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THE NORTHERN STANDARD.
CHAS. DE MORSE
LONG SHALL OUR BANNER BRAVE THE BREEZE THE STANDARD OF THE FREE.
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VOL. I.
CLARKSVILLE TEXAS JANUARY 7 1843.
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AGENTS FOR THE STANDARD.
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Samcxa M. FntxoK P. M Franklin Lamar Co.
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Gen. E. II. Tarrant Bowie Co.
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Travis G. Brooks P. M Sau Augujtirie.
T. R. Bacbt Houston.
Col. Wm. L. Caxveav Austin Travis County.
A- McDosald HuntsriUe Montgomery County.
Col. G. T. Wood Liberty.
Jhh W. HARBtsow La Grange.
B F. Iohsson AVashington.
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Dr. James Ricbet Clarksvillc Arkansas.
Charles Hood E.-j. Washington Ark.
Buurx Sc Tannehill Nashville Tenn.
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L. S. Houghton Vicksburj Miss.
James Habjlisov Esq St. Louis Missouri.
G. C. Gooding P.M.. Fort Torrson.
Wk. Davenport OarMo Parish Louisiana.
From the New Orleans Picayune.
TEXAN SANTA FE EXPEDITION
BY GEORGE W KENDALL.
(Continued.)
fiur Pimz.! oc- the Sand Hills Their Sii"ular .
Abearance A Strange Traveller in the shape
y S i i-Mtnlt
ejaoionc omjoiui uny ... .m....... ... ...
The 10th of November we spent at the Diamond
ef the Desert one half the waggons in the meantime
being sent with doable teams across the immense
hill or mmmtains of sand ahead of us. This Dia
mond of the Desert is nothing more than a deep pool
of dark sluggish and brackish water very unpalata-
ble; butasit is the only spring if it can be dignified
with that title in any direction for miles it is a gener-
al stopping plate for all travellers between El Paso
and Chihuahua. There is one thing about it which
renders it invaluable it never fails. A thousand men
with horses might encamp around it for a week so
we were told and it would bear the heavy demand
upon it without failing. The soil is exceedingly poor
in the vicinity having nothing in the way of vegeta-
tion excent a few senttpringthornsnnddwaifishprick-
Iv pears. From El Paso tho Rio Grande bears off";
to the south-east while our course was nearly south
leaTinglhe rtrer some distance to the lelL
On the 11th November our march was resumed i
our routeleading directly through the sand mountains j
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alter we were
among them nothing could be seen but immens piles
or light yellow sand not a solitary biaae oi grass re-
lieving the prospect in any direction. The horses
tank below their fetlocks at every step and both men
and animals were completely worn out with fatigue
before the passage was made across the dreary Sahar-
ra. l limes our course ior me continual tuuugra
made by the winds prevent the possibility of there bc-
ingany road) lay along the base ofhugepilesofsand
then we were groping our way through ravines
and the next half hour we were climbing steep pyia-
rnids which raised their heads high in nir. A more
desolate scene cannot be imagined; and although the
general features may be the same the traveller who
passed this dreary waste a month after us found in
the place of the mountainsover which we toiled noth-
ing but gullies. Like an immense panorama the
eene is ever changing and as the desert is shut in on
nearly every side by high and firm mountains of stone
and vegetation these shifting sand hills will remain
there until the end of time. The unchanging moun-
tains I have just mentioned in the far distance were
clothrd with stinted cedars prickly pears and a varie-
ty of dwarfish shrubs and plants and were the abodes
of the daring Apaches the fierce grizzly bear and
the black-headed deer so common in the mountainous
regiors of North Mexico.
Although we made an early slart in the morning.
h wa near night before we were fairly over the san-
dy waste notwithstanding the distance was scarce ten
miles. We kept on until sundown encamping at a
place where there was no vrciter but where we found
flicks and small brush enough to cook our beef an
article now furnished us in abundance. Near our
encampment was a celebrated stoae weighing some
Ino hundred pounds the history of which is singular
erfaugh. Many years ago thisstcne was found near
the Diamond of the Desert and was the only one
within milesof the pool. A band of muleteers com-
.Bienced lifting it and finally one or two of them were
found strong enough to raise it on a livel with and
then throw it over their beads. .By accident the stone
first 11 in1 the direction towards the city of Mexico;
and. singularly enough in the course of'timc it has
' come to be superstitiously regarded as a duty among
-th muleteers who travel this road to facilitate the
progress of the stone towards the capital a distance of
SOroe rotm err. or iiiiccu uuuuicu uiues: xvery rau
leteer'who comes along gives the stone a trial al -
though hardly one in fifty is able to throw it over
his head and by no other meaBS is it allowed to be
moved. By this strange system of journeying the
jtone has progressed some twelve or fourteen miles on
its travel and this within the last century and a half.
The travel between Chihuahua and El Paso is enor
mous all the traders between Sonora and Santa Fe
coming and going this way ; yet still the stone makes
remarkably slow progress the same person not being
allowed to throw it over his head more than once.
After it gets farther down the country some ages
hence its transit will be more rapid; but centuries
upon centuries will roll orer before the wayfarer ar-
rives at its journey's end.
Such was -the history of this singular stone as we
learned it from Cant. Ochoa. It is called la puerta
de piedra but why it has received this name I know
not Throughout the country the inhabitants have
many strange customs superstitions and observances
borrowed probably from the Indian and all taking
their rise from some circumstance trifling in its ori
gin; but this thing of starting a stone which few can
lift upon so long a journey and by such ludicrous
not to say preposterous means is the most singular of
all.
Arrival at the " Well of the Stat" Ludicrous and
Laughable Appearance of the Prisoners in gener-
al and mvselt in varticular.
By making an early start on tho morning of the
12th" November we were enabled to reach the Well
of the Star as it is called a spring near the road side
and distant some twenty miles trom our encampment
of the night previous. Our route still led us through
a poor and sandy country the walking extremely
tiresome and slow.
Could a correct Daguerreotype view have been ta
ken of us at any point oh the march between El Pa-
so and Chihuahua I am at loss whether it would ex-
cite more pity or mirth in fact I am inclined to be-
lieve it would have drawn forth a little of both The
haggard and sickly appearance of the men when first
taken prisoners as well as while in the hands of the
detestable Salezar had now given place to fuller
checks and a more healthy color the consequence of
a bountiful supplv of nutritious food at El Paso and
the comparatively light marches since we had left
that place. But still such a motley mixed and mis-
cellaneous collection sure never was before seen-such
variety of costume and such a picturesque not to say
grotesque appearance as we made would have put to
the blush and broken up a nardi gras rag fair fan-
tastical militia or any other fancy dress procession
ever started. No two were arrayed anywhere near
alike and each individual stood forth a peculiar dis
tinct and decided character. But few of us had shav
ed for weeks and as a consequence there was a large
and general assortment of unbrushed blaek grey red
sandy to is.iy nothing of fierce and ferocious looking
moustaches and whiskers enough to have rigged
sinti narCtwt irmr nf Vrn niivnlnenr T?innMn T?innl-
dinis. A more brigandish set of Anglo-Saxon faces
can hardly be imagined. Then as to costume it isab-
solutely impossible to paint the variety we had along
A few shabby genteel Jeremy Diddlerish. looking
men there were in the crowd men who had neither
sold nor :'swapped" off" the clothes they had on when
first taken but nine out ol ten n ere to use a com
raon expression rigged out almost any and every
way. Here would be a fellow trudging along with
a pair of ragged Mexican made trowscrs open from
the knee downwards and the sides s'.udded with a
profusion of faded brass bell buttons On his head
might be struck a part of an old straw hat while a fa-
ded Texas dragoon jacket would perhaps complete
the picture. His next neighbor very likely was ar-
rayed in short buckskin breeches without stockings
a coarse Mexican woollen shirt and no hat at all.
Then would come a man with a dragoon cap worn
jauntily upon his head while a partcf a shirt and oc-
cns;onal fragments onlv of what had onco been a pair
0r military pantaloons made up the rest of his attire.
xiaraiy a person in uie ciunu uuu u y uuuij v u
complete suit even of rags; but nearly every one
was either hatless coatless pantaloonless or shirtless.
Neither St. Giles' nor the Five Points at N. York-
could furnish such a set of rough ragged and Imaysay
rowdyish looking characters even were a committee
appointed fully empowered to send to those celebrated
quarters ior persons and drosses.
There were some one hundred and eighty of us in
all and Falstafl'a ragged Regiment was well
uniformed in comparison: vet singular as it may
seem there could hardly be found a merrier I might
be going a little too farto say happier set of fellows
in Christendom. Our very looks bred good numor
fof there was something irresistibly ludicrous and
lnu!.hahein the annearanceof each man a quaint
solemnity and droll gravity ol countenance wnicn
: . . . . . .
would elicit some facetious and good naturea remarn
from his neighbor. The comic and eccentric were
strangely mingled with the tragic and mclo-dramatic;
but the former preponderated to a degree that com
pletely stifled any patnetic leenngs mat migni om.i-
wise have arisen and fairly induced us to laugh rath-
er than cry at the forlorn but fantastic figuteeach of
us presented in the moving panorama . So complete-
ly disguised were we all that I doubt whether the
anxious mothers of every onepresentcould even had
the liberty of their unfortunate sons depended on the
recognition have picked them out without the most
rigid examination and scrutiny. They certainly nev-
er would have been known by their outward appear
ance.
I have given but an imperfect etching of a scene
that was constantly before me for months words can-
not do it justice. Hogarth would have found a rich
mine had he met with us for as I have said before
each individual was a perfect picture stood out in
bold relief from his companions. Forty times a day
I could not resist laughing heartily at forty different
persons and nine times out often these same persons
would turn the laugh upon myself and remark that
there was nothing particularly prepasscssing in my
own personal appearance of which to boast. And
they were right; for almost the heartiest laugh Ihad
was while surveying my own face in a bit of looking;
glass'. It was the first lime I had had the pleasure of
seeing mvselt lor a month. A luxuriant growth ol
whiskers and moustaches I am speaking of quanti
ty not quality had sprung up disguising roe thor
i ougbly. I could only see my face in spots but Icoiikf
still see enough fully to appreciate the ludicrous se
rio-comico figure I presented and inly I determined
Stone doot or door ef stone.
to take no offence at any laugh raised or any remarks
made upon my personal appearance for the future.
Singular Spring by the roadside Arrival at a
Warm Spring Carazal Strange Visiters
Singular account of Kirker Death of Capt.
Spybuck a Delaware Chief
We passed a sineular snrins of hot water on the
13th November our road leading directly by it The
water boils up irom the topol a square mound some
twenty feet high which at a short distance looks like
a fortification. That the mound is a natural forma-
tion I have little doubt; but it is of square shape and
has as much regularity of outline as though the hand
of man had fashioned it. The top ofthis mound cov-
ers an area of thirty or thirty-five square yards the
spring boiling up in the very centre. It is situated in
the midst or a desert bare ol all vegetation save a lew
bushes ofthethorn species and may certainly be con
sidered a great natural curiosity. Tho water is clear
but warm and slightly brackish.
A few miles farther on we encamprd by a large
and beautiful spring of warm yet excellent water.
Like the one I have just mentioned it boils up out of
the sand and in such quantities as to form a brook or
creek ol no inconsiderable size immediately trom the
fountain head After running some three or four
miles this creek empties into and in fact forms a
large pond or lake. Within a league is another spring
ol warm water possessing medicinal qualities scid to
be highly efficacious in rheumatism. We reached
the spring about noon and remained all the afternoon
our men employing their time in bathing and wash
ing such articles of their scanty wardrobe as might
legitimately be termed washable.
The next morning w e passed the town of Carazal
leaving it about three miles on our right. It is aituited
in a fertile valley at the foot of a mountain and once
contained several thousand inhabitants and wasaplacc
of considerable trade; but the Apaches have com
pletely broken it up by stealing the cattle and crops
of the farmers in the vicinity and destroying any
small parties of citizens that unfortunately night be
caught too far from its walls. From a point in the
road wc could plainly see the latter and also the
domes and spires of two miles beyond the town and
encamped (orthealtcrnoon and night in an old held.
While passing Carazal three or four Mexicans
came dashing from the place on horse-back rode up
among us and enquired if there was a physician in
the crowd. Dr. Whitakcr our surgeon was point-
ed out and in company with Van Ness to interpret
he was taken to the house ofa woman in the town
who was confined to her bed by sickness. After pre
scribing some medicines an excellent dinner was pro-
vided for the Dr. and Van Ness and shortly after
their return to camp in the evening a fine fat sheep
was sent out to the former as pay lor his professional
services mere arc lew .Mexican pnysicmns exccri
in the large cities of the county and so far as I could
learn thev have very little need of the services of any.
Still American and foreign physicians may be found
scattered all over Mexico and generally they accumu
late ample fortunes by their practice.
Wc were visited -in the afternoon by a half breed
Delaware Indian named Charley Tirrcll. He spoke
English extremely well having received an educa-
tion in Indiana where he had sisters living. Charley
was accompanied by a Shawnee and a pert little Mex-
ican officer who had visited the United States and
spoke English tolerably well.
Charley informed usthat himself and some twelve
Shawnees and Delawarcs the party under command"
ofa noted chief named Capt. Spybuck had come to
this part ol Mexico from ihc great western prairies
under contract to kill the Apache Indians at so much
a head. A wellknonn American named Kirker had
also been engaged in the same business and with a
party of his countrymen had been very successful. It
being afterwards ascertained by the government of
Chihuahua that these modern mercenaries were in
the habit of bringing in counterfeit scalps or in oth-
er words did not scruple to kill any of the lower or-
der of Mexicans they might meet with where there
was slight chance of being discovered a stop was put
to the game and afterwards instead of paying them a
certain sum for each scalp tbey were allowed only
one dollar a day for their services The consequence
was that Kirker left the business altogether and reti-
red to California or some other place on the Pacific;
Capt. Spybuck and his party remained in the service
at the pay I have just mentioned. Tirrell informed
us that but a week previous Spybuck bad been killed
in a desperate encounter with the Apaches on the
side ofa mountain near Carazal and that he himself
with the remainder of the Indians were extremely
anxious to return to the United States. He attributed
the death of his captain to the cowardice of the little
Mexican I have spoken ot above. 1 he latter com-
manded a party of Mexicans at the time of the en-
gagement but retreated with his men when he ascer
tained the Apaches were nearly equal in number and
left his Indian mends to light it out as bestthey could.
This was not told us in the hearing of the little Mexi-
can who was a talking blustering fellow extremely
fnnd of relating bis exploits. I could not but be amu
sed at a remark of Charley one that plainly showed
he had had much intercourse with the Amencansand
well understood their cant phrases. The little Mexi
can had just finished a recital of some dangerous ex-
ploit of which he had been the hero when the Dcla
ware remarked aside that "he was all talk and no ci-
der." T am prtrcmelv loth to credit all the stories related
in MptJco of the conduct of Kirker. That hcisadar-
inn nfid PTtrrmelv dangerous man one who for ma
ny years has been engaged in deadly conflict with the
Arrlipnnd other Indian tribes there is little doubt;
ki iw ho ; ffiiiltv of all the dark and bloody crimes
of which he is accused and more especially that of
bringing in the scalps of Mexicans lor Apacnes seems
almost too mcreaiDie ior utn-.i.
A Method or Rendekino Glass Less Brit-
TLE JPut the glass vessel into a vessel of cold water
and gradually heat the water boiling hot; then allow
it to cool gradually of itself without taking out the
gloss. Glassps treated in this way may when coid
ho filled with boil'inc water without cracking. It the
glasses are to bo exposed to a higher tempeiaturcj
than boiling water boil them in oil.
FEMALE BEAUTY.
Those who arc accustomed to enlightened views
on this subject will know thai there are different
kinds of personal beauty among which those of form
and coloring hold a very inferior rank. There is
beauty of expression for instance of sweetness of no-
bility.of intellectual refinement of feeling of anima-
tion of meekness of resignation" and many other
kinds of beauty which may all be allied to tho Dlain
est features and yet may remain to give pleasure long
after the blooming cheek has faded and silver gray
has mingled with the hair. And bow far more pow-
erful in their influence upon others are some of those
kinds of beauty ; for after all Beauty depends more
upon me movement oi inc race man upon me lonn oi
the feauturcs when aLrcst; nndthus a countenance
habitually under the influence of amiable feelings ac-
quires a beauty of the highest order from the frequen-
cy with which such ftehngs arc the originating cause
of the movements of expressions which etamn thpir
ffharacler upon it. Who has not waited for the first
opening of the lips of a celebrated belle to see wheth-
er her claims would be supported by "the mind the
muic breathing from her face?" and who has not oc
casionally turned away repelled by the utter blank.
or worse than blank which the simple movement of
me mourn in speaking or smiling has revealed ?
The language of poetry describes the loud laugh as
indicative of the vulgar mind : and certainly there
arc expressions conveyed even through the medium
ofa smile which need no Lavater to inform us that
refinement of feeling or elevation of soul has little to
do with the fair countenance on which they are im
pressed. On the other hand there are plain ".vomen
sometimes met with in sor-iety every movement of
whose leatures is instinct with intelligence; who
from the genuine heart-warm smiles which play about
tho mouth the sweetly modulated voice and the
lighthening up of an eye that looks as if itcould "com-
prehend the universe" become perfectly beautiful to
those who live with them and love them. Before
such pretensions to beauty as these how soon do the
pink and white ol a merely pretty face vanish into
nothing. Mrs Elliss Daughters of England.
DEATH IN MAN AND ANIMALS.
The laws of nature are all directed by Divine Wis
dom for the purpose of preserving life and increasing
happiness l'ain seems in all cases to precede the
mutilation or destruction of those organs which are
essential to vitality and for the end of preserving them;
but the mere process of dying seems to be falling into
a deep slumber; and in animals who have no fear of
death dependent upon imagination it can hardly be
accompanied by very intense sintering. In the hu-
man being moral anil intellectual motives constancy
operate in enhancing the fear of death which with
out these motives m a reasoning being would prob-
ably become dull and the love of life be lost upon
every slight occasion of pain or disgust; but imagin-
ation is creative with respect to both these passions
which if they exist in animals cist independent of
reason or as instincts. Pam seems intended by an
all-wise. Providence to prevent the dissolution of or-
gans and cannot follow their destruction I know
several instances in which the process of death has
been observed even to its termination by philoso-
phers ; and the instances are worth repeating Dr.
Cullcn when dying is said to have faintly articula-
ted to one of his intimates "I wish I had the power
of writing or speaking for then I would describcto
you how pleasant a thing it is to die." Dr. Black
worn out by age anu a opposition to pulmonary He-
morrhage which obliged him to live very low
whilst eating his customary meal of bread and milk
fell asleep and died in so tranquil a manner that he
had not even spilt the contents of the spoon which he
held in his hand. And the late Sir Charles Magden
whilst at a social meal with his friends Mons.and
Mnrl Rpiihnlle and Gav-Lussacdied in hischairso
quietly that not a drop of the coffee in the cup which
he held in his hand was spilt air n. nary.
CULTIVATION OF CHINA.
To the fertility of the soil we may add the consid
eration that it is extensively cultivated. China con-
tains as has been before observed 830719300 Eng
lish acres; and il we allow one mini oi iuis max iui
hills rivers marshes and waste lands we shall have
553812906 acres for cultivating land. In ascertain-
incrthi however we are not left to conjecture as
there exists a report made to the Emperor Keenlung
in the year 1745 of the amount of land then under
cultivation; according to which it appears that reck-
oning the land belonging to individuals with that in
the possession of the Tartar standards the military
the priests and the literary there were at that time
595598221 English acres uuder cultivation; since
which period a new estimate nas given oiuoo i jj-i;-.h
nrrrR ns the total extent of occupied land in Chi-
na. inus it appears mm iiiuiu man in.. uiunuo .
frt . . at At-n tlinM t tt -Afrttf ft h 0 F
the surface are owned and tiueu oy man; anowing.
according to the highest census nearly one acre ana
three quarters to each individual. The greatest part
of this area is laid out exclusively in arable land and
Hprnted to the nroduction of food for man alone. In
China the natives make no use of butter or cheese
and very seldom of milk; the principal animal food is
. . ri-r-t. : 1!.. tmCt Thiv hum fptr
pork which is kci"-u"j """"it"- "-j
hr.rcr fnr travcllinc. nomD. or war: and the only cat
tle they keep arc such as are needed in husbandry;
h..n.nthprp nrp. no rrrazinc- farms.no meadows and
very little pasture; while every acre of ground capa-
ble of being cultivated is turned up by the spade or
the plough in order to allord sustenance io iuu icem
t inhabitants. The few beasts of burden or o
Hrnimht which thev keep arc cither tethered to a
string by the side of n road or turned out to graze on
the hills ; while they are supplied by night with a lit-
tle straw or bean stalks which is also their principal
food during winter. A common is quite unusual
throughout the eastern half of China; while parks
and pleasure grounds are propoitionably scarce ns
the anxiety to satisfy the appetite prevails over the de-
sire of amusement. Mcdkursfs Chiua.
The Legislature of Vermont has passed an act
abolishing capital punishment and substituting there-
for imprisonment during life in the penitentiary un-
less the Governor shall after ore year issue a war-
rant directing the criminal to be executed.
SINGULAR GYPSY FUNERAL.
For some time a numerous tribe of .gypsies have
pitched their tents in Cut Hedge road. Little Ccrggcs-
hall. One of the party died last week. As so.m as
life was extinct much ceremony was observed. Tha
body was dressed in a Scotch plaid gown silk stock
ings.and satin shoes; wax tapers wtrp burnt nnd the
remains lay instate. Instructions for the funeral were
given to Mr. Clements the undertaker and no expense
u.is spared to render it most respectable in nil its ap-
po.ntmcnts. The coffin was of fine oak. studded with
gilt nails and bore a brass plate upon which was en-
graved "Cecilia Chilcott: did September 29. 1842.
aged 28 years." On Sunday last the funeraj took
place and her remains were interred in the parish
churchyard by the Rev. W. Wigson in the presence
ofa concourse of between 4000 and 5000 persons.
The pall was supported by four respectably dressed
females deeply veiled about thirty of the tribe follow
ed all dressed in black the men wearing black cloth
cloaks. The greatest decorum was observed by the
whofie of the party; and a more respectable funeral
we understand has not been seen in the town for ma-
ny years. In the coffin were placed by the side of
the body the deceased's watch and a purse of money
for the protection of which a person is appointed to
watch the grave for some weeks
Chelmsford Eng ) Chronicle.
ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN TURKEY.
Lord Palmerston having complied with the wish-
es of his snti-slavcy friends by directing the British
Ambassador at Constantinople to interpose with the
Turkish government some representation on the sub
ject of slavery received from him the following char
acteristic epistle:
Viscount Ponsonby to Viscount Palmerston.
Thecapia Dec. 27 1840.
My Lord I have paid the greatest attention to
your Lordship's instructions on the subject of slavery
in Turkey with the hone of arriving at some result
that would afford a chance of obtaining in any degree
the object your lordship so earnestly desires to ac-
complish. I have mentioned the subject; and I have
heard with astonishment accompanied with a smil
a proposition for destroying an institution closely in-
terwoven w ith the fiame of society in this country
and intimately connected with the law and the habits
and even with the religion of all classes of the people
from theSnltan himself down to the lowest peasant.
The Sultans for some ccntuiiespast have never
married and the imperial raceis'perpeturted by moth-
ers who are slaves.
In all other families slaves may be nnd oftch?ar?.
the mothers of legitimatized children who are in all
respects as much estccnud as those of legal wives.
The admirals the generals tho Ministers of State
in great part have been originally slaves. In most
families a slave enjoys the" highest degree of confi-
dence ahd influence with the head of the house.
To carry what your lordshipdesires into execution
it will be necessary to limit the law of succession to
the crown andafter the policy that has so long guided
the sultans in that respect to change fundamentally'
the political and civil institutions and laws and all
the domestic arrangement of the people. Universal
confusion would perhaps be the consequence of such
violent changes and probably those persons intended
to be most benefitted by them would be the greatest
sufferers. . :
The slaves are generally well protected against lll-
treatment by custom and the habits of the Turks and
by the interests of masters and their religious duty;
and perhaps slaves in Turkey are not to be consider-
ed worse ofTthan men everywhere else who are plac-
ed by circumstances in a dependent situation whilst
on the other hand they may attain and constantly do
enjoy the highest dignities the greatest power and
largest share of wealth of any persons in the empire.
I think that all attempts to effect your lordship's
purposo will fail and I fear they might give .ofltnee
if urged foi ward with impunity. I was asked '-What
would the English governmentthinkof the Sublime
Porte if he was to call upon the Sovereign of Eng-
land and the people of England to alter the fundamen-
tal law of their country and change its domestic hab-
its and customs in order to please the taste of the
Turks?"
I could perceive in spite of the good humored po-
liteness with which the question was asked that there
was something like wounded feeling in the speaker.
The Turks may believe us to be their superiors in
the sciences in arts and inarms; but they are far
from thinking our wisdom or our morality greater
than their own.
I have &c PONSONBY.
To the right Honorable Viscount' Palmerston G.
C.B.&c.
Shoe Blacking. Perhaps the best in the world
is elder berries. Mash the berries with your hand
in a large kettle of water; set them in the shade a
few days filling the vessel up with water. After they
are cool strain and wring them-through a coarse
cloth and then boil down tothetbickncs3 of molasses.
Put a small quantity with a feather on a brush and
rub the shoe till there is a fine gloss. The same will
make good writing ink.
Two vessels had been plundered by pirates at latest
dates from the Wes'l India waters and the authorities
of Havana had'fittcd out all their disposable force to
go in search of them.
Good Farming." Sambo is your master a good
farmer ?" " O yes massa fuss-rate farmer he make
two"' crops in one year." "How is that Sambo?'
'Why he sell all his hay in de fall and make money
once; den in de spring he sell de hides of de cattle
datdie for want ofdc hay and make money twice."
Ailticc ofa Galxcay Father to his son. Another
word before ye leave on your thravels Dick nnd then
God keep ye. Niver miss a fracas whin it's convan-
icnt and always fight uid ycr back to the sun.
Dhritik slow Dick; don't mix yer l.ckcr nor sit
wid ycr back to the (ire-and if ye follow ihisadvice
the very ould devil himself won't pn- you midher the
tabic.-And another thing Dfck.iry.cr kill m any of
yer thravels write ms a line and let me know it was
done daccntlv.
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