St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-01-17
Henry Clay's Wager.
IN O Dnnincrat.i

Id 1914, when the peace COMMISSION,
composed Of Henry Clay, John Quincy
Adams. James A. Bayard and Albert
Gallatin on the part OF the United
States. and Lord Gambler and Mr..
Goulbourn on the part of Great Britain,
were endeavoring to come to an undef-
standing on the important questions OF
the navigation OF the Mississippi river
and fishery privileges, the British plen-
ipotentiaries sought TO alarm the Amer
icans by informing them OF the mV,ncl-
bile army which was moving on New
Orleans, supported by powerful Meet;
They dwelt on the gallantry ana
daring of Packenham, laid much stress
upon the superb character OF ms troops ~ >
which they trnthfully declared were the
Hover of the British army, veterans OF
fife victorious Peninsular campaign,
and Lord Gambler gleefully remarked,
s:New Orleans will soon be in our pos
sion. and the free navigation OF the
Mississinni assured to u.s." This greatly
nettled Mr. Clay, who had determined
never to concede the point as to the
great river. which with prophetic eye he
Saw must one day become the grandestt
Commercial highway on the globe, and
so with the instinct Of the true hen-
+uclxian. he at once offered to wager
Tord Gambler that the British army,
wonid never capture New Orleans, ana
that Packenham would be disastrously
ISafsated. aFor." said he, "lam informed
flat Gen. Andrew,;;sekson, from Iennes-
see. has gone to New ORGANS, ana "a ve
the most implicit faith in his aglity 10
cone with your army" Lord Ga.'Dlel
ioyfully accepted the wager, which he
fixed at hundred guineas.. When the
news of the rout of the British, army at
Chalmette and of the death OF Packen-
ham was received in Europe, Lord
Gambler approached Mr.. Clay at a
gram, ball-given, we believe, in honor
ef the success of the negotiations at
9nineas. said: "Mr. Clay, [ believe there
are three kinds of beings under the
snecial care and protection of divine
Observation-Disclosures, drnnkards and
the American people"
AN ASTONISHING DIscovERY.-f the
latest discoveries which the eminent
nhiiologisf. Dr.. Rudolph Falb, claims
10 have made during the linguistic re-
searches in the South America should
nroye to be we'll founded, we shall have
fo interchange the titles which we are
giving at present to the two hemispheres.
America according TO III. ralns ny
nothesis, is the "Old World; s Europe,
Africa and Asia really constitute the
New World" We learn from his
own summary of his researches, COM
mnnicated to the Neue Freie Presse, of
Vienna, that the languages spoken by
The Indians in Peru and Bolivia, les
- scially in Quichua and Aimara) exhibit
tha most astounding affinities with the
San,: tic languages, and particularly with
tba hrabic-in which tongue DIR. Faik
h Iiu has been skilled from his boy
MD Eollowingup the lines of this
a9Uu Or. Falb has found (D a
cn su; link with the Aryan. roots,
and fol has ultimately arrived face to
face with the surprising revelation that
&C. the Semitic roots are universally
Aryap.n The common stem OF all the
variants are found in their pufest con-
dition in Quichua and Almara, from
which fact DR.. Falk derives the con,
clpsion that the high plains OF Peru and
Bolivia must be regarded as the point
of exit Of the present human race. so
Adam was an Amerlcan.--lUIooe.
The editor of the Fort Plain Register;
nroud of the telephone connecting his
house and Office, shouted, to ms wife.
MIR. Skida will dine with us to-day
sNow you can say word to her, but
as he was about to do so, the words
came distinctly, Tell him we don't
keen a restaurant on washing day.
Skidd made an excuse and went to an
eating house.
Samuel Neat, one of Boston's wealthy
Young men, has been mulated $4,000 in
a breach OF promise suit, and subjected
besides, to the reading in court Of bis
love letters, which were addressed like
this: any own and only precious little
sweetheart" p" My own dearly beloved
loved one" My only beloved one,