misgiving and reluctance, un
der some apprehension of not getting the mo
ney when it became due.
I know n man whose credit, in 1S30, was
such, that when I trusted him for a keg of salt
petre, my employer told mc I might as well have
rolled it into the Ohio. Since that period he
was worth, in 1,)7, $100,000. Again a bank
rupt in 1511, and now worth $20,000.
I know a man. good for $:H),000, who, ten
years auo, exhibited a monkey thrcugh the
streets of Cincinnati for a living.
i know a heavy business rnnn a bank direc
tor, w ho sold apples, when a boy, through the
streets.
I knew one of the first merchants in our ci
ty in 1W'J."), who could at that period have bought
entire blocks id' the city on credit, a director in
one of the bunks, w ho, w ithin ten years of that
period, died insolvent and intemperate.
Another influential man of that day, whose
credit was unlimited, beinir president of one of
our insurance companies, and also a banktlirec
tor, died within five years, insolvent and intern
perate.
Am tber individual, who was considered is
l'-H?, worth half a million of dollars, has died
since, leaving the estate insolvent.
Another individual, nf credit equal to all his
wants, and worth, at one tune, twelve thousand
dollars, and a Judge of the Court, died in our
city hospital, and was buried at the public ex
pense, I have seen him once and again presi
ding at public meetings.
The founder ol the Penitentiary system in
Pennsylvania, and well known in that State
and elsewhere as a public man, died a pauper
in the Commercial Hospital in that city. I have
seen him tiddiessing the Legislature of that
Suite, at I larrisbiirg, uml listened to with the
Httctili'iti and deference that would have been
paid to John Quiiicy Adams, or any other pub
lic man of his age.
I knw a lady, the descendant of a distin
guished governor of Massachusetts, who sup
ports herself by her needle, and tho niece of a
governor of New Jersey, still living, who wash
es for subsistence.
I kno'.v a lady, who thirty years ago, in the
city in which I then lived, was the cynosure of
all eyes, one of the most graceful and beaut ilul
of the sex, and moving iu tlie first circles of
wealth and fashion, now engaged in drudgery
and dependence, at one dollar and fifty cents
p-r week. All these reside iu this city.
What are the fluctuations of romance wri
ters compared to some of the realities of human
hie !
Fiiom Or. Fii.l.rti's Cotsari." and Cap
tions. Let no service done thee pass unre
warded, at least by good looks and words;
which mny bpiret an expectation of real benefits,
wheti time shall serve.
When thou art w it h superiors, or with proud
conceited persons that won'd fain be thought
so, endeavor not to show thou hast more under
standing and abilities than they.
At all houses wherever thou goest, take caie
to leave the servants pleased J especially if
thou meanest ever lo come there again. For
their tongues are genera'ly Uhisc hung.
Lnt thy carriage be friendly, but not foolishly
free : An unwary openness causes contempt,
hut a little resei vedness, respect t and hand
some courtesy, kindness.
Make thy chief design, and thy great busi
ness, not to be rich and crcat ! out to live in
this wot Id, as thou may'st reasonably believe
thou hast God for thy friend.
A candidate for medical honors, having
throjvn himself almost into a fever, from his in
capacity for answering questions, was asked by
one of the professors, 'how would you sweat s
person for the rheumatism !' He replied, '1
would send him hete to be examined.'
Character ia a plurnix which ran expire
but oi.ee Irom t' ashs there is no rciutnc-fion.
Mahometan views op A nunc an Poi.iTttjs),
A learned friend, says the Picayune, who
speaks of getting up a polyglot upon tbe prin
ciple of Ericsson's propeller, has furnished ui
with a free translation, from our Constantinoplo
files, of an article upon the subject of the lato
Presidential election. The followers of Allah
and the Prophet have taken some interest in A-
merican affiir since Ecktord, the ship Con
structor, visited their country and built ships for
the Sultan. The progress made in the know
ledge of our concerns may be gathered from lh
following extract. Tho barbarians have not
quite got the hang of things yet; but all due
allowances considered, they are as well in
formed as some Christian folk who descant upon
Uncle Sam's business with great freedum and
self-satisfaction.
"Of the three candidates," siys the Constan
tinople editor, "now seeking to be Caliph of
America, two are men of remarkable endow
ments and the other is naturally popular in the
Southern States. In tho North, where there
are fewer penplo of color, the struggle will ba a
close one between Mr. Klai and Mr. Pulk ; but
in the South, Mr. Birnee, ho being a black man,
will of course carry every thing before him.
Should either of the former bo chosen, it is un
derstood that the friends of the other will hang
themselves in order to escapo proscription a
species of guillotine very much dreaded by poli
ticians, and said to be an improvement upon the
bowstring. In case Mr. B. should triumph,
there appears to be no doubt that the wholfj
white population will be put to the sword. Of
course the success of either of the first nanmd
gentlemen will insure the deenpitntion of the
negroes, and produce a foreign war, aa Great
Rritain hns sworn to protect a racrt of penplo
from which she outliers ro much wool to pull
over other people's eyes."
Lirnio whfn a Boy Liebig w-1;f-
(ruifched at school as 'booby,' the only talent
then cultivated in German schools being verba!
memory. On one occasion, being sneeringly
asked by the master what ho proposed to be
come, since he was so bad a scholar, and an
swerinrj that he would be a chemist, the whole
school burst into a laugh of derision. Not long
ago Liehig saw his old Schoolmnstar, who feel
inr'v lamented his own former blindness. The
only boy in the same school who ever disputed
with Liebij t hr station of 'booby,' was one whfl
never could learn his lesson by hoart, but was)
continually composing music, and writing1 it
down by stealth, in school. The sain" in t-vid-ual
Liehig lately found at Vienri, distinguished
as a composer and cunducter of the Imperial
Opera-house. I think his tiauie is Reulme. It
is to be hoped that a more rational system of
school instruction is gaining ground. Can any
thing be more absurd or tletesiublf than a sys
tem which made Walter S.'ott and Justice Lic
big 'boobies' at school, and st effectually coo
cealed their natural ta'ents tiiat, for example,
Liehig was often lectured before the whole
school on his being sure to cause misery ami
broken hearts to hia parents, while he waa all
the time conscious, as the above anecdote
proves, ot tho possession of talents similar in
kind to those he has since displayed. I'l.reno
loti ical Journal.
Thk Bi.ioi Fish. Our Indians caught with
a lunik the fish known in the coutitry by ttiti
name of canoe or canMln, because nu other
fish has such a thirst for blood. It attacks la
thers and swimmers, from whom it often carries
awny considerable pieces ot flesh. The Indi
ans ilreid extremely these caribfs, and several
nf them showed us the scars of deep wounds in
the calf of the leg and in the thigh nnde by theso
little animals. When a person isonly slitlit
ly wounded, it is difficult for him to get out of
the water without receiving severe wound-.
The blood-fish lives at the bottom of the river- ;
but if once a few drops o blood be shed upon thn
water, they arrive by thousands on the siirfac".
When we reflect on tho number of titer t
fish, the most voracious and crul of which arf
on'y four or f.ve inches lnnr ; O't the triangu
lar form of their sharp cutting teeth, and on t !.e
aptitude oftlteir retract le mouth, we reed r.t
be surprised nt th." fnr ivVt'i they exalte in
the inlv bilants of th b inks of the Apurr an. I
O-onoc i. In places wl or - the river was very
limpid, nr, 1 w lo re not a fis'- app-si ''d. we tl r-W
into the water litt'e morsels of flelj cover if
with blond, and in a few mininesa child ofcar
ibes came lo dispute the prey. Tlie belly ot
this fish has a euUine eib indented lik raw;
its body, towards the i-ck. is ash Colored, witl
a tint of green; but the under part, the gill co
vers and the pactoral (ins are of a fine orange
The carhilo has a very agreeable taste. As nr
one dares to bathe where it is found it may her
considered as one of the greatest scourges of
thn-e ( linive. in w h'ch the stin of the mos
quitoes and the c.-viequent ir-itation ofthe skit-,
render the use of biths so necessary,- ;;;
bidJt. To be great i not in every rWd power, bul
to be goes', in the power ot ill.