Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1842-03-08

tIOA OF ther\ IN tFade. by
their fashions their hair, you
may get at their ~. The Bona
partist is known byA short, DristIy mus
"a La and staring hair; la Jeane France
:; ro,.oson, nd by young gentlemen
70 49, ho;. ofLhishly after the
fashion Of the jacob e
teriorly birsute gentr Nns
to man. Partisan gI
dynasty wear whist -onfe7
Philippe, and cut tn NcfIe; the
Legitimists may at onc Recognized
by dressing like gentled
The ayocations Of capillary
peripatetics are misterioV and not TO
be got at without dificulty 1t Is to be
feared that The commOdi S they deal
in are chiefly conlrsban and like
themselves, very much Ne fancy
line-artiGcial flowers lad plea-
sure rouge rouge ct nOiI kgled
lace loaded dice, Chant pills,
fddIe-strings gamesters orm bcks
and CheraIicrs ID Ldussrie
Hereabouts, moreover, ar lost Of
inferior gambling houses, d Silver
hells," where so many yodse men
about town get relieved of their super
huous cash; houses Of no particular re-
putation, cigar shops, where other
commodities than cigars are saleable-
we presume you smokc-cheap gun
shops, trinkum-trankum shops, ,saa-
cious books and print shops, thorns in
the side Of the suppression of vice So
ciety, small shelI-f3h shops, and
equivocal emporia of every descrip-
ton.
In the coffee houses about this
Frenchi6ed neighborhool |, the gentle
men we have been Introducing to the
reader abound in such numbers as to
make it necessary TO set aside "pet-
ty France" in each for their particular
accommodation. Here, under the au-
spices of Napoleon la Grand" in
plaster Of Paris, crowned with a wreath
ofimmortelIes, play dominoes. smoke
and read the Charivari, L'Ami du Peu-
pie, and lie National; and may be
heard any night of the week especial
ly on Sunday, discussing politics and
things in general.
ITALIANS do not muster sufficiently
strong here TO enable us TO depict their
characters en- masse, nor is there any
very striking individuality, still less any
marked nationality giving them claims
upon our notice. The privation of a
national character never fails TO have a
bad effect upon the character ofthe
individual, it is not merely upon the
nation that oppression marks its brand
Of ignominy, but upon every man wo-
man and child, belonging TO the nation
which is enslaved. Yet Italy must
ever assert her supremacy. Rome.
once the mistress Of the world, still as
serts the shadow of a sacerdotal SOW
ereignity; triple crowned, seated upon
her seven hills, forwarding legions OF
| priests, monks, and friars to every cor
ner Of the habitable globe and ever
striving to reconquer spiritual dom.
nation she once exercised over igno-
rant unreasoning men.
Italy, once glorious in the songs Of
Horace and Virgil, and again in the
strains Of Dante and Ariosto, now. ala:
gloriies herself in the fexiIe trills of {
contalizing signora and finds her great.
est and most renowned son within the
girdle that embraces the circumference
of the larger Labache. From the en-
pire of tue Caesars they have descend
ed 10 the supremacy of cameo cutter!
ter--irom the Metelli we stoop to con
template Observation-Disclosures in tufa re
place the Tarquins-Palladio is rep
resented by the artiicere ia cork
cork-Dante and Petrachbythe jinglin!
improrisatori--the legions Of the EN-
pire by multituGes Of friars and priest
michael Angelo is a man of aIabas
ter images-Raphael the "divine,"
COPPER Of old masters for the America
market.
GERMANS we have in abundance
musicians, teachers Of languages
clockmakers, bookbinders, and artisan
Of various desert ptions-mute, inglori
Gus Stulzes in greatnumbers, attractc
hither by the uncomfortable propensi
ty Of our indigenous ships to indulge j
the striking absurdity of "strikM.
By-the-wIy, our native born artisans {
all sorts give every encouragement /
} the inundation of swarm5 6f foreign
ers, by reckless indulgence in suicide
combination against their employer:
, not seeing that every recurring "strike'
brings into the laboring market hun
dreds Of interlopers who cannot be s
easily got rid OF, thus lowering the wa
ges OF the home artisan, and spread
ing distress among our humber popu
lation. Your German in London res
embles your German every where els
Ia heavy, dunder-headed, gross