Whig Republican. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1840-18??, 1840-12-24

sacks and Circassians, ana their little fec
long tailed horses, looking like SO many
Pawnees ali forming a scene exceeding
Iy beautiful AID imposing. A review fol
lowed the maneuvers, the regiments filing
off before the Emperor in columns Of enc
hundred front.
DrsrRUc.IoH OF LIraIx ANCIENT Was.
Accustomed as we are to the effects
I of war III civilized times, when the most
bloody contests are followed by an IN
crease in the number Of people, it is diff
cult to form a conception of the desoation
which il produced in the barbMous ages,
when the void caused by the sword is not
! supplied by The impulse ofsubsequentt tran
guilty A few facts will show its pro
/ dlgious influence in former ages. 1t is
Eascertained, by an exact computation, that
when the three great capitals Of Khorasin
Were destroyed by Timor 4,347, Dg0 per-
sons were put 10 the sword AT the same
time, seven hundred thousand PEOPLE
were slain inta6 city Of RIoslIl which
had risen i'll the neighborhood OF ancient
NmeVah; and the des 1jatjon produced a
century and half before blythe sackino
GenghtsIlhau, had been at least as great.
Such Were the ravages ofthis mighty con-
querer, and his BIogui followers, III the
country between the Caspian aad the IN
duS, that they almost eXternii,afed the
Inhabitants; and five subsequent ccntu-
ries have been unable to repair the rava-
ges OF four years. An army Of 100000
Moguis. under the sons OF Ghinghis, SO
of }.I
of the Danube that they have never since
regained then former numbers, and, in
the famine consequent upon the Eruption
ofthe same barbarians INTO the Chinese
empire, thirteen millions are computed to
have persisted During the great inva-
sion OF Tinour twelve of the most -four
! ishing cities OF Asia, including Delhi. Is
pahan, Bagdad and Damascus; were de
sroyed; and pyramids OF human heads,
one OF which contained 90,05a, erected
on their ruins.
.4Hjsa'l,s principles ofPo9niatjon.
IS THE SCHOOL MASTER AT IIoME?
In the election in 1889, the wing can
didate for governor received ONE vote in
jackson county. Curiosity was on tip
toe for q long time, to know the name
post Office ofthis solitary wing. Atlength
it turned out that he was not a resident
of that County, but was a school MASTER
passing through, looking for a school,
and being there on the day of the election
hevoted. The vote at theFecent election
wasincrcased from one to twenty-six.--
The enquiry is now as rife, whether the
oil,
election! Canary one inform u8?-lVasI
he or not, IN Jackson countv2 The sup
position obtains, with most persons, that
he was; and that his instructions have
done much 10 enlightenthe benlghted peo-
pie OF that intellectually dark county.-
ny Tue ilsAs e'e-tso11 tlaoy will be all right.
Yaeoo Banner.
The annexed is a very good humored politi
cal epigram. W. cut it from an exchange |
pa2er:--soata'a. Rep.
LEVI 70 AMOS.
Dear Amos, I've pitied your childgen's. hard
case,
That tneIr slnn,bera were broken, wsilo the
wings were shocking en-;
But dear Aen,alf, It's oyef; 60 put them to
sleep,
AndswA5ta you spgtheir lullaby. III gosto
rocking en- titockingl,an,)
Roskinghasa, Co., New Hampshire, isthe
place Of Mr. oodbary's residence. II ali po- /
litical sqaibs were Is witty and still pleasant
as this, there would be less bittefiiess
SouTn CARoLINA The Palmetto state
alias call the cilivalry has cast her vote
for Martin Van Bnrensfo President, and
Llttleton W FazeWed for Vice President
of.ttle United Stases. South Carolina has
obeyedstlle high behest Of John C: Cal
noun; III voting for Van Buren,, but the
sIeeulnseh lsl Her was loo much for her
when the gallant sized reached the post /
where tie 60 stood, Size. 10 ga, brew her
rider, kicked ap.her heels and scilnpcred