The American patriot., 1855-01-31


Certainly, sir"
Bullion runs over the pictured blotting paper,
and throws out twenty dollar bill
''What do you throw that out for?"
"Not worth cent-one of the new countcrfeits
that come out yesterday"
Slocum once more goes off into revery.
Course the scoundrel. That's the very bill
boots. What vile world! don't believe there
is one upright man on earth"
The last we saw Of Slocum, he was putting off
for "perlice' to enter complaint.
A DWARF RACE OF MEN.-The Newport Or. H.
Mercury gives the following:
, There is a singular race of dwarfs in upper
Peru, Bolivia,) known as "Chiquitos," or ''ttle
men," that are as worthy Of attention as the Az
tees. Everything connected with them seems to |
indicate that they are Indigenous, though their
general aspect gives the impression of people re-
duced in statue by poverty and hardship. The
tallest are not more than four feet and a half in
height while many will not measure more than |
three and half Their legs, apparently, are de-
void Of muscles, their eyes black and elongated,
nose aquiline, cheeks drawn in, with high cheek
bones forehead low and rctreating, hair black and
wiry, and mouth tending to muzzle. They travel
south on foot, and are often from home two or
three years, returning with small boards Of silver
gained intrafic; travelling five or six miles day.
From long habit they can do without food an ex-
traordnary length of time, Importing nature by
sucking coco.leaf gathered from shrub analo
gous to the betcl nut Of the East Indies 1t is
equivalent to tobacco, laudanum, Or strong infu-
sion of tea; and it is only when their animals
die of disease that they have plentiful supply of
food Their covering is a coarse kind OF cloth
which they prepare themselves Their abodes
are rude huts, and When travelling they sleep on
the ground, huddled together to keep warm on the
dry, cold desert where they are principally found
TIE DrLuaE.-Clark Mills, who became famous
by his equestrian, sefposed statue Of Gen. Jack
son, has broached the following new theory of the
formation of the continent and the consequent de-
lugc which destroyed all mankind save Noah and
his family We quote the conclusion of his arti-
Gle:
The rising of the American or Western Cont
ncnt was, as before stated the effect Of internal
fires. The fountains here of the great deep being
broken up, the waters must have retired in great
agitation to the east and west, from the sides of
the rising continent The length of America be-
ing nearly from north to south, from the eastern
side the waters would be rolled to Europe and At
RIGA and from the western side they would be driv
en- to Asia South America extending further to
the east than North America would give the cur
rent which was to ovcrspread the entire continent
with violence the shells and fishes of the ocean to
the plains and mountains of Europe, and the veg
etabcs of Europe and Africa to the eastern parts
of Asia. There the current was met by that which
flowed to the west from the western coast OF Amerl-
ca. Here each current was stopped in its dcstruc-
tive career by opposing each other, and thus i'm
mense deposites were made. This rush OF water,
with the flaming ocean beneath, generated an i'm
mensc evaporation. The Winds which before this
moved from cast to west round the Globe, were
suddenly obstructed by the towering burning
mountains They rolled back as if astonished at
the new phenomenon laden with the vapors OF a
boiling ocean. The clouds, in their sublime cvo-
lutions, moved in the direction of the waters to the
east and west from America, met in awful array
over Off World There they discharged Me''
burdens s-the vapor condensed; and no language
could be more expressive of the dreadful torrents
that then descended than that which was dictated
by Moses, that ''the windows of heaven were open
ed" Forty days were these vapors descending
) and the waters prevailed exceedingly upon tht
GARTH and the high hills that were under the high
heavens were covered. And the rain ceased. But
one hundred and fifty times did the earth revov'
in her cumbrous mantle before the waters retired
to the caverns from hence our continent arose
"And God made wind to pass over the earth, ant
the waters assuaged."
Music IN WESTMINSTER ABBEy.-Thc sound O
q casual footsteps had ceased | could only hear
= now and then, the distant voice of the priest re
peating the evening services and the faint respons
7 Of the choir these paused for time, and all wa
% % hushed The Stiffness the desertion and obscnri
' ty that gradually prevailed around, gave a deepe
and more solemn interest to the place.
4 Suddenly the notes Of the deep, laboring orga
burst upon the car, falling with double and redou
BILE intensity, and rolling as it were, huge billow
of sound How well do their volume and grandeu
accord with this mighty building. With whi
pon,p do they swell through their vast vaults, an
:: breathe their awful harmony through these cave
ic of death, and make the silent sepulchre voca
,g And now they rise in triumphant acclamatiol
e. heaving higher and higher, their accordant note
Q, and piiing sound on sound. And now they paus
r and the soft voices Of the choir break out into swe
Id gushes of melody; they soar aloft, and war6
to along the roof and seem to play about these lof
n, vaults like pure airs of heaven. Again the pc;
#, ing organ heavcs its thrilling thunders compres
st ing air into music, and rolling it forth upon tt
soul. What longdrawn cadences! What solem
cs sweeping cords! 1t grows more dense and po
ce erful-t fills the vast pile, and seems to jar
very walls. And now it is winding up in full
we bilee-it is rising from the earth to heaven-t
VS. very soul seems rapt away, and floating upwar
oa on this swelling tide of harmony!