The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1842-07-15

twenty-four hours, and the night was with |
out moon and with every public lamp
tinguished. Thousands had persisted before
the subsiding Of the waters next day. when |
whole rows Of houses fell down from the
undermining Of their foundations. The loss
OF property was estimated at FIVE millions
sterling. Had the inundation occurred IA
the spring, the shock of the ice masses,
which no building could stand, would have
been added 70 the destructive force Of the
waters, and the exhalations Of the ensuing
summer been fraught with pestilenee. The
height of this inundation is designated upon
the principal houses with the dale annexed,
and God grant says Mr.. Kohl, that the
Petersburg house painters may never earn
another rouble by such a job. For every
inch higher that they place their mark, the
city viii have had TO pay millions more of
roubles, and hundreds more Of families will
have been thrown into mourning
THE RUSSIAN CHURCH.-The only sound
national element intervening between the
sovereign and the serf is the ancient nation
al church. That the Greek Church has
never led In temporal affairs, is matter of
gratulatiOn, where liberty has suffered and
yet suffers prosecution in every form but
that of rehgion. The church in her passive
Immortality may be regarded as a fortn-
nate dead weight, to counterbalanCe that
restless, fermen;ing irritation which SO many
rash 'skips and bounds'-attempts TO run
before they could walk, have excited in the
nation. Besides this and the moral value
of her existence, she has been the faithful
guardian Of the stores Of language and his
tory.
The Russian clergy are among the most
improving classes in the Empire. On the
crown prince attaining majority, the emper-
OF absurdly directed that he should take a
place in the deliberations Of the Synod, TO
learn their forms of business, but, the Synod
tacitly Feprimanded the monarch's assump-
ton TO confer rights not his own TO confer
for the prince was peremptoTily denied ad
mission Encunmbered as the Greek church
is with ,supertitious and non-cssential OBJ.
seryances, the most embiRered of its enc
mics are those whose vehemence against its
errors is only equalled by their indifference
to its truths, and the Russian Lutheran
lChurch, the loudest in denunciation, Offers
lin its spiritual states the strongest argument
in its favor. The triple crossings, genu'
\ hexions, garment shiftings and prostration:
to saints, and the splitting in pan of char
coal at baptisms to exercise the deVil-aTt
less painful to witness, than church services
without a symptom of reverence, without a
; syllable Of scripture in the liturgy, anC
where, after a sermon of questionable mora
benefit, the same Ober-pasior, on the Sun
day evening receives from his partner acros
: The card table his honoraiFun for the ad
ministratiOn Of the sacrament, together wit
the winnings ofthe last rubber,
CoNsUMPTIoN OF Ice IN PETERsBURG.-
: The Russians, not satisfied with iceing wa
! ter, wine, beer, and other common beVers
ges, even drink iced tea, substituting lum
Of ice for one of sugar. Their very be
4 though short summers would spoil most {
: their provisions, had they no ice. In Peters
= burg there are no less than 1C, 900 ic
! houses. This, al so loads piece, woul
" give 500, 600 loads, or load of ice to eac
9 inhabilant. The consumption of il cost ii
city from 100000 to 60, 000l. annually, q
?, enormous consumption-and an instanC
= how wisely national tastes and wants al
Z adapted to the means most pIentifully su
Z piled them.
!. A RUSSIAN FAB1E.-A little fable FRO
he KruillOf, the Russian Esop, illustrates the
~ system of magnifying trifes and oYerlOokiT
ID essentials.
ve "a ChinoVink after looking through N
70 scum of natural history, telling fFieI
AZ what he had seen, exclaimed--'sS uchWo
ders, such colors, butterflies, moths, gnai
: beefles,-but SO small yOn can hardly q
~ Them. ''-sBut what Of ths great elepha
and enormous mammoth % asked his frien
4. elephant! Mammoth! why, blesam my hea
never observed them at all. 2
"A af were not an impossibility, says 6
e Reviewer, 'ons would say lhatthe SHARPE
y. arrow Of this sarcasm was leVelled az {
highest head IA the empire, who thoui
- Quick enough 70 detect straW's bread
8 error, too often len The guant form Cf.pub
~ corruption stalk pas him unperceiVed. =
na the diadem Of Russia IS CALLING croWn
.nt who shall envy himl'
les Nicholas. rs CHAR CFRR. The CHI
sre acter Of the Gar IS thus drawn By the "a
no don Quarietlg il The same article from viii
~ the above description has been abbrepiafs
les lie il amarkable IN ihe stern exercise
ed few sound moral qualities rather than
les3 tHe possession oi any exifaordinarF DOW.
nd tai8nls. z dfmneea "a 0naliegable
he bis industry unfaiIing he Justice, as
~. emanaies from himself, stict-his 6rs
for ences sleady--his consistsncy rigid