Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-03-02

eats with knife and fork, and drinks coffee or tea with his breakfast. Pass to the banks of the Arkansas, and the wigwams of the West; and there the man is civilized who wears blanket-drinks water, (runl is the offspring of civilization,) and sleeps on the ground. There the ciUiHzed lady bores holes Tn her nose, and suspends her ornaments to that very respectable organ-Aere the refined lady bores holes ill her cars for a similar pur- pose. What is there, abstractedly, more ci- . vilized in the ears than in the nose? And yet we laugh at the squaw in her blanket and with her nasal ornaments, and call her a sa- wage!
 Agah-Mr Brown comes down from Buff talo and meets his old friend, Mir Smith, in Broadway. Their right hands instantly meet, and a violent shaking ensues. "What are those men fighting about?" says the dark son ot tropical Africa, to his white friend. ssFight- ing! pooh! They are old friends that have not met for long time, and they are express ing their good will toward, each other by shaking hands," "What barbarians! why in my country, when two friends meet, they rub their noses together" ;" ''What savages!'' says the white man.
 The CgrcmOnious ...r Fitzgerald meets t,,,. courtly MT Clarence, and each raises his beaver. "What does that mean?" says Has san Oglou. eve are saluting each other" IS the reply. 'What ridiculous custom," says Hassan. "ln my country we salute by clapping both hands on the forehead, and ma king low salaam" sWhat barbarians!' exclaims the Congoes, |" in n,y land, when ever two gentlemen meet, they snap the thumb and fore finger together at each other. ''How ludicrous!" says the white man. Spi- Tit of common sense! will thou deign to tell us whether the manners and customs of any | CF those of the others.
 | The Persian pulls his meat to pieces with his fingers, and eats horse flesh. ssShock-
 ing, says the New Yorker, as he sets down to game dinner, to dish of bears neat The Indian cooks his rattle snake much to the horror of brother Jonathan who break lasts on stewed eeis. The Abyssinan cuts a steak from his COW, sews the skin over the wound, and lets the animal go about her business, till another fit of hunger leads him to cut another slice. "Thc unfeel- ing wrctch!" cries the European butcher, as he sticks pig in the throat, and looks com placently on the expiring grunter. The Moor ish lady stains her hair and the ends of her fingers with saffron. ''Dear me, how strange" says lady Barbara Belle, and away she goes to her toilette, to rouge for the evening ball. The Chinese woman congresses her feet in to the length of paper of tobacco. The fair parpatetic of Broadway laughs at the absurd custom, and screws her waist to the dimensions of Spanish cigar. The Turk goes to market and buys half dozen wives "The brute!" exclaims the civilized beauty of fashionable life, and marries the richest suitor that she carfnd.
 Now then, have we not satisfactorily prov ed, that civilization consists in our way of doing things, that barbarian consists in 10th ,1so,. .f T J~s, mon sense answer--.N r. Staudard, - 
 The Journal of the Literary and Scientific , Convention, which sat some months ago, at New-York, has been published in that city. The Evening Post says of it:-We have rare
 y seen volume printed on this side the wa l ter, with more neatness and beauty. It con- . tains, among the addresses and communca- tions made to the Convention, many papers, not hitherto published, which will be read , with interest by scholars There is an ap- pendix to the Journal, consisting of six arti- , cles, on various topics connected with the sub , ject of education. Among them is an Outline , of the History of Education in Spain, by Pro
 lessor Pizarro, of St. Mary's College, Balti- more; and a paper on the Organization of a University, by Dr. Wolfe, of Hamburg.
 Moore's Byron.-The National Gazette furnishes
 
 Byron contained ill the second volume of Moore's Byron just published:
 "With regard to poetry in general am convinced the more think off that he and all of us-Scot couthey, Wordsworth, Moore, Campbell, and I;-are l all in the wrong, one much as the other; that We l are upon wrong revolutionary poetcal system, ol n systems, not worth damn in itself and from which none but Rogers and Crabbe free and that the
 present and next generations will finally be of thi. opinion. am the more confirmed in this by having
 lately gone over some of classics, particularly Pope, whom ] tried in this way:-I took Moore. poems and my own and some others, and went ovel them side by side with Pope's and was really as tonished q ought not to have been so) and mortified at the neffabe distance in point of sense, learning
 effect and even imagination, passion, and inrenton
 between the little Queen Anne's man, and us of tht t Lower Empire. Depend upon it, it is all Horace then, and Claudian now, among us and if had tt
 begin again would mould myself accordingly
 Crabbe's the man, but he has got coarse and i'm = practicable subject and is retired upon halfpay o and has done enough, unless he to do he dt e formerly"
 e "At soree of the learned madame As (at Ve j. nce) the conversation happening to turn, one eve l. ming, upon the statute of Washington by Canova d which had been just shipped off for the U States - Madame A., who was then engaged in compiling s Description RaisOnnce of Canvas works, and wa
 anxious for information respecting the subject of thi : statute, requested that some of her learned guest Il would detail to her all they knew fhim. This tasl Signor ****** (author of book on geography an, . statistcs,) undertook to perform, and after som
 other equally sage and authentic details, conclude, . by informing her that Washington was killed in t duel by Burke What, said I, in the name of fol y, are you all thinking of2'I recoected the famou duel between Hamilton and Col Burr, whom it wa evident, this learned worthy had confounded witt Washington and Burke p
 "Leghorn, 1822.-Since I am here have beer
 invited on board the squadron, aud treated with al . nnsslhlA hOnnr and Ithnrr ln..n nnnIn.