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POETRY.
THE SONGsT OF"YQRET
Ala*! the good old songu of yoro
Have gone quite out of date?
Surptvscd by "Old Virginia's Shoro,"
And the "North Oar'linn State."
No more are heard the pleasing notes
Of "fiftmlnflr 4*) ?? "
wu vu^u IUC IVJ C|
But turn you where you may, you'll hear
"Sussannali don't you cry."
To sing the song of "Homo, Sweet Home,"
A girl could not bo led;
But ask her for somo "favorite tuno,"
Sho'll strike up "Uncle Ned;"
Then finish off with "Buffalo Gals,"
Or clso with "Duarost Mac;"
Forgetting that sno ever knew
Some moro heart-breathing lay.
Oh, give to me the songs of yore,
That come warm from the heart;
That makes each pulse throb with delight,
And VliH (lin m.?o!Aiia >??-'
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Sing me the. songs of "Hours (hat were'"
I'll crave not what belongs,
"To the list of "nigger"?pshaw! I mean
Of fashionable songs.
OUR PRESIDENTS.
First stands the lofty Washington,
That noble great, immortal one;
The elder Adams next we boo,
And Jefferson comes number three;
Then Madison is fourth you know,
The fifth one on the list Monroo;
The sixth an Adams comes again,
And Jackson seventh in the ir.iim
Van Buron eighth upon the line,
And IIarri?on counts number nine;
The tenth is Tyler in his turn,
And F">lk eleventh, m we learn;
The twelfth is Taylor, people say;
The next we'll learn some future day.
arise*: txISiStir
~~ SrEECII OF LOT DOOLITTLE.
OH THE BILL FOK THE rBOTECTIO.V OF IIE.V-B006TS I
Mistur Speaker?I've sot here in my |
seat and hecred the opponents of this i
great noshunl measure, nnd expectorate j
again it, till I am party n gh busted with i
indignant commotions of my lacerated
sensibilities. Mistur Speaker, are it possible
that men can be so infatuated ns to
vote again this bill? Mistur Speaker, allow
me to pictur to your excited and denuded
imagination some of the heart
rendincr evils which nri :o fWww ? ?* 1
of purtection to hen-roosts, in my vicini- j
tv, among ray constituents. Mistur j
Speaker, we will suppose it to be the j
awful and melancholy hour of midnight ;
?all natur am hushed in deep repose? |
the solemn wind softly moans through ,
the waving branches of the trees, and
nought is heered to break the solemn- I
choly stillness, save an occasional grunt
from the hog pen! I will now carry '
your imagination to that devoted hen- '
house. Behold its peaceful and happy !
inmates gen'lv declining in balmy slum- |
bers on thei- elevated and nvvesiic roosts!
Look fit. t.llf nrri'A nml 11 1 t >
>nvi icimiiuiiunnu nignly
respect-ible roosVr, a* lie keen his
silent vigils with patience and unmitigated
watchfulness over those innocent,
helpless, and virtuous hens and pullets! i
Ju3t let your eyes glance around and hehold
that dignified and matronal hen,
who watches with tender solicitude and
paternal congratulation over those little
juvenile chickens, who crowd around j
their respectful projenitor, and nestle under
her circumambient wings. Now, I
ask, Mister Speaker, am there to lm found
a wrctch so lost and abandoned, as will ,
enter that peaceful and lmppy abode,
and tear those interesting little biddies,
from their agonized and heart broken parents
? Mistur Speaker, I answer in
thunder tones there am! Arc thar anything
so mean and sneaking as such a
robbery? No, thar are not. You may
search the wide universe from the natives
who repose in solitary grandeur and j
superlative majesty under thn /.f
r ? v" I
the tall cedars that grow upon the tops
of the Ilimmaleh mountains in the valley
cf Joscpliat, down to the degraded and
barbarous savages who re.-;pose in obscurity
in their miserable wigwams on the
rock of Gibraltar in the Gulf of Mexico,
and then you will be so much puzzled to
find anything so mean, as you would to
see the artli revolve around the sun once j
in twenty-four hours without the aid of a |
wiowope.
Mistur Speaker, I feel that I have said
enough on this Bubject to convince the
most obstinate member, of the unapproaohable
necessity of a law which shall
forever and everlastingly put a atop to
those faiol proceedings, find I proposethat
every convicted offender shall suffer
the penalty of the law, as follow*:
For the flint ofTence he sh;.*ll be obliged
to suck twelve rotten eggs, with no
salt on 'cm.
For the second ofTence li shall be obliged
tr set on twenty rotten eggs, until
he hatcnes 'em.
Mistur Speaker, all I want, is for every
member to act on this subject according*
to his conscientiousness. Let him do I
this and he will be remembered everlastingly
by a grateful posterity. Mister
Speaker, I've done.?Whore's my hat?
lilA ?
_v<v<|wuii ^Riuiemnn, according to I
the Boston Post's report, here donned his '
Mialcd-cap, and sat dov/n apparently
much exhautied.
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ETIQUETTE FOR GENTLEMEN.
In the column of the National Intelligencer
devoted to notes on New Pooks,
we find the following chapter from a now
work on etiquette:
in mc intercourse ol sociul lite the importance
of little things is very great.
Trifles ore capable of expressing a greater
degree both of regard and disregard
than larger actions. If you are attentive
in trivial affairs it is said your regard extends
even to the smallest considerations;
if you are neglectful in light and unimportant
matters, it is observed that you have
not enough respcct to be civil even in the
minutest concerns. That person who j
picked up the hat of Mr. Madison at the
flight of Bladensburg exhibited an abase- j
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ilium, yji na.Mury wnicn 11 wouia nave ucen |
I difficult to e/ceed ; and that minister who j
J refused to take up Napoleon's when he
dropped it in the council chamber ns a ;
test of the consideration he was held in,
displayed n thoroughness of indifference
which assured the Emperor that his fate
was sealed.
We shall here set down, without order
or connexion, somo points of ctinnctte
nro.f?SSnrv tn Iinnwn find nrnclicoil Kv
J v. , . V
him who would be well bred in manner.
At an evening party you should make j
a point of going all around the room, af
ter you have saluted the lady of the louse, !
and bowing to every lady with whom you
are acquainted. If, al.-o, in any public
room, or place of exhibition, you see any
person whom you know, you should go
and speak to them.
If you meet ladies or gentlemen whom
you do not know at a morning visit or a
small evening party, where you sit next
10 them and arc brought into contact
with them, converse with them with tho.
j same readiness and case as if you hud
known them nil your life. Moreover, if,
; in walking with one whom you are acquainted
with, there arc others in the j
group whom you do not know, you should
address them precisely on the same terms
on which you speak to your friend. On
such an occasion the topics should be
wholly free from embarrassment. A shy ;
or awkward demeanor towards strangers !
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HI Dlll-ll IJU^lllUU 13 IliU VUlli'llI II1?II tV U1 UUU
not familiar with the great world.
If you are presented to n lady at an
evening party you should cull upon her
soon after.
At an evening party never put a tea
cup, wine glass, glass of water, or cup of ,
lemonade back upon the same waiter'
from which you took it. That waiter will !
be handed to others, and it will be disa- I
greeable to them to survey an array of j
half empty cups and glasses, and perhaps |
inconvenient to distinguish which are
fresh and which have been u^ed. Another
waiter, in every respectable house, follows
the first one, for the purpose of receiving
the cups and glasses witli which
persons have done, and upon it alone
should they be placed.
When the servants are engaged in
handing ten or doing other special s-.in ice,
you should not withdraw any of them |
from that duty by sending (hem from (he I
room for an) thing elso?as for a gl;iss j
~ V in.:. ;
wi niubi) u Iiiutu U1 ICC. I I11S IS particularly
important at a small party, where
there are few servants; and where their
absence will be more inconvenient.
If, in walking, you meet a friend, accompanied
by one whom you do not
know, speak to both. Also, if you arc
j walking with a friend who speaks to a
friend, whom you are not acquainted with,
i you should speak to the person : and with
| as much respect and ease as if you knew
the party. If you meet a man whom
you have met. frequently before, who
knows your name, and whose name you
know, it is polite to salute him.
At dinner, there should not be much
conversation during the first course,
while the meats are receiving attention.
At least, during that season the remarks
which are made should be biief and quiet,
and not upon earnest or exciting topics.
Lon?c stories should be avoided, for the
listeners have other organs than the ear,
which they arc wishing to exercise at
that time. At a later part of the entertainment,
discourse is agreeable.
If you arc at a small party where tea
iii made in the room, you should not enter
into conversation with the lady who
presides at the table, and you should not
draw your chair close to her. She has
need of all her attention in arranging and
preparing the tea-waiters, and she also
requires room for bur arms.
"\Vhcn you take coffee, tea or soup at
tabic, you should make no noise in sup
ping, nor otncr unnftturnl smackings of
the mouth, for this is decidedly vulgar.
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George Buckhart of Harlan county,
(Ky.,) 13 one hundred and fou>'t?xiyt
years old, and lives in a hollow sycamore ?
tree. <
Health of the Atlantic Cities.?The j
deaths in Philadelphia for the past week (
were 13 8?of which 13 were by consump- ,
tion, and 3 by cholera asphyxia. j
The deaths in Boston for the
were 77?-of Which 17 were by consump- ]
tion, and 10 by scarlet fevers. ,
The deaths in New-York for the past ,
wctfk were 270?of which 40 were by (
con?umption, and 20 by cholera. ,
NEW WORK ON THE MEXICAN
WAIL
H. Judge Moorre, Esq. has prepared,
and now has in the course of publication,
to be issued from the Press of Nixon, in
Charleston, a new work on the Mexican
war. It will be ready for delivery to
subscribers by the first of August next.
\Ye have not examined th-.* manuscript of
Mr. Moore, but entertain great confidence
that bis work will prove an agreeable and
instructive one. We had the pleasure
of receiving several letters from him
whilst he was in Mexico as a Private in
the Palmetto Regiment, and his talents
as a writer were richly displayed in the
fine descriptions of the events of which
he wrote. Mr. Moore, we venture to say,
has not neglected the lesser and more retired
pn' -sof the grand drama in which
he acted a part, but his pnges will be
found replete with descriptions of man- '
ncrs and habits of the' Mexicans, as well 1
as with the more exciting topics of mar- !
chos, sieges and battles.
Mr. Moore is a native citizen of Greenville,
and a man of talents. We wish 1
great success to his work. It must oc- i
cur to many as something remarkable,
that Greenville District has had two citizens
Ministers Plenipotentiary to Mexico,
and two who have wiitten books of great
celebrity already on that country, and
now Mr. Moore will be the third author
on Mexico who hails a?*& citizen of G rcenville.
We wish that he may eclipse the
fame of both his predecessors, (the Hon.
J. R. Poinsett and Gen. W. Thompson,)
eminent as they are, and wake up, after
llis J100U i? mililiclmrl o.-x.
^M>/?iauvvi) OUUl^ 1UW1 V<4? I
Byron did) and find himself famous, nor
fail in a more substantial reward than
glory. The time hns passed when it can
be said that glory alone is the reward of
genius, and that those who deserve it
pcorn all meaner things.? Greenville
Mountaineer.
AS IT SHOULD BE.
The French in Rome.?A correspondent'
of the Herald, writing from Rome, gives '
an account of the release of the French:
prisoners of war, and the subsequent frn- |
ternal escort that was given them. The j
French had their swords returned to j
them, an'J were conducted into the town j
to a collation. Some of them expressed j
themselves with a good deal of feeling, J
nil ^ ? 1
uuu u?i uviu u;nij;iCU'/ij' ulCSllUltt'U. UlIR.
Ave*antio shook hands with most, and
thcv were embraced by many of the Italian
officers. In a short time, General Avczzanno
went with his staff to join them
in the Corso, where the French soldiers
were collected, and in friendly conversation
with crowds of Romans, some of
whom were offering them cigars, some
giving bread, and others taking them to
drink wine. It was delightful to see with
what good-will and alacrity the Romans
responded to the generous and noble in
tiuiuim ui nit government, i nc military
band played the Marseilles, ard then
a Frenchman, who bad a good deal of
eloquence and writes for some of the
French papers, was requested by the officers
to address the people from the bal- I
cony of the restaurant; and he thanked j
mem, in the mo3t expressive terms, for
the noble conduct shown to his fellow
countrymen, and he was received with
most rapturous applause from the people,
and cries of " Vive la Republic Romoine /"
from the French soldiers in the street.
The late prisoners were then conducted
in procession, most of them arm in arm
with Romans, to the gates of the city :
but as thev nnr.spil K"
?I "J ? wuy
went in of their own accord, and, before
the grand altar, knelt down and swore
never to serve again against the Itoman
republic.
[/*Vom the JBaltiviore
Alexandria, June 5?G p. m.
Much cxcitement prevails here this
evening, originating in the recent division
of the members of the Methodist. Episcopal
Church on the subject of slavery, and
the organization of two official bodies.
This aft?rnoon the only church of that
denomination, in the city, was taken possession
of by the officers of that pprtion
of the church officiating with the cnurch
south, who clnim to be the legal representatives
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
and entitled to the building.
The question will d ubtless be thrown
into court fur adjudication. B.
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Accident at Niagara Falls.?A distressing
accident, is stated to have occurred
at tho Falls of Niagara, a few days
ago, in conseriucnce of three men attempting,to
CVO<U? f.VlA rtvor in n olrlfi"
As they ncared the middle of the river,
the gttscrer.t which at present is unusually
fwpid in consequence of the projection
of the coffer dams on cither Bide, speedily
overpowered their efforts to resist it, and
rising, aa if to view the inevitable death
before them, they w.ve swept, stern on
into the rapids. Their boat, tossing from
one rock to another, in a few momenta
was seen to capsize ; the men rose, clinging
to the gunwales, and were hurried
>n, until an opposing rock daahed the
boat into fragment*. Two disappeared
?b wnuc; tne vuwr wi? m'cn or?<5t, the
v&ttr to his knee*, but in a moment af- i
er hu was hurled down and seen no ]
nore. i
INDIAN CORN.
In the raising of Indian corn, some
experiments htuo been made which have
produced singular results. Mr. Fowler
of Ohio, planted n hnlf acre of ground
with throe different kinds of com?half
ncre of China, half acre of yclow gourd
seed, half acre of white flint. The result
of the crop was seventy-three and a half
ousneis ol shelled corn from the China,
mty-six and a half of the white Hint, nnd
fifty-four from the gourd seed. The result
was beyond anything before raised
in Northern Ohio, and so much in favor of
the China corn, that he has ever)' year
since planted it When he commenced
with this corn, it was a flint com, from
seven years' use, it has become so closely
allied to gourd seed that the kernel is
very much dented, nnd the cars from 12
to 'JO rows; the same remarks hold good
in relation to the Hint. From sixteen
years' cultivation and acquaintance, it
seems to bear no similarity to its species
sixteen years ago: it was then an eight
rowed flint corn; it is now some sixteen
to twenty rows gourd seed; which demonstrates
the fact that thi; climate changes
the species of corn from one kind to
that of an other.?Pittsburg Visiter.
Pcnrarrr t v*fo%f tT).
> >.vuaii?a.<ia? 1.1 II1B JDUlt'ltVAKU.
A Gloucester (Eng.) paper says: "There
is a lad in a brickyard who walks, or rather
inns, over a space of ground equal
to sixty miles daily. Nor is the space
travelled, by any means, the most arduous
portion of his task ; for he has to c?\rry,
during thirty miles of his journey, a
mould or hod, containing wet clay, weighing
together more than 12 lbs., and for
the other thirty miles he has to carry
back the empty mould, weighing 4 lbs..
and he has stoop and pick up the
mould 110 less than six thousand times !
What is the gatJwnng of a hundred
stones in a single TfMir, compared to the
unintermitting exertion of this poor overworked
boy, whose labor in running,
stooping, and lifting, is continued for
eighteen hours in succession, during
which time he removes upwards of twenfour
tons of wet clay ? Prodigious as all
this npnears, we have the authority of
the boy s employer, that the fact is literally
as stated above, and further, that it
is not a solitary performance, but has
been done for five successive days during
the present week. The daily earnings by
this amount of labor are stated to be
half-ci-croum /"
Fatal Casualty.?About *ix o'clock
on Saturday, a distressing casualty occurrcd
upon the steamer Chnthnm in our river.
Messrs. William II. Guglc and
James Poince were together in the cabin
of the boat, when the former, taking up
a riflo standing in a comcr for the purpose
of examining it, not Knowing that it was
loaded or cocked, accidentally discharged
ilo it-- 1---J -r .1 ? ..
ii.i v-v?iii^hio iiuu tuu iicuu oi me inner,
killing him instantly. We learn that tho
same rifle had been snapped several times
during the morning ana had not gone off,
and that under all the circumstances not
the sligh est reproach attaches to Mr.
G ugle. 11 has been with him one of those
great misfortunes which sometimes befall
men, but for which they are not accountable.
The verdict of the Inquest was of
course?death by accident.?Savannah
Georgian.
STOPPING NEWSPAPERS.
A class of conceited, touchy people,
who stops a newspaper on account of any
petty paragraph that displeases them,
are cleverly ridiculed by an exchange as
r~n nn- - ? i ? * *
iwiiuwa. anc pnruoie snou.a oc kept before
the people:
"A certain man hit his toe agninst a
pebble stone and fell headlong to the
ground, lie was vexed, and under the
influence of anger and acti*.*e self-sufficieney,
he kicked old mother earth right saucily.
With imperturbable gravity, he
looked to see, 'the vast globe itself dissolved'
and co uo to nought. But tho
earth remained, and only his poor foot
woo ?** * mt_?
...? iiijuiuu iii uiu i ih IUUIUT. 1111S IS
the way of man. An article appears in
the newspaper touching him in a weak
place, ana straightway ho sends word to
stop his paper. With great self-complacency,
he looks on to see a crush, wnen
the object of his spleen shall cease to be.
Poor fool, he has only hit his own toe
Hgamsi a world trmt does not perceptibly
feel the shock, and injures, to no extent,
any one hut himself.
Troops to tub Rio OnANDE.?Tho
President of tho United Suites has it is
stated, ordered troops to proceed forth-with
to the Rio Grande, to protect the
inhabitants from the Indians, who, it will
be recollected, have committed a number
of murders and robberies in that section
of country.
Atrocious Muntmi.*?The Charleston
Mercury of Monday last, says:
"James Morrison, a watchman at the
West Point Mills, on the Southwestern
border of the city, was murdered on Saturday
night last."
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A nhocmaker may be cousidercd ua entirely
done up who is compelled to pawn
his boot tree?, for he has then evidently
rom^ to his fat flogs,
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j Ninety Thousand. Land Warrants have
j been issued to soldiers who served in tho
Mexican war, giving away to them as a
bounty thirteen million eight hundred
thousand acres. Estimating the value of
this land at one dollar and twenty-five
cents an acre, we have an aggregate^ of
seventeen million two hundred and thirty
thousand dollars.
Europe in 1849.?Our regular Paru
correspondent in a private note relating to
some little matters of business, drojw the
following remarks: "This /ear will, I
think, be more eventful and extraordinary
in Europe than the last. Your commercial
relations may be more and more
disturbed. Never were the destinies of
France more uncertain.?Jour. Com.
A Great 9tatk.?Horace Greely, writing
from Ohio, says that fifty years o^o
the first white settlement was made in
I Ohio. She now litis a population of two
millions, nnd before the close of the prcsj
ent century, according to the present rate
ofincrea.se, will have ten millions. Threefourths
of Ohio is yet a forest. Her min!
oral resources are untouched, and manufactures
in their infancy.
"John," said his master to a man one
day, "they really say that ycur wife beats
you. Is it true?" "Yoy !" drawled John,
with the most provoking coolness. "What
do you mean by that, you lout ? A great
thumping fellow like you, ns strong as a
steam engine or an elephant, to let a little
woman like your wife thrasli you! What
a blockhead you must be !' "Whoy,
wlioy," was the patient reply, "it pleases
her, and it does me no hurt."
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Calves Heads and Ox tails are in Eng
land considered as delicacies; and if our
butchers would save them for sale, they
would be certain never to lose money,
as they would then make both ends meat.
Number of of emigrants arrived at Boston
week before last, was one thousand
two hundred and ninety-five.
Not cholera Hick, nor cholora dead; .
Dut from tLo flight of cholera Hod.
Tho Virginia Legislature, alarmed at
their own fears have adjourned to tho
Warrenton Springs. ^
Democratic Review.
GREATLY REDUCED PRICE,
From 86 to $3 per annum.
Enlargement of the Number by one-fifth
the reading matter.
SINGLE COPY TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.
rROSrrerVS OF THE TWENTY-rOURTU YOLl'MK.
The Twenty-fourth Volume of the
Democratic Review t>roceed9 to its read
ers under different auspices from those
which have smiled upon its progress hitherto.
New arrangement have become
necessary, internally, as well as renewed
exertions to promote its welfare externally.
The unfortunate divisions of the party
have resulted in a reverse more severe
than any that has been experienced tor
many terms. The outgoing administration
leaves the country in every position
?politically, territorially, commercially
and financially, more renowned, more ex
lenaea, more prosperous, nnd in liigncr
credit than it had ever beforo attained-?
The prosperity which pervades the country,
and the glory that surroundc flaJ?
are mainly, it not entirely, due to those
sound principles clearly recognised by an
American public, and carried to their fulfilment
through the steady loyalty of the
Democratic Party.
That schisms have been created hv
signing men, aa dangerous to party ascendency
as to national welfare, affords
additional reasons for more rigorous exertions,
the cultivation of a spirit of forbearance,
nnd that self sacrificing patriotism
which has for so long a period been
a distinguishing feature of- democracy.-?
For whatever of evil ma spring from federal
ascendancy, those who defeated the
democratic party by heartless desertion
in its hour of trial must be held accountsII
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Die ; nnu wo doubt not that November,
1852, will witness a retribution that will
be more terrible to false friends than to
open foes.
The accustomed features of the Review
will be continued, including Jforlraits
and Biographies of dUlingwtfwt
Democrats?men whose patriotic principles
and steadiness of purpose have wot*
the confidcnce of the people,
We have to remind our readers that
the low terms on which, we ffunrish the
lie view makes it indispeiuable that the
navment. nf -1?' 1 **
f J OMUIIIU i>e
in advanck ; and that the expenditure
incurred to improve the work can he met
only by iho prompt remittance of subscriptions.
N. B.?All communications will hereafter
be addressed to the Editor, office of
the Democratic Review, 170 Broadway,
New York. '
THOS. PMINTICEKMTKLt.
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Look at thia!
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a us urm 01 rnomp?oi\?i&?th Having
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do well to coil and settle with V
B M KEim
May 18, 1840. 1 it