i LIBERTY...!, THE CONSTITUTION.. ..UNION ft VOK. XVII. NEWBKRN, FRIDAY, JULY 26, J833. NO. 850. PUBLISHED BY THOMAS WATSON. f TKttiMS, ii Three dollars per annum, payable in advance. From the New York Mirror. - First Impressions of Europe. NUMBER FIFTY-ONE. (BY N. P. WILLIS.) Torentioe peculiarities society balls ducal entertainments privilege of gtrangeri families of high rank the exclusives t3ireei partiies f a rich banker peasant beaut visitors of a h&roness- kward deportment of a prince a contented married jjybusbands, cavaliersand wires personal manners Labitsof I am about starting on my second visit to Rome, after having passed nearly three months in Florence, As I have seen most of thesoci- uin,ornct;n n.in,.ni;. hnc II IliaV UUfc -'-- uiiiiiiv-iviini" iv UI.UU1 l U. Jil- tip from the traveller s routine, by sketching a feature or two. t lorence is a resort lor stran gers from every part of the world. The gay society is a mixture of all nations, of whortf one third may be Florentine, one- third En glish and the remaining part equally divided be tu cen Russians, Germans, French, P6les and Americans. The English entertain a great deal, and give most of the balls and dinner par tics. The Florentines seldom trouble them selves to give parties but arc always at home for visits in the prima sera, (from seven till nine,) and in their box at the opera. They go, without scruple, to all the strangers balls, con sidering courtesy repaid, perhaps by the weekly reception of the grand duke, and a weekly ball at the club-house of young Italian nobles. The dural entertainments occur every Tues dav, and are the most splendid of course. The foreitrn ministers prcsentall of their countrymen who have bf fn presented at tneir own courts, i the company is necessarily '-more select than court half whr-n se where. he riorentmes who go to about seven hundred, ol whom invited on each week strangers, i i -.. i lit e pro-;? n.ieu, navmg uic uouoie privi- 1 rxf ' )( i-:UM2 urn.ivited to ;all. Iii'-re are several Italian families, of the highest rank, who are eeen only here ; but with the single exception of one unmarried girl, of uncom mon beauty, who bears a name celebrated in Italian history, they are no loss to geneial so ciety. Among the foreigners of rank, are three or four German princes, who play high, waltz well, and are remarkable for nothing else; half a dozen star-wearing dukes, counts and anises, of all nations and in any quantity, mar and a few F.ngish noblemen and noble ladies on ly the latter nation showing their blood at all in their features and bearing. The most exclusive society is that of the Prince Montfort, (Jerome Bonaparte,) whose splendid palace is shut entirely against the English, and difficult of access to all. He makes a single exception in favor of a descend ant of the Talhots, a lady whose beauty might be an apology for a much graver de parture from rule. , lie has given two grand entertainments since the carnival commenced, to which nothing, was wanting but people to enjoy them. The immense rooms were flood ed with light, the music was the best that Flor ence could give, the supper might have sup ped an army stars and red ribbons entered with every fresh comer, but it looked like a "banquet hall deserted. " Some thirty ladies, and as many men, were all that Florence con tained worthy of the society of the ex-king. A A kinder man in his manners, however, appar ently a more affectionate husband and father, I never saw. He opened the dance by waltzing with the young Princes, his daughter, a love ly girl of fourteen, of whom he seems fond to excess, and he was quite the gayest person in the company till the ball was over. The ex Cjiieen, who is a miracle of size, sat on a divan, with her ladies of honor about her, following her husband with her eyes, and enjoying his gafeTy with the most childish good humor. The Saturday evening soirees, at Prince Poniatowski's, (a brother of the hero,) are perhaps as agreeable as anv in Florence. He nas several grown up sons and daughters mar ried, and, with a very sumptuous palace and reat liberality of style, he has made his par ties more than us'ually valued. His eldest daughter is the leader of the fashion, and his second is the " i cynosure of all eves The oia prince is a tall, bent, venerable man, with snow-white nair, and. peculiarly marked fea tures. He is fond of speaking English, and professes a great affection for America.1 Then there are the soirees ofthe rich banker tenzi, which as they are subservient to busi-; nary strength exhibited a number of his princi ness, assemble all ranks on the pretensions of j pal performances, though in a manner greatly interest. At the last, I saw among other curi-! inferior to Joyce. osities, a young girl of eighteen from one of j ' Some time afterwards, John Charles Van 'he more common families in Florence a j Eckeberg, a native of Harzegerode in Anhalt, tine specimen of the peasant beauty of Italy. ! travelled through Europe, under the appella Her heavily moulded figure, hands and'jtion of Samson, exhibiting remarkable exam fcet, were quite forgiven when you looked at pies of his strength. This, we believe, is the her dark deep, indolent eye, and ueep, inuoieni ey e, ami giowing j ?Kin, and strongly lined mouth and forehead. The society was evidently new to her, but sha hd a manner quite beyond being astonished. It was the kind ofannimal dignity so universal in the lower classes of this country. A German baroness of high rank receives on the Mondays, and here one sees for eign society in its highest colouring. The Prettiest woman that frequents her parties, is a ! Woese marchioness, who has left her husband j t live with a Lucchese count, who has left, his wfe. He is a very accomplished man. with he look of Mephistopheles in the "DeviPs alk," and she is certainly a most fascinating wman -She is received in most of the good society in Florence a 6evere, though a very just comment on its character. A prince, the Mother of the king of Prussia, divided the at ention of the company with her the last Monday. He is a tall, military looking man, -wu very bad manners, ill at ease, and impu- nt at the same time. He entered with his t uiJ in the middle of a song. The singer stop- j F?3 the company rose, the prince swept a-1 bout, bowing like a dancing-master, and after the sensation had subsided, the ladies were ta ken up and presented to him, one by one. He asked them all the same question, staid through two songs, which he spoiled by talking loud ly all the while, and then bowed himself out in the same awkward style, leaving every body more happy for his departure. One gains little by his opportunities of meet ing Italian ladies in society. The cavalier servente flurishes still, as in the days of Bep po, and it is to him only that the lady conde scends to talk. There is a delicate, refined look ing marchoiness here, who is remarkable as beinff the only known Italian lady without a cavalier. They tell you with an amused smile that she is content with her husband.' It reallv seems to be a business of real love be- .itween the ladv of Italy and her cavalier. JNa turnllv pnnnorb too for her parents marry her without consulting her at all, and she selects a friend afterwards, as ladies in other countries select a lover, who is to end in a husband. The married couple are never seen together by any accident, and the lady and her cav alier never apart. The latter is always invited with her as a matter of course, and the hus band if there is ;oom, or if he is not forgotten. She is insulted if asked without a cavalier, but is quite indifferent whether her husband goes with her or not. These are points really set tled in the policy of society, and the rights of the cavalier are specified in the marriage con tracts. I had thought until I came to Italy, that such things were either, a romance, or customs of an age gone by. I like very much the personal manners of the Italians. They are mild and courteous to the farthest extent of looks and words. They do not entertain, it is true, -but their great dim rooms are free to you whenever you can find them at home, and you are at liberty to join the gossipping circle around the lady of the house, or sit at the table and read, or be silent unquestioned. You are let alone, if you seem to choose it, and it is neither commented on, nor thought uncivil, and this I take to be a grand excellence in manners. The society is dissolute, I think, almost without an exception. The English fall into its habits, with the difference that they do not conceal it so well, and have the appearance of knowing it is wrong which the Italians have not. The latter are very much shocked at the want of propriety in the management of the English. To suffer the particulars of an in trigue to get about is a worse sin, in their eyes, J than any violation of the commandments. It is scarce possible for an American to conceive the universal' corruption of a society like this of Florence, though, it he were not told of it, he would think it all that was delicate and at tractive. There are external features in which the society of our own country is far less scru pulous and proper. FEATS OF STRENGTH. Dr. Brewster, in his work on Natural Magic, (Family Library, No. 50) gives some striking instances of muscular strength, and also of the effect produced by applying the principles of the mechanical powers to the human frame, from which we extract the following. Firmus, a native of Selencia, who was exe cuted by the emperor Aurelia for espousing the cause of Zenobia, was celebrated for his feats of strength. In his account of the life of Firmus, who lived in the third century, Vopis cus informs us, that he could suffer iron to be forged upon an anvil placed upon his breast. In doing this, he lay upon his back and resting his feet and shoulders against some support, his whole body formed an arch, as we shall afterwards more particularly explain. Until the end of the sixteenth century, the ex hibition of such feats does not seem to have been common. About the year 1603, a native of Kent, of the name of Joyce, exhibited such feats of strength in London and other parts of England, that he received the name of the second Samson. His own personal strength was very great; but he had also discovered, without the aid of theory, various positions of the body, in which men of common strength could perform very surpri sing feats. He drew against horses and raised enormous weights ; but as he actually exhibited his power in ways which evinced the enor mous strength of his own muscles, all his feats were ascribed to the same cause. In the course of eight or ten years, however, his methods were disrnvprpd. and manv individuals of ordi- same person whose feats are particularly de scribed by Dr. Desajruliers. He was a man of the middle size, and of ordinary strength ; and, as Dr. Desaguliers was convinced that his feats were exhibitions of skill, and not of strength, he was desirous of discovering his methods; and, with this view, he went to see him, ac companied by the Marquis of Tullibardine, Dr. Alexander fctuart, and Dr. Pringle, and his own mechanical operator. THpv nlaeed themselves round the German, so as to be able to observe all that hp did 1 ll A. A 1 -. mai mey were able to perform most of the feats uie same eveninor hw tKflmminr ol oat all the rest when they had provided the DroDer apparatus. Dr. Desaguliers exhibited some of the experiments before the royal society, and has given such a distinct explanation of the principles on which they depend, that we shall enaeavour to give a popular account of them. 1. The performer sat upon an inclined board with his feet a little hirrher tban hi h; feet were placed against an nnrit ori ,ii O IAALSlJ A-? secured. Round his loins was placed a strong girdle, with an iron ring in front. To this uug a uFc was iastened. The rope passed between his legs through a hole in th board, against vyhich his feet were brared, and several men or fwo horses, pulling on the rope out of his place. 2. He also fastened a rope to a hio-h nnt nA having, passed it through an iron eye fixed in the side of the post some feet lower down, se cured it to his girdle. He then planted his feet against the post near the iron eye, withhis legs contracted, and jsuddenly stretching out his legs broke the rope,j and fell backwards on a feather bed. 3. In imitation of Firmus, he laid himself down on the gjou.nd, and when an anvil was placed upon his; breast, a man hammered with all his foice a pjece of iron, with a sledge-hammer, and sometimes two smiths cut in two with chisels a great! cold bar of iron laid upon the anvil. At othet times a stone of huge dimen sions was laid upon his belly, and broken with a blow ofthe great hammer. 4. The performer then placed his shoulders upon one chairj and his heels upon another, forming with his back-bone, thighs and legs, an arch. One or two men then stood upon his belly, rising up and down while the per former breathed. A stone, one and a half feet long, one foot broad and half a foot thick, was then placed upon his belly and bro ken by a sledge-hammer an operation which was performed with much less danger than when his back touched the ground. - 5. His next feat was to lie do wn on the ground. A man being then placed on his knees, he drew his heels towards his body, and, raising his knees, be lifted the man gradually, till, ha ving brought his knees perpendicularly under him, he raised his own body up, and placing his arms round the man's legs, rose with him, and set him down on some low table or emi nence of the same height as his kneess. This feat he sometimes performed with two men in place of one. (5. In his last, and apparently most wonder ful performance, he was elevated on a frame work, and supported a heavy cannon placed upon a scale at some distance below him which was fixed to a rope attached to his ffirdle. Previous to attached to rested upon the fixing ofthe scale to the rope his girdle, the cannon and scale rollers ; but when all was ready, the rollers were knocked away, and the cannon M remained supported by the strength of his loins. These feats may be brieflyexplained thus: The feats number one, two, and six, depend entirely on the natural strength of the bones of the pelvis, which form a double arch, which it would requirei an immense force to break, by any external pressure directed to the centre of the arch ; and as the legs and thighs are ca pable of sustaining four or five thousand pounds when they stand'quite upright, the pqrformer. has no difficulty in resisting the force of two horses, or in sustaining the weight of a cannon I weighing two or three thousand pounds. The : feat of the anvil is certainly a very7 surprising ; one. The difficulty, however, really consists in sustaining the ahvil ; for when this is done, the effect ofthe hamrpering is nothing. Iftheanvil were a thin piece 6f iron, or even two or three times heavier than the hammer, the performer would be killed by a few blows; but the blows are scarcely felt when the anvil is vf ry heavy, for the more matter the anvil has, the greater is its inertia, and it is less liable to be struck out of its place; for when it has received by the blow the whole momentum of the hammer, its ve locity will be so much less than that of the' hammer as its quantity of matter is greater. When the blow, j indeed, is struck, the man feels less of the weight of the anvil than he did before, because, ih the reaction of the stone, all the parts round about the hammer rise towards the blow. This property is illustrated by the well-known experiment of laying a stick with its end upon two drinking glasses full of water, and striking the stjick downwards in the middle with an iron bar.i The stick will in this case be broken, without breaking the glasses or spilling the wateri But if the stick is struck upwards, as if to throw it up in the air, the glasses will break if the blow be strong, and if the blow is not vjery quick the water will be spilt without breaking the glasses. When the performer support a man upon his belly, he does it bv means of the strong arch formed by his back bone and the bones of his legs and thighs. If there was room for them, he could bear three or four, or, in their stead, a great stone, to be broken with one blow. BLACK HAWK. The following biting satire we copy from a late New York paper. Scene : A Drawing-room in New-York. Pre sent sundry fashionable ladies, together with Black Hawk and his party. Belinda Smugg.-U-Oh ! what a noble figure Young Hawk is ! Arabella Skugg.MVoble ! that he is ! What a chest he's got ! what a muscular frame ! (with a deep sigh) how different from the diminutive, slender, bean-pole looking creatures among our white gentlemen : Fie ! I shall never want to look upon a white man again. Amelia Simpkins. Nor I either. Our white men are like a satyr to Hyperion, compared with him. Belinda, (sighing). " Oh that heaven had made me such a man," as Shakespeare says. Arabella. And me two, Belinda. Amelia. And me three, Arabella. Only see him walk what a majestic gait he has how enlarged he moves ! as Homer savs. What a noblewoman nose he's got on his face ! (sigh- incr.) Oh that he was civilized and understood English better. I'm sure then (aside) that I could make a conquest of him. ArabellaHe truly a divine man, if ever there was one. I wish he was a shade whiter. Belinda.-Do vou? Well now I think his - 7 . r ,;Al1 w. . , l i complexion is beautiful. What can be hand- . . . enmr than a charminff bronze! 1 k nlnr that will wear well and wash well. I Amelia. True, Belinda, it will never wash out. Arabella. How elegant those beads do look in his ears ! I wonder if those long holes in the rim were made by art, or whether he was born with them ? Belinda. I dare say he was born with them. It would be barbarous to pierce the gristle of the poor creature's ears in that manner. What a beautiful red spot he has got painted on the top of his head! I do think they show a great deal of taste in their dress and ornaments. But Major Garland ought to allow them cleaner shirts. Amelia. I wish I'd brought along some of brother Ned's. I'm sure they'd be an accepta ble present. " Arabella. I should like, of all things, to be able to speak Indian. It must be delightful to converse with so charming a man. How fresh his ideas must be, just coming from the roman tic forest. I'm sure such a pleasant, noble looking young man could'nt feel in his heart to kill poor defenceless women and children. It must have been that cross looking old Pro phet, and the savage Napope that did all the murders. Belinda. 1 think so too. It could'nt hav been these pleasant looking young Indians. There's the Prophet's son I understand he's a great wit, and very gallant withal. 1 should like to speak to them. Addressing Powe shiek, the Prophet's son. Mr. Poweshiek, how did you like the play last night? Powe-shick. Me! Me no much understand. Arabella. Have you seen Miss Kemble ? Powe-shick. Miss Kemble! who she? White squaw ? Arabella. She's the tress. celebrated English ac- Powe-shick. (Showing his teeth gallantly.) White squaw very good much good. Me like 'cm very much. Me take one, three, two home, to be my squaws. Belinda. Oh! how winy and gallant he is! What a difference there is between him and the white gentlemen. They'll hardly offer to take one let alone two or three. Amelia. (To Na-she-askuck, Hawk's son.) Are you fond of botany ? Na-she-askuck. Be ttle ! me fond of bottle ? No ! Pale face fond of bottle me no touch em- no get drunk no stagger like paleface AraheJla. What divine sentiments! how noble! how unsophisticated! Mr. Na-she-as- kuck, woo is your iavorne autnor, 1'ope or i By ion? 1 Na-she-askuck. No pope! him? He in tother room. Arabella. How elegantly you want to see he puns ! I ve a great nnnu 10 put mm a .i .. ... conundrum. Why is a woman s lace like Na-she-askuck. Like! yes, me like squaws face white squaw very much handsome. Arabella. Oh! sir, you flatter me now. Belinda. (Aside.) How I should like to kiss the dear man. I'm sure there's no harm in it. I would'nt kiss an odious white man im public for all the world. But a child of nature like this la ! I'm sure nobody can take any exception to it. I'll kiss him, (suiting the action to the word) if I die for it. Na-she-askuck. (Surprised.) You buss me ! White squaw buss Indian. Belinda. Excuse me, Mr. Na-she-askuck I know you'll think I'm rude and forward but reallv, Mr. Na-she-askuck, you are so irresis table that Amelia. A'nt you ashamed. Belinda! Belinda. Ashamed ! no ! where's the harm of saluting a noble son ofthe forest ? Amelia. But before all the folks, Belinda Oh, fie! Belinda. Oh, fie ! Oh fudge ! You're mighty squeamish all at once, Miss Simp kins. Amelia. But only think what the people will say. Why, it will get into the newspa pers, and go all over the world. Belinda. Well, let it go then. It won't trouble me any. Arabella. Nor me neither, Belinda ; I'll keep you in countenance. (Saluting Young Hawk in her turn.) There ! Na-she-askuck. You buss me too! Powe-shick. You lucky kuck, you get all the buss. dog, Na-she-as- Na-she-askuck. White squaw verv much good very kind lip very sweet. Powe-shick. I try'em then, (saluting Ame lia.) Amelia. Oh ! how gallant. Belinda. Fie ! fie ! Amelia. Amelia. Don't you say any thing, Miss Belinda- I did'nt kiss the Indian, but he kissed me (Aside.) Oh ! what a difference between him and the white beaus ! THE RIGHTEOUS EVER FORSAKEN. l Hoot away despair ! Never yield to sorrow The blackest sky may wear A sunny face to-morrow." It was Saturday night, and the widow of the Pine Cottage sat by her blazing iaggots.with her five children by her side, endeavoring by listening to the artlessness of their juvenile prattle to dissipate the heavy gloom that pres sed upon her mind. For a year her own fee ble hands had provided for her family, for she had no supporter: she thought of no friend in all the wide, unfriendly world, around. But that mysterious Providence, the wisdom of whose ways is above fiuman comprenensiun, had visited her with wasting sickness, and ner little means had become exhausted. It wa now, too, mid winter, and the snow JX ftejs and deep through all the surrounding lore siy while storrns IZ vens, and the driving inn ro , bounding pines, nd '" ufl' The tartf.r5iof food she fore her; it was the only article ot iood she nneSprfl and no wonder her forlorn, deso- possessed, nntuann?u u . krrninrht nn in her lone hnsnm all tnp Jaie sia i anxieties of a mother, when eho looked upon her children; land nrt wonder, forlorn as she was, if she suffered the heart swellings of des pair to arise, even though she knew -that he, whose promise is to the widow and the orphan, cannot forget his word. Providence had many years before taken from her her eldest son, . who went from his forest home to try his for tune on the high seas, since which she had heard no note or tidings of him ;, and in latter time had, by death, deprived her of the com panion and staff of her earthly pilgrimage, in the person of her husband. Yet to this hour she had been up-borne, she had not only been able to provide for her little flock, but had ne ver lost an opportunity of ministering to the wants of the miserable and destitute. The indolent may well bear with poVerty while the ability to gain sustenance remains. The individual who hts but his own wants to supply, may sufler with fortitude the winter of want; his affections arc not wounded, his heart not wrung. The most desolate in populous cities may hope, for charity has not quite closed her hand and heart, and shut her eyes on mise ry. But the industrious mother of helpless and depending children, far from the reach of human charity, has none of these to console her. And such an one was the widow of the Pine Cottage : but as she bent over the fire and took up the last scanty remnant of food to f spread before her children, her spirits seemed to brighten up, as by some sudden and mysterious impulse, and Cowper's beautiful lines came un called across her hand : "Judge not the Lord by feeble sense i But trust him for his grace, Behind a frowning Providence He hides a smiling face." The smoked herring was scarcely laid upon the table, when a gentle rap at the door, and loud barking of a dog, attracted the attention of the family. The children flew to open it, and a weary traveller in tattered garments, and apparently in indifferent health, entered and begged a lodging and a mouthful of food ; said he, "it is now twenty-four hours since I tasted bread." The widow's heart "bled anew as under a fresh complication of distresses ; for her sympathies lingered not round her fireside. She hesitated not even; rest and share of all she had, she proffered to the stranger. "We shall not be forsaken," said she, " or suffer deeper for an act of charity." The traveller drew near the bread but when he saw the scanty tare, he raised his eyes to wards Heaven with astonishment " and is this all jour store? and a share of this do you offer to one you know not? then never saw t charity before ! but madam," said he, continu ing, " do you not wrong your children by giv ing a part of your last mouthful to a stranger?" " Ah," said the poor widow, and the tear drops gushed iri her eyTes as she said it, "I have a boyr, a darling son, somewhere on the face of this wide world, unless Heaven has ta ken him a Way, and I only act towards you, as 1 would that others should act towards him. God who sent manna from Heaven, can pro vide for Israel, and how should I this night offend him if my son should be a wanderer destitute as you, and he should have provided for him a home even as poor as this were I to turn you unrelieved away." The widow ended, and the stranger spring ing from his seat, clasped her in his arms "God indeed has provided for such a wander ing son and has given him wealth to reward the goodness of his benefactress my mother! Oh my mother!" It was her long lost son, returned to her bo som from the Indies. He had chosen that dis guise, that he might the more completely sur prise his family ; and never was surprise more perfect, or followed by a sweeter cup of joy. That humble residence in the forest was ex- j changed for one comfortable, and indeed, beautiful in the valley, and the widow, lived long with her dutiful son, in the enjoyment of worldly plenty, and in the delightful employ ments of virtue, and at this day the passer by is pointed to the luxuriant willow that spreads its branches broad and green above her grave, while he listens to the recital of this simple tale. A candidate for the honors of Congress in the state of Indiana, has addressed the follow ing circular to his constituents. The Brooks ville Inquirer gives it verbatim et literatim from the MS., and alleges that it is authentic. "I Imegrated from Virgenoe fifty-two years agoe to kentuckey with a large Connection and have Been aresedate in thes State for about twentey seven yearse and fortey eight yearse ago My father Dofended and assested in Dri ving the Indians put of this District Where the New Lords of the Sile object agiush Me Be cause I was not College Bred for Whom fov father Was afiting for the Country he then Le ved at case and was nuste in the old penselva n.v snd. was arubing his self against the Col- lpnrp Walls ' . f ' TT..nii la o colonn r T? nrl iMlS USUI Mtl 1 u ovivvu v uoi& VilJ and faine Would usurpe the neopel aJows hem he more authority Cals him Selfe he faine Would Judge other Mens Mat ters But the peopel Well not alow him if we all are to be Put Dow Be Cause we are not College Bred, I wish to Leave Such a gove- menie. i A Kentucky editor, when describing the ra vages of the Cholera in that State, says: "A messenger arrived on Sunday morning, from Flemingsburg, and announced to us the thrilling and appalling intelligence that our father was no more, and that two dear sisters had been at tacked with the epidemic. We hurried to the fccene. A father and a sister had been borne to their graves, and another sister was breathing, her last. We watched by her wept over her and she died V How many hare ucr and done like this, and how many are y suffer and do like it. In this amily of thirteen 'diseage. t-teel wprff carried oil F j ftcefce were" carried 1 1

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