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Washington telegraph., 1849-03-14

Missouri MovING.-A letter dated Platte
City, January 9th, says it is believed that
t,oenty thousand persons. at least. will
leave for the gold mines, from Missouri
State alone, as soon as the spring sets In,
This will include all classes-the man Of
wealth, tradesman and farmers, and here
and there men with families, but mostly
single men.
Washington telegraph., 1849-03-14

The New York Commercial says that
lady we'll known as an authofess and
an enthusiastic phrenologist, has made
proposals to take out given number of
females to California as bona tfde COM
mercial enterprise. Readers will draw
their own conclusions.
Washington telegraph., 1849-03-14

FRANKLIN AND LOUIS PHILIPPE.-There,
in the Palais Royal the Duke of Orleans
received in state the envoy OF the United
Colonies, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. A picture
of the scene was painted for the Histori-
cal GALAXY of the Palace, representing the
host and the hostess in the rich costume
of the time. the sturdy ex-printer in his
plain garb, and a young lad seated upon
the floor beating a toy drum. Judging
from that boys present performance,
said FRANKLIN, Il prophecy that he is des-
tined to make great noise in the world"
When, after passing. through great vicis-
STUDIES of fortuAe, the amateur drummer
became King Of the French, he frequently
related this anecdote when Americans
were presented at Court.
Washington telegraph., 1849-03-14
NEW ORLEANS TYPE FOUNDRY.
and Printers, Depot,


Il" H. GREEN respectfully announces to
IL Publishers and Printers. that he has
established a complete and extensive TYPE
FOUNDRY in this city.
TIE Book LETTER Of this Foundry was cut to
order by workmen of long experience, and as no
expense was spared to obtain the handsomest
faces, and to perfect them in every respect, the
assertion is venaured that it will be found the
handsousest ia the United States
Also. a very handsome assortment OF Flowers
Combination Borders, and JOB LETTER oil the latest
stv,e. te which the attention of Printers IS So
hcited. before purchasing elsewhere. All articles
manufactured at this Foundry shall be OF ma
,erial equal if not superior to any manufactured
at the North; and they will be furnlshed' at
New York prices, the proprietor oil thus new enler-
prise trusts to meet with due encouragement.
The subscriber is also Agent for the sale OF
Nappier. Washington and Smith PRESSES, when,
togethes with Chases, Cases, Composing Sticks,
Furniture GalIeys, Printing Ink OF all coors, IN
cludng every article in the Printing business Kept
constantly Oh hand at moderate rates.
UThe proprietors of newspapers who VIII pub
lish this advertisement six moLths, and SEND a
paper to this Foundry weekly, will be paid for the
advertisement by purchasing SIX times the amount
of advertisement bill in Type.
H. H. GREEN.
Opposite the Customhouse.
GT Proprietors of newspapers, who. have pup.
lished the advertisement of GREENE q Co, VIII
please suspend it, and insert the above.
may 10, lS4S-22
Washington telegraph., 1849-03-14

Would You prosper in the world Ii
so, have ambition enough to attend TO
your own business there are always fools
enough to attend to other peoples. But
do not have ambition to work for the pub
lie to the neglect of baking your own
bread, for then, ten chances to one, you
will find yourself placed in condition
very uuenviable. 1t has been truly re-
marked, that dog with tin kettle tied
TO his tails a fit emblem of a man who has
appended to him a tin kettle of ambition,
to chase him Oh faster and faster through
the world.
Washington telegraph., 1849-03-14

DocToRS EASY AND t'USsY.-Ihere shall
be two men, doctors, for example, of
equal learning and skill. They are on
lookout for practice. DR.. Easy puts his
name on brass plate on the door, and
then sits down III his drawing-room to
wait for patients. Need | say that he
has generally to wait long time ! But
Dr. Fussy does not approve of the pas
sive system. He keeps horse and chaise
before he has got visit to make. He
hires people to alarm all the neighborhood
with peals of his surgery bell. He is
continually, called out of church and has
once ventured on having his name shout
ed as being Immediately wanted while
attending a Lowell lecture. Not form
of advertisement does DR.. Fussy neglect,
and the odds are, in the end that he is
making a thousand dollars a year, before
DR.. Easy has heard the rat tat at the door
of his first patient. Now perhaps DR..
Fussv may, of the two, be the humbug;
but very much question whether he IS
the fool. What applies TO these two
doctors applies generally to every trade
and profession under the sun. Barring
lucky chance now and again, an adven-
turer will find that every man must be his
own trumpeter. Sound your own charge
and ride over every body, or some body
will sound his charge and ride over you.
Washington telegraph., 1849-03-14

AWFUL "A visit to the tomb of the
late Mrs Maffit, has led to the horrible
conception that she was prematurely
buried. The body, according to the n.
York Sun, was found on its face, and the
shroud and hair disordered
Washington telegraph., 1849-03-14


ANECDoTE OF CHANCELLOR KENT
The late Chancellor Kent was one OF
those men whose innate dignity enabled
him to take IN good part familiarities-
the result of ignorance and accident
He was exceedingly fond of martial mu-
sic and hearing the drums of a recruit
ing party, who had taken station at the
corner Of the street, beating point of war,
he walked out to listen to it nearer. In
sensibly he was whistllng the burthen OF
the tune, when the man of war accosted
him
You are fond Of such music, then, my
fine fellow ~
"Very y was the reply.
swell, then," said Sergeant Ki:e,
"why not join US? Good quarters good
pav-large bounty; besides, our captain
is a glorious fellow. Why won't yon
now? You can't do better"
Well,' said the Chancellor, 81 have
one pretty strong objection"
What is it?'' asked the sergeat.
"Why, just now. happen to have a
better trade"
What trade is it?' said the inquisi-
tor.
Il am Chancellor of the State Of New
York.
Whew;;" iDterjected the sergeant.
seStrike quick time forward,
march" % Off tramped the military man,
without looking behind him, leaving the
Chancellor to enjoy his laugh. at the ad-
venture. Home Journal.
Washington telegraph., 1849-03-14

The Cholera and Gold mania are beth
carrying off people along the Colorado
river
Washington telegraph., 1849-03-14

WORSE AND WoRsE-Mr. j. J. Hooper,
formerly connected with the Montgomery
(Ala.) Journal, in a recent letter TO that
paper, narrates the following good anec-
dote as = the latest case of greenness
GA lawyer, who had adrecently become
Son of Temperance, carried into his Of
flee a newly vanished, brass-bound ma
hogany writing-desk. One fthe natives
inspected it as 1t lay closed before him, and
then murmured, as if to himself -" Quit
drinking and gone to gambling, by thun-
der! Faro-box, by hokey. and full of tools,
no doubt! Worse and worse "
PENNSYLVANIA owes S4O,OOO,OOO. The
Washington telegraph., 1849-03-14
NO.. IL.

The CONSEQUENCES OF SMoKING.-sThe
widespread habit of smoking has no: yet
had due medical attention paid to it and
its consequences. 1t is only by two Or
three years observation that Dr. Laycuck
has become fully aware of the great chan
yes induced into the system by the abuse
Of tobacco, and Of the varied obscure forms
of disease to which especially excessive
smoking gives origin. He proceeded to
state some Of them as they were met with
in the pharyngeal mucous membrane, the
stomach, the lungs, the heart, the brain,
and the nervous system. The tobacco
consumed by habitual smokers vRsies
from half an ounce to twelve ounces per
week, the usual quantity from two to
three. Inveterate cigar smokers will con-
sumo from four to five dozen per week.
The first morbid result is an lnhammatory
condition of the mucous membrane of the
lips and tongue, then the tonsils and phar-
nyX suffer, the mucous membrane dry aud
congested. If the thoraX be examined it
will be found slightly swollen. with con-
gested veins meandering over the surface,
and often streak of mucous. The ac-
ton of tobacco smoking on the heart is
depressing, and some individuals, who
feel it III this organ more than others, COM
plain of an uneasy sensation about the
left nipple, distressed feeling, amounting
to faintness, but allied to it.
The action of the heart is observed TO
be feeble and irregular. An uneasy feel
ing is also experienced in or beneath the
pectoral muscles, and oftener on the right
side than the left. On the brain, the use
of tobacco appears to diminish the cere-
bral action, and checks the flow Of ideas
through the mind. 1t differs from opium
and henbane, and rather eXcites to wake
fulness, like green tea, than composes to
sleep; induces a dreaminess which leaves
no impression on the memory, leaving a
great susceptibility, indicated by trem-
bling of the hands and irritability of tenn
per- Such are secondary results of snok-
ing. So are blackness of teeth and gum
boils. There is also a sallow paleness OF
the complexion, an irresolution of dispo-
sition, want of life and energy, and IN
constant smokers who do not drink, a ten
dency to pulmonary phthisic. Dr. Wright,
of Birmingham, in communication to
the author fully corroborated his opinion
and both agree that smoking produces
gastic disorders, coughs, and inhammatory
affections OF the larnyX and pharynX, dis
eases of the heart and lowness of the
spirits, and, in short, is very injurious tC
the respiratory, alimentary and nervou:
system.-Eugiish Literary Gazette.
Washington telegraph., 1849-03-14

LION STAR AND MANAGER-The Bos-
ton Mail gives an amusing account of
scene which took place iii the National
Theatre in that city, the other day, after
the rehearsal of a new melo- drama, the
Lion Of the Desert:
Mf. Barry, the stage manager, was en-
gagged at his table, cogitating, amidst
heaps of play-bills, old casts, and manu-
scripts, in search of novelties, when be
was aroused from his revere by loud
growl. and in looking up, two fierce glar-
ing eyes, not in "phrenzy rolling" were
directed towards him. He dropped his
quill. overturned the ink and sand box, in
less time than we are writing it, and be-
gan to back out of the neighborhood OF
his unwelcome visiter. A trap door was
open, the orchestra was near at hand, and
the box office easy to gain, under ordlna-
ry circumstances but those glaring, ter
rife, wicked eyes, those sharp, long,
pointed teeth, those viperish, fish-hook,
death-dealing claws, and those formidable,
quiu-like whiskers, all forbade any hasty
retreat, and seemed tosay, ~ am here
thy time is come" $50 where thou
wilt, these eyes shall neer lose sight of
thee [ come TO thunder in thy ears,
Tiger" There is much magnetic effect
in the eyes and whiskers of tiger, and
the manager in an instant was transfxed
to the stage and while he gazed upon
the beast, the animal growled, and seemed
to say with Forrest, ''you sent for me,
and Jpve come" Come in any other
shape than that, and my firm nerve Will
never tremble,' mentally reioined the
manager Another grunt and the critter
stepped few PAGES nearer and growled
sharper, which being interpreted, was, "of
one or both of US the time has come. -
The animal drew nearer and nearer. and
growled, and the rejoinder was 4 freeze
with horror" Another pace or two, and
he gave the fatal leap it would have
been fatal had he not been tied with a
very large rope about the neck, the other
end of which was firmly held by Dries
bach, who was behind a scenic harbOr,
holding Oh like grim death to dead
niger"
Washington telegraph., 1849-03-14
Paul Tulane & Co,

raul EUlGmc ~ 10,
l6 CHARITIES STREET,
NEW ORLEANS.
f1FFERS, at Wholesale or Retail, for cash or
Oapproved paper, large assortment OIL
c. LO r. H Z " G..
As competition is the life of business we lnvte
boyers to "drop in" before they make all their
purchases.
May l0-6m.
Washington telegraph., 1849-03-14
SINGULAR HISTORICAL FACTS

December was the month of Destiny
for Napoleau, as appears from the follow
ing rather striking passages from recent
French publication.
The month Of December occupies a
wide space in te heroic phases of the EN-
pire, and whether bright Or clouded, it
stands out boldly in the career of Napo-
leon What reco,lections are grouped to-
gether by that month
1871 Dec. 1793.-The capture of Tou-
lon, the first flash of that great star.
26th Dec 1799-Napoleon named First
Consul.
24ts Dec. 0.--Miraculously escapes
death by rapidly passing beyond the reach
Of the Internal Machine, which heaped
ruin and death behind him.
I'd Dec 1S04.-General Bonaparte the
elect of a great people, places over the
laurels which encircle his brow the most
brilliant crown in the world.
I'd Dec. 1805.-By one of the most
signal favors of Fortune, upon the field of
Austerhtz, the crowned soldier magnifi-
Gently repays his debt to the nation, by
bringing to its feet its most implacable
enemies The treaty of Presburg was
| the pledge of this victory.
18th Dec. 10O9.-Four years later the
Empress Josephine, the hapless victim of
policy, relinquished the throne to make
room beside Napoleon for daughter Of
the Caesars.
Dec. 1613-And still four years more,
and by one of the most terrible changes
of fortune, the earth failed beneath the
footsteps OF him who had caused it to
| tremble at the sound of his gigantic ex-
ploits; to pnheard of success, and pros
perity almost fabulous, had succeeded re-
verses unprecedented, and disasters quite
fabulous. The month Of December, 1913,
in its brief course saw developed, heaped
up and precipitated with the rapidity of
| lightning, events which an age rarely
sees accomplished. December, Il $40, and
yet again twenty-seven years afterwards,
when all of earth was finished for him,
by one OF those impenetrable DEGREES
of Providence by last and striking re-
fux of fortune NAPOLEON, the mag man
imous conqueror of Europe, in the height
OF his power,-the tormented and sacrl-
feed at St. Helena, posing Oh his bier,
came back to reconquer home Ill France,
to resume his place in the midst of his
old companions in arms, who were his
faithful friends always.
24tb Dec. 1913, after the ashes of the
man were domiciled beneath the Dome
of the nvalds-the nephew of his uncle,
and because he is the nephew of his uncle
was by the acclamation of millions
by the largest popular vote ever cast FOR
any human being, was elected President
Of that France again republic, as il the
| days of the capture of Toulon, in Decem-
ber, '93.
Washington telegraph., 1849-03-14

THE GHADY SIDE OF THE PIcTURE.-The
Bangor Wing and Courier publishes ex-
tracts of letter from gentleman at the
Sandwich Islands, who had been at the
mines in California for about two months,
furnished by MIR. Dole, of Brewer, Me-
After describing the gold region and the
abundance of TIE precious metal taken
daily, the writer continues
One might suppose from reading the
above that digging gold is very profitable
business, but there are other things to be
considered. At San Francisco, board and
lodging, three in bed, or on the floor, is
from $50 to $50 week. Pork is $50 a
barrel, and butter 81 a pound, at whole
sale. AT the mines pork is $500 barrel
And then the sickness. Nine-tenths of
all who have gone to the mines have
1 been taken sick. Hundreds were living
| sick at Suffers fort, unable to procure
passage to San Francisco, and suffering
| from want of attendance and of the
necessaries of life. Bilious and intermit-
tent fevers prevail to an alarming extent.
Take all things into account, and think
| those that stay at home the best off. Mr..
| H. has gone to San Francisco to see what
he can do to persuade the people to lay
up a treasure in heaven. He will doubt
| less find full employment among the sick
and dying. Two individuals who went
from Honolulu have been murdered-one
of them having wife, very excellent
woman, and four or five children. He
had been addicted to drinking and gam.
| bling.
Washington telegraph., 1849-03-14
MARVELLOUS Discovery OF CANAn
ACROSS THE IsTHMUs The New Orleans

MARVELLOUS Discovery OF CANAn
Across THE IsTHMUs The New Orleans
Courier of the Sd instant, publishes. in
French, an account of subterraneous
canal which, it is alleged, has been dis
covered, connecting the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans. We publish it for the
benefit of the credulous and incredulous.
A French physician established at Vera
Paz, who. besides practising medicine,
has the charge of extensive farming
estates, upon making some excavations.
undertaken with a view of forming a
canal through which to carry his produce
to the sea, discovered at the bottom of
the Bay of Honduras the opening Of
monumental canal seventy-ive metres
wide (about two hundred and forty feet)
and running in straight line towards
the southwest, its sides being constructed
OF enormous stones, rudeiy cut. The two
walls, which continued parallel, had been
followed to the distance of several leagues.
Having reached the foot of the noun
tains, where the volcano Of Fuego is now
in actively, and having cut away huge
trees that DISTRACTED the entrance, they
passed under a vault Of 100 metres in
hight, (about 335 feet,) and of the same
width as the canal. Nothing among the
ancient Cyclopean structures in Greece
could give an adequate idea of the tre-
Elendeous masonry of the walls of this
vault. The canal was filled with salt
water, twenty metres deep. Our intrepid
countryman did not hesitate to embark
with some Indians, in pirogue, which
he caused to be brought to the spot, and
eighteen hours afterwards, Gf his story is
to be believed,) he entered the great
ocean, (the Pacifc) between Guatemala
and San Salvador, through an immense
natural groto, called by the fishermen of
the coast the Devils Mouth, which super
stition had deferred them from ever enter
ing. The whole vaulted part of this
structure was lighted by shafts cut through
to the surface above, and through the
whole extent it is navigable for the larg-
est ships.
Mi. Alexander Humboldt had already
mentioned American edifices whose archi-
lecture indicated very high antiquity,
and revealed a peculir civilization; but
his revealed descriptions give US no idea
of the existence of such monument
Washington telegraph., 1849-03-14

Pennsylvania owes S4O,OO0,OOO. The
interest on which, is over $2,000,000 per
annun.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-09-01
TIE sIaxsrx Q.esslsu

| Thefollowing Article from the Coneordia LIN.
IntelIigencer, Is on q subject not out of date
although the article itself Is some months old:
There seems TO be an unusual degree O
excitement throughout the South, and espe
cislly in the city OF Washington, on The
subject OF supposed interference with
Southern rights and Southern institutions
on the part Of the people Of the free Ststes
As usual in all undue excitements, there i
too little disposition to reflect calmly. or
reason together The Judgment and the
understanding are warped and biased, and
feeling, passion and prejudice, are allowed
to have uncontrolled sway. Dangers ap.
pear threatening and immediate, which to
the more cain and considerate seem distant
and of no serious moment. Il would be
wise and proper to be we'll assured of the
danger to our real, valuable, and welI.estab.
lished rights, before we embark with fery
and incorporate zeal in opposing the rights
claimed by others.
Ii is undeniably true, that a very large
majority Of the people Of the free States
think slavery political eril;' and, believ.
ing 50, is it surprising that they should de.
sire to go all the lengths warranted by the
Constitution in preventing the extension OF
il
There is also class (limited in numbers
and responsibility who look upon Il as a
moral euil,' and who are willing to 20 be.
yond the Constitution to suppress it. With
this class we have nothing to do. To con.
tend with such, or be willing 10 discuss the
subject with them, would be both unwise
and undignifed. 81.
But with the other class, embracing prob.
ably large majority of all the voters Of
the United States, il becomes us TO reason
calmly and considerably. Violence and
incorporate zeal rarely succeed in any
cause.
The Constitution certainly gives to the
Congress of the United States the power .to
dispose Of and make ell useful regulations
for the government OF the Territories And
who is to decide what regulations shall be
deemed 'asefniT Surely the Congress Of
the United States-this body alone--is au.
;horised to decide what regulations are
'needful. One portion Of the Union may
deem certain regulations useful and need.
fol, while another portion may condemn
them as unnecessary and useless; and until
the form Of our Government may be
changed, majority in Congress, must be
deemed the competent and the only compe-
tent tribunal to decide the question.
Due allowances should be made for the
opinions Tor prejudices, il You will,) Of
our Northern brethren, as to the tendency
OF slavery to retard the advancement of po-
lIt'cal power or personal prosperity; spd SO
long as they confne themselves to this view
OF It, it would be inexpedisnt and unwise
TO provoke them, By lljudssd violence
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-09-01
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senee Of danger somewhat modera,s5 ~
an unpleasant Consciousness of the iudi-
crous scenes OF their premature nizht-Hit.
ting. a
Any inference which might be'drawn
from the foregoing narrative derogatOry to
the character Of the people Of New Eng
land at that day, on the score Of courage,
would be essentially erroneous. Il is true.
they were not the men to court danger, or
rashiy throw away their lives for the mere
glory Of the sacrifice. They had always a
prudent and wholesome regard TO their own
comfort and safety; they Justly looked upon
sound heads and limbs as better than broken
ones life was TO them too serious and I'M
Portant, and their hard gained property TOO
valuable, TO be lightly hazarded. They
never attempted to cheat themselves by
Understanding the difficulty to be eneoun-
tered, or shutting their eyes to its probable
consequences. Cautious, vary, schOOled
in the subtle strategy Of Indian warfare,
where selEpreservalion IS by no means e
secondary object, they hac little Uncommon
with the reckless enthusiasm Of their French
allies, or the stolid Indifference Of the
fighting machines Of the British regular
army. When danger could no longer be
avoided, they met ii with frmness and iron
endurance, but with a very vivid apprecis-
ton Of its magnitude. Indeed, it must be
admitted by all who are familiar with the
history Of our fathers, that the element Of
Fear held an important place among their
characteristics. 1t exaggerated all the dan
gers Of their earthly pilgrimage, and PeO-
pied the future with shapes Of evil. Their
fear Of Satan invested him with some Of
the attributes OF OmnipOtence, and almost
reached the point Of reverence. The slight
est shock Of an earthquake filled all hearts
with terror, Stout men Iembled by their
hearths with dread Of some paralytic old
woman, supposed to be witch. And when
they believed themselves called upon to
grapple with these tsrrors, and endure their
infections. they brought to the ,rial caPa-
bility Of suffering undiminished BY the chic
rolOrm Of modern philosophy. They vera
heroic in endurance Panics like the one
We have described might bow and sway
hem like reeds in the wird, but they stood
up like the oaks Of their own forests beneath
he thunder and the hail Of actual ealami-
y.
1t was certainly lucky for the good PEG
pie OF Essex county that no wicked wsz
Of tory undertook TO immortalise in rhyme
heir ridiculous Hegira, as Judge Hopkinson
lid the famous ~'Battle of the Kegs, in
Like the more recent Mad
lwaska War in Maine, the great Cbepatch.
Il demonstration in Rhode Island, and the
Sank fuss Of Wisconsin, it remains 10
his day 'unsylabled, msung;' and the
asst fading memory Of age alone preserves
he unwrittsn history Of the Great Ipswich
Fright.