The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1839-06-15

I'm .3pt Retort.-Mr. r., merchant, of Pro-
violence, and man quite celebrated, afterwards,
for his lberalty and public spirit, was the owner
Of most fortunate privateer, which sailed out of
Providence. On one occasion, when he had lust
unshipped cargo Of sugar, &C., taken from
very rich prize, in rolling it into the yard,
one of the hogsheads stove, and quantity of SUI
gar fell out. A poor woman in the neighborhood,
seeing the disaster, ran and filled her apron Mr.
R., from the loft of his store, called out,
"What are you doing there?''
The poor woman, looking up, answered, 'Pr-
Watering"
The merchant ought to have made the woman
a present of the whole hogshead for this reply.
Cure for Caacer.-Mr. Thomas Tyrell, of
Missouri, advertses that cancer upon his nose,
which had been treated without success by Dr.
Smith, of New Haven, and the abest surgeon in
the Western country, had been cured in the fol-
lowing manner: He was recommended to use
strong potash, made of the ashes of red oak bark
boiled down to the consistence of moasses, to
cover the cancer with it, and, in about an hour af-
forwards, to cover it,with plaster of tar, which
must be removed after few days, and, if any
protuberances remain in the wound, apply more
potash to them and the plaster again, until they
shall disappear; after which, heal the wound with
common salve. Cautery and the knife had been
previously used in vain. This treatment effected
perfect and speedy cure-N. Z. Com. .Adp.
MARTYRS of the Preston the 18th of Sept.
1897, the French Directory issued the following
proclamation: 'Orders are hereby given to the
executors of the mandates of Justice to arrest and
conduct TO the prison of La Force the editors and
printers Of (here the papers are named, 30 in
number,) all guilty of having conspired against
the internal and external repose of the Republic
All the Presidents Of the National Convention
were, with one or two exceptions, journalists
Of the sixty-three who attained that honor, eigh-
teen were guillotined three committed suicide,
eight were transported, six imprisoned for life,
four became mad, and died at Bicelre, twenty-five
were declared outlaws, and there were only two
who escaped without castigation of some kind If
we extend this synoptical fdbieau to the entire
press, we shall find its proportions pretty exact
here persisted from 1889 till 1897 at least one
half of the political writers of Paris.
Religious BeHf-I envy no quality of the
mind or intellect in others, be it genious, power,
wit, or fancy: but if could choose what would
be most delightful, and believe most useful 10
me, | should prefer firm religious belief to any
other blessing, for it makes life a discipline of
goodness; creates new hopes when all earthly
hope vanish; and throws over the decay, the des-
truction of existence, the most gorgeous Of all
| lights, awakes life even in death, and from des-
truction and decay calls up beauty and divinity.
makes an instrument of torture and shame the lad
der OF ascent to paradise: and, far above all, COM
binations of earthly hopes calls up the most de-
llghtul visions of palms and amaranths, the gar
dens Of the bles, the security of everlasting lows,
where the sensualist and the sceptic view only
gloom, decay, humiliation, and despair Sir
H. D0yU