General Intelligence

JYicknames. - There is scarcpjy n more dis- gusting practice than that to wbich the two great politica] parties of thia country have given the!r sanction - the practice of giving nicknames. The other day we saw the following in a Democratie paoer. "A Whig and fns Sön. Father didn't you say nono but vulgar, low bred people made use of nicknamesV Yes my son.' 'Then vvhat r very vulgar) low-bred set the Whig editorS must be - they cali the Democrats locojocog, which is n nickname!" It's high time you were in bed, my son!' Suppose we parody this. A Dehochat akd mis So'. Didn't you say none but vulgar, Iow-bread people made use of nicknamesV Yes, lijy son." "Then what a very vulgar low-bred set the Democratie editors must be - they cali the Whigs, coont, which is a niekname." "True, my son they should leave such black guardism to their opponents." It is common in the papers of both parties, to see the election returns se't down under these vulgar ñames - Locofoco, Coons. What a picture for foreignfirs to contémplate! Were it not for the sanction siven to the practice by respectable 'papers of both parties, it would soon cease. They and they alone nre responsible for its continuance. - Cincinnati Heraïd. Railroad Churn . - A gentleman in Georgia inteuds as soon ns the raüroad is completed to the State Itoad, to establish a niilk market in Cass county, when t!ie new milk will be put into largre tin cans, Contnlning about forty gallons each, to be mode with spring bottoms, and ingeni-msly contrived pacJdles or arms wifhin, so that the simple jarring or motion of the care will perform the process of churning; and new milk ere it rcaches its place of destinalion, will be converted into fresh butter and butler milk. The cars will run from Cass to the city of Charleston in 18 hours; thus the citizens will reccive Rn ampie supply of the best iresh butter,daily, at a reduced price, made from sweet milk, brought near 400 miles, all within 24 hours from the time it is taken from the cow. This 's a nove) mode of making butter, and should it prove successful milk cans will be suspended to all the railroads in the country. Who doubts the ingeniUy of Americans? Truly ibis is "a great country' - True Sun. War the most eiyensive way of getling what we want. - In a letter to his sister, (1788) Franklin says, "I agree with you pcrfectly in your disaprobation of War. Abstracted from the inhumanity of it, I think it wrong in point of human providence; (br it wou!d be much cbeaper for a nation to purchase with ready money whalever advantages thoy desire of another, than to pay the expenses of acquiring them by war. An army is a devouring monster, and, when you have raised it you have not only the fair charges of pay, clothing provieions, arms ani amnninition, togcther with n'irnberless other contingent and just demands, to answer and eatisfv; but you have all the additional knavish charges of the r.nmerous tribe of contractors o defray, with those ofevery other decler who furnishes articles wnnted for an army, and iiikes advantnge of that went todemand exorbitant prices." Whigs and Demacráis.- -While the Whigs at the North are claiming the credit of being, ■parettdnen.ee, the friends of the colored men, their brethren at the South seem resolved l hut the Democrats alone shall have the honor. The Liouisvüle Journal says- "(EGov. Morton, of Massnclnipetts, one of the chiefpets of Northern and Southern Locofocoism, thinks tliat negroes have a right to ride side by side with ladies ond gentlemen in railroaü cars and other public conveyances, 1 and that the law ought to secure them from molestation in theenjoyment of that right." The Journal editors lh ought thpy might I be shocked at the presence of a genteel colored man who had paid Jus fare, would not have the slighest objection to the proximity of a neorro, with the brand "SLAVE" UDon him