Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1842-09-13

Stratton 40 20 Glazier
Nottingham
Dover SO "a Jones
Discovery of Mumn,ieS, at Durango, Merico
A million of mummies, it is said have lately been
discovered in the environs of Durango in the same
wrappings, bands, and ornaments, as the Egypt
ain Among them was found ponard of flint
with scu ptured handle chaplets necklaces, &C.,
of alternately colored heads, fragments of bones
polished ivory, like fine worked elastic tissues.
probably our modern India rubber cloth mecca
sins worked like those of our Indians of to-day,
bones of vlpers, &c 1t remains to continue these
interesting researches, and America will become
another Egypt to antiquarians, and her ruins will
go back to the oldest periods of the world, show
ing doubtless that the ancestors ofthe Monezumas
lived on the Nile and that their luxurious civil
cation was broken up and overpowered by the
Hardy horders of Asatic Tartars, who came
down from Behring's Straits and the rocky Noun
tains The scenes of Attilla alarc in Rome and
Greece, were rehearsed at an earlier dav on the
shores of California and the plains of Mexico. 1t
is unknown Of the mummies above mentioned,
what kind of embalmment was used, or whether
1t was nitrous dispositions in the cave where they
we're found. fact of importance is stated, that
the shells OF the necklace are of marine shell
found at Zacetecas on the Pacific where the Co
lumbus of their forefathers probably landed from
the Malas, HindOstan, or Chinese coast or from
the islands in the Indian coast [JSras Star
The Veto power originated at Rome almost
200 years after the foundation of the city, when
the Trlbunltian power was established to guard
the interests of the Plebians from the encroach-
ments of the Patricans The trbunes were cho-
sen by the people from their own ranks, and were
10, tbori r, Ill
which they thought hazardous or Injurious TO
their constituents, but they could not purpose any
law or move any positive resolution" A single
tribune could stopthe proceedings ofhis own body
by pronouncing the word Ueto, Il Forbid and he
could stop also the proceedings ofthe people them
selves as well as those of the Senate and Patrcian
magistrates. In the hands of the tribunes the veto
power was intended to guard and preserve the
Liberties OF the people, but in process of time it
became the subject to abuse, and under the specous
pretext of defending the rights of the people, the
tribunes did almost whatever they pleased The
power thus committed to their hands as a conser-
vative principle became an instrument of oppres.
son, just as the same power, in the hands of two
OF our Presidents, has been the instrument of coun-
teracting the will of the people as expressed by
their representatives. Nashville IN. H) Wing,
Simple Remedy A Quaker was once advi-
sing drunkard to leave off his ruinous habit of
drinking intoxicating liquors
Can you tell me how to do it ? said the slave of
his appetite.
Quaker 1t is just as easy as it is to open thy
hand
Drunkard. Convince me ofthat, and prom
Use, upon my honor, that Twill do as you tell me-
Quaker Well, friend, whenever thou fndest
any vessel of intoxicating liquor in thy hand, open
thy hand that contains it, before it reaches thy
mouth, and thou will never be drunk again
The topper was so pleased with this plain advice
that he followed it, and was a topper no more
Many thousand dollars have been paid for in
convenient and painful prescriptions which were
worth far less than this. We publish it gratis for
the benefit ofthose who may be afflicted with the
disease it is intended for youths Cabinet.
FIRE men Shot We learn that about 1000 of
the laborers at St Catharines assembled for riot
Gus purposes, were charp by three com
panies of the 93d and f shct We did
not hear particulars lRocu,s,er Democrat
Population of Slace holding and Non Stare
holding States Compared A correspondent of
the Boston Courier makes the following statement
and remarks S.
1t appears that Michigan, Illinois, and Indi-
ana having, IN 1880, an aggregate population of
532, 1875, had, in 1910, population of ,374,3l6
equal to l5S per cent; at this rate of increase
these three infant States will, in about twenty
years, possess a larger number of free population
! than all the twelve slave States now do nor ar e
the latter likely to increase their white popua-
ton, from causes to which we have before refer
red
"Whle the old and new free States have been
rapidly increasing, the most civilized of the old
slave States Maryland, Virginia, North and
South Carolina, have only augmented their mum.
bers from 29776l7-at which they stood in 1880
to 1856, SAC; showing an increase of only 49,
229.
eff we are correct in the facts, and they are
from official records, slavery has ceased to be pro-
hta6le even in pecuniary point of view, at least
IN those States which formed part of the Union
when the Constitution was framed"
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