New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-01-08

The boom Of sad artillery is heard
Thro mightiest commonwealths. from shore to shore
webster now sleeps " life's itful fever . DER.
The man Of intellect whose single word
Tho depths Of human sentiment has stirred
These renuent tides shall own his sway no more
The eloquent Of speech, who dared to soar
with tireless wing Of Appalachian bird
Right upward to serene, uncouded skies
Let thunder then from funeral guns resouna,
And banners droop in sorrow to the ground,
And tears start freshly from a nations eyes
Yet dim with weeping Ger the heroic dust
OF his two stately peers the gifted and the just
II he had foibles, let us kindly fling
Oblivion's mantle here above them all.
And In this hour Of grief alone recall
Those nobler virtues that spring
From littleuess Of soul and let us bring
Some flowers as fsdeless to bedeck his pail
As those on which his fancy's sunbeams iall--
Aud let our future poets learn TO sing
How in the Senate house he stood erect,
And bsttled always for his Countrys cause.
Her shrines her Constitution and her laws
And how when Treason rose from Factions sect.
He turned Columbias mgis on the crime,
And froze IL into silence for all time
Ill
nv country, mother of the mighty thou
That sttist in stony anguish at the grave
Where cypress branches. twined with laurel, wave
Dispel the shadow from thy luminous brow
The God thou worshippest did meier allow
The good, the great the gifted or the brave,
To live die for naught and brightly now
Above the spots where fond affection gave
Calhoun and Clay, the giant dead, to earth
A guiding star is blazing in the sky;
SO shall beacon have its radiant birth
From Webster's ashes, and so fixed on high
tia steady and immortal fires shall burn
Wide over land and sea while seasons yet return
MUSCULAR STRENGTH The muscular power of the hu-
man body is indeed wonderful Turkish porter will trot
rapid pace and carry weight of six hundred pounds
Milo celebrated athletic of Crotono u Italy aceustom-
ed himself to carry the greatest burdens and by degrees
became in strength. 1t is said that he carried
his shoulder four years old weighing upwards Of
thousand pounds and afterwards killed him with
blow Of his fist lie times crowned at the y
THAN games, and six at the olympian lie present
himself the seventh time but no one had the courage r.
enter the list against him. He was one of the disciples n
Pythagoras and to his strength that learned
preceptor and his pupil owed their lives The pillar which
supported the roof of the house suddenly hut
Milo supported the whole roof of the building and gave
the philosopher time to escape In old age he attempted
to pail up tree by its roots and break it, He partially
effected itbut his strength being gradually exhausted
the tree where cleft united and left his hand pnched
in the body of it. He then alone and unable to dis
engage himself died in that position.
Halter mentioned that he saw man, whose finger
caught in chain at the bottom Of mine, by keeping it
forcbly bent supported by that means the whole w hi
Of his body hundred and fifty pounds until he was
drawn up the surface distance of six hundred feet
Augustus III King of Poland could roll up silver plate
like sheet of paper and twist the strongest horseshoe
asuuder lion said to have left the impression OF his
teeth upon piece of hard iron. The prodig1us
power Of muscle is exhibited ny the fish, The whale
moves with velocity through dense medium Of water
that would carry him around the world in less than
fortnight and swordsh has been known to strike bis
weapon through the plank of ship
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"a WITNESS As WAS WITNESS is described IN the
Spirit Of the Times in most felicitous manner Pros-
sonal engagements required the writer's presence IL
Circuit Court which then in session in Of the vii
lagos Of midland county Of the Empire State p and
during the term incident occurred which may BIZ
terestng II useful to those legal gentlemen who
partial to the study Of the las of evidence The
property, claimed to have been sold time preyiy
under execution and the plaintiff in the called
witness to establish of the sale The follow az
evidence elected the of
witness
Question by Counsel Sir you say you attended the
sale on the execution spoken Of Did You keep the
minutes Of that salelr
Witness Don't know, sir but did don recoileet
whether kept the minutes or the sheriff or no body
think IL was one of us"
Counsel" Wen, sir will you tell what articles
sold at the execution -
Here the witness hesitated, not willing to commit him
self by going into particulars until the patience Of the
counsel became exhausted aud he pressed special
Counsei-"Dd you on that occasion sell a threshns-
machne!n
Witness Yes, 1 think we did,
Counsel wish you to be positive Are you sure
of its'
witness Can't say am sure of it and when
come to think of it, don't know we did think ",
Counsel" viii you swear then, that you did not sci
ons?D
Wines. No. sir don't think would for 1 cam
say whether we did or didn't "
Counsel" Did you sell horse power -
ness-"Ilorse-power2
Witness" Horse power Well, it seems to me we aid
And then 1t seems to me didn't don't klole now n
can recolect whether remember there any horse
power there and if there wasn't any there can't say
whether sold 1t not but don't think did though
it may be- perhaps. that did after ALL It's TIM
ago and don't like to say certainly
Counsel" Well perhaps you can tell me this did 20,
sell a tanning mill %
witness-Yes, sir, we sold tanning mill Iguess l an
sure Of that
Counse-"Well You swear to that, do you that on,
thing, though don't see it on the list y
Witness" Why, may be mistaken about II perhaps
am II may be- it was somebody ese's tanning mill
some other time not sure'
Counsel Ito the Court should like to know may il
please the Court what the witness does know what
he Is Off
Witness Ito Counsel =" Well sir, | know one thing
that I'm sure Of and that Is that that day sold
either hreshins -machine, horsepower fnnag-
mill or one, or all, neither Of them but don't knoN
which ~