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' ' ' " ' ' ' J PUBLISHED ' WEEKLY j BY WATSON MA CHEN, At 53 pr annum half payable in advance Msceaueous, For the National Journal. COLLECTANEA. In the " Journal Poly type" of France the following fact is stated, which is cer tunlv very curious, if it be, true. In Monroe or Fincastte county, Virginia, iliereis a small fountain, the water which takes fire, like .tinder, when a "spark is applied to it.. It will then burn like spirituous liquors until wholly consu med ; after which ' the eartb presents all the appearance of a bed of ashes. , As soon as the water which nourished the flame disappears, it spouts out afresh roin the crevices at the bottom, and in half an hour its customary abundance' is restored. " , . Majesty stripped of its externals, is said, with some wit, and a good deal of truth, to be bui' a jest,? How vain & empty arelhe titles which men have as sumed, and yet how fond they are of them. The Governor of Shlraz calls himself the flower of courtesy, the nut meg of consolation & the rote of delight. Burton soys that man is the most excel lent and noble creature of the worldthe wonder of nature, as Zorauster calls, him ; audacis natvxct miraculum as Plato : the abridgement and epitome of the world, ; observed. as. Pliny; the roicrocosmus, or little world, sovereign lord ef the earth, vice roy of the world, and the imago imaginis 6f God. The climax of titles and of ab surdity is contained in the title of the Grecian emperor wbose arras, were a cross between four B's or betas, which stood for " Basileus, Basileon, Basileuon, Basileusi. The king of kings reigning over kings IV The Emperor of China is called His celestial Maiestv. the son of Heaven, and the brother of the sun and moon. The , curious designations given by our Indians to themselves and others, as, ". Walkiri-the-wateW'Elk's Head," "Long Knife, &c. are not more singular than those which many of our whHe brethren posess as Albert, (all bright,T Egbert, (ever bright,) Ethelbert, (nobly bright,) Gil-' bert, (bright as gold,) Lucius, shining,) &z.Bonum nomen, bonum omen, was an old maxim. - In the Heraldic Anomalies there are some good puns on names, of which I will take a few specimens; A man na med JZmsar was married to a woman na med Roma. The next morning there was lound in the hand of Pa-quin's statue -in the Piazza Havana, the following paper: Cave Caetsar ne tua Roma, R'es publico fiat t On two bankers in Ireland, named Gonneand Going, who had failed: Going- and gone are now all one, person who went, was said lo go At me Torn, and hence came the word attorney, which signified one that went to the Torn for others, wiih the power to act or vote for those who employed him. . v Caldcleugh, in his. Travels in South America,, relates that the lower orders of Brazillians have a strange belief as to the original formation of the negroes. A t the creation of Adam, they say, Satan looked dn, and formed a man of clay, but ; every thing he touched becoming black, he, determined to wash him in fhe river Jordan ; on his approach, the river retired,- and he had only time to push the black man on the wet sand, which, touch ing the ioles of his feet and the palms ot his hands, accounts for the whiteness of these parts. The devil, irritated, struck him on the nose, which flaiteried that or gan. The negro begged for mercy, and his creator, being somewhat pacified by his petitions and representations, patted him on' the head, and by the heat of his hands curled his hair as it is now seen. ; Many of our customs may be traced back to the remotest anjiquity, and have i But these three sums combined only a total of 1 10,5T,319fr., and the 382, 1 75.042 fr. - which ference between the expenses those of 1827 Since the restoration drawn from the country tion, 12,017,383,80000. 1 . f ls Out of this sum the w ar vfyuwytuvux absorbed .218.i894,264fr., and yet the military state of France, whiclj is far in yjeld Reared nothing to engage the jaUentwn I not except the immense floating city of boats, form , the dif-j which almost formed a bndge acrss U for ises f 1789 & i several miles. It'seems, the ancestors of 1, Ministers r,;by way of lerior to that of other powers, presents force preatlv below' that set varied but title in the succession of ages through which they have passed. It is gratifying sometimes to knov their origin. Wakes, or watching by a dead body, is of great antiquity.. It o wes its origin1 - to the, tenderest affections of our nature. Durant asserts, that the ancients watched on the night before the burial, and ft would appear that their mode of laying out the dead body was similar to that now They closed the eyes and lips of the deceased washed, dressed, & wrapped the body in a linen shroud, , which, according to Prudentius, should be Candore nitentia claro. Pennant says, that in the Highlands of Scotland, the corpse being stretched on a board, and covered with a coarse linen wrapper, a wooden platter, containing a small portion of salt and earth, separate and unmixed, was placed on the breast : the earth, as an emblem of the corrupti ble body, and the salt of an immortal $pir:t-(5ryeare the salt of the earth. Face cloths, too, are of great antiquity. In In Northumberland and some other quarters, a pe voter plate containing salt, and, in some places, Silso a lighted can dle are set on the body of the deceased the first denoting immortality, and the last intended to express the desire of hav ing had the life of the deceased pro longed : the candle in the Egyptian hieroglyphic, denUtes life.: ' The ancients were acustomed to place burning lamps in the sepulchres Ah ! hopeless lasting flames ! like those .' that burn, To tight the dead and warm the unfruitful urn. Pope. j The watchings, or ! wakes, in Ireland forth in the estimates ; our lorq-esses are not repaired, and the material the. ar my is incomplete ' ' i ? The Marine Departmenj has received 707,915,977 francs, 1 hesj giants have been expended, and yet tip vessels : car ried to inventory at the Restoration have deterioaied.France has more vessels fit for nothing but to be bken up, than she has of those that are si -worthy. -The Department of thj Interior has had in the above space oflime 291 ,268, 106lr. With this mone some canals have been begun, and in great part aban doned ; the Tarara road fiiiished, but in such a manner that it has been neces sarv to devote large sums to repair it ; fr. the other hwh roads ereaUV negiecieu Under the EniDire, which had 137 I amphibious people eiitigr'ated in their have t boats from a distant part of the coast 01 taxa-; China! several centuries ago; but rot be- mg premitted to land, have .conunuea fiom generation to generation, j to live in them,, with the indulgence of jgoing on shore in the day time only ; so that the numerous families lhat inhabit! them are all born, live, and die on the wateiC How so many, for they are said to J amount to about. '200,000, an eslinateT thinlc much too extravagantj'malte but to gain a live lihood, J cannot imagine. Yet so far, I have riot observed any marks of poverty and distress among them. They all ap pear healthy and contented, w and well fed. I It is ttuly hstonishingjo see ramditv boats, and even vessels ot con - rr ' i . ...... . - ' siderable, burtheri, are propelled by means of two large sculls, or oars,' work- king on pivots, and fixed to 'two pieces departments, the Budgets bf the j first thirteen vears of the presenttoentury yiel ded a total of 8,922,237 693 r. and the thirteen years following j 12,817,146, 1 or V. i ' . Theformersum divided equally among ihe137 departments oi the Empire, re duce th quota of each department to a bout 65,130,008lr. The second carries that each of the eighty fix departments of which the kingdom now consists, to 139,70O,000tr The Debtol Engl ell clothed with what 1 fattening, for-the sacrifice, and that the' execution was 10 lase ptace tne.next oay, ; the fuel and all the materials being per-, pared. " The captive was , o Paduca wo-(l man,, who had been captured by a war- . party two or three months be(ore. , Th chiefs and warriors met in council :. and .. no argument , or persuasion . was spared by Mr. Dougherty to obtain there)ease of the, intended vfctirn.1 .The princijl . men of the tribe s c ned ,d spos d t i e her up to the Americans, but the women 1 and children, and a few: men, were clam- ; arous for the, sacrifice Tle ; medicine man, or chief-juggler,! appea ei among ' ; th'em. and after some flourUhes,'. said he could so arrange the medicine as ,to . se cure plenty of buffalo and corn without a burnt-effering. The captive was thenv led into the council jodge with evident maiks of distress, and audible expres- . J sions of grief; but after she was apprised of the interposition , in her favour,' her, face was brightened with a smile. No one present could speak ; her language, and all communication with her was by was delivered of projecting wood on the stern. From j signs. The next day she Six to ten men, according to the size of;to the Americans, who placed her on ia the vessel, are, required to work one of horse, and started for, the Bluffs. They these, in which there appears, to be :on-' nac ni,t proceeded far, when two Indians, siderable slight necessary, and is equally ho had determined 10 kill the woman, as well understood by the women and j sprang from their concealment, and one children, as the men. The husband, ' Qf them let fly an , arrow at her' which wife and children down to the tottering passed through her buffalo robe, and in infant of, three years old, are J all seen la- flicted a mortal wound in her side. A boring at the same oar. To prevent these . scuflltrensued, during which some disaf- little creatures from drowning,, in me, fected Indians came up, bore ult the cap tive, and threw her down on the ground, still alive. Two hundred warriors from the village immediately assembled around her, that they z might dip their weapons in her blood. After her death; the Anu- event of falling ovei boardthy have gen erally a string made fast to J them, and some have a hollow gourd tiea upon their backs to keep them from sinking. Canton. This evening we were gra- ; lified with the sight of a marriage proces-4 ricans proceeded home ward sion the bride going honie;to tn r bus- .land 'amounts to more ! i, attended by a band of music nd a ue. I. this! si,ua., ' crowd of followers. In Chma, seem ... j ... .:u i- -aL 1 a man can have no more tha,n one lawtul than half its Reven -1 . nhW. 1 a man can li C ';i;,..rfii'h mosi 'near y equal to his own. II a i the publ.c service are endowed h os ..H from . ife aninlp ornts. VV iin us. ine ;uuuun man ab- e space is then at liberty to aeot requires oniy one-iu.o. .npr hndnhtainin in the first Maj-lv. mmv w f j - - . ,-7 nue - dis- For Gonne is going, and Going's gone. The following is on Hr. Lettsom, who always signed his prescriptions "I. l-ettsora." , When any patients call iii haste, I physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em, If after that they chose to die, Why, verily I. Lets em. One Alexander Gun having been missed from his office for improper con duct, the entry of the fact was as follows : A. Gun discharged for making a false re- Dart. - A man of the sameuname plainine to a friend that his attorney, bis bill, bad not let him, of easiTy that is no wonder, said he, ! as he charged you too high. j . ' The following was written on . the bankruptcy of a person of the name of Homer 1 , That Homer should a bankrupt be, not so very .Odd-d'ye see, If it be trne, as I'm instructed, T '..' So Ill'fic-had-his books conducted. Of puns in epitaphs, I give the follow- se'nts himself from of three vears, she jJ. 1 .1.. . ... i;.i,e m,ra tin laKeano " 1 . n io ilia KAncont t f th manflarins eiirrtiii hm ifuvf nen crt. to Day,. dl- . r . - 1 j ?--v r . ,. : k" . . though the public service is in a state of suffering. ;) J " Aliei Having paiuau luiuuc, j-hci""" , . , . rv'. ia u uuu&t tta the Europeans in the dark! ages. ISot even since 1814, has . oblishw the war . . r .... . . . . . : ' ,', , V Q q v 1 ' ns5n satisfied with having nearly incapacitated impost, ca led Income lax. , Cur mm- M. J i. r .. ,u,-? . .. . . ... p. them for wa king bv nrevenune the na- ister have keptupati tne taxes, uneti as . . .tJ,,,; ,!. i r r . 1 turn nrinfh rt tlioir li-! in vitiifi. rnv IUI Ul I W If III Vi . J J , ' The Chinese have 'imposed on their women a much greater degreie of humility and restraint than the Greeks of old, or com- in and parts of Scotland, have ben much abused since their origin. According to Pennant, the evening after the death of any person in the highlands, the rela tions or friends of the deceased, meet at the house, attended by a bagpipe or fid dle the nearest of kin opens a melancho ly ball, dancing and crying violently at the Same time, and this continues till day light, but with Such-gambols and frolics among the youngest part of the compa ny, that the loss w ifich occasioned them, is often more than supplied by the conse quences of that nighr... The coranach, j he says, is also in use in some places of Scotland, as it is in Ireland, and consists of songs in praise of the deceased. indirect. , The 50 additional centimes, established in 1813, and continued in 1815, are paid at present as in the days, of calamity, .when -they were laid .on the people. The! taxes of the conquering re public pursue us in all the transactions subject to enregisterment ; and the un fortunate man condemned to a fine in our days of peace, is still burdened with that terrible dtctme on all judicial acts! which was established in order to make war with all Europe. . t - " vt Tnnu Pruuv ' : uu,i a mull , Reader ! of cash if thour't in want of any Dig four leet deep ana uiou so ait una a Penny. j'-.- ;"Xil" , 1 cannot omit, here, the pun of Dr Porson, who declaring to - a friend that nothing was so easy, as punning, obser ved that he could pun on any words which might begiven him. His friend sugges ted the Latin gerunds jii do dum. l The' Dr: immediately repeated ; the following . When Dido found jEneas would not come, Bhe mound in4ilence, and was)' do dim the orfginoV attorneys is, thusjgiven : In the time of the axons, the freemen in everv shire met twice aear, under s the presidency of the Shire j Reeve,' or sher iff, and the meeting was called the SAerf iff Torn. The freedneh declining after a time to attend jronaIIyihe'freeniap who attended carried with hun the prov W of (hose cot appear.' The The Paris Constitutional gives the fol lowing article, most of the calculations of which are taken from the third part of the Memories de G. J. Ouvrard, just published : ' ; - France is at present something smal ler than it was in 1789, and has lost al most all the colonies it then possessed. In 1789 the I taxes and revenue were 475,2 84,000ftv and the expenditure 532, 598,000fr." ; In' 1827 the taxes and revenues are 91 6,668,724fr., and the expenditure 915, 773,042fr. ";, ; j "J ". s - ; The national debt, as well consolidated as hie annuities, was 225)00,000 fr. in 1789, and there was no sinking fund..; The national debt in 1827, is only 04,840,120fr. of which the sinking fund has already absorbed 35,775,343!r. . ; The civil list and expenditures .of the royal family were, in 1789, very nearly what they are in 1S27- . The general expenditure of the depart ments of War, the lanue, lhe Finances, and the Interior are not. greater., at pre sent than in 1789. , : :A :x ; There'are moreover in. 1827 , , A The expenses of - worship, whicb9 in 1789, "were not'at the charge of the state, but in 1827 amount to 32,675000fr. m " The expenses of the j udicrai ; ay.stem which are 18,825,634r. ' And the pensions, amounting to 59, 0rj7,l75fr: in 1827V werenlyr SOiOOO, OQOfr. in 1789- " '; From the Aurora and Franklin Gaze:te. Tiftrrift Irnvn the fntimnl nf fl ITlltmOtt , AmOOff - . to Canton. .;'"'.' - Whampoa, where the shipping lay, is formed on the south side bv. French and Danes islands, and to the northward by the eastern part of the island oh which the town of Whampoa is situated, called Banks Hall, from its houses, for the purpose of holding "ship stores. The crews of .foreign ships," at least a few. at a time, j are permitted to land on these, islands for recreation. Dane's contains the burial place of the British, and French island that of the Americans. . ' 1 , , ' ' , Ship's boats passing between Canton and Whampoa, always carry tlie flag of . the nations to which they may belong. J have contrived, in order td keep them more confiqed, to make it ajmoral crime for a woman to be seen abroad. If they have occasion to pay a visit jto a relation or friend, they must be carried in a close sedan chair, for to walk would be the height cf vulgarity. ' Thef . wives and daughters, however, of the jlower cJases, are neither confined to the house nor ex empt from hard and slavish -labor ; many being obliged to nork with, an infant tied upon their backs; while, in all probabili- ! ty the husband is idling away his time. the hieher ranKS, a woman e. 1 : r must neither eat at the same! table nor sit in jhc same room with her husband, while the male children at the age of nine or ten are entirely separated from their sis ters, by which means the feelings of af fection and consanguinity are nipped in containing store, the very bud. A cold cerefnonious con- OUcl must oe- OOseiveu ai an nines, uc- tween the members of the same family. There is no common focus to attract and concentrate. the love and respect of chil dren for their parents; each' lives retired and aparVfrora the. other. A Chinese youth of the higher class is inanimaie, formal, & inactive constantly endeavor ing to assume the gravity of years '. "';' . To beguile the tedious and heavy hours . b i :!i...L.."iL::u u.;..k This prevents their being stopped at the ,ai IUU" ,,,errV v "mV" chop, 6r custom houses on the river, 0f ded fales, Jotally unqual.fied- for hich there are several between the two cental pursu.ts, they have recourse to the places ' - " f -' ! tobacco pipes, and girls, even as young rr 1 " ; ' . L i .. as'eightor nine years wear as an appen- Immediately on the arrival of a ship. Ana m ihpir dress, a small silken burse one and sometime two Hopps or custom nr nbnCh. to contain their tpbaccd and U.nca rtnota ra ia .entnna4 f d !Ia In . ' , order to prevent smuggling, and no goods , In marriage, daughters are.ianaea or received on boyd without inVariably to be sold. V -The bridegroom their permission. They remain with the nillt nwaVs make his bargain with the may be, said distance is about twelve or fifteen miles: lv i resnrtnsible for the conduct cf bis the, river , winding, in serpentine courses child, and even domestics; heir faults through a low marshy country, con verted are imputed to himj whose: duty iCw for the most part, into nee fields. . A few, prevent them. luucs udVK,iuc gruuuu wens 11110 nuis ui : INDIAN SACRIFICE. A late Missouri paper contains a irOm Mr.HVetmbre, ah American 'officer considerable height, but all apparently quite naked and barren, with nothing up on them excent here and there a Pagoda. These itpwers.l am informed iare to be at. Councjl: Blufls4elating '.the incidents seen all over, the? country and. areup sVd Jto f have been after tbefirsti;:8!1 though male prisoner" from b by thChjnese, profess to Kave no history or ;the Pa njeIn totheir. trarJitiph x?(jheirorjgutoruse. Asthey customfiVlrV vough are in sight of each o.ther the whole way officers;' ana an escort', from;thy garns from Canton fo Pekin) it seeniSTvery eti- felt the Bluff, (Fori Atkinson,)6n the 5th dent that they were erected for the pur- of April last and reached the grand Paw pose of watch and signal towers. 'U; ; riee village in five day They were toIo On the passage up the mer there ap- that the caotive had been for some time T & mm - , . . . . , i fr . - From Mr. Wetrriores 'account of the Indian Council, we extract the following : f There was a warrior conspicuous in. council, as well on account of his standing in. the nation, as his tawdry costume :' his name is Bad Moccasin. This red gen t'eman wore a gold laced scarlet coat, a necklace of white bear talons, and stot d an upright man in a green leggin and a l crimson dne, the advocate for mercy he had taken his Great Father (at' Wash- ington,) by the hand, , nd pledged him self to oppose these barbarous rites. A young brave likewise told his country men, that be knew if was the opinion of 7 Pawnees, that these sacrifices would en- ' sure their prosperity at. the hands J of tho. master of life : ,but, said he, let us dis trust our own opinion, for the whites have more intercourse, and are better acquain ted with God Almighty, than - we are : s therefore, let us listen to them ; let us please them ; for we cannot please bet ter meri.fV . ; f; , ' . ' : The form of conducting human sacri fices among the Pawnees, was detailed to ' Mr. Dougherty , and his party, by a V Frenchman, u ho had witnessed one or two: : 'V ' " When it, is, by the Big Medicine man, deemed advisable to procure a sub ject for human sacrifice, he commits this medicine to the care of a partizan at the head of a war party ; just as he is about to open a campaign, one or more of the prisoners captured by the party, is es teemed the property of the Big Star, that is, the Planet Venus. -When the subject is brought in he is turned over to Old Medicine, the high priest of Belzebuu : he is then placed id Confinement in the -medicine lodge, ! where every ' possible exertion is made to fatten the ;victim for the sacrifice -meantime,' the ' medicine " men relieve each other' in rthe f duty of guarding the subject,; and in thanting at ' his side, unceasingly,' infernal lufabysor anthems of the damned. JJ When they ic . tim 'is brought out for execution) ' he is ; placed between two stakes, resembling may-poles, surmounted by a black tig the hands and feet being 'extended,1, are . made fast to the pole?, and a small fiie ! is kindled near the feet of the subject, ih'( which irons are .heated,' and applied to v his breast and groins. -This torture is continued until the victim begins 'to 'sink undeHt, , when the spy, ; or yidette of a war party, (previously organised for this 5 ceremony,) 4s seen approaching with he ' same caution that is ' observed in- actual ' waK; Altgr this, mockery he reports to 1 the chief of the ;war party; that he has discovered the' enemy, and that he is in: a bad position and off; his guard..1 Un- 4 derl these circumstances,' an - immediate attack is determined on,vwhen ' "the " rous war-party rush forward to the (ilace of sacrifice, ;and dispatch the victim with a literal shower7 of arrows? ; After this, the fire is increased; until the fal exudes ' Ireelyfrom the roasted 'subject : arid at j this stage of the ceremony, thej w6men of the nation, who are corn planters, 'press 1 aroand.the pile;' oil jtheir hoes aVdbold- ' ; ihg tbem up, iin plor e abundant ; ha r vests y ;i the arrows of tbe warriors having been' mgloridus'y dipped in the blood of ihe enemy , arc fitted fot a successful iifialo7 t' v V .. . 4 v. 1 t f k t: h 1 (;.( : ! r V.'. 1 I r. r. r 1 1 1