North American. [volume] (Swanton, Vt.) 1839-1841, 1839-07-03

tributary Settlement Of iafms.--Thc
foods have swept ct al the booms and i'm
pounded logs 10 the Aposiook ard Fish
fivers. u an immense amount, and Carried
the timber oct ol the reach Of further dis.
pula'ion as to possession.
/ .Melancholg.- A poor woman on board
o( The John Boil steamer, burnt on the St
Lawrence last week, lost sir out OF nine
Ichiligen she had with her. Another wo
man attached a rope TO Newfoundland
dog. who nohly swan ashore with her,
AMI has saved her life.
EItensire Dream The Editor Of the
y. Orleans Timrs lately dreamed that the
entire Mississippi was turned into mint
luiep, and that the devil came aud sucked
II through hollow sycamore instead of
a straw. Extreme thirst is supposed to
have suggested the horrible vision.
Florida Treaty broken-The L. s.
schooner Poinsett, Lieut.. Mayo, has left
Baltimore Tor Florida, to cooperate with
The troops there, in the suppression Of In
dian hostlaes. II is evident, by this, |
that the late treaty is deemed little better
than any that preceded il, and that the
war dance Of this inlerminable, bloody and |
costly contest is fairly RECOMMENDED.
old coins-A ot Of old Beleic coin,
the size OF dollar, 500 years old, were
last week turned up by pongh in a field
on the farm of Mr.. B. C.. Timmins, Bur
lington county, n. J.
CR EoLEs.-It is really .aughabIe to wit
ness the many bunders strangers ia our
city make in the use Of this term. The
idea appears to prevail at the north that
Creole must necessarily have negro
blood, and the consequence is that when
you tell a stranger that this beautiful girl
S Creole, or that good-looking man, he
must needs think you are quizzng. For
he information OF our readers abroad we
ay that as we use the term here, a
DR.. Johnson to the contrary notwith- c
tandlng,) a Kentuckan is a Creole OF e
kentucky and Yankee Of New Eng gland; =
LapIander is Creole Of LapIand and 4
n lIlshman Of Ireland: Satan himself as
nd is Creole Of Heaven, according to Fl
llIton, and his being driven thence does Il
Of alter the case. A Creole is but ma Il
We OF the state or country where he or ID
he may nave been born. >
Editors friendly to the dissemination of v
orrect knowledge will please copy the S
bove.-[N n. O. Picayune. n
A schoolmaster in New England, who p
evoted fully one half his time to making te
lndle boxes instead OF improving the k
lowledge boxes of his pupils, thus replied, If
hen called to account for his remiss cons h,
act by one of the overseers, " Gentlemen, Ia
is an old saying, that like begets like. Ut
he smaIIness OF your hearts begets the be
naIIness OF my salary, and the eanness
your souls begets the leanness of my IN
mes. If spent all my time in attempt h. +"
9 TO fill the knowledge boxes of your ho
IIdren, without making candle boxes for X
vSelf, my soul would not have the means tn
keeping its earthly box together six OF
1nths longer" He was in a bad box, VI VI
reIy.-U. sn
There is another Van Amburgh in Gin in
matt. His name is J. C. Carter. and da
e way he walks into lions, bears, tigers NJ
d other wild animals is a caution to III
leen Victoria. He is about to proceed CO..
Europe to show off there. ID. up