Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1847-11-24

Mexico went into an election Of Presidcn,
and Senators, when the following named
persons were duly elected. For Presi-
dent, d. Manuel de la Pena Pena. For
Senators, D. Antonio de l1aro y Tamariz,
D. Jose Maria Fafrague, D. Antonio Dias
Guzman, and D. Ignacio Camanrort.
PHONOGRAPHY-OH, HOW WON
DERFUL!!!
FRIEND MERR1rr-Through the medi.
UNI Of your excellent paper, I wish to d.
rect the attention Of the reading comm
unity to some Of the practical results OF
Photography; subject that has not
been entirely exhausted by the recent
lucid articles upon that subject. The
phonetic system, as propounded by its
Dubuque advocates, proposes complete
re-moddIng, as we'll as reform, Of our
existing photography. 1t is not contem-
plated by them that this, like all the in
noyations that have preceded it, shall be
graduated almost to imperceptibility, but
that the change shall be both rapid and
thorough. The new system is to possess
advantage on the score of brevity and
ease Of requirement, that will fully COM
pensate the business portion of the COM
munity for the time lost in obtaining IT,,
while TO the young and rising it is to be
Of incalculable service.
With this summary Of the premises,
let us attempt to draw some Of the more
natural and necessary conclusions. with
the view to illustrate the practical boar
ing and benefit Of the system.
LIST. Our present photography is one
of acknow|edgedly difficult acquisition;
hence, TO some extent, the grea. number
Of bad spoilers among the mercantile and
professional classes. The phonetic sys-
tenn comes up boldly to the relief Of thi,
and at once and forever ban
ishes the provoking and aristocratic dis
tnction between those who can and those
who cannot spell. In place Of years, a
few weeks only will be requisite TO obtain
a perfect knowledge Of photography; for
the system in question purposes TO spell
words precisel y as they are pronounced
and all peop1e pronounce precisely alike.
Cd. An obvious benefit will result to
that class, medical and legal, who, in con-
sequence Of the vast amount Of time con-
sumed bythem in an abortive fort oflear-
ming to spell, have never been able to &C
quire such knowledge Of their profess
sions as entitle them either to reputa-
ton or living. This very large and
respectable portion Of the community vii!
find ample relief in the bushes Of teach
ing the new system-for who can csti-
mate the demand for instructors when
half the Globe is school-house and half
lis inhabitants pupils.
3rd. The Greek and Latin terms in
,erspersed through our legal and medi-
cal books, so extremely perplexing to
the gentlemen professional, who are ig
norant Of those languages, will of neccs-
sity fall with that orthography and idiom
which gave them birth; for it would be
an insult to the classic dead, to piano
graphocise borrowed language, and one
in which both the history and inscription
of its ilIustrious originators are written.
Our language, freed from these encum-
brances, will place knowledge OF the
more learned professions within the reach
Of every grade Of means and intellect.
4:h. The condition Of our printed Ian.
guage, under the slow and 1resome pro-
cess by which its more obvious inconsist-
cncies and errors have been overcome, is
spelt by as many different systems Of Or
biography as there are half centuries in
its history. Besides, our private and circu-
Iatiug libraries have become, within the
the thirty years, adulterated by the trashy
effusions of fiction and pseudo reform
The proposed system, completely new in
organization and idiom, must and will,
with one grand fiat, bury in oblivion eve
ny book and vestage Of our existing liter
ature, and upon the entire wreck Of the
abandoned system will rise, in it's native
simplicity, the chastened and resplendant
literature Of the new.
The leaders Of phonetic reform have
not yet disclosed the means by which the
new system is to be incuIcated and brought
into use. 1t is most obvious, however,
that, if adopted at all, it will be infinitely
worse than useless, unless it be so univer-
sally and simultaneously by every land
and nation where the english is spoken.
We presume, therefore, that it will COM