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Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-12-30

thrown around her waist; her back VS.
against my breast, and her head reclining
On nv light n uder. When she felt The
Efforts that | made to keep myself from
falling, she said in very low voice t. me,
" YNu squeeze ne too much" ! then
Judged there was nothing 10 tear for her
health, and that she had not lost her sen
ses for a single instant. During The whole
OF this scene had been exclusively occu
pu d with Josephine whose situation af-
ie led me, aid could moi observe Ndpr-
lean; but when the women oi the Empress
came, he passed into small saloon con.
tiguous to the bed.chamber, whilher iol-
lowed him. His agitation and anxiety
were extreme. In this moment Of trouble
he explained 10 me, in The following words,
the cause of what had pas sed: The in
terest of France and my dynasty has for
ced nv heart to act hus--divorce has he
come an act Of rigoro IS duty for me. |
am more panied by la scene que mont de
faire Jose hine, as she must have been
made acquainted three days ago by Hor-
tense with the unfortunate obligation that
compels me to separate myself from her.
pity her with all nv hedrt--l thought her
possessed of more character, aud | was
not prepared for this explosion Of her sor.
row. In fact, the emotion that he felt com.
PEELED him 10 leave long interval between
each phraze, in order to take breath. His
words escaped him with difficulty and with
out connexion--his voice was stlfled aud
faltering,and his eyes filled with tears. All
hIs scene occupied from seven to eIghr
minutes. Napoleon Immediately after sent
for the physician Corvesarl, the Queen
Hortense, Camhaceres, and Fouche; and
before g,ing to his own apartment, he re-
turned to that of Josephine, whom he found
calmer and more resigned"
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For Members of Congress

she was unhappy from he apprehension
of poison, La Tude waited on Pompadonr
at Versailles, to acquaInt her that he had
seen parcel put into the post office adj
dressed to her; aud at The same time eN-
pressed a suspicion relative t. the contents
of it, and cauiinned the March, onesS to be-
ware. The parcel arrived of curse, La
Tule having put it into the post Off e; blt
the powder proved on chemical experl.
ment perfectly innocent The result gave
the Machines an insight into La Tude's
design; and, offended a. his presumption,
she had him sent to the BastIle as an i'm
poster.
La Tude with great ingenuity effected
his escape from pri on; and 'ee'lng nncnn'
scious OF any crime demanding severity
OF punishment, he went, and voluntarily
surrendered himself 10 the king. Unhap
py nun! within of the caprice and cruel
ty OF woman! The upfeeling marrho'
ness, piqued at his placing more confidence
in the king than herself. made such repre-
sentattbns to his Majesty that ne ordered
La Tude back t. the same prison, and to
he immured 10 one Of its most drearN
chambers-a dungeon! where another
prisoner of the n,me OF Delegre. was al
so confined, by order Of the March,
ness.
Yet even this impregnable fortress OF
barharity, where no wealth could brlbe-
where no instrument OF rny kind was al
lowed. did La Tude and his rompaGi"n
without money and unaided, effoat iheir
escape.
They had neither scissors, knives, no.
any edged instrument; and for an hundred
gIneas, the turnkey would not supply them
with an ounce of thread. Upon making
the calculation OF the difficulties to be en-
countered, they found that they required
fourteen hundred feet of cordage; Two lad
ders of wuud and rope, from twenty to
twenty-five feet long, and another of one
hundred and eight teet in length. Ii was
necessary to displace several iron CRATES
from the chimney; and in one night, TO
make hole in the wall several feet thi k,
at the distance of only fifteen feet from a
sentinel. The wooden ladder and that of
re, when made, must he concea.ei; and
the officers, accompanied by the turkeys,
cnme to visit and search them several times
week. They had to make and TO do all
these things to accomplish their design
and they had nothing but their hands to
effect it with. The hand, to those who
Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-12-30

know It, use, IS the instru neut Of al IN
~rruments The iron huge oil the table
was by wheuing "a IA tiled floor, converted
INTO knife. With this bars were reno
we'd. and a saw construc ed; wood was con
ceaed from the daily fuel to construct the
ladders; La Tude's pormantei.u continued
Twelve dozen of shirts, and other articles
of apparel, out of which they made the
400 lect of rope. The bars in the chin
ney took six months to displace; and the
whole OF these preparations cost eighteen
months work, day and night.
The moment of attempting their dan
gerous enterprise now arrived; one nj h;
alter supper, La Tnde first asccnded the
chimney, and drew the ropes, iron bars,
&c. up alter him, leaving a suthc'en'
ouantt, of the ladder IN the chimney, 10
enable his companion to ascend with less
difficulty. Being now on the top, The
drew I'D the rest of the lender; and then
descending at once on the platform ser.
wing as a cnunierp'ise to each ether. They
next fixed their ladder to piece Of cannon,
and let it gently into the iosse; by which
means, they descended with ihnir ir,n
bars, WOODEN ladder, and all tn lr equip.
age. During all this time, the sentinel
WIS not more than ten talh"ms from them,
walking upon the corridor.
THIS prevented them from getting up to
it. to 90 into the garden, as they first IN
tended; they therefore were under the
necessity of mixing use of their iron
bars. They proceeded straight to the
wall which separates the fosse of the Bas'
tile from thai of the garden of St. An
tome, between the garden and the COVER
RS house. In this place there formerly
had been little fosse, fath"m wide, one
or two Get deep, but now the wafer was
up to their arm pits.
The moment La Tude began to make a
hole between two stones,to introduce their
iron bars as levers, the round major pass
sed by with his great lantern, at the d's'
tan e of ten or twelve feet above their
heads. TO prevent their being discovered,
they sank up to their chi in the water;
this ceremony they were obliged TO repeat
every half hour when the round came by
At length one stone was removed from The
wall; they attacked seconi, and alter
wards third, with equal success; SO thai
before Midnight they had Displaced several
cart loads Of stone; and in less than SIX
hours had entirely pierced the wall, which
was more than four feet and halt thick.
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The Independent Democrat,
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HENRY Nj. DE LA TUDE.

In the year l749, Henry NJ. dc la Tude,
son OF knight Of the order of st. Lewis,
was sent to The Bastile, for the grave of.
fence of having spprted with The feelings OF
Ma6ame P Dnpadour,t the Celebrated mistress
OF Louis XIV. With the thuughtless warm
eo,hnsiasm of young man, he had 1t
seems attained himself 10 the cause OF
this woman, in defence of her Character
against The fanatics of the day. He wish
ed to do her some ostensible god office,
and sighed 10 render himself Of conse-
quence IN her esteem. Having heard that
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A Washington Correspondent Of the
Richmond Enquirer, under date Of the 3D.
inst, in announcing the result OF the cau-
Gus nomination for Speaker, states that the
friends of Mr.. Calhoun. despairing of the
nomination of that gentleman by the DEM
ocratic National Convention, are thinking
seriousl y of Withdrawing his name, aud
cooperating directly with the friends of
Mr.. Van Buren.-N. o. Bulletin.
We learn from Washington that there ia
no foundation for the rumor, so indus,rl-
ously circulated that Mr.. Calhoun has
Withdrawn, or is about to withdraw, from
the field as candidate. So far from it, his
friends are as zealously urging his nomln-
alton as ever, and are not likely to relin-
gush their exerlions, until The nomination
shall be made at Baltimore. This, VIC
presume, will be the case with the friends
of all the other candidates. It is idle TO
imagine that the election of printer or
sergeant.af.arms determines who will be
the Democratic candidate for the Prcsiden-
cy.-AmericGa Sentinel.
Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-12-30
From the Nashville Union.
WING PRINCIPLES.

A public meeting of wings lately pass
ed, mem. DIS, resolution declaring that
"Henry Clay is the soul and embodiment
of WING principles" Now, modern whig
principles, "ior the public eye" are hard
to discover; but old rhig principles
old land marks OF the party--have been
so incorporated into the history OF the
times--into the writings speeches, and
public acts of the fathers Of the party, that
they may be found and traced out by eve-
ry man. Among them may be cited The
following cardinal articles of faith, with
the authorities annexed:
Hamilton said 81 have we'll examined
the sub iect, and am well convinced that
no amendments TO the articles of confed-
Grafton can cnswer the purposes of good
government, 50 loug as state governments
exist"
"Givc car no longer TO That syron song
Of democracy-a is a cursed detusiOa.'-
II. G. Otis.
"All public communities ought to lie
divided into the few and tine many, The
first TO consist of the rich and nell bonn
the latter Of COMMON neci0aicS and farm.
rs.r-AddmS.
"As wei might blacksmith attcmpt;o
mend a watch, as Il farmer - c5isate -
With his huge paws upon the statute hook,
what can he do?"-Boston Courier, 1898.
"If the appealst1 the reason ofthc peo-
pie will not prevail, money can and will
be used, and that will obtain votes when
all other means are found alb ,r,ive." -NeU
York commercial Advertiser. 1880
Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-12-30
From the ". O. PicdUnnc,

The London Sun in noticing the passage
in the recent letter of the Rsv. Sydney
Smith relative 10 Amelic IN Indebtedness,
in which he wonders how Pennsylva-
man can sit ut an English table without
being overwhelmed with The conscious
ness that he, as part of that State, owes
two or three pounds to each individual
present, has the following remark, which,
though it does not quite take away the
sting of the reproach, is still amusing:
"Alas, if those gentlemen only were
to sit down 10 an English tall, who didn't
happen to owe other gentlemen money,
the number 'of guests at our fashionable
parties would be cruelty thinned, and the
whole s, stem and science of dinners
would very soon bid fair to become one of
the lost arts"
Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-12-30
SMOKING.

Physician-'Madam, | can no longer
continue to prescribe to you, unless you
throw away that pipe
Patent-'Why. la, doctor, change the
cob every day or two
Physician-'No matter; while you con-
tinue to smoke at all. Besides, | see you
do not change the stem. Thai reed, mad
am, is filled with the pill Of tobacco, dead
" poison, the Generalization of which is
sufficient to suffocate a rhinoceros! Hor-
id practice, m'am. Ola, reform ii alto
gether.'
Patient--sLa, doctor, how you do talk.
Suppose should q lit smoking what should
do for excitement, seeing have no baby
to nurse?
q say, boy, whose horse Is that your
ridingf
why, it's daddy's.'
who is your daddyP
Don't you know! Why, Uncle Pete
jones'
So-vou are the son of your uncler
why, yes, calculate | am. You see,
dad got TO be wIdowcr, and married
mothers sister; So ] recon he's ~ un-
cle.'
'Boy you are not far removed from a
fuol.' g
WeII, as we amt moro than three feet
apart | think Just as you say
Good morning.
C ,od morning You didn't come it
that time stranger.
Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-12-30

They drew the por mlntelu Thou Ih ih'
h lie, aband ming every thing else wlthou
regret he then descenCed int tht
deep iosse OF the gate ST. Antoine;-
whence, after a narrow escape from per
thing, they got upon dry ground, and took
refuge at the abbey OF ST. Germain des
Prez. -
La Tude fled to Holland; but uoon the
demand of The king OF France, he was
given up by the Dutch Government, con-
Quoted 10 the Blstile and more closely
confined than ever.
On the death OF Madame Pompadour,L La
Tude wis informed Of it by Il writing pla-
ced Up at a window IN the street, in con-
qlence Of some papers he had thrown
from the B lstile tower.
Mos; of the prisoners in the Bashle
were on this occasion liberated. The Min
is er, Sartine, however, refused to set La
Tude free, except on a condition which the
unfortunate man, thinking terogatory to
his honor, would not accede 10, " he was
still doomed ny the remorseIess revenge OF
that monster of nhumanity to remain a
prisoner ten feet under ground, clad IN
letters, with a beard reaching to his breast,
no bed but straw, no provision but bread
and water, overrun with vermln! Such,
alas! continued for many years the wretch
ed situation of the unfortunate La Tude
whose only crime was having offended The
favorito of his sovereign.
he ultimate liberation Of La Tude is
no, the least wonderful part of the story.
A woman named LIE Gros, walking abroad
in June, 1881, saw lying in a corner, a
packet of papers, that had The appearance
of having been tumbled in the dirt She
took it UP, and returning home read the
contents. 1t proved to be a memorial,
part Of the mlsfortunes of the Sieur La
Tude, prisoner in dungeon ten feet under
grou ID, on an allowance of bread and wa
ter, for lhirl. -four years. The good wom-
an was moved with compassion at The re-
cital of such cruel sufierings, and was IN
cessant in ner applications in his behalf TO
persons of rank; till at last she obtained
his liberation on the 10Th Of March, l7So,
through the influence Of Baron Bretull,
who a, accompanied the glad tdings with
grant 10 La Tude of u pension OF fonr
hundred Lives.
Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-12-30

In the London Times, short time ago,
appeared the following advertisement
:" For sale, an excellent young house
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w nd suit any tm'd lady OF gentleman,
with a long silver taiI!''
The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1843-07-14
a Natiount 1san!,.

WaiMe Ways intend 10 dO,-By the election
of such men to congress as GiLgs SrpISG, they
say they expect to establish, by means OF nation.
u bank a sound national cW5 GicY, which shall be
uniform in its value all over the county. Have
we not now IA sound national currency and one
as "uniorm in value all over the country as we
ever had in the palmiest days of the late United
States Bank Then, will the creation of new
u. $. Bank be likcly 70 better it Would it not
be wiser to "ct well enough alone, than again to
"linkcr at the currency" and again establish a
great national regulator" which, by its immense
power could make money scarce or plenty at
pleasure and thus contto prices to suit itself and
which, 10 attain unholy ends, would not scruplo
to buy up editors 10y the dozen, and "sophislicato
aud suborn" the representatives, and servants OF
the people, as did the late L. $. Bank, aud in the
cnd sink in consequence Of its own corruption,
and drag down with il the whole banking system
of the country, spreading rum and dcsolation Ia
every direction
The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1843-07-14

Aside from the important principles involved
in the present contest IA thsdstdcJ ,tehould not
he forgotten by lbedcmoclcy chat, II any man can
be said 10 have rla,ms upon the party, then such
urc possessed by our candidate. u NAV be asked
with force who IN northern Illinois has done more
to support the CAUSE OF democracy, aud to whom
do the patty owe deeper debt Of groitudol His
time, labor, and health has always been freely sa-
crcod to promote the great cause, and he has
never been known to desert his post in the most
losing a penny OF a lit,lc temporary popularity,
have hlicrcd IN the good work, lac has uniformly
been found IN the midst of the fight and has free
y exposed himself to the ycnomous shafts Of the
uuscmpuous foes oIdomocrocy. And upon whom
did the enemies of the democratic party ever heap
their vide abuse more proluscly DO not their
papers teen with charges Of the most unscrupu.
lous nature without the least shadow oftruth, low,
mean, aud contemplate, aud which there is never
the least attempt made to subsanlia,cl Ard
will the democracy hmcly look on aud not show
that they feel his cause to lee their cause "a ii re-
ally is VIII they forget the debt of gratitude
they owe hir, uIG, because ia long editorial ca
rccr ne hgs had the misfortune moi to please every
body, give hm up "a sacrifice to as vile set Of
political gamesicrs as ever dsgraccd a statcl Ra-
thcr let the democracy show that they aro willing
to reward an honest laborcr in tho cause, and, hv
giving him an overwhelming majority at the polls.
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l.. D. CAyAHly, Sec'y.

Il True J'ieW.-The Coos County
Democrat Justly remarks -" Political
economy should be made a matter of ge-
nearl interest. 1t will not do for freemen
to say, Il know nothing or Il care 10
know nothing about politics. The man
who stands Indifferent, in the midst ofthe
party conflict around him, needs little
change to fit him for subsection 10 des-
pot. He is false to the sacred trust of
citizenship con6ded to his hands. By
ncglecting his privileges as a freeman, he
virtually comedies that it Is no object TO
be free. With a million of men like this
in our country, we should be sure Of a
monarchy within the next ten years
The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1843-07-14
4 VISITOR,

In France and Germany, the golden
willow is required to be planted on the
banks OF rivers, mill-dams, mill-races,
stagnant and unhealthy streams, not only
to promote health, THAI tree being grea-
ter absorbent of unhealthy vapor than any
other, BIZ, also to prevent the banks from
being washed by the tide, current, or
otherwise injured, and for revenue from
the annual clippings of the twigs for ma
king baskets, the bodies Of light carriages.
sleighs, &c.
The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1843-07-14
JUSTICE AND EQUALITY. -
THE FREE TRADER.
Ottawa, III, Friday, Sally 81, 1913
How the VIII! Papers GIVE Eact----Sh.
.suiiri G'tCss.

D:y /,,o,,yL r l., .,,,,,..,.,y r., C,yLy,t.-
When Col. Wentworth, OF the Chicago Democrat,
was declared, by lliiie"ng vote OF The democrat
OF tle Nh'"S' 'N','e'' ''''',''"'1 lV'
Tho ,a, N,,innn lu,ollioenccr sets him down or
rather Up, at seven lec' two nchcs.--1H Ic@r,
The National in,cIligcnccr is about the most rc-
spectacle wing paper ia the country, which will
account for It's keeping 80 nearly within the
bounds Of ruth in giving the HEIGHT Of our cludi.
date for congress, it having stretched him but,ollI
inches. Ofcourse, this is"noiacirrum.,ancoD TO i
what the whis papers in this pant Of the couot,y
can do in the way of "maqnifying facts" Take
for example the case of the press at Juliet The
simple facts of this case are as follows: The c,.
tablishmcnt of tho Juliet SIGNAL il given by lhr|
owners into the hands Of Mr.. Little, with lhcI
understanding that he is to print democratic pa.
por. lie takes it. bu, il few weeks the papcrI
comes out IN opposition TO the democratic candr
date for congress, and Mr. Lirlc is found to be a.
mere tool in the hands Of the wings. The owners
of tho press Or at least tho principal owners, the
Messrs Alien, in whose building the press was
kept now tell Mr.. Little that he cannot pint such
paper in their building, and further, that he must
pay their claim on it before he could take it away
This is in tho evening. Mr.. Little takes the
Messrs Allen to one side aud talks about buying
out their share, aud while their attention is thu,
diverted, several of Mr. Littlc's men are occupied
in pulling down the p,csi and carrying oil the
printing materials The Mcssrs Alien arc in.
formed of it, and they Immediately cudcayor 10
lock the press up, in which, after scuilc, they
succeed. The next morning tho press is lheu
by a writ Of rcpicvin, and removed, but in being
removed it Is discovered that several important
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Mr.. Elilor-Thc people in this region want to
know If, should Giles Spring be elected 10 Con-
gross, he intends taking lawyer Phelps, Of Chica-
go, along to Washington with him to make
speeches for him, as he has all through this region
of country. Spring and Phelps have left here
and rumor says that Phelps cannot leave his '0hi
business much longer, and so will take Spring
down Fox River and leave him in the hands Of
his twin brother, the great spcech-makcr who has
recently left the democratic party in consequence
of it, corruptons, and who will supply Phelps
place for a whe.-Wcll, huzza for TIE Siamese !
DUNDEE.
In 40, the wing banner boosted coon and
cabin--now its broad folds contain the Siamcse
twins. We'll, there's accounting for tastes.
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EMc G,0H Congressional District Of Ni"ois
10 be npycgaicdJya ,0hig or dsmocrai? Let The
democrats everywhere think about this matter
and act with energy Shall Giles Spring, base
calumniator of democratic principles, aud vile
dcnounccr of the patriot JACKSON, represent
a democratic dis,.ict in the next congress Shall
his narrow and contracted soul sat in Judgment
over free and Independent democracy Shall
he be permitted to cast his vote in opposition to
the bill rctundng Gen. JACkSON'S FINE
Any democrat who directly or indirectly, contri-
butcs to such result, is deserving of the scycrest
denunciation at the hands of the democracy.
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There is now living, near Georgetown Heights,
u. c., lady aged nco, 100, who is tho only per-
son ia the District we believe, says the Capitol,
that can aud has said, "Arisc daugh,er-ee and
see your daughtcr--ior your daughters daughter
has daughter
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An E,ceitnt Driuk,---To two gallons of pure
water add quart Of oatmeal aud shake it ill the
latter is wet enough to sink, and in half an hour
ii will furnish nutritious, pleasant aud excellent
drink. Some think the beverage is Improved by
leaving out the oatmeal.