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Day
9
Month
October
Year
1843
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Public Domain
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Beer Drinking in England ''Everyhody Irinks beer in Encfland. I have astonished vaiters in two or tliree instances, by asking or waler. When you scat yourself at a tale in a Ci'fíl'e Room or Steak House for Dinerend have ordered your "joint," or "steak," r "chopj' the waiter inqaires, "Hale, Porter or Stout eir1" If in place of these natio nal )evernges, you reply Water, he either laughs n your face or turns away wondering vvhere uch a wild chnp could have been cnitght. - StüW that I have seen sonielhing of English ïabits, I am astonishsd that Miss Marlineau ïould huve decmed the circumstancethat two r three American women whom shc met vere not all for Iove, but a little for the bott!e," vorthy of rema rk. The drinking of Hale, 'orter, and Stout, is universal here, with the emales of the poorer classes, when they can et it, nnd with those of the better classes of mechanics, females, people and shopkeepers. Vhile at dinner, in Birmingham, it was ol.erved by all of us, that the ladies (a dozenj i table, drank porier as if they were thirsty, nd as if itdid thcm good. The lady opposd to me, who was well dressod and well edcated, disposed of nearly an entire bottle. You meet ladies at every turn of the streets n London "the rubric of whote faces show the brines at which ther kneel." I have met adies at Exhibition Rooms, v)ho6e fiey faces entitled them to the distinction of béng classed with Shakspeare's "knights of the lurninz lamp." And you find every sidevalk blocked up with lusty ladies, who are inebted for their rubicund faces and rotund crsons, to habitual drinking 1 yestorday sat n an omnibus with an old lady and gentleman, evidently of the wealthy class, the latter f whom was a victim to gout, while the for ler displayed a face and a nose, the maintainnce of which had cost as much as Fallstaff paid for ''sack" to keep Bardolph's salamander in firc. - Weed' s LetterGlass.-Tús was for a long time bel ieved to be a modern nvention. Within fifty years, four quarto volumes were written in Italy to prove, in opposition to tbe aesertions of Pliny, - tbat the articlc was unknown to the ancients; and on the very day on wbich these volumes were published, a warehouse was opened m Pompeii, filled with cut, wrought and stained glasé, far more beauüful and perfect than are now manf;ictured. There h glass found, too, among the ruins of Central America. In the Museun of Florence I haveseen a piece of glass which was long supposed to be a gem, an inch square by a quarter of an inch thick, on which were rrprcsented birds which could be 6een equally well on both sides of it, and their plumnge so perfect that Ihe microscope sliows n it no fault and no want of finish; ani Ihough apparently a mo8aic, it is impossible to detect where or how it is put together, There is a small vase, too, surrounded by figures of vvomen with children playing on their laps; also perfect on both sides-,'- and the art of making them so is now not only unknown to us, but wecaunot even imngine how it could be done. Their dresses and the curls of their huir were perfect. - Pliny trlls us of a drinking gluss, .vhich could be folded up soas to occupy a smnll spac?, and which was destroyed, and its construction kept a secrel by its inventor, because his monarch would nol offer him what be considered a sufficient sum for its invention. The modern?, with all their arts, cannot equnl the beautiful stained gla6s of the middle ages, inferior as this was to that of Egypt. - Wendall Philips Address. A Cool Reception. - The papers by the Margaret, at Halifox, state that a meeting of the Repeal Association, at Dublin, on the 7th August, a gentleman who had for snme time been sitting near Mr. O'Connel handed his card to Mr. Sleele and requestod an introduction to the great agitator. Mr. Steele accordingly presented the card, and intimated that James Gordon Bennett, of New York, was present. Mr. O'Connell replied - lHe is a person loith ichom I have nothmg to do. He is the editor of the JYew York Herald, oiie of the most inamous gaztttes everprinted, and I shali have nothing to say to him." - Mr. Bennef, not feelmg greatly fiattered by ihis reception, made his way to the door, as quickly as he could, smid the groans and his- ses of the meeting. Ove nvhelming Argument - Dr. Lathrop in one of hissermons, s&ys, 'iif it were true that there is do God, what evidence can the Atheist have, that he shall not exist and be miserable after deaf h? How carne he to exist at all? Whatever was the cause of his existence here, mny be the cause of his existence hereaftcr. Or, if there is no cause, he may exist without a cause in another staie as well as in this. - And if his corrupt heart and nnnminnhlp wnrt make him so unhappy here, that he would rather be ann'hilated than run the hazard of a future existence, what hinders but he may be unhappy forever? The mnn, then, is a fooi, who wisheb there were no God, hoping thus to be secure trom future misery, for admitting here were no God,still he may exist hereafter as well as here: if he does exist, his corrupions and vices may render him miseiable eternally, as well as for the present," Mechantes in Congress. - Of the members elected to Congress from Teniesee, three ai e mechanics; - G. VV. Jones is a saddler, J. W Blackwell is acoppersmith and Andrew ohnson is a tailor - James Whitcomb the Govrnor elect in Indiana, is the son of a poor armer, who was unobletogive him a common ducalion; Jesse D. Bight is the son of a hat er in Madson; Col. Smith, the Congressman rom Dearbon district, is a tanner: Andrew iennedy was a blncksmith, John Pettit a tone masón; W. J. Brown a tavern keeper in Rushville; Thonas J. Henly a poor farmers son: Joseph A. Wright ued to gather and sell walnuts, to pay for his schooling in Bloomington. - JYeio York Sun. Invcnlion. - The Niles Republicnn sfates that Mr. Samuel Elhridge, of Coldwater, formely a member of our State Senate, hns invented a patent Piek for dressing mili stones. It does not require the aid of a Blacksmith lo keep it in repair, and can be afforded to the millers at one fourth of the expense of the Qd-fashioned picks. Each piek is furnished with twelv.e points to a stock or head. The points are 5è inches long, tempered to cut burr stone without breaking, by a process known to the patentee. The Republican thinks that the saving to the milling interest will be a very great from ibis invention. Intemperance in JYao Orleans. - A New Yorker, visiting New Orleans, says he does not know whether n. visitor is ïuost surprised by the desecration of the Sabbatb, or by intemperance, a'though in both these there has been a chnnge for the betrer. The number of establishments for the sale of intoxica! ing liquors is astonishing. He says, "You will find them not only 8t the corners, but occuping the most conspicuous places in the hotels, auction rooms, the Exchange , one side of the Post Office, and each served by ihree, four, or five men, constantly employed." The Journal of Commerce states that the feesofthe Clerk in the District Court, in Bankruptcy cases, have amounted to fifty thousand dollars, and those of the assignee( Mr. Waddell, to one hundred thousand, while the Courier has received over twenty thousaud for advertisements. Iron Ships, are al! the go in Liverpool; sixteen or seventoen being in process of conslruction, and not one wooden oue1 1 More of Southern Moráis.- We fiad an í i exhibition thus advertiscd in tho New Orleans Picayune. , Jackass, Dog and Buil Fight, at Gretna. -The public is most respcctfully informed ■ that a fight wil! come offat Gretna on Sunday, ■ the 13th inst., at 4o'clock, P. JVI., between a wild Attakapas bnll and some bull-dogs,also, a fight between a jackass and some dogs. - Admission 30 cents. Persons bring ing dogs to fight wi] be admitted free. Ten dollars reward will be paid to the owner of the dog that whips the buil. Ludicrous - To see men who advocate the eleciion to the Presidency of that notorious Sabbath breaker, slaveholder & duellist,Henry Clay, thrown into spasms of terror lest the Sabbath should be desecrated by Gerrit Smith's reasoning of rightcousness, in the full conviction that 'a man is better than a slieep.' 'Oh for a party parscn power, to chant Thy praise, Hypocriey!' Cure for the Piles.- Mix one teble spoonfnl of eulphur wilh half a pint of milk to be faken the last thing every day, until favorable symptoms appear and then occasionally, as the case may require. The above is a cheap, a simple, but most infallible cure for that most painful and unp]easant disorder. It has been used with complete success in oíd and invetérate cases where individuáis had spent scores of dollars in medical advice. h is equally as useful as a prevenhve. It will injure none, and only once requires a trial. Men of Letters and Men of Business. - Literalure alonp, in this country, will never . give a man a living. He must work for it in another way - vide: Mr. Halleck, the poet, is a millionaire man of business; Mr. Sprague, author of 'Curiosity," a Bank Cashier; Mr. Bryant is a political editor: Mr. C. F. HofFman, the novelist, is a Custom House officer; Mr. Irving is United States Minister at Madrid, and Mr. Cooper is a standing plaintiff in libel suits. Receipts fiom the Central Railcoad for the month of Sept. 1843: Amount received from passengers, $3,426 11 Amount received for freight, 15,541 79 Amount received frora other sources, 60 $24,027 80 24,553 barrels of flour were brought over the road lo Detroit, during the month. The receipts tor the corresponding month in 1842, were 18,768 58 Gen. Cass states that the pay of the French soldier, "after making the deductions that go to the Government for indispensable supplies amounts to one cent a day, or twenty-five dollars and a half for SRven years' service! - What munificence! Yet the service is popu r lar, uuii tie uvvv men yearly öemanüeü by the conscription are readily supplied. At an snti-slavery meeting, not long sir.ee, a Lecturer, of jet black complexion, in giving a catalogue of the robberies which sJaveholders impose upon the skve said, 'they are robbing vs of our color.1 Tlúe speaks volumes in relation to the tendency of the 'peculiar institution.' What has the church to do with it?- Ci. Palladium . The navy ofñcers who have been walkine our streets for years a re now, underthe rigid administ-ation of the new secretary, compelled to go to sen, nolens volens. Some have been ashore and idle, drawing their pay for twenty years. It is quite time they should óo something for their wages. They consid - er it very hard though - some of them - Phil. Times. A Machine to SpeaJc. - One M. Faber, of Germany, has mvented a machine that aclually speaks, sings, Sec. The ihroat and its organs are copied closely from the human original, and are made of gum elastic. The so'inds are produced by the action of keys, and a pair of bellows. - Bost. Bet. Varnish for Boots and Shoe?, by which they are rendered Watei proof . Takeapint of linsecd oil, with half a pound of mutton suct, six or eight ounces of bees wax, and a smaJl piece of rosin. Boil all these in a pipkin, and let the lifjuid cool, till milk warm- then with a brush lay it on boots or shoes. - The leather must be perfectly dry. Libel Suit.-Mr. Talbot Watts has been held to bail in the sum of $500, in New York, to answer the charge of a wanton and malicious libel on William T. Longworth, by posting the following placa rd on his door: - '1 hereby post William T. Longworth. as a rogue, a liar, and a coward. Talbot Watts." Post Ojice. - The growth of our country is illustraied in nothing, more, tban in the extensión of the Post Office department. In 1790, ihe entire Post Office route, was only 7,375 miles; Receipts, $37,035; Expenditures, $32,140. In 1840, the route was, 84,996,526 miles; the Receipts were, $4,379,319; the Expenditures, $4,627,716. Gov. Doty of Wisconsin Territory, has issued a proclamation recommending to the people of said Territory to vote, at the electiort on thefourth Monday of this month, for or against the formation of a permanent Government for the State of Wisconsin. The Governor expresses the, opinión that there are moie than sixty thousand inbabittnts in the Teritory. The whigs have got a majority of Congressmen in only three States, viz: Vermont.Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. And Vermom and Massachusetls never will go for Clay.A contrast. - We lcarn from tlic eöitor of tlie Hamüton Intelligencor, that the subject of slavery had been under discussion in the Cmcinnati Synod of the Presbyterian church, for three daj's, lip to the date of his writing. President Ju.nkins uf Oxfon'. made a speech nine hours long, to prove that slavery was sustained by the Bible, and was replied to by Rev. T. E. Thomas of Hamilton. Dr. Junkina has noteven the poorapology of having been born in a elave state, to offer in behalf of his pro-slavery notions. While this reverend Doctor is advocating slavery, in Ohio, Cassius M. CJay, a duellist, ia denouncing it, asa curse, in the very heart of Kentucky!- Philanthropisl. The Queen of England is on a vUit to the Royal family of Prance, by invitation of the French King. It is the first time for three hundred years Ihal the two families have thus met. An account of her journeyings and reception are given very minutely in the papers. Prince Albert accompanied her. Australia - We have a correspondent, who resides nearly opposite to us on the other side of the globe, aDd who occasionally supplies us wifh a packoge of newspapers. A recent arrival has brought a file of the Sydney Heraid - a daily paper published at Sydney on the continent of New Holland- filled witb the politics, literature, science, morales fashions, commerce, finance, legislation, judicial proceedings, improvements, discoveries, and every thinjr else appertaining to the paradise to which her majesty Queen Victory transporta her surplus population . - Couricr. Good. - The entire commtinity of emigrams at Oregon have excluded ardent spirits from their settlements. The Hudson Bay Fur Company heartily second tbem in their laudable work. Tliomas Clarkson, the well known antislavery advocate, is 93 years of age, occupies a farm near Ipswich, Eng., of S60 acres, and has written 123 work of various kinds, mostly on slavery. In Ireland, the proportion of Roman Cath olies to Protestants, in the whole populatiop, ís understood to be as six or seven to one, while the real property owned by Protestants is to that owned by Roman Catholics neorly as five to one. Abram Marble of Illinois, has constructed; a "carriage to be propelled by wind, for the purpose of carrying heavy burdensand breaking prairies, and the like."

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