The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1852-02-20
NUMBER 46
Orr view York coETssDendses


A New York omnibus as you doubtless
know, is licensed 70 carry twelve only; bps
this is regarded By the drivers as : pleasant
Illegal theory, 50 ihot, pp stormy afternoon
or evening, i IS not nncolamon 70 see lss
persons Inside, On the steps. and s or8 on
The top, Of an omnibus on its was Up town.
tits a bad wind, however, that blows no
body good. and even bad travelling is good
for some people. Severol confirmed dyspep
| tics, who have been under medical treatment
from which they have derived little og no
benefit, for many years, have been cured, d..
ring the last len days, by riding from 34th
Street to Wall Street in the morning, and
back again in the evening. The old fellows
prcbsbly meyer got such jolling before, IN
their lives, as the snow is still from s 70 8
inches thick, in the middle Of the streets, ex
cept where crossing paths have been fudely
cutopen; and these form deep gullies, over.
or 70 .her, down and up, ou: Of which an ons
nibus has 10 go, if il goes at all. The con-
sequence Of this is, that gentlemen Of quiet
habits and dignifed demeanor, are pitched.
every now and then. into the laps and on q
the nccks Of bashful maidens and slaid mat
: rons, who are, in their turn, pitched back up
on the aforesaid gentlemen, 70 the great mer.
, riment Of the young, and to the great annoy
J ance of the old, but to the utter annibilatioH
S of dyspepsia. AsI was riding up town, last
S night, | was SO tossed about, that ! occupied
every seat in the omnibus one. after the other.
d before got home.
Louis Napoleon's new Constitution excites
s good deal Of indignation here; but ought
y we not rather 10 feel a contempt fof the peo-
pie who submit to such tomicolery2 Inmy
|, opinion, Louis Napoleon is about the smart
est Frenchman pow living. Imean intel.
;, lectually and executiyely, Of course; for there
q is no denying the fact that he is one Of the
most pnmitigated scoundrels, morally con-
le sidered, that has eyer governed nation: His
i last crime gives us clearer idea Of the un.
godliness of Roman Catholic ethics, than we
ss have had for long time. He professes to
'e be Roman Catholic, and yet he does not
h hesitate to Danish from France the wife Of
his adversely, for the purpose Of facilitating
,e. his efforts 10 espouse Swedish Prlncess.--
"a. And his Holiness, the Pope, and all his Car
Of dinals, and Archbishop Hughes and the Cath
olic clergy Of this city, defend the act. The
poor woman whose name was Howard, and
r who is said to be native Of Baltimore, wa:
ordered off with his children at her breast
!, and threatened with perpetual Imprisonment
81 S,l- if she ever returned to France again.
:. ea After having travelled an over Europe,
hl' have been convinced Il at the mental AM
es s physical organization of our comtrymen ar
ION superior to those Of Europeans. We ar
IA made OF better stuff. / do not deny that ON
10 nation may excel US in one thing, and anoth
'e9 er nation in another but take US all round
'aa we scan't be beat" This attribute, in |
o' great measure, to physical causes. We pos
NE sess the characteristics of all the nations o
as which we are The descendants, modified AM
s., purified by co-mingling Of bloods tina. hav'
y coursed through the veins Of every race and
ppy people of the globe, before getting into ours
nv History has never before afforded SO wonder
'ls full an example of men focking from the re
~. motest quarters Of the globe, 10 live together
C'' intermarry, and perpetuate, from the exhaust
~ ed remnants OF humanity, race OF being
W. still mightier than continuing. in itseli
i'fe all the good and bad qualities Of every rae
~. that has preceded it.
:ne Ii is not only in big things, but in littl
ooJ NJ, things, that the superiority OF our country
nh nh men is apparent. Not Only d9 we lnyeL
pm more than all The rest Of the world put Y
' gether; but, il an unfortunate foreigner dis
. "a covers anything, and patents II In this couI
an try, our people are sure 10 drive his artlcl
va out Of the market, by their Improvements
a, their prying, their scheming, and their gene
"a al business tact. This is the cause IN eve
department OF the useful arts, from the col
DR.. struction of a steamship to the making OF u
seri head of a pin, or the invention OF rat-pos
ugh der. No kind of business comes amlss 70
the American, and be introduces new dodges IN
OF ali OF them. For example, native Ne
was Yorker, named Henry R, Costar, is no
hro clearing many Of the public bull lings OF Y
was city Of rats, by contract with theauthoritie
um, He takes public market on hospital, by \
rik, lob. and gets so much bushel for all the ra
he kills. had no idea that New York b
50 numerous an underground population, J
fore last Saturday morning, when "a passi
not Centre Market, saw three wagon loads
the dead rats driven off by Mr.. Costars men.
The The a,odvs Qperaadi Of the capture apre'
my. to be an improvement on the S1ethod adol
but ed by the authorities Of Paris, and recent
the introduced into this country by . Germ'
the with, howeyer, only moderate practical sl
/ 49,, III taLae az, A n,ericar, To do a thing