American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-04-02

1t is stated, in London paper, that there
are among them medical men of no mean skill
and science; veterinary surgeons, whose know
ledge Of horse-fesh cannot be surpassed, seeing
that they are Hungarians; literary men; work.
ers in brass and iron; one who was superin-
tendent of gas-works in Pesth Buda artists
who WELD facile pencil house and decorative
painters paper hangers; and farmers, whose
knowledge OF the peculiar agriculture Of their
own country may be turned to good account in
England, at this momentous crisis, for the Gull
tiyation OF the soil. There is likewise q book
binder, and civil engineer Of great ability;
and one and all, they are admirable penmen
Indeed, the art of caligraphy, as practised by
the greater number of them, is wonderful for
it's beauty. 1t should never be forgotten that
it is to the refugees, after the repeal of the
edict of Nantes, that England owes her present
manufacturing prosperity. They it was who
introduced the arts Of life among the people Of
this country, and thereby became our best ben
efactors. To this it may be added, that one
and all they are perfectly competent to act as
interpreters of them in German and
Polish as well as in Magyar.
PROGRESSING BACKwARD.-COrporal punish
ment is again introduced as legal penalty in
Mecklenburg, in Germany. It was abolished
in January, 1849, according to the article Of
the German Grundrecht The decree of the 4th
ult., which re-establishes it, states that the
abolition of corporal punishment, without ex-
ception, has BEEN proved by experience to be
impracticable. According to the new regula-
ton, prisoners in confinement, and persons de-
tanned for trial by the judges or the police,
'must" be fogged for the maintenance of dis
cipline; youths, hardened offenders, vagabonds,
and wood stealers, "may' be punished in the
same manner. g el ga .. 4.s$sa gyl ,
OLD EPIGRAMs.-A century ago, or little
later, says the Boston Post, the epigram was
the favorite vehicle of wit and sarcasm. The
man who made a good epigram was the most
dangerous of adversaries, and he who had the
bad luck to be the subject Of one was as thor
oughly victimized as the hero of the Dunciad,
or the common pillory The prevalence Of this
kind of writing brought out some very excel
lent hits, but the larger number now extant are
chiefly remarkable for their coarseness and ma
lgnity. The following epigram on Lord Ches-
terfeld was reckoned very pretty thing in its
time 1t was published in the London Morning
Chronicle, in 1880:
"vile stanhope, demons blush to tell,)
In twice three hundred places,
Taught his the road to -,
Escorted by the Graces.
Yet, little the ungracious lad tt.s,a.@.s.
Concerned himself about 'em, s1
But base degen'rate, meanly bad, #~.
lie sneakd to - without 'em.
The following son gentleman who, out of
spite to his neighbors, cut down some shade
trees" was at least well deserved:
aIndulgent nature on each kind bestows .
sacred instinct to avoid its foes;
The silly goose avoids the cunning fox,
Lambs fly from wolves, and sailors steer from rocks:
The rogue gallows as his fate foresees, .
And bears like antipathy to treesl"