Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-07-13
MISCELLANEOUS READING.

PRESTIcEIAsA.-Prenti of the Louis
vile Journal, is responsible for the follow
ing small shot Of wit and satire.
In answer to the latest hygienic question
under discussion; "How to preserve woman
some graceless scamp suggests that such
sweetmeats will keep in family jars. The
slanderer ought to be smothered in jam and
drowned in hogshead of syrup as was Clar-
ence in butt of Malmsey wine.
A Mississippi editor, in reply to para
graph of ours, asks at what point we would
resist Northern aggression by force Of arms.
We answer without hesitation. We would
resist at a well-defped point-at point eve
rybody has heard of-the celebrated point
"where forbearance ceases to be virtue"
The editor of the Baltimore Republican, a
strong Democratic paper, says he must do
his duty in the election, and .'leaye the result
to Providence" lie says it very mournfnlly.
however. He evidently thinks he isn't leav-
ing the result in very safe hands.
The editor of the New York News says that
he can't express his feelings. We congrat-
ulate his readers.
The New Orleans Delta says that on the
receipt of the news from Baltimore every
Louisianan felt his bosom heave. Weguess
that bosoms heaved very much as stomachs
do On board smack in rough sea.
The Harrodsburg Press says that the DEM
ocratic party, if it has killed itself. did so
from feeling of pride. We never before
knew the party's pride to manifest itself in
so benefcent way.
Two of the Vice Presidential candidates
have peculiar names: Hannibal comes
down from remote antiquity and Herschell
from away off in the most distant portion of
our planetary system; one is nearly lost III
old legends and the other cannot be seen
without telescope. Would not Amos Ken
dali regard these as omens?
FoUNDERED AT SEA.-Of the ships lost at
sea, and never more heard of by survivor or
fragment, some are supposed to be fixed in
mid-water. Like those fossil remains which
we dig out of rock or quarry-at once
preserved and buried in strait 20 many
measured feet from the earth surface, and
SO many immeasurable miles from its core
these submerged but not foundered vessels
are imagined to rest forever between an un-
fathomed depth of water above and a faith
omless depth of water below. Broken, per-
haps, by some mighty wave, or slowly but
surely filled through some incurable rent.
they have gone down and down, but not
to the bottom. Through layer after layer
of the yielding mass they sank, till the su
perincumbent weight of waters equipoised
the subjacent floods. There they are held
as in the grasp of an accomplished destiny:
lost forever to human sight and knowledge
the subject only of conjecture, hypothe.
ss and mourning. Could We descry and
descend to their strange abodes, below tho
sweep of currents and the rage Of the ten.-
pests. we might find everything as in the
fatal hour when the topmast sank below
the path Of friendly keels. and yet the
bottom grated on no reef or strand. All
the semblances of life might be found there.
stereotyped and embalmed by the very pow
er that had in an hour or TWO Of horror
uuenched every spark Of vitality, and con-
verted so many human beings into num-
miles, and their floating home into q rocky
sepulchre. -L0ntlOn Star.