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The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-10-14
Political Gaiesje.-rhe New Pastoral

j EmS0i0OB.
Marrast shows more intimate acquaint
ance with the temper Of the people thar
any OF his contreres, and is gaining favour
and popularity every day, because he speak:
not in the Chamber, he writes not long ar
ticles in the National, he discusses not, bu,
gives dinners, balls, and parties, and thus
conciiates the favor Of the ladies, by Ear
the most influential portion of the republic,
us they were OF the monarchy, the consul
ate. and the empire. Rely upon il, Mar
rast has destined himself to be President OF
the Republic, and is preparing the way for
his election by the means which never fail
with the Parisians. While his rivals offer,
in long solemn discusses, to lay down for
the service of the country their fortunes,
their talents, their energies, their very lives;
he is content to bestow good music-wax
Neutrality-suspicious. band, and pretty
women. To those who know Paris, there
can be but little doubt as to which argu-
ment has the better chance Of persuasion.
The soirees at the Noupele Precedence are
already as eagerly sought after as were those
al the Tuleries in the days Of Louis Phil
ippe. Etiquette is far more strictly observ-
ed, however, in these assemblies; and NJ.
MarIast fully justifes, by the strict courtesy
and amenily of his manners, free from all
democratic faint, the expression, full OF
nairete, OF the Duchess of L., who, while
endeavoring to recollect where she had
heard the name, suddenly exclaimed, ooh
yes, | remember now-Mauast, Marrast-
is not he that republican ,cho ,eashes his
hands These pretensions to aristocraric
refinement on the part of Marrast are look
ed upon by his brother republicans with a
Jealous eye, and they ill-naturedly declare
that in the distribution OF the insignia Of the
new republic. while Ledru Rolln placed
the red nightcap upon his head, Lamariine
the red rosette at his button-hole, Cavaig-
nae the broad red ribbon round his neck,
nothing remained for Marrast but the red
heels Of the ancient Marquis de la Regencs,
which he Immediately donned of course,
in spite Of the danger of tripping which
every true republican must find who en-
deavors to wear them Meanwhile the
public gains by these refined tastes OF the
President, and, though his political enemies
may sneer, their wives wish not for a
change. You would be surprised at the
simplicity and innocence displayed Of late
in our fashions and habits. The ladies are
all robed Ia bergere, the gentlemen wear
coats Ia Celadon. A couple of polka
dancers at the Nouvelle Precedence look as
II cut out Of picture by Vatican, or as if
dessus de porte by Boucher had stepped
down to join the company.-Paris Cor.
of the atlas.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-10-14
The Apple Girl.


Day after day, with the regularity Of a
clock, a girl Of fourteen, stability dressed,
and not over clean. has brought apples for
sale into our office.
She was here half hour ago, and on
going out a moment since, we found her
seated on the floor in the entry by win
dow, lost in the pages Of book which she
was eagerly devouring. Where did you
get that book? We inquired. Il bought it
at stand, sir. What is it!' "A Fairy
book We smiled and walked on; think
ing longer Of the incident than might at first
be supposed. She is leading lsborious
life Of poverty, compared with which, all our
trials and troubles seem but small, and yet
in the midst Of labor, perhaps OF deeper
anxiety than We ever experienced, she pau
ses and dreams the old dreams Of Fairy
land, which we in our boyhood, and our
fathers and their fathers, in young days, have
revelled in. Forgetting the sounds Of Wall
street, the war OF carts and engines, she
reads fanciful tales Of Ouphes and Sprites,
and on the floor Of our entry makes mag
ic circle for Queen Nab. What matters
to her the exchange Of millions Of money
or the gigantic transactions Of the street!
What if ships are laden and un,aden; for
tunes made and lost! What if newspapers
are to be published; what if the prices Of
the auction room disappoint the sellers, OF
cotton and grain have fallen, or steamer
is below with news Of wars and revolutions!
She has no thought or care for all this. She
is far removed from any effect Of changes in
the stock-market: the storms that shake
thrones are in an atmosphere she does not
aspire to; and the thunderbolts which over
turn nations, strike on mountain peaks too
high to be felt or heard by her. Her life is
in the valley, yet she leaves it. and lives
another life among the beautiful creations
Of fancy.
God has made none of us too low to
dream, and none too high. The same book
which occupies that girls mind on the floor,
has once been the companion OF the hours
of some wealthy child, as its gilded caves
and rich covers (now stained and soiled) in
dictate. The lounger in rich fauteuil oil
on a>costly sofa, had the Identical pleasure,
no more or less keenly, than this poor read
err Of fanciful stories.
And what after all is the great difference
between her and us? We all dream dream:
f continually, and our ambitions are too otter
, schoolboy fancies, that we forget not in ou
lives. We grasp at bubbles which break
in our hands, we pursue phantoms that fly
: before US and vanish only in the graveyard
; The girl is sitting there still, but her booi
has dropped in her lap, her head has falleI
: against the wall, one hand is on the bool
: and the other on the floor, her bonnet
: crowded somewhat over her face, but she
a farther of than before from all care, for sh
a is sound asleep.-Jo1nai of Commerce.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-10-14
NUMBER 10.
Kx ara ordinary Ge.srs.,sy Of L...e...

When the Spaniards first settled in
Bnenos Ayres. in 1886, it became necessary
to forbid any one going beyond the settle
ment, on pain Of death, in consequence Of
the savages numbering all who came into
their hands. A Spanish woman, named
Maldonota, however, eluded the vigilance
Of the guards, and made her escape. Hav-
ing wandered through unfrequented roads,
she entered cave to repose herself, where,
to her horror, she encountered lioness
but her terror soon changed to surprise when
the formidable animal, approaching heL
caTesssd and licked her with mournlul cries,
rather calculated to excite compassion than
dread. Maldonota soon perceived that the
lionesS was with whelp. and that her groans
were the complaints Of dam seeking to
get rid Of her burthen. Inspired with cour.
age, Maldonota assisted the effort Of nature
in that awful momen; when she seems re-
luctant to give life to beings which parents
are to enjoy for so short time.
The lioness being safely delivered, soon
went in quest Of provision, which she
brought and laid at the feet Of her benefac-
tress. which the latter shared with the little
whelps who were brought into life by her
assistance, and. bred up with her, seemed,
by their playful and harmless bites, to ac-
knowledge their obligation. But. in the
course Of time. the family dispersed, and
the lioness. no longer called by maternal
kindness to the cave, disappeared also. II
Hunger again forced Maldonota to 90 in
search Of food, when she Was arrested by
the Spanish soldiers, and conveyed back to
the commandant, who ordered her to be tied
to tree in the middle of the wood, and to
be left there, the food Of beasts. Two days
afterwards the soldiers found her alive, sur
rounded by hungry tigers, eager to devour
her, but who were kept al a distance by
a Eoness, who, with her whelps, were ly-
ing at her feet When the lioness saw the |
soldiers she withdrew to enable them 10 un-
bind her benefactsess; but when they took |
her away, the lioness and her whel ps fol- |
lowed her footsteps, showing all the marks
Of regret and affection that a diSconsolete
family could for the departure Of dear and
near relative. The commandment, informed /
Of the whole adventure, suffered the woman
10 live who had been so visibly protected
by heaven.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-10-14
An Rdilor's Lie.

A gentleman Of distinguished attain
ments, who formerly conducted a weekly
paper with much ability and success, but
who is now travelling in Europe. writes to
a friend in this country, who has recently
assumed the charge Of daily paper, as fol-
lows
"You must live in. and for the paper
There is no escape from this voluntary,
and yet lifelong slavery. For now nearly
ten years, | have known the willing, vol
untary, unbroken service which the true
servant Of free press must render. My
weekly charge has been more than l car
lear; and often, like the slave described
with such pathetic eluquence by Job.
have "longed for the shadow" which tells
the hour of rest. Feeling thus with re
spect to the weekly press, how can | bu
fear for YOU. my brother, my friend, wher
YOU bind yourself in six-fold bonds! How
| little does the majority Of readers Of news
papers, know Of the expenditures o
thought, Of the labor Of the head. ant
brain, and hands, which goes to make W
that which ministers to their highest wants
and also, how many truths, thought GU
with brain-ihroes, pass unnoted, unobseI
we'd, even if not received with RELENTLESS
hostility Nevertheless, the true MAJ
must work, too, in the martyr spirit; cor
tending even with the thought that hi
mere relics. when he has laid him down i
the dust, will constitute kind OF supe'
structure, and basement upon which u
glorious and eternal temple Of truth sha
Issaod." ......
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-10-14
The French sewing ,amch.ne

The inventor OF this machine is an
humble artisan. who has great mechani-
cal genius, and who has been eng ged for
thirty years in the perfection Of his inven-
ton. He received patent for it in France
a few wears ago, and it is said that fr more
than twenty-five years, he sought in vain
to make it work, and that the thought flash
ed all at once upon his mind regarding its
true and perfect principle. The machine
was introduced into London some time
last year, and has attracted much atten-
ton in that city. Ii is very cheap; some
are sid for twenty dollars, and the price
varies from that to thirty. The machine
is fixed on a table, and in very small box.
II is worked by treadle, and every move
ment Of the foot produces a corresponding
action in the needle; so that three hundred
stitches can easily be made in minute
The hands are merely used to guide the
material being sown, and by turning a
screw, the stitch is instantly varied. The
machine will sew, stich, and form cords
and plaits. The stitch is the tambour OF
crotchet stich. The whole value Of the
invention consists in making machinery do
what was hitherto done by the fingers. and
thus resolving problem supposed imprac-
ticable. The beauty OF this machine is,
that il can work button-holes and embroid-
or. Nj. Magnin, who exhibited it in Lon
don, wore an entire suit worked by it, con.
sisting of coat, vest pants, and all their
appurtenances. To France belongs the
credit Of this invention. Nj. Thimonnier
is the name of the inventor, and his fame
will 90 down to posterity with that Of
jacquard. Scientific American.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-10-14
Slavery has recently been abolished il

Slavery has recently been abolished in
in CAYENNE. Great fears were entertained
as to the result-the whites that they would
be massacred by the blacks, and the blacks
that they would be slaughtered by the
whites. But the Governor issued his proc
lamation aboIishing slavery; little by little
confidence was restored, and shortly thous-
ands Of blacks repaired to the Governor
mansion, thanked him for his proclamation,
and then proceeded to church to thank Got
| for giving them liberty. a
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-10-14

Il vii be observed that the slave popu-
ialon nearly doubled itself in the first
twenty years iron 1900 to 1920 Du.
ing The next ten years it remained almost
stationary but during the decennial period
ending with 1910, itiell off 1,42j.
Ii 1919, the various classes Of popula-
Ion We're thus distributed.
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nish sufficient reason for believing that The
number Of slaves has been steadily dccreas-
ing.
The following interesting statistics. CON-
piled from the assessors list Of 1915, for
Washington have been handed to us by an
intelligent friend
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-10-14

dience, and his quiet smile told that he
was none the worse for his extraordinary
exhibition.
"Robert Houdin's liberal gallantry we
must notice. as fans, bouquets, fruit, and
bon bons TO say nothing of the numberless
glasses of the mysterious liqaeurs) are
showered upon pit and dress circle with
even Profussly bountiful hand. "-Lirer-
pool .ilbion.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-10-14
Necessary to a choice LAG.
tleCiIgn Ia the pe0r

L41'ti'a ~ t4i' 'Ntle-
Ia the event u no choice by the Electoral
J5ileEes, the House Of Representatives, upon
Nhch the election would then devOlye, would
e divided a. follows.
ht,g-NemOni, Massachusetts,, Connect
cut, New iOrk, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Del
aware, Maryland, y. Carolina, FlOnda, Ohio,
AeaiuCsy-l2
D4a9o1t-Maine, Virginia, South Carolina,
A.sJama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas. Ar
ssnsss, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, Michi-
gan, Nissan, Iowa, WlscOnsin-1j.
Lst-New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Geor-
ss-3.-S0uihrasT.
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III ~ the white population. the excess Of
mates so over males was l,0l3; in the color
- -,OoS' This difference is to be explain
D- y, We suppose, by the sale of a greater
. u OF colored males than females TO
Tue county and city Of Alexandra, since
" We census was taken, have been retroced.
, - . Virginia. The population of George
'U~l and Washington country and city
s 100 u io4O, white. %, 926; free colored
we we have no means Of estimating tn,
tim. oil the whole population al thi
uaie. but the returns of the assessors r.,
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-10-14


Pts lIeI Clay, m lS44, %
ETs~lu .1tI Van Buren,, IN lS4u, -
vs4 Bgrra y,rI Ham~On, IN $50, -
I..A-n over Clay, m le32, l.e
jsc.-Jn User Adams, IN ISIS, 70
Rel-9tulatiun Of vote IN ls4i.
P.ksm la,y over Clay, exclusive Of -,
S0lth Jal1hna, oo''3-
NJ p.-E.n5 PIuey over Clay, l0l ,2jj
Ma Of Cay aud BImey over Polk, -5,I'I
Presidential Election OF lSiS.
The number Of the States of our Union Is
.h.ry Tie Senate II the United States Is COM
D5el of SKI, senators: and 230 Representa-
igr,. Each Stale. u So, will be entitled 10 a
Presidential Electoral vote, equal 10 the number
OF Is Senator, and Representatives. IN Congress.
The eirctors. votes Of the States will lie as
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-10-14

The assessors are bound by law, in thei
returns, TO discriminate between those wht
hold slaves for life and those who hold thea
only for a term Of years. but we are in
formed that this duty has been neglected
The number given above Of persons owning
slaves, OF course, embraces both thost
classes. Ii may therefore be fairly assumed
that the number OF real slave owners is no
greater than $50, and of these some are mi
nors and many are women; so THAI the
slave-holding males Of Washington consli-
tute a very minute fraction of the whole
number of whites in the city Of Washing,
ton, probably not one twenty-f(lh part. Ii
will be recollected that the vote cast al The
last municipal election, Uhe first vote un-
der The system of free suffrage) was nearly
1000.
1t is impossible to estimate exactly the
number of slaves from the data furnished;
but. as a general rule. it may be assumed
that about one half Of the whole population
Of the District is embraced within the two
periods. 10 and Is. The fair estimate then
is, 1, 2lO as the total number Of slaves for
the city of Washington in 1915. But, in
1910, they amounted to LIB; the de-
crease, therefore, in five years, was ii3, or
at the rate OF q per cent.
The slave population of the res; of what
is now the District, Georgetown and Wash
ington, (county,) was 1 COZ in 1910. APP
plying to il the same ratio Of decrease, it
must have fallen in 1916 TO LIZA. If the
process OF decrease continue at the same
rate, the slaves in 1850 will number
In Washington, aOG
In the Ie,t of the District, So
Total, 1863
Averaging all the slaves in Washington
in 1915. at $500 each, quite liberal al
lowance.) the total value Of the slave inter
est in this city did not reach 100000
scarcely more than one third Of the value
Of the property of the Democratic candi-
date for the Presidency.
And yet this number Of slaves, nsignif-
cant as il is, is large enough TO keep down
the spirit of enterprise, and check the flow
Of capital and immigration into the Dis
trict.
Were the few SHAREHOLDERS here TO meet
together and unite in a scheme of emanci-
patton, to be submitted to Congress, they
could rid the District Of the evil with very
liule inconvenience. aud in so doing would
give an impulse to trade, manufactures,
and agriculture, which would soon crowd it
with an industrious, thrifty, and an intel
ligent population; to say nothing Of the
great moral bearings of the net, the blot they
would thereby wipe out from our national
escutcheon, and the resulting harmony in
our Federal councils. Era.
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so-s Statistic. Of the D,.,rse, orCo,umbin

The following presents a view of the
Ice and slave population at the periods de-
sgnated.
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1885 i.asS.S z3 so,c2O 5i'sa5
"a, ,sc5l.na choose, electors by legislative
80 r-.fi.,llt clua,ing her vote, NJ. Polk :
' .'.,,l "a over M. Clay Mas IS, 992.
F. . az. s,oI.-isn vote amounted TO O., 265, ana
l"' - az, free States as follows:
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The Whole number OF votes cast IN le4i, for
pis Cav. Buney and Scattering, IN all the
s-,rs, s,oep, SJuth Carolina, was about :, '"o'-
- IT,. year Il viii exceed 3,0O,OUo.
..--ru .r.usuCs 90 THE UNITED STATES.
D. .-.lrl El.rfi0aS
Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1848-01-20
Town MEETING A Town Meeting

Town MEETING "A Town Meeting
was held OH Saturday last, to adopt the
Charter for City Government and make
arrangements to present the same to the
General Assembly to be passed into a
law. Henry Bull, Esq, presided at the
meeting. After some discussion as to
the legality of using the voting list of
IS47, the Moderator decided to use it
The Charter was then taken up section
by section. Several amendments were
offered to some of the sections, none of
which were adopted. Every section Of
the charter was adopted as it stood. 1--WE
have already given a brief abstract of it J
1t was then voted that the moderator
appoint Committee Of three to apply to
the General Assembly for a Charter.
WIN. G. Gibbs, Joseph II. Perry and
VIM. Ennis were appointed the Commit
tee to apply to the General Assembly for
the Charter.
Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1848-01-20
6eralo of the Ginles.
RHODE ISL AND Err;
NEWPORT.

WHIs PRosPEcTs.-rhe Wings through.
out the State have paid up their registry tax
es with commendabIe punctuallty,- much
more punc,ually, we understand, than the
Democrats, who will fall many hundreds be
low their usual number Of registered ant
paid. This, with ordinary good management
and attention, will make the Wings secure
in the retention Of The State Government loi
the coming year, and in the choice of Elec
tors Of President and Vice President, which
must be made on the first Monday of Novem.
Der ensuing. Another circumstance which
will operate to the advantage Of the Wings,
ofwhich we are glad 10 see evidences in ev-
cry part Of the State, 10 the healing Of the
breach in our ranks produced by the unfortu.
nate schism in the election Of 1876, and in
the subsequent election Of United States SEN
Western District, last summer, was the nat
ural fruit. We now see the necessity and
propriety Of dissolving the Law and Order
organization, which had fulf led it's mission,
and operated only to separate us from friends,
who differed with US in very little else than
in the proprie,y Of retaining it, The Wing
members Of the Legislature a, The last Octo
Der session, did wisely, therefore, we think,
TO relinquish, what was, IN fact, a merely
nominal distinction, and 10 rally once more
the whole party under the wide spread, well
understood, and sr.honored title Of Wing.
The late meeting at Kingston, in Wash.
ing,on county, which we noticed IN a late
Herald was on index Of better state of
feeling in that large agricultural district, and
has been attended, We understand, with the
huppcst results. The difficulties existing
there, havo been almost entirely reconciled,
and the Wing array of that county will pre-
sent hereafter an unbroken front. In the C |
lection, also, of delegates to the State Con.
ven,ion for the city Of Providence, the same
good spirit has predominated-ten Of the
twenty-six delegates being taken rom the
seeding Wings. We presume that spirit
Of Cancellation and union will extend through
the State, and be productive of consequences
which we need not predict. We think,
therefore, we msy venture to congratulate
our friends on the certain prospect Of the ex-
iinc,on Of this feud, and thut Rhode Island
will maintain, hereafter, both in her State
and Presidential elections, the high character
she has ever upheld in the Wing ranks.
Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1848-01-20
Sirth Lecture before the .Newport As.

Si1M Lecture before the Newport rs
soeiation Of Mechanics and .Manutaetur
ers.- We had the pleasure of listenin,
last Thursday evening, to the lecture O
the Rev Mr.. Washburn, Of Fall River
on the ancient city Of Pompeii. Tn
lecturer opened his subject with som,
just and pertinent remarks on the ten
dency of the present age to undervalu,
tlme-honored remains, and animadyertet
on the desecration of our Yankee Utili
tarians in removing pieces Of Plymouth
Rock, and employing them to fill W
bitches in the immediate neighborhood
lie then passed on to the subject of this
far-famed city, (Pompeii) which, as is
generally known, was accidentally dis.
covered'in digging well, eighty years
since, in the city whose inhabitants were
reposlng, unconsciously, over its venera-
BILE and splendid ruins. Mr.. Washburn
was well calculated to interest the audi
ence and to give them a just conception
of the ruins. he having personally visited
them, and being therefore able to place
the listeners, as it were, in the very midst
of the scene, describing the appearance
of the streets and some Of the most re-
markable ruins; introducing them, also,
into the dwelling Of the Historian, Sal
lust, and making them familiar with the
domestic arrangements Of the Household.
One Of the most extraordinary antiquities
mentioned by the lecturer, was that which
he saw in the Museum at Naples,-an
Egyptian Mummy IAN infant about eigh-
teen months old taken from the Muse
um at Pompeii, where, no doubt, it had
been regarded as an antiquity more than
two thousand years ago. The lecturer
passed from his agreeable sketches Of
Pompeii to the cause which had wrought
the wo and devastation, which he had 80
pictured ,-visi,ing Mount
Ves,vius and the crater, of whose heav-
lngs and appalling sounds he gave a mos,
description. We can hardly do
any justice to its merits in this brief no.
ice of Mr.. Washburn's excellent lecture
We would merely add, that large and
most respectable audience seemed highly
yra,ilied with the natural and interesting
narration of an eyewitness, and they
'vinced their warm appreciation by an
lnbroken attention during the hour Of
IS delivery.