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Vi'r . ' -Mi.' : f,-. 1- i- 4 '4 -V- . -f NORTH CAROLINA SENTINEL, AND NEWBERN COMMERCIAL, AGRICULTURAL , AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCER, Efterata nvtix itttsctllancous. ji From the Englishman's Magazine for July. THE LEYDEN PROFESSOR AND THE MVIMG - 'r- j ; MUMMY. 5- r 1 , .1 Elevated bn atroaR platform, and comfortably deposi . vlJlft.k;An. k;.vi, h.t cH venerable-looking el- i ' villi m viMinoyivuUp iigirvuvn' - - bow chair, sat Tobanus Eleazer Von Broech, al one ena hall ftl HIIH1UUI V Jl - ----- r . of the theatrum anatomiewn, " Most willingly," answered the professor; k but what I have to say must be communicated in private." " If then you are really what you announce yourself to he," replied Tobias, whose curiosity began to be excited by this unexpected rencontre, "you may call upon me to morrow at my own house between the hours of twelve and two. Any one will inform you where Heer Van. Vleiten resides." c I shall not fail," said Von Broech, bowing profoundly, and casting many a longing look after the opulent mer- who this person was during hi life-time, or what name may have belonged to hiin, it is unnecessary now to in quire ; the soul has already left its mansion, and the emp ty body is about to pass into a new state of existence, and to receive the far nobler name of Amenophis, or Teth- mesis, or Cheops, or tw-w n tfcAlirAPrf nf noble men. thev seem an hour. JYlr. inorntall, :in l74o, evrOAHj disDOsed to encourage the breed of noble steeds, this, for he rode from Stilton to London and and their central, course isimcuucu, , - - , - - uies, in. a theatre on which the different States ottne n noursauu o minuet,, wmcnis, alter allow. as Union, contending for the prize urith line horses, ing the least possible time lor changing horses A truce with your unintelligible jargon," interrupted w;m up pvrited to emulation in rearing this gene- 20 mrles an hour lor l i nours, and on the turn. University 0f Leyden., He w - " chn he carried his thin configuration away along the on1 111 1 1-UlUUllicu ....... . i " n ... ... ' . i m,inMM . . -j w 1.1- i n noaifn. f.ii r-:-. IU1 111, ill YCI T v;n-ti"iii" - , , - some tbirtyior five and tniny erarf . t f profewor Tobanus Eleazer Von Broech was a man who was generally believed to have more knowledge in his little finger than the Bodleian library has on its shelves. " vat oK,, fiTiv.fire vears of age, and of the middle .;.(,. ih hsiiv f his person, though not remarkable fora Dutchman, was such as in any other country would ;., ivp.n ihousrht considerable. He wore fin ample twtshy brown wig; but what principally distinguished him j from his brotner proiessers, was a pair oi green specie , dee which he very rarely laid aside. Doctor Tobanus i :Kleazer Von Broech had never been farther than five miles from Leyden m his life. The thealrum anlomicum was his home and country : the preparations and curiosi- bies! it contained were his felicity by day and -his dream by nixUt' He was not only the professor of anatomy, but thc'custos rerun nbQiralium the keeper of that splendid maseum in which aUthat the earth contained of wonder Til Was to be found, from the gigantic crocodile, who stoo d Vookine at vou with his laws wide oren, a if he were dnwn lo the smal- tcsjt specimen of a Bavarian frog, preserved irrspirits in a iSliial hprmetiraltv snlpd. - Alas ! did I say " all that the earth contained of won--derfgl ?" i GrieVous- is tbd error 1 ha ve made ! There was on&thinfr ihe museum wanted, and to procure which r- !.d nrAfPKsii'is life. About fifteen Tears previous to the time of which 1 speak, a learned mfchger from Goltingen visited Leyden. He was of course rrinrfiiptprt through the museum by its never-lo-be-much rdsnected keener. Proud was the Professor of this op Tbrtunilvi of -Dointinc out its riches, and of inspiring with : we the learned stranger from Gottingen. Judge then, of . Tabanus Eleazer Von Broech's horror and astonishment, v hen the learned Stranger from Gottingen - turned up his nose 'at the whole, and merely remrrked with a sneer, yon have not even an Egyptian mummy !" , t Plain aj it. was that envy alone was at the bottom of Oiis conduct it was nevertheless but too ; true that the l'i.ca!rum analomicurri of Leyden the incomparable mv' jJsivm wma naturalium, did not possess a -mummy.-- It v a's an appalling fact and the more appalling that it had ji-itherto been overlooked. Had the learned stranger from Godingen taken from the nail on which it hung, the jisoned arrow of Java, and plunged it in he side pf the professor Von Broech, he could not have inflicted on him I a more deadly injury than bv thus pointing but the defi r ciencv of that collection which had been, to him,i from rliii youthl upwards, every thing---father, mother wife, children,! and relations. ' The profeSdr-det ermines .the museum shall no longer . rest under the reproach of bein without a mummy, and orders, through the medium of a merchant in Leyden one of the best that can be bad in Egypt, but the vessel foufirders bringing it over. lie sends again the vessel m blown up ; he sends a third time, and a similar misfor : I fine happens. He now abandons the idea of import ing h mummy, and determines to manufacture one at home; "a nd 'having plenty of subjects he proceeds .Vov a lime every thing went on exactly as he could have wished. The process of disemboweling was rather tedious, (especially as the subjec he had to work on was, bjTcourse, Dutch. But Tobanus persevered. and having sIufTed into the body a plentiful supplyfof Spices, he pro iceeded to wrap it up with, due attention to what he con sidered the science of art! He thus , succeeded at length in compounding a .mummy ,which, to his too paftial eye, appeared not one whit inferior to any of those of the race "of Pharaoh. His pride and happiness, however, contin ued but for a few days. At the expiration of that period, there was a something saluted the olfactory nerves, which forced the alumni, as soon as they entered the t heat rum antomicum, t stuff their handkerchiefs to their noses and to assume-an-Expression of countenance twhich: plainly indicated to the-iearned professor that his - mummy was yb.etraying itself in a mnner peculiarly insulting to his knowledge of the art ot embalming, lhere vyis no ai rpmatlve; tne labor of weeks had been lost ; the; mummy was faithless ; it had abandoned itself to corruption, and must be turned out of the museum With a heavy heart - did Tobanus order it to be rernbd ; he determined, how ever, to risk the experiment again. Some corpses might V have less putrefactive tendencies. He tried another, Jbut in a few days the smell was ns great as before, and . .t he handkerchiefs as much at the nose as ever. Another, ' but the aiumnismeli.it out another, but the odor was the worst ef all. "-r j The professor, finding all his plans for procuring the mummy abortive, and ascribing his want of success in the last experiment, to the usual obesity of his country, men whether living or dead, therefore sets out for France, rwhere soup maigre, grenouilles, and sour wine being the usual fare of the natives of that country, he hopes to pro , cure a subject fitting for the purpose he had so much at .heart. The reader is next introduced to two gentlemen on the quays of Rotterdam ; the personal appearance of ine of. them is described as follows : 'The outward .man of Mynheer Van .Vleiten presented a ; strange contrast to that of his companion. He was at ' : least Jgii feet highland his person was as spare as it was lengthy. His completion was dingy and sallow; and j his sharpj-prominent nose projected like a wedge from his dried up and hollow cheeks. , His large, dull gray, fish j like eyes, floated beneath a brown wig, which futed close ; to his head. He wore a long cinnamon-cbl&red frock coat, which, notwithstanding the warmth of the evening, 'as buttoned from the chin to the knee, thus exhibiting the unnatural thinness of his lengthy figure in onejmbro ken line. The. buttons on this cinnamon-colered coat, i were jthe only redeeming point in Van Vleitens costume ; they (consisted of double ducats; and as they glittered in the evening sun, manv a poor fellow, laboring hard for a tew stivers, could not help breaking, in his own mind, the tenthi commandment, whilst he looked at them. Van 4VJeiten bad spent many years of his life in Batavia, where he bad-realised immense wealth iu the skin trade; and its : hotTirrwholesome cliraale parllv accounted for the bilious and eilanguineous hue of his own cuticle. Lossof health, however, is price which few Lave the good sense to re Fuse to pay for the acquisition of wealth. On every post dav. Van Vleiten naa inaae large remittances from Bata via td Rotterdam, where, his funds lay at good interest, tMid whither he, himself at length determined to follow them accompained by his only daughter, the heiress of her dead mothers beautyand her living father's wealth r VVhilhelmina Van Vleiten The Leyden trackboat just then stopped' at the quay, nd;iie, ajjd his companion stood together at some little distance to see the passengers step ashore. Tobanus ( JUeazer Von Broech, with his green spectacles and pecu liarly ! scholastic appearance was the first who attracted tleiv attention. It happened that in proceeding to the hotel where he intended to spend the night, the learned 'J obanus had to pass very near where the two merchants stood, i The moment his eje fell on Mynheer Van Vleiten, M started like one who had seen a spirit. - 0 .Isis and Osiris!" he muttered to himself in Latin, What do I behold T either a living mummy, or one who waits onlytill respiration ceases to pass at once into that blessed stateT " Here is the visible interposition of Provi dence, which, out of its regard to the tkeatrum antomicum of Leyden, intends to save me! the fatigue of my proposed j'Hirney!" .j ' ',. ' '. Considering how the.mind of Von Broech was, possessed f only ! one idea, and had been so for the last fifteen years,, Vt can scarcely be matter of surprise that the long anatomy of Von Vleiten, who looked more like a huge Jinnamon stalk, just imported from Batavia, than a human beingjsuggested to ourprofessor the belief that Egypt had at length surrendered uri one of her children for his use. DerDuyTtir said Van Vleiten to his friend, " why is fu,rmoPeClacle5 fi-d aponme 1 'tVZlTy ed off accordingly, and walked on for upwards of a quarter of a mile. They then turned sooner done so than to rhe.r utter astonishment, the same individual, with the green pectacles and bushy brown wig. met them in the face. All parties stooped f Salvett illuslrissimir said Van Broech, but'receivin no answer lie continued, after a moment's pause or would you rather that I should address you a theTerna cular? ! Unworthy as I am Doctor Tobanus Eleazer Van Brdecb, the guardian of the sciences of the United Nether lands, the duly appointed and installed professor of anato mv and natural history in theillustiious academy :Tand 1 now have the surpassing happiness," he added, looking full at Van VIeiten, to see before me a peraoo destined to increase the fame of our unirersity, and to add to the permanent elorv of the United Netherlands." Mynheer Van Vleiteo, somewhat soothed by this last declaration, requested that the learned Tobanus would be "4 little more explicit in hti information. - i .'L : '!-.' - ..ji .- : .; il Scarcely had the steenles of Rotterdam rung out at the hour of noon, ere Tobanus presented himself at the stately mansion of Van Vleiten. To the still lurtner neigmenmg of his delight, he was ushered into an apartment furnished in the most sumptuous oriental styie. . . , The opulent merchant made his appearance m me same rfroit Ha hud warn the dav before, and, if possible, look ing morft lank and tein than ever. Joy sparKiea through the ereen spectacles of Tobanus as tie gazed upon nis pmaciatpdnVure.and already saw him in imagination dead and exsciccated among ine repositories ui ine museum. " Fortunate man I" exclaimed the erudite professor, young Van Daalen, the worthy Van Vleiten must have died suddenly, and you have stolen his body, for by no other. means could you possibly have become possessed of it. It is illgotten nrooertv. and I demand its restitu tion." " , " A murmur of dissatisfaction here rose throughout the Ihtalrum analomicum. Wilhelm was a stranger to all the students, except the one with whom he had that evening accidentally visited the hall, and they were exasperated at the charges he had made aeamet the character of their- p So without waiting for the usual little ceremonies by which a conversation is generally opened. r" fortunate man happy was the hour in which thou were born, and happi er, far happier will be that in which thou shalt die ! Let ,me ask you one question nave you yet maae your win r " Sir! said van Vleiten, not a little astonished at this mode of address ; " I have made ray will j but I cannot conceive o( what importance that circumstance should be to you a perfect stranger. ' A codicil! a codicil !" cried Tobanus earnestly, " you roust add a codicil to that will.'' To what effect ?" asked Van Vleiten " To the effect of ensuring your preservation for centu ries nay. tor thousands of vears ! To the effect of ma king science your debtor, and posterity your friends ! To the effect of procuring yourself a name and a being that shall never perish, and a perpetual residence in the :n...: . ti. tt:- i iv-.i u.J. '' mutai illustrious museum iu me wiioit uimeu ifturi lamn Van Vieilen opened his dull eyes to their full extent. " If I rightly understand you," said he, "yon mean to inform me that you are in possession of that far famed secret, the elixer viiae, by which the body is preserved inviolable against the attack? of disease. Pray be seated If your learned researches have made you acquainted with this grand mystery, I shall be happy to have attrac ted your regard." " Heaven fotbid ! answered Tobanus, ' th-it any pro fessor of the University of Leyden should devota his at tention to so vain and profitless a pursuit albranch of the black art. and an engine in the hands of the evil one No, Mvnheer Vari-Vleiten, I am possessed of the secret of . .i 11 r i nanno I nilro mail and nn PVPI1 OTmirwl f C!l rous ammai, iuc j "4 r r .. . , , -- -airop, and war. !, m iww iinem rid mi A i rnv hn onnrsp. nnrt tnp. man- n(n twip.e. accumuiiaiicu uuv mi ne 1 11C SDOl cuuscii mi mi. vuu.., i . i j r aim j i i .1 .nnM(inn! havA hoon mnnp.nn mnrrpr in nne nuur uuu iui iv-innp r;... ncr in wnicu me ureuai ouuus. u j i i ' , , J "'iuxes o-reat credit to the judgment ana taste oi tnose in l o5, iir. onauue wuu a more extraordin- to whose management it was conndetl. 1 ne ary maicn.. ie was 10 procure a person to rid on nhlnna circle, ana tne neia wun- one nunureu mues s uy, " any one hn it concave, so that a spectator sianaing in eacn uay, ior iwemy muc uavs vogeiner, and to professor, in which they conceived the whole University centre looks up on the race, wnue mose nave any numcer oi nurses nui exceeaing twen .o oe impiscatea. " uraer - o.ience . o..aa, . , th tr "TurnhiiM out." resounded from all quarters. "1C . . ie onm.Un nn nnol9vhi rnd ohp lmn ' I shall not budge from this spot,' said Wilhelm, un- I down upon ll. iuc wv. - V" "i Jl- ,""u slxlV til the bodv of mv deceased and respected friend be de-l njccpd hv a hiffn pianKinff. ai uic gwi . vlts, u. uu v. ...v M.,b 1U5 ursi s of the Mr. Hull s Uuibbler, however, afford .i i ' ui 1 1 inn t 1. 1 . j: . . inwiiicn most exiraorumary iiiituce on record of k . -m 1 ll A . r- 1 4r s r ITTnl 1 Cm V AAfl Ml 4 the horses entered lor the race, ana me pwuii siuumcss aa orc,u i race horse. lil livered do to me." atnA nhnnt. two hundred vara "Gentlemen," cried Tobanus a good deal agitated, JJ & nlnsprl with. a low palisade, ' th Muse of sr ewce is at stake ; 1 call on you tor your assistance. alumni rushed up to Van Daalen, and were in the very act of laying hands upon low, deep groan echoed Instantly all was confusion ; at least a dozen of the connected w On the outside of this space, the pavilion for the ladies, and separate stands lor the sud the course and other spectators, are oratified to see the Ci CltCUi s " t celebrated Eclipse introduced into the area be iA nt.t.r. fit on the half dissected bodv which fore the Ilacers were brouffht out. me wp iJD I...:,), w unit than nti A skltnn which hunir dan&rlin? I Un Ar-tim o7!ikpnpfl all the fire of tlllS COll j - - v a in v him, when, all at once a long, through the room. Every one stood stock still, and silence was restored in an instant. fhe groan was reuewed it came from the dead body oi Van Vleiten ! All eyes .were bent upon it. Ihe corpse slowly rose, and sat upon the table on which it had been stretched. A pair of dull gla?sy eyes opened and fixing ath the course, arc alone admit- In December, 1786, he ran twenty-three miles roiuid the flat at Newmarket, in fifty minntp- nd ten seconds.' All Humbug ! When Stephen Kemble n-c manager in Newcastle, and the houses were rather flat, no less a person arrived in tou than the Prince Annamaboo, who offered his serviced for a moderate consideration a b; a cord from the roof, fell back on the .able with anoth- I , ih( Trf anrlit was with some diffi- " " Jt.i a"' "uncea, that I 1 VI 14 V-A lvi Sacrid power. !" exl.taed Van Daalea, he is no. culty that the groom was enamea .o take offthe between the act? of the play, Prince Annama- for the occasion. Washington Ulobe. I L- Aill1 AH f A : f I 1 XT I V - y -v rv. 1 . rnval robes of scarlet in which he was dressed . . 6. .. I , J K ... - 7 01 tflc royai rooes 01 suci m yv scalomsr operation, he would likewise riv - ' : nir dead .'Back! back .' he may yet survive, if the proper restoratives be applied. I beseech you let him be carried to the open air ; my aunt's house is not far off; he must be removed thither. You commit murder il you hesitate. It was some time before Van Vleiten fairly came to himself, or recovered from the fright he had sustained. For several days be could not be persuaded that the pro cess of embalming had not actually taken place, and that he was not at least as much of a mummy as a living being. Drofited bv the example Ot England ; they see He declared that he could never get the better of the If niirwnra nA our debt, and our wasteful es- dreadful sensations he experienced when he first opened , , . . iA . bis yes in the Jhealrum analomicum, and beheld the tablisnments, wnaiinauenuuu iu mcu frightful objfict that presented themselves to his bewil- cerns invariably bring on a people ; and warned dered gaze. Bv constant care and excellent nursing, hv the state of EurODC thev very wisely take 1 ! ? 11 .1 Indian war-wnoop, in an me various tones' the tomahawk exercise, and the mode of feast' ing at an Abyssinian banquet." The evening however, he at length jnanifesied symptoms of confirmed ' - in wunm thrv rommit. thekeeDinp; of their I . . 1 : '--A 1 T l:IXyULVl.W t 1 r-j . .... . . .. . 1 n nra idspiinrfl nnfi iia wqq fn cnniirr rriiii .iipf 111 il 1 " - - -. . . . ill r . ill. 11 rr kki i w 1 1 ii i ..vi ti . . tsu. . . v . . - . - i I ---o i - ji tal spirit has quitted its earthly tenement ; and the testa mentary legacy which I wish you to bequelh to Leyden and tome is. your own person, that one thing needful may therefore be added to our incomparable museum, namely, 'Impertinent scoundrel!" interrupted Van Vleiten, burstiiier into a fury that deprived him of all self com mand. "do vou dare to ask that 1 the most substantial merchant of Holland, a counsellor of the Indies, and a Bewindhebber of Rotterdam should allow my body to be criven over to dissection, for the gratification of your depraved appetite, or the benefitof your paltry academy 7 Most worthy sir!" replied Tobanus, with great cool - . . . S X I I .1 .A. ness. vou totally mistake mv meaning, uniy iook at j j . - , 1 your own configuration, like the venerable Greek sage and tell me whether, with those bloodless lim'is of yours, you would not make the worst subiecl of dissection ever laid unon the table of our theatrum analomicuml I have a-higher and nobler destiny for you. I he tawny hue and well drit'd proportions of your rare exterior shall ne ver.be invaded bv the rude knife of the surgical demon strator. All I prwpoee is, by a slight process of disembow elling, and a sufficient quantity of cloves, ginger, pepper, and hot spices, to pertect the work already nearly nriisnett to my hands; to prevent any putrescent odor ever esca ping from 'the juiceless aridity of your dry but still-life like body ; and in short to hand ytu down to all ages, a fruitless specimen of a mummy." "Of a what!" cried Van Vlieten, hardly able to speak for passion ! "Of a mummy!" pursued Tobanus with enthusiasm, "a mummy compounded like unto the mummies who are the descendants of the Pharoahs. By many a gene ration vet to come thou shalt be acknowledged for onr of the children of Sesostrls. The plebeian appellation ot Tobias Van Vleiten' shall be sunk forever, and thy blood less arteries, cartilages.Jymphatics, nerves, bones and skin, shall rejoice in the mora dignified and historical name of Amenophis, or Themosig ; or perhaps, even the splendid cognomen of Osiris itself!' " Go to the devil !". ejaculated the enraged Van Vlei ten. Insolent imposter, begone!'' and so saying he sei zed the head of a noddling mandarin, which he hurled ai the august pericranium of Doctor Tobanus Eleazer Von Broech. Tobanus stooped to avoid the unwonted mis sile, which, glancing over his shoulders, unfortunately fractured the nose of the ''Great Vishnu,' in the centre of the room. This disfigurement of this favorite idol almost drove Van Vleiten distracted, and making a spring towards Tobanus, he would, in all probability, have done something deadly, bad not the illustrious professor, per ceiving his intention, effected a rapid retreat towards the door, and leaving one of the skirts of his coat in the hands of Van Vleiten, hastened from the house with greater expedition than he had ever been known to use in his life before. Notwithstanding the unfavorable aspect of his prospect in this affair, the professor determines not to give up his design en the person of Van Vleitfn, and accordingly takes lod gin gs near the house of that gentleman, where lie can watch tneoar. his ineroines. Van Vleiten. meantime. had suffered so much from the excitement produced by his interview with the professor, that he is seized with a lethargic complaint, which confines him in a state of in sensibility to his bed. The story then proceeds Nothing remarkable occurred for ten days. A fort night, however, ' had npt elapsed, when one night our friend Tobanus Eleazer Von Broech was awakened out of a profound sleep by an unusual noise in the street im mediately under his windows. He rose, and on looking out, what was his consternation to behold that the house adjoining that of Van Vleiten was in flames,iand the fire was already extending to the mansion of thelatter. " Sacred powers!" exclaimed Tobanus, " should he be burned to ashes in his bed, what then will become of the future mummy of Leyden?" The thought was overwhelming, and hardly taking time to put on his green spectacles, and wrap a loose dressing-gown round his portly person, he hastened down to the street. Here he found every thing in the greatest confusion ; but he had only one object in view, and that he determined to effect at whatever personal risk. For cing his way through t;he crowd, he entered the house of ." vieuen.'.tbe aoor of which he found wide open. A numberof domestics and others were collected in the hall, but such was the paic which the fire had created, that not one of them would venture up stairs to ascertain the late of their unfortunate master. Tobanus eagerly in quired theway to his bed room, and it was pointed out - 0U8e was ful1 f "moke, but he rushed on, and- having ascended to the bed-room floor, he speedily found the apartment he was in search of. He flew to 3 J' as weM 88 ,he smke would permit str,?,.h J6", lhe, ap,earent,y life,ess bdy of Van Vleiteni stretched out in listless unconsciousDesa. , S"ffofed ! by the great Ibis !" cried Tobanus. In five minutes more he might have been reduced to a heap tlSSSS: OW J? " te Prpert of the United Ne tbSe CarnCd ffb " " of vl&lSA'aCC"6S - ?rry'S offthe insensible werir ?eB r,th h,s bod' in at He immediately invites iVia ctn.n. . , , .. j . .... 1- , ;r . . 15 10 oenoia ine un- dutchhke proportions, of the body, and to expound to them the process by .which; the museum of Leyden would be enriched by the possession of a mummy. They accor dingly attended, and the story proceeds: As be thus spoke, Tobanus carefully removed fh blanket, and the long, lank, cinnamon stalk like figure of van vieiten, surraountea oy a wnite nignt-cap, which e had worn in bed, and which Von Broech had omittedfto remove, wa fully submitted to the view of the professors and students of the Leyden University. Every one bent forward iri his seat and fixed his eyes upon it, as if be would have devoured it at a gaze. For a minute or so, not a whisper was to be beard, and Tobanus had already lifted one of his surgical instruments, and was about to commence operations, when a young man suddenly threw I mraseit over the benches, and rushing up to tne table, caught hold nf the Doctor's arm, exclaiming vehemently ' Uk. ... i . J - mcttto anq eartn : wnai is u you are aooui iu uo 1 "Jthe word of Marlborough that is Tobias Van Vleiten, ihL 1 mercnaU in Rotterdam and my father in-law r' lUnff,nan'M nsrered Von Broech with that dignity -'"cauor ne hmi i .1 1 1 . u 'fme titne aingagiPg hUnself from the grasp of Wilhero, From the London Times.' Sir Robert Peel comDlains of the electioneer ing spirit of the Americans. The Americans arrived, and many people attended to witnest strA a shrfiwil and calculating; neopXe ; 'thev have these princely imitations. At the end of th tinrd act, ins nignness walked lorward, with dignified step, flourishing his tomahawk, and cut the air, exlaiming, "Ha, ha ho ho !" Next entered a man with his face blackened, and a piece of bladder fastened to his head with gum ; the Prince, with a large carving-knife, com menced his scalping operation, which he per formed in a style truly imperial, holding up the skin in token ol triumph. INextcame the war- whoop, which was a combination of discordant sounds. Lastly, the Abyssinian banquet, con sisting of raw beef steaks ; these he made into rolls as large as his mouth would admit, and devoured them in a princely and dignified man ner. Having completed his cannibal repast, he flourished his tomahawk, exclaiming "Ha, ha ho ho !" and made his exit. Next dav the manager, in the middle of the market-placr, espied the most puissant Prince Annamaboo selling pen-knives, scissors, and quills, in the character of a Jew pedlar. "What!" said Kemble,' my Prince, is that yon ? Are you not a pretty Jewish scoundrel to impose upon us in this manner ?' Moses turned round, and with an arch look, replied, ' Prince be , I vash no Prince, I vash acting.a-like you; you vash kings, princes, emperors, to-day Sto i ir 1 1 i x t 1 1 1 ripen xvemuie 10-inorrow ; vasn numDUg, you vash humbug, all vash humbug," 11 .1 11 J lil . : In . 1 ji;i.jiTi-i 1 n'Jrnin rr ta W II HKTfimr I1VHS Sill II I1UC1 lies. XII own house, tnan tie intimaiea 10 me ueiignieu ran uaa- v-Uiun.6, u - lens that as he conceived he owed his life to the intrepid this respect the state ol their hnances ana tne interference of Wilhelm,' he did not think he could do less value of their stock prove that they are right; than bestow upon him the hand of Wilhelmina d h would it have been for the people It was a merry day iri Rotterdam, when the respective f - , , , -r A heirs of the two richest merchants it contained, were uni- of England had they manifested equal prudence ted in the holy bands of matrimony. From that day and forethought. Van Vleiten, to his own astonishment, grew fatter and Js noi true that the Americans think of no- fatter, till at length he became only a little less corpu- h j b t th jf elpxtions. Where will you lent tban any of his brother burgomasters; while, on the "o . . . J . contrary, the unfortunate Tobanus Eleazer Von Broech hnd another people equally enterprising, lllde- grewleanerand leaner; land though he continued to haunt fatigable, and persevering in pursuit of objects for some years longer the theatrum anatomicum, he dwin- 0f rea l importance ? Look at their rising nian- dted 11 length into such , a shaoow, tnat naa tnere oeen ufoctures at their canals and roads, at their another professor at Leyden, equally versed m the art of , , . Li -in embalming. Tobanus hitnself might have been compound- .public schools, at their commerce with all na- ed into a mummy, for the great cause of science, and the tions, at their navy, and at the respect with glory of the United Netherlands. which their government is treated, even by - I,. I-I j I I , ! I Switzerland in the following accoti Would America have become what she is, if she had introduced into her government the Indiana. It would seem by fe who hate them and dread the example of m,nt of thu wMnm ttl. their prosperity and then say if they have not . v m. -r m. v m. m t ju a a. v a. c x i a. . r j ay A a a v t. a . 11 " , 1 ! mr.ni oivnn in n TnHinr.a nanor ibnt hn Sv. icc consulted meir true interests oy taRing care w a m a w a .a. a a . va a v. mj -a- j a a a i v a a a v s t J 1 7 I . - emigrants who throng our streets, have only w"""x V, 4 - "S18";"18' to travel a lewhilnclred miles to hnd themselves again at nomc, iri the midst of prosperous fellow countrymen. j - We have often, says the Veray Monitor, ad mired the beauty, order, and fertility of the Switzerland farms and vineyards, and seen with delight, the happy hnd contented countenances of the. industrious Swiss, bespeaking health, peace, and plenty.- Frequently, have we heard Switzerland spoken of, by those who pass up and down the river, as being one of the most enchanting places on the banks of the Ohio. We had the curiosity, a few days since,! to make some inquiries from one of the first settlers, and from him we learned the following facts:- In the year 1801, three families, consisting of seventeen persons, left Switzerland, in Europe, for this country. In the year 1803, they settled what we now term j Switzerland proper, on the rich and fertile banks of the Ohio, half a mile below Vevay. Thje amount of their riches, at that time, consisted in athletic bodies, industri ous economical and temperate habits, and seven dollars in money, j This stock was not misim proved; they planted vineyards and commenced the cultivation of the grape. They now manu facture from four to five thousand gallons ol wine yrearly, wrhich is known in market as the Vevay wine." They have some of the most beautiful orchards in the western country7, bear ing the most rich and delicious fruit. Of the seventeen persons who came to this country together, all are living except two, and those two died in good old age. They are now eighty-four in number, making a very good in crease for twenty eight years, trom time to time, accessions have been made to their num bers, by emigrants from their native country, so that there are now in Switzerland and its vicinity about two hundred Swiss : and we ven ture to say the same number of people cannot be found in the U, States of America, in whose honestyr arid integrity more confidence can be placed. 1 hey live and associate with one another as human beings should, like members of one great family; Retaining most of the cus toms of their native land, they are generally surrounded by plenty, and in their dwellings are found cheerfulness and hospitality. To witness the first grand display upon the magnificent circus which the Baltimoreans have erected in the neighborhood of the mon umental city, we took a flying trip to the great race of Wednesday. The whole scene was in teresting. The race was a fine one, but to a lookei on, the gayety of some, the anxiety of others the animation of all who attended the spectacle, rich in splended equipages and all the beauty and fashion of Baltimore, excite the liveliest emotions. Enthusiasm is contagious in the midst often thousand spectators, and the voice in which the; multitude gave utterance to the feelings occasionally excited, realized the descriptions of the Roman circus and the Olym pic games. The people of Baltimore signalize their high spirit in all their undertakings. Their swift cutters at sea ; their rail roads on land display their commercial enterprise. The vigorous and successful defence of their city against foreign invaders, and the monument with which they have commeiorated the gallantry of those who died in that defence, and a sublimer one which they have raised as a trophy to the illustrious man who lived to establish the independence and union of the States, all manifest the bold. elevated, munificent and patriotic character of me people. In the very amusements which they have chosen, and the style in which they are provi ded for, the Baltimoreans show their disposi tion to blend usefulness in their designs with magnificence in the execution of them. system of rotten-borough representation of which Sir R. Peel is even yet.the champion, instead of a true principle of representation 1 If her citizens had basely yielded to the dictation of a handful of selfish and arrogant pretenders to public spirit and political wisdom, instead of exercising! their own understandings, would they have been prosperous as they now aret But would; Great Britain have lost the United States if she had maintained the great princi ples of th0 Constitution J No; it was her de generacy, iher excessive confidence in her ru lers, which lost her America, and without a recurrence to those principles, and the exer cise of that vigilance, to which nations owe their freedom and prosperity, she must have become, and that j very speedily, the scorn of the people whomj she allowed, from her sub jects, to become hr rivals. Sir R. Peel is very unfortunate, thenj in his reference to America. He should have referred to Spain, Portugal, or Italy, in illustration of his argument, and shown .... . i ii . . . . . us wnai ineir inertness and low abject spirit had done to promote their prosperity. Largest Cask in the World. A Subscri ber has sent usj an extract from Keysler's Travels, giving an account of a wine cask which that writer saw at Konigstein. The length of it is seventeen Dresden ells, (the Dresden ell is a fraction less than twenty-two-inches and a quarter English,) and its bun diameter is twelve ells. It jconsits 0f an hundred and fifty-seven staves, each eight inches thick; a"nd fifty-four boards fpr the heads, twenty-six in one and twenty-eight in the other. The cask was filled with "good Meissen wine," which cost about six thousand pounds sterling, reckoning the value at ) three pence half penny a quart. It holds three thousand seven hundred and nine hogsheads of Dresden measure. Till this was made, the tun at Heidelberg was considered the largest in the! world; but this cask contains six hundred and fortynine hogsheads more. The top of it is railed in, and affords room lor htteen orj twenty persons to regale themselves. On one head is a Latin inscription, of which the following is a translation: "Welcome traveller, and admire this monu ment, dedicated to festivity, in order to exhilar ate tfie mind witli a cheerful glass, in the year 1725, by, Frederick Augustus, King of Poland, and elector of Saxony, the father of his country, the Titiis of his: age, the delight of mankind. Therefore drink to the health of the sovereign, the country, the electoral family, and Baron Kyaw, Governor jof Konigstein ; and if thou art able, according to the dignity ofjthis cask, the most capacious jf all casks, drink to the pros perity of the whole universe. Farewell." Boston Transcript. Speed of the Horse. As every thing relating to the performances of this noble animal is worthy of record, we give place to the follow ing which we find in a late English paper: " Common report says that Flying Childers could run a mile in a minute, but there is no authentic record of this. He ran over the Round Course a Newmarket (three miles six furlongs and ninety-three yards) in six minutes and forty seconds ; and the Beacon Course (four miles one furlong and 138 yards,) in sev en minutes and thirty seconds. In 1772 a mile was run by Firetail in one minute and four seconds. - In October, 1741, at the Currah Meeting in Ireland, Mr. Wilde engagedto ride 127 miles m nine hours. He performed it in six hours and 21 minutes. He employed ten horses, and allowing for mounting and dis mounting and a moment for refroxh motif Via j rode for six hours at the rate of twenty irulesj From ihe N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. The Militia System. The ludicrous militia scenes of yeslerday, are re-enacting in the upper part of the ciiy to day. VVe understand that some ot the commissioned officers look high o lie nee at the attempts of their troops to bring contempt upon the system. 'Ihe course adopted was to order all those men who were grotesquely attired to be detached into squads and severely drilled until sun down. In some instances the officers gave tyrannical orders, for w hich they should be ashamed of themselves as they well know that the ridicule was directed at a useless and burdensome system. Unquestionably the ridicule was very effective; fr no eye hath seen mch scare-crows' before. FalslafTs recruits were lords of the bed-chamber, in comparison. All were well artnedjin every requirement ot the law,, and were implicit in their obedience, preserving the utmost gravity and good nature during the frolic. The poor non-commissioned drill officers were in the worst predicament, as their squads were continually pressed on all sides by the admiring rabblement, from the sentimental chimney-sweep to the lack-a-daisical dandy ;and their orders were often drowned in the genera) haw-haw. Sometimes these poor officers tried to look dignified ; sometimes severe and sometimes they bit their lips to prevent joining in the general laugh The dresses were truly the most ludicrous and fantastic ever devised by the wit. of maru Indeed we suspect that the wit ot woman had been called in for the occasion; " Mischief iu her proper shapea woman," says the poet. To describe their dresses would take a column; a space which we cannot afford to-day. Some had high hats and some low ; some broad brims and some no brims at 8l! ; some cock'd up on one side, and some ou Mother, and some behind and some before. Some hacLpiumei enough on a single head, for a whole company, tiome h$d cor duroy inexpressibles with huge roses of red ritftxonrat the knees ; some were be-ribboned and be furbelojived all over; some were quakers and some Knickerbockers; some were Indians more frightful than the bioux; some had one black and one white leg, and others appeared with patched dresses of all hues end colors Lucifer, al ionys in mischief, was likewise in one company, with as wag a tail as he whisked about during his morning walk in London. In another company, one of the orde ly pri vates wore a net-wove dress from top to toe, resembling the scaly covering with which Alexander Kobinson has pictured old Brimstone while addressing the Sun, In short it was a very droll affair. To-night there is to be a great meeting, to devise further measures of ridicule. Capt. Partridge i to give a lecture on the defects and uselessness of the system; and on Saturday we are in formed there will be a general turn out ol counterfeit tat terdemalions, to the number of many thousand, with tin swords, wooden guns and cornstalks. Vivila Bagatelle Choice of a Wife, (Burleigh's Advice to' his Son.) "When it shall please God to brine: thee to man's estate, use great providence and cicumspection in choosingthy wife; for from thence will spring all thy future good or evil. And 'it is an action of thy life, like unto a strata gem of war; wherein a man can err but once. If thjrjBstat'e be good, match, near home, and at leisure; if weak, far off, and quickly. Inquire diligently of her disposition, and how her par ents have been inclined in their youth. Let her not be poor, how generous soever ; for a man can buy nothing in the market with gentility. Nor choose a base and uncomely creature al together for wealth for it will cause contempt in others and loathing in thee. Neither make choice of a dwarf or a fool ; for by the one thou shalt beget a race of pigmies, the other will be thy continual disgrace, and it will yirkethee to hear her talk. For thou shalt find it to thy great grief that there is nothing more fulsontf than a she-fool. Reasons for being in Debt. As Turnbull the late Dalkeith Officer, was handing a sum mons to a collier, he said, " It's a curious thing that ye haud me coming to you sae aften, can ye no get out o' debt?" " Get out o debt,3lr. Turnbull," said the Knight of the Black Lo mond, " 'deed it takes a' my time and wit the gettin' into't. I'm, astonished how ony body, can ha'e leisure to warstle out o'it." That is a bad sectof Christians which encoura ges its members to think contemptuously of al other sects of Christians. -