Arkansas intelligencer. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1842-1859, 1844-03-02
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the fellow. "How should be q great man, that
| am but a. pudding maker.
"Because. said he, .you are bold and wicked"
"But think myself unworthy of greatness"
said the sausag maker. ~
"What does that sign;fy?" answered the other.
"Do yoa think yourself good or an III nan Z"
"Nay, for that matter. am bad enough"
~ wish. You joy" replied the other, ssyou will
ma yourself so much the betttr qualified whom
you come to do business; for our commonwealth
has nothing now to do with men of learning and
probty, but is wholly governed by the ignorant,
the impure and the immoral.'
"But how, inquired the sausag e-maker," 10 il
possible that should govern the peoplc?"
"Wnh all the ease in The world, ;" ans iS,red the
other. do only what you are used to do: ma.
Jmmhle disturb and eonfound all matters; feien and
invent any thing to please and delude the rabble;
you have false tongue, and mischievous under.
standing; you have also some little smatterine in
the law. In short, you have all the qualities that
our republic wants ut this time, and = IL arc ne.
cessary TO make you u great man." ..,r..
Thus the reader will perceive that the trade Of
the demagogue is very old one. "No man, ;" saws
Socrates, "without having studied his profession.
makes shoes, and men do not measure the earth
without some acquaintance with geometry" bu,
Afhe0A
OF old, call of US feel competence without oi.
Their theory or practice to the management Of .
great state" nr. .rs...... .. = --.-..--
Western Teras.-From the Ciarksville, (Tex.
as, Standard, Of the 10th inst, we clip the fol.
lowing:
A settlement is expected to be made the ensu.
ing spring at the San Marcus Spring by families
OF the first responsibility from the Upper Colora.
do.
The Crops in Middle and Western Tex.. ar.
very abundant. The constant rains for two
months past, have delayed The gathering of cotton
crops, but with every disadvantage Of the wealth.
or, the quantity Of cotton which will DO gathered,
to the acre, has no precedent. From two to three
thousand pounds per acre, is common on the Col.
orado. Our Informant saw two acres of now
prairie on Gen. Burleson's farm, from which was
picked 444f pounds or league Of cotton; and
this is an average of the general crop.
The Steamer Mustang. formerly plying on the
brazos River, between Washington and Veasco,
was sunk about the last of November while living
at Jones's landing, few miles above San Felipe.
and receiving cotton. Most of the cotton saved.
Tho boat is wreck.
From The Sand~icA Isiands.-Daies to the sah
October have been received at New York.
The U. S. ship Erie arrived at Honolulu, Seq.
tember III, thirty one days from Callao.
George Brown ESQ.,, U. S. Commissioner for
the Sandwich Islands, had arrived at Oahu, and
sailed thence on the Goth of October in the U. s.
ship Cyane. for the island Of Maui, to meet the
Sandwich Island Government.
The officers and crew Of the Cyane, with gen.
crosity characteristic Of seamen. made up purse
of 500 for Rev. Mr.. Damon. American Seamsn's
Chaplain, who had the misfortune few months
since to lose $75 by theft, with which he had in.
tended to purchase a horse.
Mr.. Hooper, acting Consul Of the United States
at the Sandwich Islands, stated, near the end of
October last. that there had touched at the Islands
within the previous months, upwards of 1000
tons of American shipping, valued, including their
cargocs. at 81, SOC, 900. -
Geo. Brown, ESQ.,. United States Commissioner
for the. Sandwich Islands, arrived at Oahu, and
sailed thence the 9th of October, in the u. s,
ship Cayne, for tho island Of Maui, to meet the
Sandwich Island gorernment.
Deeanters, Pistols and Fiddies.-Riotins.-
The Picayune says:
''Ihey sometimes have riots in ball. rooms At
the goodly town Of Syracuse, N. Y. We thought
such things were only known in New Orleans.
1t seems young man was in the bar-room Of
tavern IN Syracuse, where a German ball was in
progress. He seized decanter of whiskey whom
a woman who was behind the counter Knocked
him down, and the landlord fired q pistol ut him.
The ball entered below the right car, and lodged
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