The banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1844-1847, 1846-04-08

AMus1NG.-A new work has just been
published in England, entitled Gram
bles in the United States and Canada,
during the year l645, with short ac-
count of Oregon" which is one of the
richest productions we have yet had.
The low bred vulgarity of the writer,
which this work exhibits, disgus,ingly
apparent as it is throughout its pages,
may nevertheless, be overlooked for the
sake Of the amusement which the book
will not fail TO afford Americans can
afford to treat this production US joke
Of the most amusing kind. A few spc-
cimens may excite a desire for more.
OF the American people, he says
"The men are sallow. and the wo-
men ;a'Iow; the women are wanting in
all that makes feminine nature heauti-
full, and their efforts to supply such de-
fciency by art. are totally wanting in
the great artistic qualification, (celare ar
ten,) in which the French excel. The
men are merely long, lanky Yankees,
lathy and uncouth, with narrow napes
10 their neclls like women. They ne
yer have any boyhood and never live to
grow old. They are sour and gloomy,
not from habit: they have no faith in
the power Of street music 10 lull the
senses and open the pocket, their souls
being wrapped up in the pursuit of "ano-
ther dollar" they have neither imagi-
nation: fancy nor taste
"They are truly vulgar, ignorant,
Dragging, splitting, melancholy, sickly
people. Passing their lives in state
Of mental excitement, some kill them
selves with drink, and some with tobac-
CO; some are hurried to the ever yawn-
ing gates of their ceme,ries by excuses
in religion or excuses in politics; cx-
cesses in commerce or excuses in spec
ulation; or tribula,ions of mind induced
by complication Of these causes. But
calamity is not Of long life in America,
for the men are soon dead and soon for
gotten. Duels and assassinations also
help to thin their ranks. for, strange as
1t may appear, it can be proved that ia
nous as Italy, sc:ci!;', aud Spain are for
the stiletto, there are mo.; more asassi-
nations and stabbing in tho Save States
OF America, than in all these countries
put together. This is a melancholy
truth but as the minds of the masters
in the Southern States insensibly be.
come degraded by the mere contact, not
to say association, with things so dege-
nerated as their slaves, the moral sense
becomes blunted, they care little for as
sassination or murder, and nothing for
stabbing or manning"
"Amerlcans are generally vulgar
but whyshculd they be hypocrites in the
Northern States, rogues in the middle
States, and rufians in the Southern
States"
Governor Marcy. Secretary of War,
says this writer, with horror which is
exceedingly ludicrous, "sports a ging
nam umbrella" Edward Everett, he
calls a" Unitarian minister" President
Folk is a" village lawyer" but to cap
the climax, President Tyler, or ellis
Accldency," was seen "combing his
hair with a filthy comb, tied up bv a
piece OF string in a steamboat, and wa.
shing himself with jack towel used in
common with fifty other dirty passen-
gers"
The King and Queen of Prussia
have presented to the new Evan
gelical Lutheran congregation of
st. Paul's at Washington. D. c.. 4
handsome service of communion
plate, with their names inscribed
on it.