The native American., 1837-08-10
MEhIENTO MORT.


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MEMENTO MORI
I.inqIenda tellns, et don,us, ct placens
Uxo+ neqne harum, quas coils, arborum, .E
Ie, practer invisas cupressos,
Ulla brevem dominum sequetur.-Q. II. f..
Earth, home, and wife that charms, thou resigns
Aud, Of these trees, thy culture, only one,
In that bereavement mortal. shall be thine,
Til o'ershadowing cypress by It's mossy stone
Music.--Mr. Major Hermann will give concert in
Charestown, on Wednesday evening next when, we
learn, the good people of that place will come for
ward nasse, to hear this distinguished gentleman
Limited kno,cleage.-A western print mentions a
class of persons who do not rise till nine O'Clock in the
morning, fearing, if they get up earlier, their know
ledge will not last them through the day.
ssMeosures moi Men.''-MarIied at ashington, Mr..
Joseph Peck, TO Miss Amelia Bushel.
The Providence Journal supposes that part Of the
next generation will be hafpecks and half bushels
| Mr. WiHs's Tragedy is to be produced about the
first Of September next at the Park theatre, N. York.
| Byroa.-A western paper says Byron was, undoubt-
Iedly, smart man.
| Eight Lies-by a PROFESSIONALLY Italian, named
| Moscati, has just commenced action against the
famous booksellers, Longman & Co., London, for a
libel in the Medical Gazette, published by them, in
which the poor creature called liar and impos
tor Another man would have pocketed the insult be-
cause it was true; but this unhappy Moscati chooses
it as excuse for again going to law! lie was too
court in raa pauperis, Sir F. Pollock one Of the first
men at the English bar, plead his cause without any
fee Longmans put in a justifcation-tha Moscatl
was magnificent liar, and they proved it; SO that
Moscati had verdict against him. variety of wit
nesses proved that he had told them Major Long
bows. He said that he the author of ssPeham,' =
that he creditor to large amount of BulweI's,
and that Bulwer owed him the amount for writings Of
Moscati's, which BulWer had fathered as his
Mr.. Bulwer was produced; who swore that he wrote
Pc ham nd that nat
once furnished material to him, for four page article
in the New Monthly Magazine, forwhch he was paid;
and that he (Alr B never owed sixpence to the
Italian. The next pounce was, that Maria Antonctte,
Queen of Paris, had not been guioned but that she
was ''protected" by Moscat, for many years in his
chateau The probability of this be apparent, of
course, to every capacity. Bounce four: that he had
Toledo blade in sword cane which blade he usu-
ally round his body! and, that when he took it
fom round his waist, it always sprung back to its
straight form, just natural as any thing" Bounce
five: that he knew thirty-four, and could grammaca-
| y speak twenty-four languages. Bounce six that,
albeit small man, he was OF roomy natur, (rumina
ler,) and could chew the cnd like a cow Bounce
seven that he had been with Napoleon in the Russian
campaign; and his power Of hearing was so remarka-
BILE, that he had actually heard the approach of the
Russian army at twenty four hours march dstance
this he says he told Napoleon, who discredjted this
modern fine liar, laughed at it, but finally, when too
late, discovered his mistake. Bounce eight: that he
had the extraordinary power Of being always able to
shoot man in the left eye, and had fought ninety
three dues, in every one of which he had wounded
his antagonist in the left eye This you will see, was
bounce the left.' Enough of this fellows he
is filter for the mad-house than any other place The
like is, that, at first, most of the people TO whom he
told these a!,omnabe lies, actually were so weak as
to believe him! Whyl Because, argued the wisacres.
g we thought man ould tell such lies-we
really thought it might be as he said"
The Caddo Indians are becoming very formidable
enemies to Texas. Their robberes and murders are
numerous the frontiers. They are described as be-
ing very savage in their dispositions and incapable Of
any approximation towards civilization.
Twenty sovereigns were lately thrown up in repair
ing part of the canal in Oneida counlysupposed
have been lost some years boy who found one at
first, offered it for a cent in buying apples.
fellow in New York has been sentenced to six
months Imprisonment in the peni,entary, for stealing
litter of kittens. He would have received annu
fty had 1t been puppies.
A begerent wight threatened to kick dry charac
ter who had offended him. "If you undertake it,
answered the challenged, s.you will find yourself
man more Skinned against than shining
Robbery.- Armstrong, Of the Indian reser-
walton, was, we learn by the Buffalo Advertiser
robbed the night Of the 18th July of 81 52S in specie
by young Seneca Indian arrested, and in ia in
Buffalo. Armstrong is seventy years DID, and his mo-
ney was the hard gatherings of many years of toll
Two hundred dollars reward offered for the reco
very Of the money, Of which has been found.
Whether me young lndian IS guilty, or what he has
done with it, is not said.
The Bangor Whg tells good story of a man who
was taken with the western fever. He stopped at
town containing some five hundred Inhabitants which
had been settled about five years. On looking about
the town, he counted sixteen hundred graves He re-
turned home, and has not had the western fever since
The Louisiana Advertiser complains of the exposed
condition of the graves in the burying grounds at New
Orleans, and attributes, to that cause, much Of the
sickness which generally prevails this season OF the
year.
Remouat IF Tie ChickasnDs.-The Memphis CTcnn. )
Gazette says party of 500 Of this tribe presenting
handsome appearance, being all mounted and in their
national costume, passed through that place. July 4th
under Col A. NJ. Upshaw, the superintendent. Not
a single drunken one was seen among them. Enubbv.
their chief, was killed by a white man short lime
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