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The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1849-10-31
20. 8.

Ten and five are fifteen. There's fifteen
cents gone ! Paid five cents not more,n
week ago, down tn Bostin, tn have these
boots blacked-the man charged four
pence, but beat him down cent and a
quarter-and let my expenders out on
purpose so my trousers'd fairly kiver
'em up, so as not to loose the shine off
fore got hum agin, but that cussed tub
driver has been and washed it all clean
off as slick as lie. Blast that boy ard
his thunder tub tn! Er he dom: pull
hemp or come to some bad end, he'll die
juvenile, that's fact,'' and Seth Cur
ney vanished, hitching up his wet trow-
sers as ne went; and the probability is,
that he will retain, to his dying day, his
first impressions Of the " Sea Sarpint.',
unless at some future time. he revenges
himself on the mischieyous rogue who
excited it, and thus obiterates the oc-
currence from his memory as an account
fairly balanced.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1849-10-31
For the Express,

Mr.. ED1ToR-In reading back num-
Der Of the Express, | found an amusing
letter, purporting to have emanated from
the prolific and aspiring brain Of ssMrs.
Higgins" Now, without doubt this
same Mrs. Higgins is some mischievous
knight of the pants, who, in love Of fun,
chose to make some mystery hating Eve
tho victim Of his 5urlesque;; but, after
all, it was such perfectfac smile Of ma
ny Of the weaker sex, that it struck my
attention Instantly.
The idea seems strange to me, that, af-
ter eighteen hundred years, nowsin the
nineteenth century, woman Eas just be-
gan to find her proper social relation and
position. For the many ages past She
has been content to occupy sphere far
different to the one to which many Of her
sex now aspire. Its true there have
been those whose names have been sound
ed through the world. A Cleopatra ru-
led an Egypt; she brought an Anthony
to her feet, and made him perfect slave.
| Wealth, glory, power--all were hers
but mark her fall. Weary Of the cares
Of State, tired Of those duties which de-
volvcd upon her as Queen, she slept up
on her post, and awoke not until the thun-
dering tramp Of victorious army came
borne upon the air, and her sceptre pass
ed from her grasp, condemned to be the
victim offered on the altar of newborn
kingdom, she died, rather than suffer
! thus--her own murderer. Her regal
robe was her winding sheet, and her fu-
neral pile the wreck Of her empire.
An Isabelle fostered the terrible power
Of a Torquedama, and gave to the Inqui
sition oil the horrors it may now possess.
An Elizabeth sacrificed Mary of Scots
to her blind zeal and mistaken policy.
And bloody Mary deluged the age in
which she lived with the sanguine flood.
In these phases she seems strange and
(, unwomanly.
Those who would deprive woman OF
her title to intellectual capacity, and
/ would bind her as the creature of tears,
!. Of signs, and Of smiles, and tho sport Of
circumstances or who, on the other hand
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1849-10-31
DUBUQUE, IOWA, OCTOBER 81, 1849.

the second commanded by Passi the same
The Roman Legion, commanded by Gal.
lel:i. The Riflemen commanded by Mel.
lara, since dead of his wounds, all Ro.
mans. The small body Of the Reduci,
Romans. The Battalion Bignami, Ro.
mans. The Regiment called the Union,
Romans; the body of the Carabiniers,
Gen. Galletti, do; the Dragons and the
Artillery do; all these, all the chiefs |
have already named, the Colonels Piana,
Amadel, Petri, Pchal, the General-in-
Chief, Rosselli, the Chief intendants. first
Gaggaioli, and afteaward Salvati, the
principal employees at the Ministry of
War, ali Romans represented the indig-
enous element.
Where, then, we're the foreigners p
Garibaldi and his legion, eight hundred
men; Arcioni and his legion, three hun
bred men; Manara, dead for liberty, and
Ibis band Of Riaemen, i've hundred men
tWohundred Poles Che foreign legion,
one hundred men; The hanful &c brave
men who defendedAhe Vasieloudde Me-
dici. Altogether two thousand men sbut
not really SO many, because ArcionRs less
gton contained at least one third OF leo-
magnoli, because the little knot ofacaval-
IIy which formed part of Garibaldi's IL.
Igion, and which was commanded by Mas
Pima of Bologna, died on the field, were al
most all Roman gcitizens, and because
halfeven Of the foot soldiers of Garabaldi
belonged to the country.
The number of Foreigners who as
sisted in the defence Of Rome was from
fourteen hundred to fifteen hundred men
among total Of fourteen thousand: for
it is we'll that Italy should know that four
teen thousand men, young army with.
out traditions, and Impoverished under
the very fire of the enemy, held in check
for two months thirty thousand soldiers
OF France. You knew all this gentlemen,
or you could have known it and there.
fore you oughtto have done so; and new
ertheless you shamelessly gave out to
the Assembly the number Foreigners
as twenty thousand as proof thai after
all it was not the Roman idea that YOU
had endeavored to stif]e in blood; and up
on this cipher of your invention depends
the greater part Of your argument
Foreigners! entreat pardon Of my coun.
try for having inscribed the word, after
you upon my page. What! Lombards,
Tuscans, Italians, foreigners at Rome
And it is by you, Frenchmen. by you
who, in re-estabishing the Pontifcal
throne, have been supported by Austri-
ans and Spaniaads, that this ~eproach is
made. A year ago our provinces sent
the elite Of their youth to fight upon the
plains of Lombardy as TO a Convention
OF honor; bat do not remember that
Radically ever called them in his proca-
nations "foreigners'' The absolute de-
NAL of Italian Nationality has been re-
served for the nephew Of him, who, at 81.
Helena, uttered these words: 'Unity Of
manners, of language, Of literature, show
that Italy is destinad to form a single
country."-[The IN. W Nation.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1849-10-31
THE SEA-SERPENT THAT SETH
GURNEY SAW.
."Herc you see

The piscn sarpint, Sc.-[Old Song.
The ponderous machine with which
our streets are sprinkled during the hot
aud dusty seasons of the year,no un(re-
.quently ELECTS EXPLANATIONS Of surprise
and admiration from those unacquainted
with this modern method Of getting up
refreshing rains and cases have occur
red Of a character directly opposite the
machine, drive Grand all connected with il,
receiying the most severe denunciat ION
from Some uniortlnaie pedestrian who,
approaching too nea while the water
was shut of, received a drenching any
thing bat desirable on sud den sisiing an
TIN 6 food gaie fise ciYrurista NICE INC, Ne
are about to relate, resul ted, not sosinauch
from the carelessness DC the victim as HIS
Einquisitiyen ess, Or happiness to catch at II
glance the utility and iiapo rtance of.this.
notable machiEe not The least Of many
Yankee ontrivances and imp roYenen u.s..
he Rain King Ilpi Professor lss
Ipy, o. course, but the yoilfl gster N lao con
trolls the wheeled thunder slloNt 81 y s,s a.
standing by the side u his mac near
the corner sof rrimack ana Central
streets, one morning not long since, talk
ing over with IN Old crony he circeiias-
stances and result ~ 4 late false alarm
Of fire, OF soneth pf equal inp tance,
when he was q ijfUpt accosfed q
gaunt looking diyiduall ssea ia ain
gy white pants, that, iiIisie ISL beinc IDS
short, as iscommonl u tllia ease with Fl ~
species to which he belonged re =
inch and ashalf too long III n0ss enti reIy
concealing his, feet, and, like i fashiona-
BILE lady's dress, sweeping the ground at
every step. A blue round jacket, Scotch
plaid vest, about three inches longer than
his jacket, a bosomless shirt, which, Law
open exposing red under ditto--a mann
moth white cravat, tied into double GUM
not, projecting out on either side. ag,d y
very respectable looking white haG c0fi5s
pleted the costume OF Seth Quincy rs
gentleman from New Hampshi
Say, you, what've you got iheFs
was his first salutation, pointin& KS
machine, which stood within Il fay ri Ss7
Of the side walk, The water colIffn i ~
dropping from its leaky sides. S
The driver, thinking that his ifSterros
gator was quizzing him, did no. answer,
but continued conversing with his friend
"Look here, you," continued Seth,
stepping up little nearer, supposing thai
his first question might not have been un.
derstood-""What'n thunder have YOU
got in that tub there on wheels, or, as
Parson Peabody'd call it, that vessel, ell p
"Water, to be sure, replied The dri
yer, ofishly.
"Water? Wall, rather guess come
to that conclusion myself, cause see il
drippin' down behind there; but what
have you gotin the mater? or haint you
got nothing in it9 Perhaps Father Mat
thew's goin' to have temperance meet
in'," he suggested, and has got to furnish
Refreshments, as they tell about, SAY,
lnow?"
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1849-10-31

Iknew an excellent old lady who al
ways dated from the time "when their
horses run away''-to be sure it was a
remarkable hegira, and she used to re-
mark, in describing it, that she put the
frnest reliance on Providence till the
breeching broke, and then she gave it
up" ~
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1849-10-31

A poor poet having written some dog
grel verses to young lady, in which he
repeated the phrase 81 saw thee once,''
she returned to him for an answer that
she would take care he never saw her
again. - "a
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1849-10-31

A wag was jogging home rather late
and a little happily, when passing BY
dark alley, a two-fsted fellow stepped out,
and Selling him by the collar, demanded
his money. MONEY!" said the wag,
ssmoney! have none but If you stop
moment, will give you my note at thirty
days."
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1849-10-31

/ guess have cut dash, as the horse
said when he threw his heels through the
front ola buggy.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1849-10-31

"a Ho0SiersP paper thus humo1 6usly emu
tnerates polished phrases which have su.
||perseded aneient vuigarisnns: "A lady
steps into store and Inquire Tor chose
stightene garters used 10 Be the word.
"a NcB'' il called 8 Elssler impu-
lllSn md sssweet potatoes,n ssdulcet
iiee: Raising the sOld Harry"
6x 0Id Nick, 3 y more politely ex-
SSsd by relevating the ancient Hem
or s'exalting the venerable Nicho-
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1849-10-31

He uhFn'ds5al8 81 l3l2n q Want me 70
tell on2sbutac don't now, tho.
Perhaps yolf don spat ar Iler's
swia me ost ol telESeeE (? led
Sstll; he lslisce laneo 6wd.
'ss Xetls lae hss and blast biz pictur, ef l
y got the
saakin'
mind ssSs S|Ss ia
@ lllloak y6lIS he
Democratic banner., 1849-11-12
THE SHAYERS.

The Barber shaves with polished blade,
The Merchant shaves in constant trade,
The Broker shaves on twelve per cent, I;
The Landlord shaves by raising rent,
The Doctor shaves in patent pills,
The Tapster shaves by pints and gills,
The Farmer shaves in hay and oats,
The Banker shaves on his own notes,
The Lawyer shaves both friends and foes,
The Pedlar shaves whsre'er he goes,
The OHice-holder shaves the nation,
The Parson shaves in mems salvation,
The willy Churchman shsves his brother,
And People all shave one another.
Democratic banner., 1849-11-12
VIRGINIA IMPROVEMENTS.

The Old Dominion seems waking up from
her long lethargy. But few States in the
Union, we believe, are more extensively
engaged than it is now, in works of Intern
al Improvement. On the southwest the
|Lynchburg and Tennessee Railroad is, to
a considerable extent, under contract. In
the centre, the James river and Kanawha
Canal will speedily be opened to Buchanan.
The Richmond and Dsnville Railroad is
generally under contract; and a branch
will soon connect il with e%nterprising Pc
tersburg. Towards the Blue Ridge, at its
western terminus, and from the junction to
Richmond, the Louisa company is pushing
its work, and a contract at $4,000, $l2,-
600 less than the original estimate, has been
entered into for constructing the tunnel at
Rockfsh Gap. The Alexandria and Or
ange Railroad will soon be ready for letting;
in the same region the Rarpahannock slack
water improvement is completed, and not
far to the north of it, Goose Creek is speedi-
lly to be improved under plans and specif-
cation of Gen. Mcneil, now ready. There
are many important turnpikes in the course
of construction-one from New Market TO
~Sperryville, likely to be extended to Gull
pepper Courthouse; another from Stanton to
Buchanan will soon be located for contract.
A plank road is about to be made from the
former place to Scottsville; and there are
several roads west of Winchester now be-
ing graded, connecting with the North
western turnpike or the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad. This last great central improve
ment will soon be wholly under contract.
extending from Cumberland through Vir-
iginia for more than $50 miles, and at saw
ing on original estimates Of more than hall
a million Of dollars. 1t is calculated by the
accurate and indefatigable engineer, Lat
robe, that it will be completed and in ope-
ration within three years from January
next. 1t will take but a few years to dem
onstrate the immense benefit Of these i'm
provements in developing the vast resources
of the State Winchester Virgin,on.
Democratic banner., 1849-11-12
: From the Western Exposition.
FROM SANTA FE.

HckNM Observation-Disclosures 0fG C,vi!
Observation-Disclosures Nth the Ap0-
che awd, Nav;jo Mdians-Probobk Muir
der Of California Enaigronts By the Eu-
g k0sosl
By the arrival, from Santa Fe, on Thurs
day evening, OF Mr.. P, Norris, WI are in
possion of q Santa Fe republican, Extra, Of
Sept. 80, from which, and also from q PRE-
vats letter, we have some items Of interest.
The people had met in all the counties and
nominated delegates to q Convention to
frsme and organize 4 civil government.
INDIAN D1rrlcuIrirs.-The Apsches had
committed d~spredatiOns on the Rancho Of
Of Chsparitto, below Las Vallas, taking of
3 lot Of clothing, some horses, and 100 head
Of cattle. The msrauders were followed
by Capt. Pspin, and forty men, who came
upon their camp, and after pouring two dss-
t~rucsivs fires into their midst, charged
them With the bayonet, and completely rout-
ed them-killing a great number, among
the rest, the noted Chief Pertrillo.
On the 18th, the Navijos run of some
stock belonging to Messrs. Beck & Brent,
from the Mesa, about $50 miles from Santa
Re. They were followed, and the stock
mostly recovered. One of the Mexican
herdsss was shot and lanced theree times,
but ives recovering. The Indians are ma
king daily depredations in the neighborhood
Of Ssuta Fe, in consequence Of the abb
sencs Of the troops under Col. Washington,
Who 10 In the heart of the Navijo country.
We make this ominious extract from the Re-
publican:
~ thas been frequently reported and cred
TIED that many of the Eutaw Indians make
frequent visits to Abiquiu, taking quite q
splnrge in American clothing, dangling the
chains Of fine gold watches, AOurishing Ame-
Eicsn pistols and rifles, and calling them
selves ssbig men heap" This, we fear is
too true, as many of the California cmi-
grants started into their country in squads
e Eve, ten, fifteen and twenty in number,
without guides, and appeared quite indifer-
snt' to the advice given them by our citi-
Gems"
Democratic banner., 1849-11-12
TAKING TOLL.

The St. Louis Reveille has been publish
ing q tale recently, purporting to give some
adventures in the life Of a physician, from
which we clip the following unique passage.
Generally speaking, one is apt to grumble
when he comes to a toll bridge; but it must
be positively delicious, where the toll is ia
ken, after the following fashion. Indeed,
we should prefer under such a regime, to
Igo sleigh-riding in a country all cut up by
rivers:
"A SLOW having fallen, the young folks Of
the village got up a grand sleighing psssy TO
Ia country tavern at some distance; and the
interesting Widow Lambkin sat in the same
sleigh, under the same buffalo robe with
myself.
.Oh, oh-don'tp she exclaimed, as we
came to the first bridge, catching me by the
arm, and turning her yelled face towards,
while her little eyes twinkled through the
Igauze, in the moonlight
sDon't whatP' I asked, 'I'm not doing
anything
SWELL, but I thought you were going to
take toll,' replied Mrs. Lambkin.
sToll?' I rejoined: whats that?'
sNow do tell?' exclaimed the widow, heI
clear laugh ringing above the music of the
bells. sDr. Mellows pretends that he don'i
know what toll ISL
sIndeed, I don't then,'I said, laughing il
turn.
Don't know that the gentlemen, when
they go a slsighing, claim a kiss as toll when
they cross a bridge? Well I never?
But shall / tell it ell? The struggles oil
the widow to hold the veil were not sufi.
Client to tear it, and somehow, when the vel
was removed, her face was turned directly
towards my own, and the snow gIistenine
in the moonslight, and the horse trOtting OF
Iof himself, the toll was taken for the first
thine in the life of DR.. Mellows.
Soon we came to q long bridge, but the
widow said il was mo use to resist and she
paid up as soon as we resched it.
sBut you won't take toll for every span
will you doctor?' she asked. To which the
only reply was, Q practical negative to th'
Question.
Did you ever, reader, sleigh-ride with
widow, and take toll at the bridges?
Democratic banner., 1849-11-12
A E FUNERAL.

remember when they buried that bright
eyed Greek maiden, snatched suddenly from
earth, when le- young he art was as light
as her face was fair. They arrayed heI, so
rigid and motionless, in the gay dress she
had never worn but for some great fete or
gala, as though this, more than any, were a
day of rejoicing for her; and thus attired,
with her long hair spread out over her still
bosom, decked with flowers. they laid her
uncofined in her grave. At her feet they
placed a small flask of wine, and q basket
of corn, in accordance with an ancient
Greek superstition, which supposes that for
three days and nights the disembodied spir-
it fingers mournfully around its tenement Of
clay, the garment Of its mortality, wherein,
as a pilgrim and stranger upon the earth, it
lived and loved, it sinned and suffered. As
soon as the first symptoms Of decay an
that the curse of corruption is at
work, they believe that the purer essenc
departs 10 purer realms. Before the grave
was closed, whilst for the last time, the ra-
dance of the sunset cast q glow like the
mockery of life, over the marble face Of the
poor young girl, her friends as a last pre-
Caution, look measures 10 dSc6Itain tnat
she was actually dead, and not in a swoon.
The means they always take in such instan-
ces to ascertain a fact which, elsewhere,
would be insured by q doctors certificate,
is touching in the extreme; the person
whom whilst alive, it was known the de-
ceased loved best, the mother, or it may be,
the young betrothed, who had hoped to
place on her head the gay and bridal crown,
instead Of the green laurel garland Of death.
advances and calls her by name, repeating
after it the word "ella" (come) several
times in a tone of the most passionate en-.
treaty. If she is mute to this appeal; il
she is deaf to the voice dearest to her or
earth, then they no longer doubt that she i.
dead indeed; they cover up the grave. lift
their eyes to the heaven where they believe
her to be-for the Greeks do not hold the
doctrine of purgatory, and having made the
sign of the cross, they depart in silence tc
their homes. But a year after, on the an
niversary of the death, they return to tbs
grave, and kneeling down, lay their lips tc
the sod, and whisper to the silent tenani
that they love her still, and she is yet re-
membered and regretted.
Democratic banner., 1849-11-12
A RtL1c OF THE wosLp BEFORE rzs

A RtLrc OF TIE WoRLp sEFoRR THs
FLooD!-A correspondent informs NJ that
being at Parkeville, N. J., the other day,
he saw a man, who informed him that some
time ago he was digging mari in that vicin-
lily, when he came 70 the hull Of Q vasssI,
feet below the surface Of the MARI
and eighteen feet below the surface Of the
ground, the timbers Of which were ftsteued
together with trsnals (wooden pinss1 no
spikes or metal Of any kind about it, IAis
ship must haze been older than H0ak,s
.Hrkl and built by men who had no knowi-'
edge ofths use Of iron or copper ; therefore,
as the use Of metal was known ut the tns
Of Noah, We presume this vessel was built
anterior to the delugs. One thing 10 oar
tain, it must have been constructed before
that part Of the continent was covered b,
the debris from the mountalnss which els
waited the surface shove the level 1t the
ocean, and now forms the hshitabis poriea
of West Jerssy.-Phlo. Ledger a laa.
Democratic banner., 1849-11-12

One of the most noted gamblers in San
Francisco is said to be a Spanish woman.
She has been known to put up twenty-five
Of gold dust at a single stake.
Democratic banner., 1849-11-12

Bayard Taylor, who is at San Francisco,
pays 1900 Tribunes were sold in that city,
at one dollar apiece, snd at the mines five
dollars is the price for late papers.
Democratic banner., 1849-11-12

Napolson's tomb at st. Helena, q small
estate Of twsnty-eight acres, is advertised
in the Helena Gazette for sale. Why not,
asks Major Noah, the bones on the field Of
Waterloo were sold to make manure Of, and
why not the tomb Of the chief whose ambi-
ton streRsd them there?
Democratic banner., 1849-11-12

Hearing a man complain that political pa
pers of all kinds shad become such liars, that
for his part, he did not believe any Of them,'
reminds me Of the old story of the miller
and his three sons. Coming into the mill,
and finding a grist in the hopper, the old
man cried out: tom, have you tolled this
grist?' sYes, SIR Bill, have you tolled
this grist?' sYes, SIR Sam, have you
tolled this grist?' 'Yes, SIR you are all
a pack of lying scoundrels,' says the old
man. q don't believe a word you say-IW
toll 1t myself.
Democratic banner., 1849-11-12
PRACTICAL DIFFICULTIES.

Thomas Allen, Esq, in a letter published
in the St. Louis Republican, suggests some
practical diff u in respect to the Paci-
fc Railroad, which must be considered and
provided for. He says:
You will see, for example, on the suppo-
sition that the business Of the Pacific road
will be in proportion to that upon the Yves.
tern, that it will require over eight thou
sand tons Of water per day, over five hun
dred thousand cords of wood per annum,
and over three hundred and twenty-five
thousand gallons of oil to grease the wheels!
These apparent diff culties, we trust, will
all vanish before the application Of genius
in developing the ~esource of the country.
The went Of water ard wood upon the few
hundred Of miles of plains intervening be-
tween the forests which skirt the State boun-
.daiies and the mountains, may possibly be
supplied by Artesian wells and pumps, and
the shafts which go down for the water will,
doubtless, at the same time expose, occa-
sionally, at least, subjacent beds of coal in
ample supplies for the necessary fuel.
It is a fact probably not thought of, but,
in the diminishing supplies of sperm oil, we
shall find the necessity of elevating the
swine to the dignity Of the land whale, and
of taking from him the oil which the deep
will no longer give up. The Pacific Rail-
road, in full operation, will CONSUME the oil
of more than thirty thousand hogs per an
mum!
Democratic banner., 1849-11-12

Col. Fremont has accepted the appoint
ment of Chief Of the Mexican Boundary Sur
vey, in the place of Col. Weller, removed.
Democratic banner., 1849-11-12

sI'l take the responsibility as Jsnks
said when he held out his arms for the ba-
by.
Democratic banner., 1849-11-12

tAetision d the best srmor that apv man
en- hsvs, but the very worst Of closks.
Democratic banner., 1849-11-12

"A lass! a lass!' as the old bachelor ex-
claimed when he felt a desire to marry
He made the same exclamation after mar.
rage, but spelt it alas.
Democratic banner., 1849-11-12

1fl8a iesznnon subject of remark that
Turkey has shsmed ths Christians in the
neaaa stand taken 10 fsfusing to deliver up
KnesutA sud the other Hasgarian refugees
70 4asiy1 bloed!thirsty snsmies.