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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1848-05-12
From the Democratic Review,
DEATH OF EI>.GnID.

Amid the carnage thick he lay,
Ills ltr-drops cbbing fast away.
And miuglng with the gushing gore
OF heroes fallen there before
Nor felt he pain. nor fear of death,
But with his faint and feeting breath
lie urged his comrades on
son 10 the combat!-o - he said
"Nccd not the dying or the dead!
II is your country claims your might
On to the thiCkest of the fight -
stand till the last droyS Of your hearts
Crimson the coward focman's darts.
4 victory must be won =
On to the combat, soldiers brave!
Fight for the hcro'S honol'd grave
Fight for the hcro'S houor'u name
Fight for the hero'S dcathleSs fame
Tor the pride and glory ofthe bold,
Whose likelihood bought you liberty,
And traced Your couniry's name in gold
On the tablets Of eternity!
Oh Let their spirits from the sky
Nc'Cr see You from the recrpaut fy;
Stand to your arnS-deiy grim death
Fight with your latest pulse aud breath
Fer your cuuntry's glory die.''
And as the wolf with fierce desie,
And heart Of blood and eye of fire,
DaShcs upon his shreking prey
A. torrents down the rocky way
Upon the trembling valles gush,
Overwhelming all-they onw ard rush
To Death or Victory.
They spear. and blade. and bayonet WELD
They loose the lannon's blazing breath,
And thick as >heaveS on the harvest field
They lay that Toe by the scythe Of Death.
still pale and stark the Warrior lies,
The dcalh.fm gathering DER his eyes
The dcalh.c&iIl cjrcliug round his heart
His spirit Ringers ere il pant,
To catch his Bands cxuling cry,
Aud bear 10 Heaven The Victory.
CLARK. ha,kI' he Ga>ps-.''what do he or
Above the clash Of blade and spear,
And dying shrek, and rushing gore,
Md trampiuC S'ced, and cannon's roar?
Hank list! hearst not that cry wo?
Hearst not the flying of the foe?
Hearst not the signal bugle sound?
That wild hu2za 10 Heaven resound?
That tumuli? Hank they ny--they Gy---
'lis-'tiS the Shou, of Nic,oryl'
lie said, as forth his split paSs'd
Beyond the reach of battle blast
Or adulation's tickle tongue,
/ To bear his fame by angels sung.
| Rest, Warrior, in they narrow bed
Rest, Warrior. 'mong the honcr'd dead. -
! Rest, Warrior. rcst-,hy dcathltss name
! Is riitcn on the scroll Of Fame! ~
! BLESSED are they who are no, afraid OF
| thlnlcr tOl they shall not hesitate 10 get
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1848-05-12

The Mission Of the Iedchcr.-M Many fine
things have been said concerning the mission
OF teachers; n mission truly important. mas
much aS they are commissioned not uuly 10
teach few elementary branches oi khowl.
edge to the children Of the people, but to d.
rect their education rs men aud citizens.
The best that has perhaps been written on
this subject. is to he found in memorial
which the Minister Ut Public instruction al.
dressed 10 them. "llumhlc rs the career oi
the schoolmaStcr may be-" says the Minis.
ter, sand though doomed to pass his Whulc
existence most frequently within the sphere
of small community, his lnboIS are, never.
thelcsS, felt throughout society nj large, aud
his profession is as important rs that 81 any
other public iuuCiionnrv. II is not for any
merely local interest, that the law demands
that every man should acquire, II possible,
the knowledge which is Indispensable in So
cial life, aud without much Intelligence ,ilcn
languiShCS and dcgcucratCs; il is Tor the state
itself aud the public interest; it is because
liberty is certain aud stcndla>t only among
people enlightened enough to listen, in eve.
~ circumstance, to the voice at Reason
Public elementary instruction !, one Of the
guarantees of order and social stability
Doomed to pass his life IN discharging The
mouotonous du'icS nfhi, vocation, sometime,
even in struggling with the injustice or the
llgtatltudc Vt ignorance, the Schuolmas,e,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1848-05-12
A. II. ROWLAND,

Phwiciqn and Surgeon Otiowa, H.
Residence ON the hill. lew doors west of #
Fox River House. q Ice the sane ~ hefe'
fore occupied 10y H,riu"d and Person,
Rpddlck's Block,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1848-05-12
TO Wl;.E.EEsS.

heRiCES Of brlung clothc, reduced. VI.
4 to g per yard, 90 inches wide, best
hmnds,) gradual reduction on lower numbers
to - 10 Tor No. |. 1t can be sent by mail a,
same rate If postage as letters siz 10 cents pr.
ounce inr 300 miles or less, 20 cents per ounce
for oil distances beyond, (wei hing about oz.
per yard) large supply of Burr Mill
stones, Screen and Fam Mil Wire, porra.
hle Mills, Plaster, etc, etc, on hand. No. 2I7
North MAN street. next square above Nilsson ri
Hotel. ~. Louis. [alil Ga C.TODD.
ethOycis ~ scoops.
- For sale by ALIEN. W. MAGIII..
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-09-30
IIGHT-LIGHTlI

COMMITTING NEW and just the thing for every family
- requiring Light and cheap too that every one rich
and poor can buy If. II is aneat CANDfIESTICK MAX
ing and wicking its Candles cut Of Taow Lard
the CandlestiCk, beautiful hard, smooth CANDLE is
forced out of the top and at desired length you wish
from one inch to two feet in height
L. 1t IS neat and simple ac0mmOn candfesck;
quenty may bemanaged by child
by OF this convert all your refuse grease
INTO candles and thus obtain light from 70 cents week
3. The WICK dry and smooth, thus vibration flicker
ng OF the flame, bat burns like a sperm candle.
A. The wick may be changed without at all disturbing the
arge one.
You coil IN the bottom of the candle or candle
stick, WICK sufficient to last five weeks where
mans out OF sight and out Of the way.
D.. GU may keep your candle at the height all the
time I9r ten yeaTs-no stumps or pieces left.
6No splng Of grease if falls turns over, but neat
ly and ceanly as any lady could desire.
20. 1t cannot get out of order.
TO- In proof of their superiority utility and neatness the
immense number sold sufficient The price uniform and
the same all over the United States and the article requires
only TO be seen conync the most nceduOus of the fore
gong facts No family viii be without them who sCTape
together the small price asked.
With small capital active business man make a
QUICK and profitable operation ~ purchasing the monopoly
and selling this article In territory where has not yet been
sold Persons who desire to embark in neat pleasant and
highly lucrative business, invited to call at Office
No. IS PERDID Street North side, Between ST. Charles
and CaTondelet streets. New Orleans.
The monopoly of the city of New Orleans, and states Of
louisiana Georgia, North Carolina and Arkansas, for the
sale of this article Offered and proposals will be received
for the manufacturing in the city OF New Orleans, for the
'' ms q -'''@'''-' '''N '' H. T. MYERS co.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-09-30

FOSSIL FOOTPRINTS. = Dexter Marsh, laboring
mechanic of Greenfield, many years ago discovered,
on the flaggng-stOnes with which he was laying a
sidewalk, what appeared to be the footprints of
some strange bird. The biologists pronounced
them to be such, and to belong to period before
the creation of man. The discovery so excited the
curiosity and scientific aror of Mr. Marsh that he
has since made it his amusement to look for such
impressions, and has raversed the valley from the
Northern Massachusetts line to WethersfieId Con-
Neutrality-suspicious. spending weeks in quarrying
rocks with the sole view Of discovering these ancient
tracks. In the last number Of Silman's Journal
of Science he gives brief account of his labors
and successes, from which we may understand that
the Connecticut valley, in bygone ages, was favor
lite resort of birds that would have made no more of
putting a man into their crops Than turkeys do Of
swallowing grasshoppers. Mr.. Marsh has in his
possession more than eight hundred footprints Of
birds and quadrupeds, besides having furnished
many specimens TO others in this and other coun-
tries. In some cases, these impressions so dis
tinct not only to show the Joints of the toes but
the perfect impression of the skin. He has perfect
tracks Of quadrupeds so small that half-dime
will cover the whole foot; and again, Others Of
birds where the foot measures half yard from the
toe TO the heel, so that if the birds which made
them were proportioned like those we now have,
they must have stood twenty feet high He has
sometimes followed the track of bird thirty or
forty feet in the rock the track being at first faint
as if on hard soil then more distinct as If imprint
ed on the sand at the waters edge, and finally sink
ing into the mud and disappearing in the water
He has one slab four or five inches thick on which
the tracks appear as mere straight lines upon the
surface but on splitting it into five layers they
grow more and more distinct till the lower slab
shows where the foot Tested-just as if, when the
stone was in state of mud, the bird trod down to
the bottom Of it, and on Withdrawing the foot the
mud closed up. Among these tracks are many very
unlike to those made by any known any animals,
but still so marked as to leave no doubt that the
animals made them. A sort Of kangaroo, for ex-
ample, shows very small fore-feet and very large
hind ones. ofihis the Journal gives striking cut
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-09-30

The VERY SHALL JoKE.-Augustus Fitz- Fin
nikin is very successful in this stye we give few
Of his happiest walking one day with Lady Le-
titia Lamposte, the rather elderly and remarkably
thin daughter Of the Earl of Gassburnham, and
seeing the Ojibbeway Indians go by in their convey
ance to the Egyptian Hall, she remarked how ex-
ceedingly red they were wherein Fitz came for
chilly down with the idea that, in such intellectual
times, they really ought TO be pel-read Indians.
Microscopes will not magnify jokes, or Fitz- Finni-
kns, by the aid of small sum iudciously laid out
at Dollard's, might have been seen to considerable
advantage. On another occasion, talking with
Capt Hardbake, of the GuardsTwho was exhibit
ing himself on the steps of his Club, the Junior
United Manslaughter, as chance or the fare would
have it, a cabriolet painted green passed them,
wherein the Captain acutely observed that a
"gween cab was going by, and wound up the
important discovery by asserting that there is a
gweat vawiety of cabs now Fitz's eyes sparked
for moment, he replied" Yes, this is certainly
the CABBAGE" Fitz never looked less than once
at the Egyptian Hall at the time the Tom-fool-
ery-we beg pardon, the Tom Thumb exhibition
was going on. Fitz, meeting his friend, the Hon.
Derby Ring, at the room, playfully asked him why
the public were like well-used betting books
Derby Ring, whose ideas never ranged beyond a
mile-and-a-haf course, said, of course he did MT
know. Because" said Augustus, with leer,
" Because they we been well thumb d. "-Hand-
Book of Joking. ...4 .44..-,.-f
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-09-30
uMIVERsITY o. LouIsIANA,

L.4W DEP.4R T.NEJVT.
THE LECTURES and COURSE of INSTRUCTION
MONDAY of November next and continue until the LIST of
branches of the Common and CUH Lam, Public, hterna-
tt9naL and Co Cor Laa0: a. ,-.,.I
subjects, by four Professors
The history Of the Roman Law from the earliest times
H. An analysis Of the general Principles OF the Roman Civil
man School III The jurisprudence of Louisiana com.
pared with the Roman Law and the Codes of France and
whether derived from France Spain the United States.
Those by Professor THEODORE II. MCCALEB, will treat
and obligations of Masters and Mariners, Collisions and
other Mainline toTs general average SALVAGE CIVIL and
pOhecatons and contracts for Maritime Services in Building,
Repairing and Suppyng of Ships H. International Law
embracing the Law OF Prize and the practice of Prize Courts
the absolute rights OF States International rights OF States
in their Pacific and Hostile relations Treaties Of Peace and
Private International Law. LII The Jurisdiction of the
Courts of the United States embracing the Original and APP
the gna JDrdicon Of he Distct GoGfs as Courts Of
Revenue and Prize and Instance Courts OF Admiralty
The Lectures of Professor RANDELL Hunt will treat Of
l. Commercial Law it relates Mercantile persons Mer-
Gante Property and CONTRACTS and Mercantile Remedies
and Corporations OF Principal and Agents, of Bills of Elk
change and PrOmissOry Notes and Shipping of Balmens
and Contracts with Carriers, Contracts Of Areghment by
EhaIeF party and t9r Sonyeyanee IN general ship OF
Of Sale, GUARANTEES, Liens and Soppage in transu, etc.
II. The Criminal Law and Practice in Courts Of Criminal
Professor THOMAS Il. MONROE, viii Lecture upon l..
The Common Law and Equity Jurisprudence and Practice
tutiOnal Law.
Chief Justice EUsTIs will deliver series of Lectures
the Rights of Persons and the Conflict of Laws.
CHRISTIAN ROsELIUs, Esq, will assist Adjunct Pro-
fessOr in the Department of the Civil Law.
Students will be expected produce satisfactory evidence
Of good moral character
The degree of Bachelor of Laws will be conferred only on
those who shall have attended Courses of Lectures
full course after having studied at least one year in the
office of Counsellor Law and after strict examination
BY all the Professors. During the Course there will be fire.
quent examinations.
There will be organized also Moot Court which will be
holden every week. presided by of the Pro-
fessOTS.
Eg The price of Tickets for the Coarse fixed at $l0O
or $25 for each Professor.
H. A. BULLARD, Dean of the Faculty.
New Orleans June /. 1913. les SIN
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-09-30

THE MEN OF THE OLDEN TIME.-They (Egyp-
tan antiquities) rebuke us sufficiently in showing
us that at that time men were living very much as
we do; without some knowledge that we have
gained but in possession of some arts that we have
not. They confound us by their mute exhibitions
of their iron tools and steel armor; their great
range Of manufactures, and their feasts and sports
so like our own. In their kitchens they de-
cant wine by a syphon, and strew their sweet
cakes with seeds, and pound their spices in NOR
tar In the drawing-room, they lounge on chaises-
tongues; and the ladies knit and net we do, and
darn better than we can. | saw at Dr. Abbott's
piece of mending left unfinished several thousand
years ago, which any English woman might be
satisfied with or proud of. In the nursery, the lit
tie girls had dolls-iointed dolls, with bunchy hair
and long eyes, as our dolls have blue eyes and fair
tresses. And the babies had, not the woolly bow
WOW dogs which yefp in our nurseries, but little
wooden crocodiles with swapping Jaws. In the
country we see the agrieuturists taking stock and
in the towns, the population divided into castles,
subject to laws, and living under theocracy, long
before the supposed time of the deluge. There is
enough here to teach us humility and patience
about the true history of the world.-Miss Mar
ttnedu'S Eastern Life.
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AWNINGS. TARPAULTNs, ETC.

YENHE subscriber would respectfully inform his friends and
the citizens of New Orleans that he still continues
manufacture every description of HOOD and iRQN-
FH.9.fE .4WNIFCfS, for Stores, Steamboats,, Offices,
Galleries etc ETC. He also Manufacture every description
of Military Tents Tapauins, and Day Wagon and Horse
paid to Splicing and furnishing Wheel and other Purchase
Ropes for Stores, etc.
As there has been great deal sad within the last year
50, about what some parties enormously call WATER
PROOFIN the subscriber offers his services in that capacity
for asma compensation and to those of his customers who
would prefer saving the expense by doing It themselves he
will cheeTuly give the receipt which in itself very simple,
and yet most useful preventing rot midew any article
of cloth that may be exposed to wet damp
AL orders left my slate at the Clothing Store of
ALFRED MUNROE u CO., will meet witt prompt at
tentiOn. mills 6m III. CASSIDY.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-09-30

CULTURE OF TEA IN THE UNITED STATEs.--
An interesting article in SINNERS new periodical,
entitled f" The Plough, the Loom and the Anvil
upon the culture of the tea-plant, corrects the
opinion long entertained, that it cannot be culti
waited with out of the Celestial Empire, and
shows that it is cultivated there in the Northern
and mountain region, where snow lies on the ground
three or four months in the year; thai it is found
wild in Assam, and is cultivated in quantities at
the foot of the Himmelah Mountains. From these
facts with other information derived from traders
ETC., returned residents Of tea countries, the writer
is fully convinced that this country, from Texas to
NewYork, will grow tea equal in quality to two
thirds Of that imported and that some of the States
will grow equal to, better than the best that
comes from China. The article also states that a
gentleman recently returned from Calcutta, who
for FIVE or six years managed one of the companys
tea plantations in Assam, has written book on the
subject, not yet published, and has expressed an
opinion that this country can grow as good tea as
any portion Of the world" The writer thinks the
. the child is now born that will live to see the
United States export, instead of import tea''-Nelo
HdUen Palladium r
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-09-30

No EXCUSE FOR BAD SPELLING.-"T There's no
excuse for bad spelling" said Mr. NJ
But some words are so difficult" interrupted
Mr.. G. #F
There is always way of eyading them,'' said
st. Leger, g as Giles Eyre did,"
. How did he manage, inquired Mr.. NJ
answer excusing himself on the ground of a fit of
the govt. Some time after, his friend met him, and
expressed his surprise at his having had that COM
plaint, as it was not in the family.''
That's the TRUTH" said Giles Eyre, none of
us ever had it in the memory of man"
Them asked his friend, "what did you mean
by saying in your note that the govt prevented your
dining with me? "
"Och,' said Giles, that's asily explained
would you have had me lose my time spelling
rheumatism ?''-B. Of the Albany.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-09-30

RAILROAD IN LoNDoN.-The london correspon-
dent Of the New York Commercial Advertiser thus
describes the London terminus Of the Southwestern
Railroad: g The Waterloo station Of the South
western railway has been constructed since your
Mr.. Francis Hall last visited England The line of
road thence TO the old station at Nine Elms, near
Vauxhall, runs for distance Of two miles, over a
densely populated district, entirely upon arches,
higher in some instances than the houses of three
or four stories. The arches or bridges which inter-
sect the numerous streets are remarkable for their
solidity and architectural beauty. Indeed the whole
work is a noble specimen of modern engineering.
Far from offering any mpediment to the crowded
thoroughiares you feel, when passing in the cars,
as far from g the busy hum of men, as ifyou were
travelling in the country. Imagine for a moment a
line of arches higher than any of the houses run
ming from the Battery, through Broadway, to Union
Square, interfering with the convenience of no
streets, yet intersecting all, with locomotive and
train Of carriages moving at the rate of IS miles
per hour above the whole, and you may form some
faint idea Of the railway from Waterloo station,
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-09-30

FATTHFULNEss.--The widest robber of the Be-
doun tribes, will never violate the laws of hospi-
taty to guest who has once tasted of his salt. In
Prices Mahommedan History we have an example
Of the strength of this bond.
Yaakoob, the son of Eb-Says Es-Sufter, having
adopted a predatory life, excavated a passage one
night into the palace of Dirkem, the governor of
Seestars, and after he had made up convenient
bale of gold and jewels and the most costly stuff
was proceeding to carry it off, when he happened
In the dark to strike his foot against something
the floor. Thinking it might be jewel of some
sort or other, he picked it up, and put it to his
tongue, and to his great establishment found it to be
piece of rock salt For having thus tasted the salt
of the owner, his avarice gave way to his respect
for the law of hospitality, and throwing down his
precious booty, he left it behind him and withdrew
empty handed to his habitation. The treasurer of
Dirkem repairing on the following day according
to custom to inspect his charge, was equally sur
prsed and alarmed at observing that great part
of the treasure and other valuables had been re-
moved; but on examining the packages which lay
on the floor, his asonishment was not less to find
that not single article had been conveyed away
The singularity THE Circumstance induced him to
report it Immediately to his master; and the latter
causing it to be proclaimed through the city, that
the author of this proceeding had his free pardon
further announced that on repairing to the palace
he would be distinguished by the encouraging marks
of favor. Yaakoob awaited himself of this invita-
ton, relying upon the promise, which was fulfilled
to him, and from that period he gradually rose in
power, until he became the founder of a dynasty.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-09-30
PHILADELPHIA WHEELWRIGHTs
CARRIACE MANUFACTORY,

THE Patronage that has been extended very beT-
l. ally the last seven years, while in Com kN'sf 8
street, has induced US the last summer C4JfszsE
to erect large building expressly for t%~ErH
featuring and repairing CARRIAGES -&tS----S {sZ---
We have now of the largest Shops in the Southern
Country and prepared, with good Northern wOrkmen
and the best of materials to build any style Of Carriage
order and guarantee them used in the country
We also better prepared than before for repairing
Carriages and restore them almost their original beauty
and durability, although apparently worn out and useless
We will pay freight carriages sent to repair w WILL
also, keep hand assortment of NEW and SECOND
HAND CARRIAGES which will be sOldlow. Old CARRIAGES
taken in trade tor New We invite the attention Of
those wanting New Carriages. their old repaired to
call at Mandatory and Repository and Judge for them
selves at the corner of G9R.4YIER and Cs4RONDELET
Streets, next door to the Office of the Commercial Water
Works, Of the St. Charles Hotel New Orleans >
je5 6m MATTHEWS & DEAMAN.