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The native American., 1838-03-24

DuELI1NG.-A writer in to-day's Mirror, VIII,
signs herself .Augusfa, and who says her hus
band was killed many years since i'll duel at tht
South, earnestly and eloquently exhorts the Edito
of that periodical to lend his aid to put down tha
most ridiculous and sanguinary code under which
victim after victim is sacrificed at the shrine, False
Honor. She quotes at the close of her communi
cation, the annexed
Letter of Joseph the Second to General Fazkca
stein.
'sVIENNA, August 10, I77I.
"GENERAt: You will Immediately arrest the
Count de K and Captain W. The
count is young, passionate, and influenced by
wrong notions of birth, and false sense of honor
Captain W is an old soldier, who has re-
ceived the challenge Of the young count with a
warmth ill-becoming his grayer years. | will
suffer no duelling in my army. | despise the
principle Of those who attempt to justify the
custom, and who think there is any heroism in
running one another through the body in cold
blood. When / have officers who bravely ex.
pose themselves to every danger in facing the en-
emies of their country, and who, at all times, ex
hibit courage and resolution in attack and defence
they have my esteem and respect; the GOODNESS
with which they can meet death in the service
of their country, rebounds highly to their honor
and will entitle them to live in the grateful me-
mory Of their countrymen. But where men are
to be found ready, on the slightest cause to
sacrifice everything to their hatred, vengeance,
false honor, cannot but despise them; in my
eyes, they are no better than the Roman gladia
tors of old. Order court-martial to try these
two officers: investigate the subject of their dis
pute with the impartiality which Justice de-
mands: and he who is guilty. let him be sacri
fee to the offended laws. This practice Of du
elling is barbarOus custom, worthy only The
age Of the Tamerlanes and Bajazets, and dis
grace to our enlightened age and country. d.
but think Of the melancholy effect which it pro
duces in private life, in the bosoms of families,
hearts which nature has not made hardy enough
to bear such losses. will have it suppressed ant
punished, even if it should deprive me Of one
half Of my officers! There will be men enough
left for the maintenance of the good cause-,neI
who know how to unite the character Of the here
with that of the good subject and the honest citi
zen-and those only are such, as are actuated by
due regard to the laws of their country, and
proper respect for the good and upright.
JOSEPH"
We are proyerbially imitators Of foreign Gus
toms; let forego to naturalze their vices; and
for once, follow an example, although an empe
ror may have given it.
AUGUSTA.
The native American., 1838-03-24

caught them asleep. Smithskins dropped on the
ground like two yards of tape. McShoothim
thought he heard bunch Of grape hurtle past
his ears, and the Doctor, taking off his cravat,
fastened it to the end of his cane, and waved II
over his head as flag Of truce.
We'll, come on bawied Noisy, 'and let's hear
what you've got to propose
McShoothm advanced and stated that they
were prepared for the duello, and had brought
with them muskets, pistols, broad swords and
small swords, and they expected
Yes, but you forgot to bring cannon said
Jack; blaze away my boys, he continued, adj
dressing couple of negroes whom he had hired
for the job as his seconds, and by whom the piece
had been quickly reloaded, 'blaze away and give
the gentleman satisfaction.' Boom And if
there had been ball in it, Arthur and the Doctor
would have escaped unh,lrt, for no shot could
have overtaken them as for Smthkins, from
Squire Jones' gate his friends had view OF
him streaking it down into the village upon the
chain-lightning principle, while two or three OF
the villagers who had unfortunately encountered
him, were just Strengthening themselves after an
unceremonions roll in the street afforded them
by the concussion.
We'll, said Jack Noisy, 4 believe we won
this heat; just give em parting salute and wheel
the old critter back to the town hall. There's a
dollar piece for ye.'
'Thankee, thankee, Massa Jack, when you
fights another duel you know where to come for
the seconds.
Mr.. Timothy Smithkins of Smithkinsville, not
withstanding the unremtting attentions and pro-
verbal skill of DR.. Lotion, was not seen at his
front door for three weeks afterwards. QUIP.
The native American., 1838-03-24

could do equal Justice to all sides of a question
and he would stake up government newspaper
or one of more moderate opposition than hi'
own, and reading the article of the day, he woult
adopt its idea, and complete it or develop it II
the spirit of the opinions which had inspired IT.
AT other times he would in the same way recon-
pose the speeches in the Chamber. sThey have
not given,' he would say, the best reasons for
their opinions; this would have been more spe-
|cious, and would have embarrassed us more.
His facility was prodigious. And the reasons he
gave were not rhetorical faacies, but just argu-
ments. They embodied all that could be said
truly and honorably on that side of the question.
He wishedb by this to demonstrate two of his quail
ties, vastly superior to mere facility in arguing
for the sake of argument on the one hand, his
knowledge Of the interests of all parties; on the
other, his real esteem for what was just in the
views the most opposite to his own"
We have marked all these traits of character,
because they help to complete the picture Of what
Carrel was and while they give reality to our
conception of him, and bring him home to the
feelings as a being of our own flesh and blood,
they all give additional insight into those great
qualities which it is the object Of this paper to
|commemorate. The mind needs such examples,
to keep alive in it that faith in good, without
which nothing worthy the name of good can ever
be realized: it needs to be reminded by them that
(as it is often repeated by one Of the noblest
spirits of our time) man is still man. Whatever
man has been man may be; whatever of heroic
the heroic ages, whatever of chvalrous the roman
tic ages have produced, is still possible, nay, still
IS, and hero of Plutarch may exist amidst all
the prettiness Of modern civilization, and with all
the cultivation and refinement, and all the analy-
sing and questioning spirit Of the Modern Euro
pean. mind. The lives of those are not lost, who
have lived long enough to be an example TO the
world; and though his country will not reap the
blessings his life might have conferred upon it,
yet while the six years following the Revolution
Of 1880 shall have place in history, the memo
Try of Armand Carrel will not perish utterly from
among men.
The native American., 1838-03-24
THE APPARITION.

One evening in August, 1872, clercle gem
eman was residing in this city, in house adjoin-
ing the church-yard Or. The weather wss
oppressively warm, and being unable to take any
rest, from the extreme heat of the atmosphere, he
thought he would go out into the church-yard, and
walk about awhile.
| He arose, and after dressing himself, descended
into the yard OF the church. 1t was the solemn
hour ofmidnight. Walking liesurely along, think
ling OF the many who lay now beneath his feet in
the dark and silent tomb many Of whom few
weeks, or few days before, he had beheld in all
the gaicty and giddness of youth, or all the wis
dom of age; his attention was suddenly arrested,
and he was somewhat surprised to sec before him,
at the distance Of not more than thirty feet white
figure standing erect over grave
He did not imagine that any Of the inmates of
the deep and narrow dwellings beneath him, had
come up to dispute his passage over their tene-
ments, that dead persons, their spirits, have
la propensity to roam the earth. at the witch
ing hour of night, much less the probability of be-
| ing attacked by them; he having stout cane with
hm sufficient TO deter person OF genuine flesh
and blood, to say nothing of an airy phantom.
Not being believer in either ghosts or spec
tres, he determined, at all hazards, to solve the
mystery, and ascertain if it was being composed
of air, more substantial inhabtant of this ne
thcr world.
llC llOOll dt lHOiHcllt, ~ was q HUOH-
light night, was obscurcd by passing cloud, and
he was thus enabled, as he drew near, to distin-
guish it more clearly. Arriving within four or
five feet he discovered it to be dence mass Of
yellowsh vapor, bearing the exact resemblance Of
the outlines Of a mans form. Raising his cane,
he cut it down and across; it separating, where
the cane passed, into four distinct parts, and inn
mediately uniting again, he at once conjectured
the cause Of this strange and most singular phe-
nomenon:
The time being August, the weather was, as
before remarked, oppressively warm. The pre-
ceeding day man was buried here; he was ve-
| ry corpulent; and died from sudden attack Of
apoplexy. 1t was above his grave the form ap-
peared. The gas or steam that came from the boz
dy, owing TO the heat, ascended. through the earth,
and formed the shape described, over the grave,
and resembled in every particular, the outlines Of
the deceased persons figure.
This would have made capital ghost-story, if
some person had behcd it at distances and had
not courage enough to approach an examine it.
j If every circumstance Of this nature that occurs
was examined, / am confident all the idle stories
f Of ghosts and hobgoblins would end in smoke.
The native American., 1838-03-24

According to official returns, the population OF
Russia and its dependencies amounted in 1886,
to upwards Of 6O,0Oc,000 of souls, without in
cluding the subalterns of the army and navy alb.
sent on leave, the soldiers discharged, the inha
bitants Of the Caucasus between the Caspian and
Dead Seas, or the tribes of Siberia and Orenburg,
which are estimated at ,445,000. In the course
Of the year 1926, 352 Serfs were entranchlsca
by their Lords The number of these freeme1 m 1. =.
the last census amounted to 67,736.-E''s"'"
paper.
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Irish quotation from Shakespeare An III iris,,, n
..Tha"a T ue,n nantben I'd punish worse nor defama-
49, IL . steals my money, CHATS ShakspcrD
i e.onis mere thumpree; but him as gets hold of my
character, robs me of what's no use to HIM at
Ill and what do viddout III
The native American., 1838-03-24

A Bad End.-One Philip Hansen has been
sentenced, from Ashtabula county, Ohio, to five
years Imprisonment in the State Prison, for stab
bng with intent to kill. The Fredona Censor
SAYS he ran away from that county, some wears
since, leaving his Printers bill unpaid, and the
editor has thought ever since that he would come
TO some bad end.
The native American., 1838-03-24

BUFFALoEs AND THE ELEPHANT.-I remember
once seeing, at an entertainment of this knd three
wild buffaoes driven into the arena against an ell
lephant In order to render them more fierce,
crackers were fastened to their tails During the
lexploson Of these the terrified animals ran to and
fro as ina state Of frenzy; and one of them char
! ged the elephant, which stood in corner of the
4 rsquarc, with the blind and misguided fury Of mad
mess. The colossal creature watched his victim
las it plunged desperately forward, calmly await
ing its approach with his head depressed, and the
point OF his tusks brought to a level with the
shoulders Of his advancing foe. The bufial0rush-
| ed onward, and was almost mpaled the elephant
casting the writing body from his tusks, and then
coclly crushing it with his fore feet. The two
other buflaloes, having now somewhat recovered
from the terror excited by the crackers, which had
hitherto diverted their attention from the elephant.
gazed wildly round the enclosure, and seeing their
enemy prepared for a charge, paved the ground
raising the Dust and finging the earth over their
heads in continual shower; then erecting their
tails, with loud roar, they simultaneously char
ged the elephant, which still remained in the cor
ner where he had at first stationed himself He
eyed them with deliberate but keen glance. pla-
cling his head, as before, towards the ground, and
bringing those terrible instruments of destruction
with which his Jaws armed in position to
meet the charge Of his foremost foe. The result
the buffalo being instantly transfxed upon the ell
ephants tusks but before the victor could release
them from their incumbrance, the second buffalo
was upon him. With the quickness of thought,
however, he raised his fore leg and struck his as
Isalant between the horns, rolling it over and in
stantly crushing it to death. It sometimes, in-
deed, happens in these encounters, when the ele-
phant is timid, which is the natural character of
this animal, that he is dreadfully gored by his fu-
rous assailants, TO which he offers no resistance.
but flies from them in the greatest terror An old
elephant is generally too wary and too conscious
of his own strength to allow himself to be subdued
by such inferior adyersaries; and when he offers
resolute resistance, the buffaloes invariably fare
the worst. But at these cruel exhibitions, how
ever the contest terminates, there is much more
distress than enjoyment experienced, at least by
European spectators, to whom the sight of vio-
lent death inflicted even upon animals which they
naturally hold in dread, is, in most cases, spec
tacle altogether shocking to the better feelings OF
humanity. .4nnual.
The native American., 1838-03-24

French Comn1erce.-It is stated that the tom
mage of French vessels employed in the commerce
of that kingdom, 81 $40 tons, while the tonnage
of the United States amounts TO nearly 1000 900.
and that of Great Britain to 100000 The
shipping owned in London is 573, 900 tons, in
New York, 100000 tons. In Havre, the most
important seaport in France, the shipping owned
lis 7s, 1877, in Marseilles, 71,414, in Bordeaux.
II ,OO1, in Nantz, 5S,604. 1t will therefore be
seen more tons of shipping are owned in New
York, than in the four principal seaports in France
and London owns almost as much shipping as
is owned in the whole kingdom Of France.
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When applied according to directions given
bottle, it has never failed afford immediate and
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teeth and relieves that soreness which so frequent,
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