New-York tribune., 1842-01-29

s.a'snce oy ,ncrTiari,ies to distinguish them
60. - continental foreigners, e1ceptll may
o,. hSah feeling, grave department, and tor
~ t,ol;tesse. characteristic of thelr nation;
,~beoeyer YOU meet Spanlard IN London, you
NAV be sure whether he se poor or Itch, you CONE
IN contac. with gentleman
GERMASs we have In abundance musicians.
teachers of languages, clockmakers, bookb!nd-
ers, and artisans OF various descriptions mute.
ingloroas Stultzes IN great numbers, attracted
/ hther by the uncomfortable propensity OF our IN
digenous snips 10 indulge in the striking absurdlty
OF strikes" By the way, our native born art!-
sans OF all sorts, give every encouragement to
the inundation OF swarns of foreigners, by reck-
less indulgence in suicida! combination against
their employers, not seeing that every recur-
ring strike" brings into the laborpg market
hundreds OF nterlope!s, who cannot so easily
/ be got rid OF, thus lowering the wages OF the
home artisan and spreading distress among
our humber population. Your German IN Lon
don resembles your German any where else
/ heavy, dunder-headed, gross, beer-and- 'bacco-be
nuzz-d individual, bu, logged and steady at hls
work, patient, and generally Trustworthy.
AMERICANS are 10 be found in the CONNER
EciaI quarters OF our world, but by no means IN
the numbers they contribute to#Liverpool, where
they may be found al every evening party. As
we do not IN these papers intend TO lniict upon
the reader descriptions OF that which We have
not had leisure and opportunity TO contemplate,
We cannot undertake to describe the American N
England Once, and only ence, had we an op-
portun.y Of contemplating the natlve-born Yam
kee, at the hospltable board OF commercial ac-
quaintance in the city
The bp-d was certainly curious. We might say
unique though, as we have said, we cannot uH-
+ sertake to describe the species, we make no
scruple of Identifying the individual, IN the hope
/ that our geological Society may secure the AMI
i NAL without loss OF time. The genius In ques.
ton was a,tIrcd in an amorphous blue coat, with
4 huge brass buttons, a flaming vest, proNslon OF
projected shir, and double rHti1e, boots shaped
/ like fire-buckets. nankeen unwhsperabes tiutter
/ ing about his limbs, resembling pursers couple
i of shirts on couple OF handsplkes. a white neck
cloth with loose tie, and churn-shaped castor
under his arm. a first, we concludedhe must be
luaa,c, but felt relieved upon hearing he was
only republican. He ale much, drank deep,
I talked loudly and necessarily: his topics were
varied, and, as We thought, somewhat tlnctpred
K with incongruy: from one subject he ratified
to another, dogrnatzing and soliioquzing "fFee
and dependent-niggers rights OF man-Lynch
/ law: fourth Of Juy--slave breeding civil and
religious llber,y-tar and feathers: John Tyler
Jim Grow: CHEESE he called great men-the
latter NAY be )-corn-l -laws-loafers shin-plasters
Van Buren, Congress-!ocotocos: civilization
4 Kentucky: ex-presdent Adams, and the puddings
made ofCobbe,t's corn and treacle which he sad
Adams had every day for dinner; General Jack
son-clam soup: canvass backs-Governor Bid
de- and so on, from the beginning OF the fish TO
the end Of the Madeira On the retiremen, ei
the ladies', this extraordinary mammel called for
brandy and cigars; which, being forthwith pro-
Il .1alo
between his teeth in high nasal tone, expecto-
rating, al shor, intervals, between the bars OF the
crate, with the precision OF "a Chlckasaw rife
man.
The impression produced upon the company
by the conduct and conversation of this sample OF
transatlantic humanity, appeared 10 he unIual-
fed contempt with Christopher Columbus for
having discovered America, and general lnc
cation 10 take refuge with the ladies' We should
be sorry indeed 10 suppose that this remarkable
item represented his nation on the contrary, we
imagine him to have been living carlcature OF
the American citizen, who is no doubt modest
we-bred Christan-ke, and sensible, as be-.
comes his British origin. These ridiculous
stories Of Lynch law, Tar and feathers, John
Tylers and Jim Crews, we take to be merely 1T
tie imaginary extravaganzas, IN which men will
at times indulge, who know that the listener must
THE HEBREW NATION next claims share OF
our attention, as representing the most numer-
Gus, important, and wealthy body ofdlstinct peo
pie in London.
The man who canook Jew full in the face
TIVE do not allude to Sloman, or any other OF the
Hebrew fraternity of buns, fellows that can
not bear TO contemplate otherwise than at the
top of our speed) without perusing in his oval
phiz, high, pale forehead, dark deep-set flashing
eye, a volume of the romance OF history, more
eloquent than Josephus ever writ, must have no
more association in his pate than block OF the
New Patent Timber Paving Company.
Talk OF pedgrees, forsooth tell us OF the
Talbots, Persys, Howards, and such like mush-
rooms of yesterday ,-show rs lew, and we
will show you q man whose genealogical tree
springs from Abraham's bosom-whose family is
older than the Decalogae, and who bears ncon-
trover,ible evidence in every line of his oriental
countenance, of the authenticity OF his descent
through myriads of successive generations: You
see in him living argument OF the truth of Dl
vine revelaton-ia him you behold the literal
ufment of the prophecies With him you as
cend the stream OF time, not voyaglng by the help
of the DIM uncertain, and fallacIous light al ira
dition, bnt guided by an emanaiion of the same
light which, to his nation, was "a cloud by day,
and pillar OF fire 10y night" IN him you see the
representative OF the once favored people OF God,
TO whom, as 70 the chosen {. all mankind, HE
revealed himself their legislator, protector, and
king; who broughtthenl out OF the land OF Egypt,
out of the house OF bondage. 'lsraelites, as
Saint Paul saith, ''to whom per,aineth the adop-
on, and the glory, and the covenants, and the
giving of the law, and the service of God, and
the promises: whose are the fathers, and o whom
as concerning the flesh, Chris, came, who is over
all (rOd blessed for ever Amen -
You behold him established asst Were for ever,
in the pleasant places allotted him:y you trace him