The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1831-02-03

TO the banks of the Arkansas. end the c
wigwams Of the West; and there the
man is civilized who wears a blanket I
---drinks water, (rum is the offspring
Of civilization and sleeps on the ground.
There the cirihzed lady bores holes in
her nose, and suspends her ornaments
to thatvery respectable organ---hore the
refined lady bores holes in her ears
for similar purpose. What is there, 4
more civilized in the ears
than in the nose. Yet we laugh at the
sauaw in her blanket aud with her ma
sal ornaments, and call her savage
Again.--Mr. Brown comes down
from Buffalo aud meets his old friend
Mr. Smith, in Broadway. Their right
hands instantly meet, and a violent
shaking ensues. "Whnt arc those men
fighting about" says the dark son of
tropical Africa, to his white friend.
Fighting pooh! They are old friends
that have not met for "a long time, and
they are expressing their good will tow
ards each other, by shaking hands
What barbnrians! why in my country,
when two friends meet, they rub their
noses together" "What savages''
says the white man.
The ccremonious Mr.. Fitzgerald
meets the courtly Mr.. Clarence, and
each rises his beaver. "What does
that mean?' says HAssAN OGt.oU. "Wc'
are salutang each other''is the reply,
"What a ridiculous custom, says Has
SAN, ''inmy country, we salute by clap
ping both hands on the forehead, and
making low salaam." "What bar
barians ~ exclaims the Congoose, sin
my land, whenever two gentleman
meet they snap the thumb and fore fin
ger at each her."-'sIIow ludicrous!"
says the white man. Spirit Of COM
mon sense wilt thon deign to tell us
whether the manners and customs of
any one Of the three are more ridicu-
Ious than those of the others!
The Persian pulls his meat to PFC
ces with his fingers, g. eats horse flesh.
Shocking, "says the New-Yorlser, as
4 he sets down at game dinner, to a
iish ofbear's meat. The Indiaa cooks
his rattlc-snake much 10 the honor of
brother jonathan who breakfasts on
stewed cells, The Abyssinian cuIs a
| steak from his COW, sewsihc skin over
the wound, and lets the animal go a
bout her business, iisi another fit OF
hunger leads him to cut another slice.
"The unfeei,ng wretch ~ cries the Ea-
ropean butcher, as he sticks pig in
the throat, and looks complacently on
the expiring gr,mier. The Moorish
liaiy stains her hair and the ends other
fingers with saffron. "Dear me, hew
strange e'ssys lady Barbabfa Belle,
aud away she goes to hes toilette, to
rouge for the evening asu. The Chi
nese woman congresses her. feet to-
| the length of paper Of tobacco. The
fair peripatetic of Broadway laughs at
the absurd custom, and screws her
Iwaist to the dimensions OF Spanish
segar. The Turk goes to market and
buys half dozen wives. "The brltc"
exclalms the civilized beauty of fash
ionable life, and marries the richest
suitor that she can find
Now thea, have we not satisfactO-
rily proved, that civilization consists in
our own way of doing things--and that
barbarism consists in otker peoples
way Of doing things? Let common
sense answer. [New-York Standard.
SINGULAR DELusioN.-Mr. Murdoch,
who Committed suicide while men,
Der Of the Vermont legislature is rep
resented to have hecn under the inn
preston that he was the unfortunate
DR.. Cleaveland, who was then under
sentence Of death for murder. The
circumstances attending the guilt of
the latter. may be fresh in the recol-
lection Of our readers. lie was tried,
convicted and sentenced to execution
but his punishment, if we remember
correctly, was commuted from that oi
death, to confinement in the state pri'
son. While the discussion Of the case
of Cleavcland was proceeding in the
Legislature, Mr.. Murdoch attempted
to address the house, but was so agita
ted ms to he unable to proceed.
His friends, perceWing his situation
took him from. the floor and carrie,
him to his lodgings, in deep distres
and anguish. Under this delusion h,
committed the fatal act. Such are th,
u.s. extraordinary workings of disorder
cd mind, that sclfdestruction is some