Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1834-12-10

cation is strongly recommended (The
Governor calculates far too low when he
supposes S240 90 per annum, sufficient
for the schools in each township)
The State Prison is progressing--W,b-
ster says this is good word, but the Z,
fish laugh at ito its completion.
The Governor thinks the Militia system
ought to be "reclaialed from the ridicule
into which it is fast sinking" le,
The Governor is opposed to the United
States Bank, to the creation of State
Bank, 10 the "Land Bill" and to the Gen
eral Go, elnnenl's continuing to hold pos
session Of lands in the new States. He
thinks the Cumberland road ought to be
extended to the western part Of our state,
and complains of injustice in that it has
not been done.
Such are the CHIEF features Of the mes
Isage.--St. Louis Observer.
THE ARMY.-The officers now in our
army are very different from their pred
ecessors Of 1914; they are more snowy
in dress, but less manly in appearance,
and certainly not so fit to endure the IA
Itigue and hardships of military life.
Well cultivated mustachios, punched
up waist, a padded uniform, the lip of a
terrier, and the figure of wasp, ma,
become, but do not make their possessor
a soldier; and feel confidence when !
say, that the British army of the present
day is inferior, both officers and men, to
that which served under the Duke of
Wellington, not only in point of expe
rience, but Of hardness and strength of
constitution. Were | to
form an opinion from the present state
of the corps IN which had the honor
to serve, and which has only three eff
GERS who have ever seen shot fired, and
that only at Quatre Bras and Waterloo,
| should say, that of the armies of the
FIVE great European powers, the most
inexperienced regimental Off ers at this
moment, are the British.-.A Soldiers
life By an Officer.
Shortly after the revolution Of July,
an Englishman came by post from Lon
don to Paris to see Lafay and retur-
ned Immediately Or having made him a
visit. Ssme of his countrymen wished
to detain him, but he resisted their soil.
citations and observed on leaving them,
81 wished TO sea man who has refused
a crown; have seen him, and go away
satisfied. "-Bah. finer.
CHILDISH SIMPLICITY.-John Neal, in
an excellent and eloquent article or
children, relates many anecdotes in il
lustration of their childish innocence
aud unaffected humor.
A little boy one day, looking up in his
mothers face, with an air of deep re-
flectinn, asked her Why Ohio, ;"etsad of
marrying his father, had not waited till
he grew up and then married him.
Mr.. Pilgarlick Petibone Pinco gives
the following illustration Of Partially
and its reverse:
81 was down in the medGer and saw
/ my bull and neghbor Pelaiah's fighting
like all natur, and | had leetle rather
mine had lickt."
This was Partially practically Illus
trated but his exposition Of impartiality
is capital.
"Tother day, | was out agin, and
seed skunk and black snake at it,,
and didn't care if the devil had both
on en-"
'Why don't you wear your ring my
DEAR said father in ball room to his
daughter. Because, papa, it hurts me
when any body squeezes my hand. y
''What business have you to have your
hand squeezed!" "Certainly none, but
still you know, papa, that one would like
to keep it in squeezable ORDER"
SLANDER.-It often happens that those
are the best people whose characters
have been most injured by slanderers;
we usually find that to he the best fruit
which the birds have been picking at.