Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1859-03-17

consequences the most pernicious. It then
becomes you, sir, in the exercise of your
succinct and faultless eloquence and your
mature age, in conjunction with some other
chief whose eloquence is as soft as the Aeeces
of descending SHOWS, to interpose your aid
and kind offices to heal the breach which has
begun, and to perfect the great object of
worth and glory which lies at the bottom of
this controversy, and then future generations
will indeed rise up and truly call you
blessed
You detected fatal error in my manou-
vering, where so far exposed one branch
of my army as to assert that you had written
history of the Mexican war. There is a
figure which allows US to put part for the
whole; but am not disposed to avail my
self of this defence, and do from necessity
admit, what is but too palpable to all, that
owing to my false movements you have by a
single fire shot away one of my entire regi-
ments; and in this you have far surpassed
the most skilful practice of the French at
Waterloo; will endeavor to maneuvre
more cautiously and skilfully for the future
The selection of ruler for the popular sove-
reignty of Persia through the neighing of
a horse (produced by fraud) is made to oc-
cupy conspicuous place in the communi-
cation of our venerable correspondent: and
he thinks this important event exerted no
little influence in directing the destinies of
man. [ have no doubt it excrted a fatal in
fuence upon the destinies of the Persians.
and the event itself, though contemplate
and degrading in its character, would fur
nish a most appropriate caption to learned,
eloquent and instructive treatise on popular
sovereignty. 1t gave the ascendency to the
genius of the horse, so far, at least, as the
Persian empire was concerned, until this
genius was arrested and rolled back by the
glorious victory at Marathon. In the main
tenance of despotism there and elsewhere,
the horse has always been most efficient
instrument; and in the larger portion Of the
worlds progress has exercised the grand
prerogative of popular sovereignty and
Marathon first taught him his appropriate
place and prerogatives.
| Among the decisive events of the world,
the diseInhoweling combat of Colonel aroc-.
ket with the ''grizzly" holds conspicuous
place in this communication. Some persons
strangely blend the sublime and the ridicu-
lous, of which this is signal example-like
that of Darius and his popular sovereignty
stallion. A favorite remark of the great
Napoleon was, that there was but step
from the sublime to the ridiculous. The for
mer is the offspring of genius and the latter
Of the opposite of genius; and when a mind
promiscuously jumblcs the two together J
am unable to determine either it's location or
quality. [ must confess, that my genius is
inadequate to the task of comprehending
how combat between man and 'grizzly,"
attended with the sole result Of the killing
and eating of one or other, could be classed
with those sublime, momentous and decisive
battles which are brought out by the DEGREES
Of Divine Providence, and which have so
far directed the destinies of the human race
as to give.t to us our peculiar, humanizing
and christian civilization Of this nineteenth
century.
You are pleased, venerable sir, to use the
following language in reference to the oxen
of "Pharaoh's lean kline :" 1.-The solution is
this. 1t not unfrequently happens, owing
| to the run of herrings, that carts from dis
tance have to wait several days at the land
ings, before they can be supplied, and our
wide-awake, experienced citizens are too
shrewd to drive their fine sleek cattle up to
Charles county for fear they might be driven
off in the darkness of the night and unscru-
pulously manufactured into beef or else of
losing their fat and fnely-rounded proper
tions for want Of proper and sufficient nour-
ishment during the sojourn" And again,
in reference to the oyster meat-house, you
are pleased to use this grave and most
weighty language: 'Now, sir, [ have
known citizens of your county, when asking
shelter in the beautiful harbors of the mo-
ther county, to leave their vessels, even dur
ing the raging of the elements and the pre-
dominance of high tides, driven, I suppose,
by the condition of the larder on ship board,
to 60 in quest of oysters When the tides
were low they picked up ravenously, and
when they were high, they seemed to be pref
ty we'll provided with great punches of keys
resembling very much the shape and gene
raj formation of our oyster tongs Friend
Juvenis, what kind of people are those you
live amongst, who scruple not to enter the
meat-house of neighbor unsolicited and
against the peace, quiet and good govern
ment of the State. would warn nv friend
to be very particular hereafter how he and
his friends behave, should they ever revisit
our waters, lest they might be apprehended,
tried and convicted of very naughty Of
fence" Apart from the fact, that for these
oxen of the clean kline" provisions were
brought from home in the shape of few
bunches of fodder, and that the mother i'm
poverished them against the dictates of rea-
son and common sense before she could trust
them among her children, and that the
oyster meat-house was public property, COM
mon alike to all the members of the family.