Indiana Palladium, Volume 9, Number 47, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 7 December 1833 — Page 1

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4& By David V. Callcy. Terms $3 PER YEAR 33 PER CEXT. VISCOUXT SSI AVE OX ADVAXCE, OR ICi OX JIALF YEARLY PAYMENTS. WIL. IX. ILAWMECEBUMCIM, (SA.) SATURDAY, BECEMBEJR 7. 138. ftT. 47.

IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. The high and logically invincible stand which has been just taken in New York, against the re-estab-lishment of the law which drags the unfortunate debtor into imprisonment, is alike worthy of the heads and hearts of those opposed to it. The cooperation of men whose wealth, judgment, and exalted talents have long since given them an enviable station among the leaders and the ornaments of aociety, cannot fail to accomplish the philanthropic aim. They have not they cannot have any individual interest in view; indeed, it is more reasonable to suppose, that they must rather suffer than gain, by a continuation of the present salutary law. Their aim in the removal from the statute book, of laws more fitted to gratify the life-seeking vengeance of a Nero, than to promote the commercial security or happiness of a civilized community. What possible good can imprisonment for debt effect? Does it render the creditor more secure, or the debtor more honest! False, indeed, must be the reasoning of the one and the intention of the other. The creditor's safety dwells not in the law, but in his own prudence; if he credit a man who exhibits in his industry, his frugality, his temperate and decorous system of life, a disposition to deal honestly with his fellow man, it must certainly be at his own risk; but it seldom happens that in such a person he finds a swindler:if, on the contrary, he favor a man of dissimilar habits, he not only encourages those habits, but he will rarely find such a man trustworthy. It sel

dom occurs that the former will not be able to meet i his engagements; but how much more seldom is the latter so. In case the former be for a while exposed to the incidental misfortunes of life, will imprisonment for debt repay the creditor! will it not rather deprive the poor insolvent of availing himself of the chances which are offering themselves for the industrious, and lead him from involuntary idleness to despair! What, again, would the moral effect of imprisonment in such case be! He meets in his confinement the reckless ruffian of a thousand spoliations; he triumphs in his various successful applications for release, and boasts that the man who discharges his debts in this manner, can mingle, aided by his ill-gotten gains, in society, with as much gaiety, and, at least, outward respect as ever. Or, suppose he meet with only some unfortunate like himself: they immediately sympathize with each other, and. invariably conclude that honesty is not the best policy that their integrity has left a virtuous wife, an affectionate mother, and probably a large family, dependent upon some public charity, forthev were always too honest and undistinguished to have had private friends. In either case this will be the line of reasoning: one, which no doubt is false, but one which suffering nature is most ready to adopt: and what must be the result? Let us, for a moment, place ourselves in such a situation let us look on those whom we must love and respect by nature and duty in the world beings who have been . taught in nature's own irrefutable lessons, to cling to us in hope or in despair, in affluence or in poverty, in gladness or in grief let us look on them, grouped over the scanty meal given them by the hand of charity, which, while it relieves their wants, offends their decent pride, and embitters the food with tears, in memory of their imprisoned parent. Let any man of feeling and humanity extend (we will not cannot bear to do it) this picture, and will not those feelings instantly anticipate what will be the results of the honest prisoner's reasoning! incarceration leaves the poor man no interest in his honesty it hardens his heart and vitiates its every pulsation it deprives industry of its ambition manhood of its ' strength the family of its protection, and trade of its security. . Of the effect of imprisonment upon the unprincipled debtor, it would be absurd to speak: it is sufficient to know that no remuneration is to be obtained by it, and it is inhuman, and indeed unjust, to continue an imprisonment law, by which, in the great majority of cases, the poor insolvents are the greatest sufferers. Braddock's Defeat. A writer under the signature of Ohio, in the Pittsburg Mercury, gives the folio wiug descriptiou of the grouud on which Gen eral Braddock was defeated. Nine miles above Pittsburg, and immediately .Upon the north bend of the Monongahela river, is the celebrated battle ground called 'Braddock's Field.' It is famous for the destruction of an army intended to capture Fort Du Quesne, crushing the extending power of France and control the Indians on our western border. Here Washington fought and Braddock fell. On this spot 50 Frenchmen and 250 Indians nearly destroyed the fortyninth and fifty-first regiments of the British Regulars, though aided by a number of Provincial troops. The Battle was fought on the afternoon of the 9th July, 1755. Seventy years have passed away, and yet the crumbling bones of men are seen in every field for a mile in circuit. For many years they were throuded by a mourning wilderness of shadowy trees, but this has yielded to the busy axe, and j the plough is annually driven among the skulls of the slain and the bones of the brave. Rich harvests wave over fields fertilized by the blood and bodies of a'thousand unburied men. The partridge thistles and the reaper sings on the spot where the cries of mortal anguish told the dread revelry of battle. 'Twas here the wild whoop of the fierce savage quelled the rallying cry of Europe's warriors. ?Twas here they drove the ruthless tomahawk deep into the crushed skull of the vanquished, and with yelling joy, tore the scalp from the head of the ftble and wounded, the dead and the dying. . The retreating survivors carried their wounded general with them until he died. He was buried about 40 miles from the battle ground, in the centre of the road his advanced army had cut. To prevent the discovery of this, soldiers, horses, and wagons were passed over it, to save the body from savage dishonor, by thus concealing the trace of interment. Some of Braddock's affectionate soldiers marked tho trees near where he was laid, that the recollections of those who visited the west many years after, could point to the exact place of his interment, now emphatically termed Braddock's grave. It is closo to the nothern side of the national road, seven miles east of Union town. It has been rumored from an early period, that "Braddock had been shot by his men. More recently it has been stated, by one who could not be mistaken, that in the battle, Braddock ordered the provincial troops to from a column. They, however adhered to the Indian mode of firing severally

from the shelter of a tree. Braddock, in his vexation, rode up to a j'oung mm by the name of Fawcett, and with his sword rashly cut him down. Thomas Fawcett,a brother of the killed soon learned his fate, and watched his opportunity, revenged his brother's blood by shooting Braddock through the body, of which wound he died. Thouns Fawcelt is now, or was lately living near Laurel Hill. He is now 97 years of age.

The following extract from the "African Repository," published by the Colonization Society, shows conclusively that the cause of 'morality is not subserved to any material extent by the efforts of that Society: Morals of the Place. The morals of Free Town are kzxhyi fearfully bad. As, in colonies too generally, where the restraints of home, of friends, of those we love and those we fear, are broken off, licentiousness prevails to a most lamentable degree. Judging from much that occurs here, one might suppose the seventh commandment had neverbeen heard of, or if heard of, that the eternity and weight of wrath connected with its disobedience had been entirely forgotten. The marriage tie is not unfrequently disregarded; and when this solemn obligation has never been entered into, there appears to be neither shame nor restraint. The abomination is not committed under the cover of midnight; nor am I speaking of the natives, whose early habits might plead some apology for them it is done at noon day, and, to use a figure, the throne as well as the footstool has participated in the evil. And the evil, I am told, is increasing. Sanctioned, as it is, by those who take the lead in ssciety, and who ought to form the morals of the Colony, avarice has been added to lust, and those who otherwise might have been virtuous, have "sold themselves" to work wickedness. Already mothers begin to barter their daughters as soon as they are fourteen or fifteen to the white man for this horrid purpose, and strange to tell both the mother and the daughter seem proud of the infamous distinction. Christianity weeps at facts like these humanity and philanthropy, which have struggled so hard and so long to help this degraded country, must weep and cover itself with sackcloth, to see its best interests so wickedly perverted. Time only can tell the destructive influence of such excesses on the interests of the Colony; but, if no standard be lifted up to check the tide that is now setting in like a flood, half a century hence we need not be surprised if female virtue is unknown at Sierra Leone. Condition of the Free blacks. It is stated, in a pamphlet, recently published, that of40,000 blacks, in New York State, in 1S25, but 931 were taxed, and but 298 qualified to vote. It is also calculated that the colored population of the North furnishes ten fold more of both the criminals and paupers than our white population. I he report of the prison discipline Society, for 1827, sets the result thus: Prop, of the Pop. sent to prison. In Massachusetts 1 out of 1,6G5 Connecticut, I out of 2,350 New York, 1 out of 2,151 New Jersey, 1 out of 3,173 Pennsylvania, 1 out of 2,191 Prop. ofCoVd Pop. sent to Pr. 1 out of 140 1 out of 205 1 out of253 1 out of S33 1 out of 181 The report further states, that "the returns from several prisons show that the white convicts are remaining nearly the same, or arc diminishing, while tho colored convicts are increasing; at the same time the white population is increasing in the northern States much faster than the colored population." Bost. Mer. Jour. A Watch found in a Shark. Some fishermen fishing in the river Thames, near Poplar, Dec. 1st, 1787, with much difficulty drew into their boat a shark, yet alive, but apparently very sickly. It was taken on shore, and being opened, in its belly were found a silver watch, a metal chain, and a cornelian seal, together with several pieces of gold lace, supposed to have belonged to some young gentleman, who was so unfortunate as to have fallen overboard. The body and other parts had been digested: but the watch and gold lace, not being able to pass through, the fish had thereby become sickly, and would in all probability have very soon died. The watch had the name of "Henry Watson, London, No. 1369," and the works were very much impaired. On these circumstances being made public, Mr. Henry Watson, watchmaker in Shoreditch, recollected that about two years ago, he sold the watch to Mr. Ephraim Thompson, of Whitechapel, as a present to his son, on going out on his first voyage, on board the ship Polly, Captain" Vane, bound to Coast and Bay; about three leagues off Falmouth, by a sudden heel of the vessel, during a squall, Master T. fell overboard, and was no more seen. The news of his having been drowned soon after came to the knowledge of his friends, who little thought of hearing any thing more concerning him. Mr. T. is said to have purchased the shark, to preserve it as a memorial of so singular an event. It is the largest ever remembered to have been taken up in the Thames; being, from the tip of the snout to the extremity of the tail, 9 feet 3 inches; from the shoulder to the extremity of the body, G feet 1 inch; round the body, in the thickest part, 6 feet 9 inches; width of the jaw, when extended, 17 inches. Annual Register. Internal Improvements in the South. Our fellow citizens of the Southern States, appear at last to be awakening to a sense of their true interests, and are begining to seek in the right quarter, for a removal of the causes which have hitherto kept them a little behind the nothern states in the career of prosperity. A liberal spirit which has for its object the internal improvement of their section of the union, is spreading rapidly and widely among them. Some useful works of this kind have already been completed others aro in a prosperous state of progression, and many new designs will be shortly entered upon, that do credit to southern enerprize. The necessity of commercial facilties, is generally appreciated and acknowledged, and the day is not remote when numerous rail roads and

canals will course along the surface of the southern states, opening to market their immense mineral and agricultural wealth, exciting a salutary competition in all the various branches of industrious enterprize, and affording consequent means for the support of a dense, contended and thriving population. The disposition in our neighbors to avail themselves of their local advantages; to devleope their own resources, and to improve upon those gifts which nature has bestowed upon them in a superior degree, we have observed from the begining with increasing satisfaction. Indeed, it affords an occasion of general congratulation throughout the north, for we rejoice in the prosperity of our brethren, and our national pride is gratified by their multiplying wealth and numbers. We furthermore add, that a preservance in this liberal system of improvement will remove all causes of

jealousy and discontent from the south, quiet 11 disturbances engender an universal love of the union; and lastly, it wdl annihilate certain choice themes of declaration without which the rhetoric of the lion-longued agitators would fall upon the ear as softly "as twere any nightingale:" such for example, as harbours destitute of shipping; traders without customers; cities and towns with grass grown streets; ruined disheartened planters ;"Sveet Auburns" deserted; plodJing,unicenuy,cunning Yankees, runing away with Southern wealth, &c. &-c. &c. liar. Reporter. Industry. Nature instructs you to bo active. ! The brook runs busily over the pebbles, and never stays. The streams hasten to join the large river, and the river to meet the sea. There is work going on too in Nature's secret cells, which you do not see. Countless seeds are quickening into life, and striding their roots downward. Presently the plant bursts from the earth it puts forth its young blossoms the flowers in every variety of color and fragrance are spread around, drinking the dew and rejoicing in tho sunbeam. The grain appears like a soft green mantle, over the field of the laborer, it puts forth "first the blade then the ear then the ripe corn in the ear." The vine reaches out his tendrils like hands and takes hold of some prop whereon to hang his clusters. The trees are busy in perfecting their fruit for man. the spider throws his glittering thread from shrub to shrub, and runs to and fro on the bridge of her own building. The silk worm spins, that we may be covered delicately, and folds itself up in its conelike chamber, awhile to slumber and come forth with wings. The bee labors to prepare food for herself, and a banquet for us. The ant, provident for winter, lavs up its store. The birds sinu among the branches, as if their tuneful hearts were full of praise. The young lamb gambols by tho side of its mother. The duck leads her brood to the water, and the shining fish glides along its depths. The ben provides for her chickens and gathers them under her wings. The kittens frisk about in their graceful gladness, and the house-dog does the bidding of his master. We may gather a lesson of industry from these inferior creatures. All with different voices, seem to call on us to be active, they seem to tell us that it is good to obey tho commands of the Creator. The Slavery Question. In tho opinion of every attentive observer, no subject is protentive of more important consequences in its discussion than the one which stands at tho head of this article. It is a subject in the consideration of which cool heads and mature judgments should' be elicited, if it must be discussed. We have hitherto forborne allusion to it, from a conciousness of inexperience, and incapability to treat upon so momentous a question as this evidently is but when wo see those who, if they are older, are certainly more imprudent and hairbrained than ourselves, entering info it with all the heart of zealots and imprudence of fanatics, we are constrained to speak, lest our silenco be misinterpreted or attributed to indifference. That the svst cm which holds in bondage a portion of the human race, who are unquestionably included in the phrase "All men? and whoso right to liberty we acknowledge whenever we assent to the declaration that "all men, are created free and equal;" is morally and totally wrong, we admit. How are we to reform this abuse? "How? There's tho rub I" The New York Courier and Enquirer suggests as the only just way, the immediate manumission of tho slaves and remuneration of their masters. This would only require the trifling sum of ten hundred ?nillions of dollars. Abolitionists, are you ready? Let us see any one of the clamorers for manumitting the African. The call made upon Slave-holders, is no less than this. Slaves are property, hereditary property, the bequest of the fathers of Southrons to their sons and more the most valuable property which they possess. Are they to be expected to forfeit their possessions and by immediate liberation of their slaves to reduce themselves to poverty? The demand is preposterous. This unconditional surrender on their part, or the remuneration on ours, are the only two alternatives, for the immediate abolitionists. This state of bondage cannot last forever. The attention of enlightened men among the slave-holders is already drawn down to it. They are the only persons who have the right to interfere with the subject and they are not wanting amoncr them men ot sound heads, and generous hearts men who are well acquainted with the subject in all its bearings and relations: Philanthropists who are ready to embrace the first opening for commencing a gradual method of abrogating this system. Let them look to it and let us rather commiserate with them in their unfortunate position, than be instrumental in hurling fire brands arrows and death among the brethren of the confederacy. Low. Tun's. Abram Brogard died in New Orleans, on the 14th July last, aged one hundred and eighty four years! He never drank a drop of spirits and was never sick.

The drop of water, the Brook, the Rircr and the Ocean. A drop of water, that sparkled like a jewel in the sun, once fell from the clouds, into a mountain stream and ere it lost its identity, exclaimed

'Alas! wl;at a catastrophe; I am swallowed up in immensity.' The little stream laughed, as it leaped down the mountain side, at tho lamentation of such an insignificent thing as a drop of water, and, vain of its consequence, continued brawling its crystal way in the pride of superiority, until it at length, with a sudden plunge, fell headlong into a mighty river, and, like a drop of water was lost in a moment crying out, in its last agonies, 'O' Fate ! who would have thought such a brook of my size could be swallowed soeasMy?' The river murmured its contempt for the little stream and continued its course, gathering strength and pride, breaking through mountains, tearing the rocks from their beds as it meanders through flowery meadows, until it found its way to tho vast and melancholy ocean, in whoso boundless waste it lost its being like te dorp of water and the little mountain stream. 'Is it possible," exclaimed tho mighty river, 'that I had been collecting tribute from half tho world, only to become nothing at last?" "Tis thus with thee, oh man'.1 Thou beginncst in insignificance, like the drop of water: thou bccomest a laughing, leaping brawling thing like the brook: thou waxest proud anil great liko the mighty river ero thou canst say in tho vanity of thy heart 'What an illustrious mortal am 1, thou art lost in eternity. Splitting rocks by lightning. The first experiment of splitting rooks ly electric fluid, was made in Prussia, in 1811. The process was very simple intoaholein the centre of the rock is placed a long rod of iron as a conductor terminating in a point. When a thunder cloud passes over tho stone within its striking distauce of the earth, the lightning from the cloud strikes the upper part of the conductor downwards to tho heart of the stone, which cither rends it in dilferent places or splits it at once into a multitude of fragments. Tho experiment in Prussia was attended with complete success during the first storm that pissed over after the conductor was inserted in the stone. Buidc. Hill Aurora. How to astonish the Xaticcs. The first steam boat that ascended Red River, was called tho Westen Engineer, a small low vessel with a powerful engine. This vessel belonged to tho Government and the Red River about 2S05, or 10, on a voyage of exploration. The funnel intended to carry ofif the smoke, and which ordinarily upright liko a large pillar, in the centre of the boat, was so constructed as to lead the smoke to the bow of the vessel, which was fashioned as to resemble the head of an enormous serpent. When the red sons of tho forest beheld this singular looking object rapidly advancing against a powerful current without the assistance of sails or oars, bearing tho white men in its bosom, and vomiting from its mouth fire and smoke, tho simplo but awe struck savages lined tho banks of tho river and declared they would never again take up tho hatchet against tho white man, who could construct and control such a l argo monster, evidently more powerful than all the Indians in creation. Wonders of Philosophy. The polypus receives now life from the knife which is lifted to destroy it. The fly-spider lays an egg as largo as itself. There aro 1011 muscles in a caterpillar. Hook discovered 11,000 mirrors in tiio eyes of a drone: and to affect the respiration of a carp, 13,300 arteries, vessels veins and bones, tV:c. arc necessary. The body of every spider contains four little masses pierced with a multitude of imperceptible holes, each hole permitting the passage of a single thread; all the threads, to the amount of 1000 to each mass, join together when they come out, and make the single thread with which the spider spiii3 its web, so that what we call a spider's thread consists of more than 1000 united. Lewcnhock, by means of nuscioscopcs, no bigger than a grain ol sand, who spun threads so fine that it took 1000 of them to equal in magnitude a single hair. Produce of Louisiana. The New Orleans Bulletin gives the following estimate of the probable amount of this year's produce in Louisiana: "We may expect 05,000 hogsheads of sugar, 1,100 pounds each, which at $7 per cwt. is equal to 7,315,000; as many barrels of molasses, of 10 gallons at 22 cents, equal to $839,000; total $7,151,000. Now, we venture to estimate all branches, cattle, horses, lumber lime and tar, brick &c. at nine millions, which would give an aggregate of $17,151,000, as our total produce for the present year. The Newport Spectator ascribes Zerah Colburn's wonderful mathematical powers, to the fact, when his mother was encicntc with him, she met with much difficulty in preparing a net for the loom, and was obliged to desist, lato at night, and retiro to bed. She fell into a disturbed slumber in which a vision of the web and loom were pictured in her imagination in her sleep she untangled tho yarn woof and warp, and every end to its proper place; and in tho mean time imparted to her son his wonderful powers of calculation. In the morning all the difficulty in fixing the webs which existed the previous evening had vanished. Tho Spectator gives the fact upon the authority of a "respectable literary gentleman" who establishes his doctrine by the following singular case, for tho truth of which he pledges his reputation: There is a man in the town of H , Vermont who cannot speak to his father. Previous to his birth, some difference arose between his mother and her husband, and for a considerable time she refused to speak to him. The difficulty was subsequently healed and in due time began to talk but when sitting with his father, was invariably silent. It continued so until it was five vcars old, when the father hiring exhausted hij power of j

persuasion, threatened it with punishment for its stubbornness When tho punishment wasjnllictcd, it e licited nothing but sighs and groans, which told

out too plainly that tho littlo sutlcrer was vainly -mioaverinir i to spaa!;. All who wero present unucinn the opinion, that tt tnit impossible for the child to speak to its father and timo proved their opinion to bo correct. At a miturcr age after it had arrived at manhood its cilbrts to converse with its parent could only produce tho most bitter sighs and groans. The individuals wo Invo alluded to, siys tin Spectator, aro all in respectable circumstancoj, and our informant has only resided in their neighborhood four years but is personally acquainted with them. From the American Almanac for ISfU. Eclipse of the Sun. Tho mot remark li Crcat bit; of the phenomena that, this year, (1S3J) will happen, is the Eclipsoof the sun on tho very uncommon series of five large eclipses, visiblo to us, in the short term of seven years; tho fourth of this scries will take place May 15th, l53o, and the hat Sept. ISth, 1S3H. Tho eclipao of the present year will doubtless receivo great attention throughout our country. Inthoso places whero its magnitude will not exceed its eleven digits, cachdiminution of tho light is not to be expected, even at tho timo of tho greatest obscuration; perhaps, however it may be sufficient to render visiblo the planet Venn?, then about 30 degrees K. S. E. of the Sun, and much nearer to tho Earth, than usual; nor will the obscuration be very great whero the eclipse is almost total; since it has been observed on former occasions, that tho uncclipsed part, even when reduced to a mere point, sheds sufficient light to render small objects distinctly visible, and invisiblo tho brightest of tho stars. Indeed on account of tho refraction of the Sun's rays by the atmosphere of tho earth, tho darkness can hardly with strictness bo considered total, even whero ths Sun is completely shut out from tho sight. In tho great and remarkable eclipse of June 10th, 1S00, when tho Sun was totally obscured, at Boston, for fivo minutes as much light remained as is given by tho Moon when full; and greater darkness will not probably bo experienced, in any place, on tho present occasion. Wo subjoin a very singular account from tho New York Journal of Commerce. Its correctness is established by similar statements in the other paper of tho same day. Extraordinary Mistake. At an early hour cf Thursday morning, tho dead body of a colored unn, about thirty years of ago, was found in Franklin street, by a watchman, who immediately communicated tho circumstance to the Coroner. In tho course of tho day an inquest was held on the dody, and tho Jury having no evidence vvho the deceased was, or how ho caino to his death, found tho usual verdict in such cases, and tho body was convcyedto tho Alms House in order to bo interred. Whilst on its way thither, a person who was passing, Inppcned to sec it, and recognized it to bo the son of a rather respectable colored man named Aaron Wood. Tho person who thus recognized the body, immediately went and informed Wood, who proceeded to tho Alms House, and after satisfying himself that ho beheld tho body of his son, claimed it and conveyed it homo. A very elegant coflin was purchased; tho body placed in it, and preparations made to bury it yesterday morning. Tho friends of tho deceased hud assembled to attend tho funeral, and the coflin was about to bo carried out of the house, when to the utter astonishment of all present Wood's son walked in, in perfectly good health, from an excursion w hich ho had been making in tho country. His father could scarcely believe the evidence of his sensor, or bo persuaded that what lie beheld before him was mere phantom. On being convinced however that it was really his son, ho sent back the dead body to the Alms llouso in the costly coflin which ho had purchased, as ho thought for tho interment cf his own son. Destruction of human Ijfc by Cholera. Tho dis case called spasmodic cholera appears to have been known previous to 1S17, w hen it nppoarcd in India. Since that time till near the end of 1MVJ a period of about fifteen years there havo been throughout tho world as nearly as can bo estimated, 100,000,000 of cases. Of these fully one half, at least, mutt have died; which gives a mortality from tho einglo disease, of 50,000,000 in the above period, or upwards of 3,333,000 annually. In India alone tho mortality lias exceeded 1,000,000. These calculations have been made by Jo lines the celebrated French physician, and it is estimated that they are rated under than above the truth. Singular Fact. There is at present living in Dow street, Sunderland, a child that was born with the mark of a butterfly upon its face, which is subjected to tho following remarkable changes: In tho summer season the resemblance of tho head is prominent, tho wings, legs, Arc highly colored, the whole of a considerable greater degree of heat than any other part of the child's body; in winter, th w-ings, legs, Arc, are scarcely perceptible, the head diminishes to a mere speck, and the whole is of a deathlike coldness. York Her at J. A Dutchman, not one hundred miles from Middlcburgh, having suddenly lost an infant son, of whom ho was very fond, thus vented his inconsolable grief over tho corpse of his child; I dont spo wot did make Mm tie ho was so fitter as putter I would'nt haf him die fur Un shillings. Use thcRod.A writer in one of tho northern papers on school discipline, say, "Without a liberalusooftho rod, it i impossible over to make boys smart." Raising Rent. "Sir, I intend to raifo jour rent," saida landlord to a tenant, to which the 1stter replied) "I uni much obliged to you, for I cuunot raise it myself."