Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1845 — Page 1

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From the Democratic Reviere for March, ISiö. The Laic Aclin Fresiilcnt. V."e must be in:iulcd :n the harmless cnnclin nlsm wh.ca li)U3 ar.ti(.ipat?o, bv few tliC .nod

when this cjrccablc fjrm of cxprcs ion may tc cm-! vetoed Mr. Chy's Bmk lull, ho olilred at the same ployed, with a more strict accuracy than nt the mo-time a much v.vrsc one.-and actually clunpr to t!ie promeat at which it is now written. I'cr even though jf.siun nn-1 nun? tf a Whirr, pleadiujj with them imtho hour hzs not ytt quite arrived, wLicIi is to be J plorinly in o:i:? of Iiis 3I?-snes on the ground of the brightened by tha rel'ectiou that Tylcrism has censed j number of ot'icr Whi bills he Lad sifrned, üntJ all to exist, ia any o!hcr than tlie past tene. vet, bv the hope of sueccs? vani';-.Hl, ar.d (Tl-iv's controlling: as-

time tins page snail reach the c-es cf most of its readers, they will have ceased to blush for the jjovcrnment of their country, "It will take the country a Ion? time before the morals of our politics can recover from the bad influence which his been exerted over ti-ein by the regime of Tylerism" was the r?cent remark of a very eminent states-man, occupying- a position entirely aloof from it and disinterested in regard to it ; and who neither in his own person r.r that of any friend had been injured or assailed by it, but who had rather been, on the contrary, an object of it. good-will ar.d flattering- attentions. And the remark was true so true that we scarcely know whvn and Low to expect the curative inSuence or recuperative power which shall wholly undo the mischief, wholly ator.e for tlie disgrace, so deeply and broadly wrought by the events of the last four years. Of late, indeed, toward" tlie conclusion cf jlr. Tyler's term, certain events have concurred to produce tlie effjet of raising a l.ttle faint show of factitious popularity not l;is cvn b;;t another's which attaches not to his general administration, but partly to his oGce-dh-pcnsing patronage, and partly to a particular measure and which prevents the fall manifestation of that common contempt, which both Wlii and Democratic parties vie with each other in entertaining, for that nondescript terlium quid which he and an insignificant band of mercenary adherents have constituted, as a hybrid notelty unirr.agined before in our political experience. Tlie strong arm cf the great Statesman of the South so fir uphold him, as to let him down with a decent show of dignity, in his descent from the high place to which accident alone ever raised him ; and the blaze of a "Lone Star" strcamlnj up over our south-western horizon, alone fcheds a certain degree of feebly reflected light on bis retiring person, to redeem it from tha entire darkness in which it would otherwise have gone down. Ien rarely love a treason so well, as to forget to despise tlie traitor. Nor indeed is it by. any means clear, that in his defection from the Whigs, who Lad placed him in the position which gave him his power to harm, 2lr. Tyler is entitled even to the usual good treatment which the policy of war accords to deserters. To desert voluntarily is one thing ; to be fairly scourged out of the ranks and out of camp, and then driven over to the enemy as the only place of refuge, is another, and a very different thing. And when the person thus expelled was himself already a deserter in the enemy's camp, from the side to which he is thus again ignominiously driven back when his prolonged continuance there up to the time of that expulsion, has involved in itself the grossest treachery to the side from whom he aain supplicates a refuge it cannot be pretended that any very strong case is made out for a very cordial welcome. This is no overcharged picture for Jlr. Tyler's position. In tli3 year 11, what Whig out-Whiggcd the renegade "Virginia Republican!" Nay, not only was lie a Whig of the intensest sort, but he was peculiarly, and par excellence, Henry Clay Whig. To be a Harrison Whig, or a Scott Whig, at that time, meant comparatively little or nothing ; to be a Clay Whig was full of the deepest and strongest meaning. There was no non-committalism about the bold Kentuckian. His name, his name alone, constituted as distinct an announcement of a system of poli':lCa doctrine and political doctrine of the wort sort as could have been conveyed in any fonr. of creed or catechism. And in tlie Convention of IS 10, ?.Ir. Tyler was so furiously a friend to the selection of Mr. Clay, to be the Presidential candidate and national representative of the Whig Tarty, that, as has been subsequently proved, it was to the bitterness cf his lamentations for Clay's failure of nomination that he partly owed his own selection for the Vice Presidency. We should not have made this fact alone, ';-r se" the foundation of the charge against Mr. Tyler of having been a "ren'aJe Virginia Republican," if he had not, by tlie palpable corruption of Lis subsequent course, rellected back upon h:s position at that time the clearest of lights by which to read his character and conduct. In his zealous Clayism of that day, there was no honesty of conversion, from what he had of old professed. He was sinning against great light, and he knew it. ' lie has subsequently, when ambitious interest prompted a different course, thrown himse'f back again, with an ardor of Rcpublicuuism re-invigorated by its long intermission of repose, upon the old principles, and the old party, which he was then betraying. With no disposition to withhold from Mr. Tyler a charitable judgment even, nevertheless the undisguised and unblushing excess of tlie political corruption which has rioted through his administration now, happily, exhaling its very last breath has been such as to compel justice, in the interpretation of former equivocal conduct, to accept in all cases the worst construction 03 the more probable truth. The history of 3Ir. Tyler's administration may be briefly summed up. tecoming Acting President by accident, his polar star was a second tcrtn Vith this view he first, in conjunction with Webster, aimed at an amalgamation of partic, until it became evident that neither Whigs nor Democrats would have any thing to do with such a scheme. Tho former fairly scourged him forth from any place among them ; while the latter as sternly and contemptuously denied nun admittance even within the outermost verjre of their gales. Then, and not till then, did Mr. Tyler adopt, as the next tack of his policy, the eübrt to force or buy his way into the Democratic party, by patronage and Texas, discarding Webster, and all things Websterian, excepting faithles mess and recklessness ; and hoping to throw us into such confusion a3 to create at least a probability, if not necessity, cf rallying upon him for re-election, as the only means of averting tlie worse evil of the election of Clay. - Hence his convention at tlie same place and day with that of the Democratic party. To this hope he clung long and desperately, till the ridicule of his position became intolerable, even to the proverbial fttuity of himself and his family ; and then, months after the nomination of Mr. Polk, he at last . withdraws, only after an absurdly transparent attempt to make, by implied un derstanding with some of our party, the best term? of capitulation in his power tor his office-holders. This is the naked outline of Mr. Tyler's administration Doos any reader doubt its truth 1 Let it be remembered the almost suppliant tenacity with which -Mr. Tyler during his first year clung to tlie Whig party. At that time, be it borne in mind, the Whigs were fresh from the late contest, which had placed them in tlie attitude of an overwhelming ascendancy ; while the Democrats were apparently a broken-down party, not only comparatively feeble in force, but containing within themselves many elements of confusion and disorganization. In concert with Mr. Webster, the bitterest enemy Mr. Clay has ever had, Mr. Tyler's game then was, clearly, to hake off Clay, retain the great bulk of the masses w hoöc rush had borne Ilar-

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ris-:n and himself into power, trusting afterwards gradually gj fir to dinUrate the Kcpublican party as t) Lrinj iti at lo.ist n considerable j-ortion cf ! liicm around his a't.iiinitration. JI;nre, although he cendanev in tlie pariv succeeded i;i Hinging mm forcibiy and scornfully off into a pert ion in which it became acknowledged treason for any Whig to maintain any sort of party communion with 1 im. Let it be remembered tlie manner in which he then proceeded to address himself to his next aim, that of courting the Democratic part'. Then was witnessed a spectacle of the corrupt cbuse of ths patronage power of the Executive, unprecedented, unimagined before. One of Mr. Tyler's first acts after his entrance into power had been to promulgate a special declaration against. the interference of the Federal office-holders in politics. On former occasions also, Mr. Tyler had in a pecu'hr manner identified himself with this principle. And jet, as .oon as be hean the working of this policy, that of worming ; Lis way into a position in the Democratic party by means of his ollices, systematically and universally throughout the country, they were held up as the bribes for adhesion to him and his interest, and activity in his cause. Every man then in the Democratic party occupying any s?rt of position capable of being represented as one of influence, had office at Lis disposal for the mere acceptance of it. Democratic Representatives in Congress had almost unlimited command over the Federal patronage of their districts. Anything to prove hira elf a Democrat to get admission as such recognition as such. In all directions were to be seen Whi js removed rom foffico who had scarcely had time to get adjusted in the seats to which they had been appointed either by General Harrison or by Mr. Tyler himself Whigs of unimpeached personal worth and capability for no other even pretended reason than .to confer their offices on Democrats. It was a positive public scandal undisguis3d, u-.difsembled. We need not dwell on details a single prominent fact will 'suff.ee to illustrate it. The whole system is typified in Mr. Tyler's Dal ti more Convention, of which body nearly all were already his office-holders when they went there, while all the rest, with scarcely an exception, have been made so since ! The direct application of the vast machinery of the Federal patronage to tlie object of buying a desertei's way into seme kind of welcome or reception by a party on which he seeks to fasten himself, presented a novelty in our politics. It certainly wrought a vast amount of mischief. It scattered broadcast through the Jand, seeds of demoralization, which could scarcely fail, almost everywhere, to find at least a little Boil adapted to their too-ready germination. Everywhere a certain number of persons were to be found, urged perhaps by their necessities, or little disposed to be scrupulous in such matters, whom a little judicious dangling cf these baits before their eyes could scarce ly fail to attract, with an eagerness little dispos to quarrel with the hand from which they wctp q drc Unprincipled men were also at many places to Ic found, who had Tittle difficulty in pal'm themsehes off upon the facile and foolish confidence of Mr. Tyler and his family as their facial frienJs, and as persons of astonishing zea, activity, and local importance, in whose han- ulC ial management of their m .crests iriili . Safely be reposed. In general able to get only thi- lowest and worst to fraternize with them in the'.i loud-mouthed partisanship of Mr. Tyler, this ..j3s oi persons, at many points, anu especially in me cities, succeeded in getting together miserable little knots of persons, rarely more than sufficient to fill tne bar-room of some mean haunt which constituted their head-quarters, and these, in connection with the higher incumbents of the lucrative offices, constituted the "party" worthy of their creation and creator, tlie Tyler Tarty. With the aid cf a few newspapers, supported by the public patronage and by a heavy system of assessed taxation upon the holders of office, these little pot-house knots cf "the friends of John Tyler," were constantly astonishing the country with "mass meeting's," and "rrrcat popular demonstrations," of which it is needless to say that they rarely in num bers much exceeded that cf the otiicers reported to have presided over them. To w hat extent this system of humbug the most impudent, succeeded in imposing upon Mr. lyler, sj as to make him actually believe in the existence and growth oi a great popular sentiment in his behalf, we have no means of knowing. It is, at any rate, very ceitain, that even if deceived in regard to the imaginary popular sentiment in his favor, manufactured by these persons, he could not have been ignorant of the great fact which constitutes alike the chief characteristic and the worst evil and disgrace of his administration, that it was mainly, if not w holly, by the active plying ot tlie power of his patronage, that th? organization of his friends as a "party" was constituted, and sustained to the point of real or Lctuious zeal. And this is the leading feature of his term, tlie employment of office and every manner of patronage to create a party, and keep it up to the due point of stimulus. We fear that a deeper mischief has been thus wrought to tlie political mor ality of tlie country, than would have attended the signing of fifty charters cf banks or banking ex chequers. These people have in general been exceedingly clam orous in behalf of "Polk and Dallas," since Mr. Tyler's Withdrawal an event which did not tike place till nearly three months after the nomination of the Dem ocratic candidate. e believe they even so far sur pass themselves in all those attributes which are the opposite! of modesty and veracity, as to claim a large share, if not the whole, of the glory of the Democrat ic victory. In truth we have from tlie commencement felt satisfied that they did more harm than jrood. Their numbers were utterly insignificant. In point of mor al force, they added only a weakness and a weight hard and heavy to be borne. It was folt thit they were introducing into the Democratic party, and into a pos.tion ot tef-assimied clamorous prominence frothing on the surface, a class of persons folt goner ally to be equally unworthy of personal respect or of political confidence. While ft cannot be but a matter of regret, that tho country has lost the moral benefit of witnesin2 that just retribution of rebuke which awaited this weakest and worst of our Presidents, in theutte'-. msiirnihcant number ot popular votes it had the slightest chance of obtaining. We by no mcir.s design to include the 'whole body of Mr. Tyler's otf.cc-holders within the application of the above remarks. "A considerable number of gen tlemen of the highest political and personal merit, are indeed U be found among them cither selected through the agency of friends, or by happy chance or by way of good leaven to leaven tlie lump, as respectable endorsers to the bankrupt worthlcsness of so many oi tne rest. 01111 less, 01 course, wiU any portion of them be received as applicable to Mr. ly ler's Cabinet tlie members of which h?ve lnd little most of them nothing to do with the meaner mat ters of party-making management. Mr. Calhoun's position in it; in particular, is known to all to have been one far aloof from and above anything and eve

INDIANAPOLIS, rythin;? of this kind. lie accepted the State department at the call cf the cuuntry for a fpfifij object cf tiie hijrl.est public importance, with ner-onal reluct ance, entire independence cf control, and full under standing oi ras purpose o: retiring cs soon cs J.e g'iOuld hive completed tlie Texas and Oregon negoti ations. Urs and Downs ok L:rr. It is useful cs well as interesting to uo'.ie tlie changes, for the better c-r worse, which ten or liftccn years serve to operate in a community. Mr. Cist, of the Cincinnati Advertiser, fumiihes the following iustaüccs in that city. 1 know a business man in Main street, who was refused credit, in 130, for a stove worth twelve dollars, lie is pow director in one of the banks, and is worth 150.000 at least. Every cent of this has been made in Cincinnati during that period. I know another business man, nlso on Main street, who was refused" credit, in l"?'iö, by a firm m the drujr line, for the amount of five dollars. In l"5o0 that j Tery firm lent that very man S-JAM upon his endors ed note. I knew an extensive dealer in tho city, now worth Alt 0,000, and can command more money, on a short notice, for sixty, ninety, or one hundred and twenty days, than a. most any man in Cincinnati, to whom I, !s clerk for a grocery house here, in 1Ä30, sold a hogshead of sugar, with grea: misgiving and reluctance, under some apprehension cf not getting the money when it became due. I know a man whose credit, in lSi;0, was such, that when I trusted him for a keg of saltpetre, my employer told me I might as well have rolled it into the Ohio. Since that period he was worth, in 1&7, slCO,. COO; again a bankrupt in ldll, and now worth 20,0C0. I knew a man, good for &"0,0C0, who, ten years ago, exhibited a monkey throvgh the streets of Cincinnati for a living. I know a heavy business man, 4 bank director, who sold apples, when a boy, through the streets. I knew one of the rirst merchants in our city in 18:23, who could at that period havo bought entire blocks oftlie city on credit, a director in one of the banks, who, within ten years of that period, oicd insolvent and intemperate." Another influential man of that day, whoso credit was unlimited, being president of one of our insurance companies, and also a bank director, died within five yenrs, insolvent and intemperate. Another individual who was considered in 1?37 worth half a million of dollars, has died since, leaving the estate insolvent. Another individual, of credit equal to all his wants, and worth, at one time, twelve thousand dollars, ai:d a Judge of the Court, died in our city hospital, and was buried at the public expense. I "have seen hira once and again presiding at public meetings. The founder of the Penitentiary system in Tensylvania, and Veil known in that State and elsewhero'as a pnblc man, died a pauper in the Commercial Hos-pi-. in that city. 'I have seen him addressing the legislaturc in that State, at Harrisburg, and lbtened to with the attention and deference that would have been paid to John Quincy Adams, or any other public msn of Lis aire. I know a lady, the decendent cf a d tinguished governor of Massachusetts, who supports herself by her needle, and the niece of a governor of New Jersey, still living, who washes for subsistence. I know a lady, who, thirty years ago, in the city in which I then lived, was the cynosure cf all eyes, one of the most graceful and beautiful cf the sex, and moving in the first circles of wealth and fashion, now engaged in drudgery and dependence at one dollar and tifty-cents per week. All these reside in this city. , . : - What are the fluctuations of romance writers, cornpared to some of the realities of human life 1 Maf.bleiiead. The inhabitants of Marblehead have always been distinguished for the'.r industry; power of enduring fatigue, physical courage and patriotism. Most of the men have been bred to the sea, and inured to the rough-and-tumble of lifo from their childhood and have furnished especially in tima of war, many brave and gallant seamen for our ships. It is said that at the close ot the revolution, wnen the population was much lesi than at present, a statement made to the General Court of the sufferers by that war, exhibited the following result : Widows, 439 Fatherless bovs, S3 1 Tathcrless guls, fiC2 Total, . 1824 During tlie last war the little, town of Marblehead furnished 140J men for the public service and no ship of war, privateer, fleet or flotilla, prisonship, or depot was without a goodly number of representatives from this patriotic town. Xor were they all confined to the sea service they composed one entire company of the 40th regiment of regular troops almost ano ther ot the r lying Artillery, and many scattering recruits for other services were raised. Many of these brave men were killed while fighting nobly for their country, and others were imprisoned. At the close of the war, Dartmour, the English' prison house, unfolded her gloomy gites upon five huirlred gallant fellows, who. hailed from this obscure fishing town. Boston Mer. Journal. Caches of Crime. The Albany correspondent cf the Courier Sc Enquirer takes'from the Report cf the Inspector cf the Sing Sing State Prison this extract : The causes for the commission of the offences, with which the prisoners are charged, as gathered from the convicts themselves, present some strange and sad peculiarities. In the Male Department they report as follows : .Want of protection in carly'life 10; Intemperance 190 ; Intemperance of parent 9 ; Do of wife G ; Destitution 112;Jo conscience! 1; Innate depravity '23 ; Insanity 7 Weak principles 17 ; Sudden temptation 40; Anger 11; Innocent, if their cvn assertion should be credited, 149; Ignorant cf the cause 2 ; For gain 3 ; Self-defence 2 ; Jealousy 1 ; Evil associations 1353; Imbecility of mind 7 ; and Beven refused to answer. There were married 40-1, single 437. Tho native convicts were C23; the foreign born 2 10 ; whites CGI ; colored 20 1. In the Female Trison, the causes of crimes are thus stated : . . : . . Want of friends in early youth 1 ; Intemperance 12 ; Do of husband 3 ; Destitute 2 ; No conscience 1 ; Innate depravity 10 ; Evil association 8 ; Seduction 1 ; Idiots 3 ; Weak principles 1 ; To keep her husband 1 ; Unfortunate marriage 1 ; Jealousy 1 ; Sudden temptation 1 ; Angered at employer's injustice 1; V) declare their innocence, and 1 refuses to answer. Native born 51 ; foreign 22 ; married 20 ; single 21 ; -idows 13. A human mummy has been found,jreserved in Guano, six foet below the surface, at Ichaboe, and carried to Liverpool. , Tho stave of a flour barrel buried with the body shows it to have been thafof Christopher Delano, a Portuguese sailor, one of an American whalcr'a crew, and buried in 1791.

MARCH 27, 1815

iTJy Sister's Grave. I bal a little lister on, And the was won hoiM fir Lilie twiue.i links f yt lljw enlJ, Was tlie waving of her hair. Her face wa like a day in June, Wht-il all it wert and ttill, A'-d the sluiioivi of the nurprucr clouds Crept ?oft!y o'er the hill. O, mr sister's voice I hear it yet, I comes up n mine ear, Like t!.c fin-ifg of a joyous bin!, When the Pommer months aie near. Sometimes the notes would at eve So fjirylike and wild. My mother thought a spirit sun And not the gentle child. But when we bcoil 'he little feet Come dincin to the door. And met the gaze cf brighter eyes Than everrcirit wore. And she would enter full of glee, Her lon fair tieses bound With a gailind of the cimple flowers, Ly mountain stieamV found. She nercr bore the garden's piide, The roe, upon her breast, Our own sweet wild flower ever lored The other wild fljweis test Like them she formed tJ cauc no toil. To give no pain vt care. Cut to Lak and bliicm cn a lonely fpot In the wnm and sunny air. And o'i ! like them as they come in sr iln, And with summer's fate decay, She passed with tlie suu'i last patting smüe Fiom luVs ruugh path away. And when she died 'niath an old oak t:ee My s-is'.ei'i grave wis maJe ; For, when on earth, she ued to leve Iti diik and pensive shale. And evcy ?piin, ia thit old tree The "-ns-biids build their nest?, And wild fljwcrs bloom on ih ioit green turfy Where my dead MUr rests. And the children of our village say, That on my sitei's trttnb The wild flmver are the last that fide, And the first that ever bloom. There i no stone rai-ed there to te!! My s iter'i name and age ; For that dear name on eveiy heart Is carved on memory's page. We mis hei in the hour of j y, For when all heait are liht, There was no ft p so giy lici's, No eye so glad and bright. We mij ber in the hour of woe, For t!ie:i she tiied to cheer, And the soothing words of the pious child Could dry the mournei' teir. liven when she erred we could not chide, For though the fault was xinall. She always mourned so much, and sue! For pa 1 don fiom us all. S he was too pure for earthly love Strength to uur heiiW ws Rivt-u, ". , And we yielded her in her childhood's light, To a brighter home in heaven. Tic Home cf lie Dcsalarc-IIcarlctl. The glory that reigned in those halls is past, Ai d the beauty that stranger couited. And deep aie the shadows fiat giicf hath cast, jOu the home of the Desolate-hearted. The odor of flowi rs is on the air. But tioisome weeds aie mingled there ; The vines untrained on the earth repose The nettles o'ertop ihe bridal rose j Tbelematis fink from its wonted place. And the hlly i ciu-hcd in its long embrace ; The girlan Is that hun on those WilN of yore . Wi h their beJUty and bloom have depaited ; And the wrcaihinps of blossoms is known no moie In the home of the Dcsolatc-beittcd. The dust is deep on the rich g'iitir, That wakrred of old it music ituie The biids sit sadly with folded wlngj The lute lies by with a b o en siting. And tlie air-harp that hiii on the old elm bough In a lequicm wiU is breathing now ; For the festive f tig and the j yous strain, Hing not through those halls de'eited ; And voices f miith will not wake aain, In the home of the Desolate-hearted. The portraits hung on the gallery's sile. Of that kindred laud that long since died, Arc inward turned to the oaken wall, Fur the g!o.my memories they call ; And many a landscape of glowing bue, JJy a filded veil is hid from view ; For why should the ßladnesrof happier days, Wi oe libt has for aye departed. Be ever outspread to the weaiy gize. In the home of the Desolite-heaited A pal-jr comes over tlie maiden's bloom, A she crossetli the !or of the lonely home, And children moved with a soften d tread, And voices hushed t a dme of diead; And mirth sinks b.ick from i s wonted flow,When the eye looks up on the brow of wo ; For the happy band that weie g.thcied theie, At a sing'e stroke were parted ; And we -k no more of the young and fair, Ia the home of the Desolatc-hcaited. lira rp to Ie. It is stated that a newly married couple down east were one night lying in bed talkirg over matters and thing, when a heavy thunder storm arose ; the loud peals of thunder and the vivid flashes of Lightning filled them with terror and fearful apprehension. Suddenly a tremendous crash causod the loving coupk to start as though they had received an electric shock. Jonathan throwing his arms around Iiis dear exclaimod. Hug up to ins Li2, and let 111 die like ;c;i." Early IMaebting. Af.cr noticing the marriage in New Orleans of a young man aged seventy years, to a mademoiselle aged only eig!ity-four years, the Planters' Gazette then remarks Ve are not an advocate for early marriages, and feel indigrnant at tlie parents of those children Dr permitting them to go on so." OrAn exchange paper say that on a recent occasion, when the marriage ceremony was jibout to be performed in a church in a neighboring town, and the clergyman desired the parties wishing to be married to stand up, a large number of ladies immediately arose J The Hatty JIax. An eastern coliph, being sorely afilictcd with ennui, was advised that an exchange of sliirts with a man who wus perfectly happy would cure him.- After a long 6earch ho discovered such a person, but was informed that the 'happy fellow had no ehirt ! DEATn from Jor.- When the pardon cf Governor IMouton was announced to one of the convicts in the Penitentiary at Baton Rouge, recen'.ly, he dropped dead, it is supposed, in consequence of the sudden sensation of joy produced by that delightful information. - .Napoleon said, " a journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, regent of sovereigns, a tutor of natiuiu. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a hundred thousand bayonets." John, how I wish it was as much the fashion to trade wive? as it is to trade horses." Why so my dear friend !" I'd cheat somebody most shockingly afore night !''

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Volume IV::::::::Xiimbcr 40. Swallowing Oysters Alive. rr souTAiRE. A Sucker 7i first Oy skr Stcculoicing it .iVrr Terri'j'e tSitiiation The Rescue Disappearance. At a late hour, the other night, the door of an oyster housa in our city was thrust open, and in stalked a hero from the Sucker State. lie was quite six feet high, spare, somewhat stooped with a hungry, ansicus counterunce, and I119 liands pushed clear down j m.o the bottom of his breeches pockets. Iiis outer covering was hard to defm?, hut after surveying it minutely we came to the conclusion that his suit had bcn made in Iiis boyhood, of a-d.Hgy, yellow linsey woolsey, and that having sprouted up with astonishing rapidity, he had been forced to piece it out with all colors in order to keep pace with his body. In spite of his exertions, however, he had fallen in arrears about a foot of the necessary length, and, consequently, stuck that far through his inexpressibles. His crop of hair was surmounted by the funniest looking seal skin cap imaginable. After taking a position, be indulged in a Jong stare at the man opening the bivalves, and slowly ejaculated "Isters !" 'Yes, sir," responded the attentive operator, "and ns ones they are, too." "Well, I've beam tell of isters afore," says he, "but this is the fust time I've seed 'em, and perhaps 1 11 know what thar made of afore I git out of town. Having expressed this desperate intention, he cautiously approached a plate, and scrutinized the uncased shell fiih with a gravity and interest which would have done honor to the most illustrious searcher into the hidden mysteries of natura At length he brgan to soliloquize on the difficulty of getting them out, r.nd how queer they looked when out. , "I've never seed any thin' hold on so 'takes on a-mazin site of screwin', hoss, to get em out, and aint they slick and slip'ry when tliey does come ! Smooth ns an eel ! I've a good mind to give that feller lodgins' jist to realize the effects, as uncle Jesse used to say about spekelation." "Well, sir," was the reply, "down with two bits, and you can have a dozen." "Two bits !" exclaimed the Sucker, "now come, that's tickin' it on rite Btrong, hoss, for isters. A dozen of em aint nothin to a chicken, and there's no gittin' more than a picayune apiece for them. "I've only realized 15 picayunes on my first venture to St. Louis. I'll tell you what, I'll gin you two chickens for a dozen, if you'll conclude todeal." A wag who was standing by indulging in a dozen, winked to the attendant to shell out, and the offer was accepted. - -Xow mind," repeated the Sucker, 'all fair t"o chickens for a dozen, you are witness, mister," turning at the same time to the wag, "none of your tricks, for I have hearn tell that you city fellers are mity slippery coons." The bargain being fairly understood our Sucker squared himself for tiie onset deliberately put o2"his seal-skin, tucked up his 6leeves, and, fork in hand, awaited the appearance of No. 1. It came -he saw and qulCSly It"W3s- bolted. macaaD.t!iiilrpailful pause ensued. The wag dropped iiis knife and fork with a look ot mingled amazement and horror some thing akin to Shakespeare's Hamleten seeing his daddy's ghost while burst into the exclamation, ''Swallowed alive as I'm a christian !' . Our Sucker hero had opened his mouth with pleasure a moment before, but now it stood open, consciousness that all wasn't right, and ignorance of the extent of the wrong, the uncertainty of that moment was terrible. Urged to desperation he faltered out "What on airth's the row !" "Did you swallow it alive " enquired the wag. "I swallowed it jest as he gin it to me !" shouted the Sucker. " You're a dead man !" exclaimed hi3 anxious friend : "the ere ature is alive and will eat right through you" added he, in ti most hopeless tone. "Git a pizen pump and pump it out!" screamed the Sucker, in a frenzy, his eyes fairly starting from their sockets. "Oh gracious what'll I do ! It's got hold of my innards, already", and I'm dead as a chicken ! do soin et hiu far mc, do don't let the infarnal seatoad eat me afore your eyes." "Why didn't you putsomeof this on it!" enquired the wag, pointing to a bottle of 6trong pepper-sauce. The hint was enough- the Swkvr, upon the instant, seized the bottle and,, desperately wrenching out the cork, swallowed half the contents at a draught. He fairly squealed from its efflcts, and gasped and blowcd, and pitched, and twisted, as if it were coursing through him with the electric effect, while at the Eame time his eyes ran a stream of tears. At length, becoming a little composed, his waggish adviser approached, almost bursting with suppressed laughter, and enquired "How are you now, old fellow did you kill it!" "Well, I did, boss,' ugh-ugh-o-0-0 my innards. If that isier critter's dyin' agonies didn't stir a ruction in mc equal to a small airthquake, then taint no use sayin' it it squirmed like a sarpent when that killin' stuff touched it, but" and here with a countenance made up of suppressed agony and present determination, he paused as if to give force to his words, and slowly and deliberately remarked "If you git two chickens from me for that live animal I'm d d 1" and seizing his 6eal-skin he vanislied. The shout of laughter, and the contortions of the company at this finale, would have mede a spectator beliere that they had all been "rsaUoxiKg fiystcrs alive." Widows. Young widows are always blithe. They ever meet one with a smile and flattering word.' Can any one tell why ! Young widows pay very scrupulous atterition to dress. None know so Well as they what clothes, black or otherwise, are best suited to their complexion, nor what freaks millinerybest serve to heighten the beauty of their form. .Their knowledge of this subject, they will put in practice. Does any one know why 1 Young widows, if at first pleasant gay and agreeable, though affectedncss presently bocome really so through habit. . It is said that 6he who is raarrried a second time, is a better wife to her second, than her first husband. Who can give a reason if I have not given it ! Young widows are tlie most charming part of creation tlie envy of one eex and the beloved of the other; " God help poor Ireland ! She's ever and always treated as Barrtpy Barnett treated his cow- fed on on thraneens, and then abused for giving poor milk. ' How can I help it, says the cow, 4 with the usage 1 get !' Bad strain to you,' stfys Earney ; ' sure the strength is in ye ; ar.d it's a complement I pay you, you ignorant baste, to expect more from you, though you are fed on thraneens, than from any other cow that would be fed on clover.' " Mrs. S. C, Hill in Chamber's Edingburgh Jounal. Rigs. In Germany pigs are whipped to death with small withes in order to make the meat more tender and pulpy, and tho pain of the poor pig is pleasure in anticipation to the Leipsic epicure. Live lobsters are boiled to death, because, though they cannot be eaten alive, they are unfit to be eaten after they are dead if they die by other than a cruel death. The adage, death's in tho pot," has no exceptions that will favor lobsters.

DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES an;l Measures. A simple and frugal (rovernnif" -in'n.'ii wlt'n

strict Constitutional limits. ' A strict construction of the Cortitt'.ü-n, and n as sumption cf duub Jul p-c-xers. Ko National Iknk to swindle the Lbjrir.-; rop-Ja-Uon. 1 1 No connection between the government and haul. A Dinljiinrv f.. .-,i,- t... ...u. .1 - ly njht and submitting tonotliin wrong. No rubhc debt. '. V.r K,r !,. , 1 1:,0 -w. Ultf uvuiai uu ...4. v .J or by the Suites, exec.it för objects of urgent necessity. - No asvumptioa by t!-.o General Gorcnuncnt cf tlie debts of the States, either d;recilv or indirectlv, by a distribution of the proceeds of the public lands " a ingenue-tana, ciscnmmatiiig in Uvor cf the poor consumer instead cf the rich capitalist. No CXtensivt Srtpm l.f In'ornil trr 1 the General Government, or by the Stale. A constitutional barrier against improvident Slate loan. The honest payment of our debts ar.d the ttcre J preservation cf the public faith. A 1 1 -fv grauuai return lrom a paper cred.t system. No irrants of exclusive charters and r,r.'vile"os. bv special legislation, to banks. x o connexion between Church and Stale. No proscription for honest opn':6as. Fostering aid to public education. A "progressive reformation c f all abuses. .Mcscri.AR Strength. The power exerted by the actions of the muscles in tbs human body is immense. Dorellus first demons! rated that the fores exerted within the human body greatly exceeds tLe wc.'ght to be moved, and that nature, in fact, employs an astonishing, we might almost say J-upcrS'ious power, to move a small weight. It has been calculated thit the deltoid muccle alun", when employed ia supporting a weight cf fifiv pounds, exerts a force equal to two thousand four hundred and täisty-eight pounds. An idea of the force exerted by the' human body in progressive motion, may be formed fiom the violence of the shock received when the foot Unexpectedly strikes against an object in running. The strongest bones are sometimes fractured by the action cf the muscles. The muscular power cf the human body id indeed wonderful. A Turkish porter will trot along at a rapid pace, carrying a weigüt of six hundred pound. Milo. a celebrated athlete of Crotona, in Italy, early accustomed himself to carry the greatest burdens, and by degrees became a monster in tlrcngtli. It is said that he carried on his ihoulder an ox, four years eld, weighing upwards of o:.e thousand pounds, 'for above forty yards, and afterwards killed it with one blow of his fist. He was seven times crowned at the Pythian games, and six at the Olympian. He presented himself a seventh time, but no one had the courage or boldness to enter the list against him. He wr.s 01.0 of the disciple of Tythagora?, and to his imcc.mnr.-.i strength the learned preceptor and Lis pupils owtc their lives. The pillar which supported tlie roc.f of the school suddenly pave way, but Milo supported the whole weight of t!;e building and gave the philosopher and his auditors time to escape. In his old age 'Iih attempted to pull up a tree by the root and break it. He partly effected it, but Iiis strength beirg gradually exhausted, the tree, when half clefi reunited, rnd hia hands remained p:nched in the body of it. He was then alone, and being enable to disengege himself, died in that position. Haller mentions that he ft.w a man, whose f rgcr being caught in a chain at the bottom of this mine, by keeping it forcibly bent, supported by that means ths weight of his whole body, one luc'rcd and f.fty pounds, till he was drawn up to the surface, a he:ght of six hundred feet. Augustus II, King of -Poland, could roll up a silver plate like a sheet of paper, and twist the strongest horse shoe asunder. A Frenchman, who was attached to Rcchwell & Stone's circus, lust spring, was able to re it the united strength of four l.or.es, as was witnessed by hundreds in this city, as well as in other places. A lion is said to have left the impression of Lis teeth upon a piece of solid iron. The most prodigious power of muscle is exhibited by fish. The whale move with a velocity through the dense medium of water, that would terry I.im, if continued at the same rate, round tie world in a little less than a fortnight; and a sword tsh has been known to strike his weapon tjuite through the oak planlt of a ?hip. The Phexoxexa of the Braix. One of the most inconceivable things in the nature of the brain h, that the organ of sensation should itself be insensible. To cut the brain gives no pain, yet in the brain alone resides the power of feeling pain in any other part .f the body. If the nerve which lead to it from the injured part be divided, we become instantly unconscious of suffering. It is only by communication with the brain that any kind of sensation is produced ; yet the organ itself is insensible. But there is a circumstane more wonderful still. The brain itself maybe removed, may be cut away down to the corpus ca mi:n, without destroying life. The animal lives and performs all those functions which are necessary to s.mple vitality, but Las no longer a mind ; it cannot think or feel ; it requires that the food should be pushed into the stomach ; once there, it is digested, and the animal will even thrive and grow fit. We infer, therefore, that the part of the brain called tlie convolutions, is simply intended for the exercise of the intellect and ficulties, whethfr of low degree called instinct, or of that exalted kind brsLowed on msn, ti,e gift of reason. Wigan cn ths Durability of fit Mind. Effects of One-.! ox the Mind. A lady, who knew nothing experimentally cf cpium, once told us that she " could tell when Mr. Culoricge had taheu too much opium by Lis shining countenance. S.e was right: we knew that marl: tf opium exces-scs well, and the cause of it : or at least we believe tho cause to lie in tlie quickening of the inscnibl2 perspiration, which accumulates and f-Lstcns cntl-efecc. Be that as it may, a criterion it wis ti.ut could not deceive us as to the condition of Coleridge. And uniformly in that condition he made Lis m. st cfl'cci tive intellectual displays. It is true that he might not be happy undor thi fiery animation, and we fully believe that he was not. Nobody is hippy under laudanum except for a very short term tf yecrs. Rut in what way did tliat operate on his exertions as a wriUT 1 We are of opinion, that it killed Colericge as a poet. " The Harp of Qnintock." was silenced" forever by the torment of opium. Eut proportionably it roused and stung by misery his metaphysical instincts into more spasmodic l.fe, Toetry can flourish only in the atmosphere of happiness. But sub'Ja and perplexed investigations cf difficult problems ore amongst the commonest resources of 5cguiling the sees? of misery. Blackwood's Migaziie. Foece of Reeiodic ViEEATioxs.JIany curious insimces ra:ght be mentioned of the great eSccta produced bv periodic vibrations. One of the moit familiar, perlnp?, is the well known re-ult of marching a company of soldiers over a suspension bridge, wher the latter, responsive to the measured s'ep, begins to. rise and fall with excessive violence, and if the iarchin be still continued, most, prvbably separates in two parts. More than one accident his occurred in this way, and has led to the order, we believe, that soldiers, in passing these bridges, must not march, but simply walk out of time. Another curious cVct cf vibration in destroying the cohe.-ion of bedies, is the rupture of drinking glasses by certain musical sounds. It is well known that most ghss vusfvIs of capacity, when struck, resxwd with a beautifully clar music a 1 note of invariable and ds-finite pitch, which may be called tlie peculiar note'of the vessel. Now, if a violin or other musical instrument be made to sound the same note, the vessel soon begins to respond, is thrown into vibrations, i'i note grows LuJer, and eventually may break. Ia order ti insure the 6 jer-cs of this pxperiment, the vessel should not be p?rfi"ily cnoeJed. However, the tendency to Ircuk is j.ivariably the sams. - Polytechnic Migraine. A Leaexed Decis?ox. Somecf our Sontiiwrs'crn jusliccs are sorejy puzzled at times.. For instance:' SmiLh was Recused of baling a ig from StokeJohnson, a wi ne, s for S.o!;es, swore positively as t tha guilt of Sif.ilh; Jinkins.'a witness for Sm.th fe .vore just as positively tor his innocence. The justice was in a. quandary. The business, like the Irishman's opinion cf the French language, looked, to him a good deal mixed,' so he finally dismiss thq suit and sentenced the tcilnesses to pay all t' corlt