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VOL.1. , GREENSBORDUGir, ATURDW MORNING, JULY 9, 1836. NO. G.
Selected for the Deacon.
TO .
Happy Zephyr ! thou art West
Thou art beauty's welcome guesst,
Thou may'tst pretse her forehead fair
Waft tlie ringlets of her hair.
Thou around her furm may'st fly, ,
Or revel in her brilliant eye ;
Thou may'st sweep her breast of snow
Taste her lips luxurient glow
Unreprov'd her hand may pre.ss
Oh that would grant me this ;
Happy Zephyr thou art free
Would J were as blest as thec !
Written for the Beacon.
HOMEOPATHY.
The new system of treating diseases,
known by the above, title, which has lately
been introduced into this country, and is so
-highly spoken of by many who h u e had an
opportunity of witnessing it3 beneficial ef
fects, I am inclined to believe is but1 little
known in this part of the country. For the
gratification of such who are unacquainted
with the system, I will cinleavor to give
some little description of it, although, I do
not pretend to be acquainted with it my
self, further than from information obtained
from a Homeopathic physician, and from
some observations I as enabled to make
during a short residence in a Homeopathic
family. Their medicine consists mostly of
white powders : they have likewise' pills,
also white, about the size of a email pin
head ; which medicines are mostly snilt of
only, to cure diseases, but when taken, ap
pear to be all alike, all bavin? the same
taste. I would have the render know, that
there is not the least odour discernible in
1he medicines, which makes it the more
singular. They treat all diseases internal
ly The patient has only to inform the
physician of his complaint : he takes a now-
evening, ana ny next morning is perre-cuv
restored. In slight cases, in fact the phy
sician need only make bis appearance in
lb" hdtfSenrrd the patient will fori instant
relief; because he, (the physician) by pre
paring and handling these all powerful and
wonde rful medicines, which work mirach s
by smelling them, must naturally be full of
the strength thereof. T was informed of
one case, w here a man was rw rfeetly cured
of the rheumatism hv merely smelling in
frontdoor! Oh wonder wording brings
would that ve would travel all I lie land over,
with ye'ro pocke ts filled, and yo;ir garments
scent: (1 with this invaluable medicine, that
the poor might lo r lievad by merely catch
ing the breeze fro:n your iiir-pirod persona
ges ! A. T.
A FEW THOUGHTS ABOUT LIPS.
I 16' c a wholesale lip. People are too
much in the habit of regarding lips as mere
apendages to the "human face divine"
ornaments to set oil' its beauty. .This is. to
detract from their use and' excellence.
They serve other purposi-Cand when pro
perly regarded are indicia indexes of
character.
I think, in the general, people ere dispo
sed to consider their noses of more impor
tance, than their lips, and many saucy no
ses seem to be the same way of thinking
as we sec them turning up with an appre
hension of scorn, as if the lips- were far
their inferiors. No sensible iiose is ever
guilty of such dastardly veil" rpnlery. Such
an one, it is true, may occasionally flap its
nostrils, and crow lustily over its neighbor,
as if it were "cock of the walk ;" but the
lip with a soft insinuation, will soon tame
the monarch down to a mere republican.
What I mean by a wholesale lip is one
of the color of a morello cherry, and which
pouts like a rose bud one w hich might
lead a bee astray byi its promise of sweet
ness. I understand that in the olden time,
when kissing was in its prime sorry am I
that it ever should have gotton out of it
gallants of taste used to manifest an espe
cial preference for lips of this kind. There
was flavor about such, which no shrivelled
lip, pout as it might, could ever aspire to.
Plato must have worn such, for we are told
that the bees used to hover about his lips,
when he was an infant, and in these things
the judgments of the bees arc only inferior
to those of bachelors.
I knew an old. negro once who had a
magnificent gift of underlip. It was with
out model, although not without a shadow.
It poured down, a real cataract of lip. It
was of the shape and size of a half grown
greyhound's car. He had no chin and his
lip, which swallowed it up, circled over his
jaw bone in ample apology. At a distance
you Would have "mistaken it for a tongue,
too large for the capacity of his mouth or
' e red banner, hung out to tell which-way.
the wind blew. I was a shaver in those
days, and well do I recollect sundry provo
cations which I gave him touching his lip,
and then he would shiver it. at me, and give
chase, while at eery leap he took, I could
see the lip flapping the lower jaw, like a
huge wing. Poor fellow, he's dead now
he died, not exactly, of a broken heart, but
of overmuch lip.
My aunt Sally pax tiancs ! wore a lip
of another kind. It was a mere streak a
long the horizon an ashy margin along an
ocean of mouth a strip to tell you where
her teeth were. My aunt never married
and had she gone to the altar, it would have
been an interesting spectacle when she
gave the bridal kiss. I remember a salu
tation she. gave me once, when, like Fan
ny, 1 younger than 1 am now " pret
tier, of course !" Instead of the delightful
sonsation which arises from an application
of sol ft, spongy, -elastic" lips, it was quite
the reverse ; and it. seemed to me, that she
was touching my cheek with iren bound
bits of flesh, or her teeth. When she would
gather the lips of her month together with
a slight pucker, it was the inevitable har
binger of a coining storm. In the choice
of a wife, I mean to avoid your thin, blu
ish, starved to death striped of flesh, which
people miscall lips.
There arc too sorts of lips thr nectarine
and the vinegars-deserving of special no
tice. The nectarine swell out in round
cuna.u-s, while t;ie vinegar are very snarp,
aim iimko juu smack jour mcnun-niien y
look at them. I he first belong to the ami-
ithie, trie latter to those ot acid tempers.
Evei lasting spring lives in the blossoms of
a nectarine lip its fragrance is perrctiial
and falling in love w ith the owner of such
a blessing, you have nothing to fear from
acid humors. Etcrna winter dwells upon
a vinegar Jin, and no stray rill of blood ever
spreads the hue of health over it. J ?
There are lips which are locked upon
the resolute and decisive. There are oth
ers Which are everlastingly apart, as if there
had been a civil war, and then they had a
grecd upon continual- seperation. These,
it is MiKprx'trd, generally appertain to heads
whos.' w its, to say the most of them, are
quite questionable.
Jome iijra arc poetical. Smiles fling a
light like a morning ray upon tliem, and
tlicv arc srlorious in their brightness. You
nroiniate shrine was hetore vou. Your
eyes ;:re fixed in admiration, whose spell
you would never break. Every word which
their possessor utters, onlv serves to heigh
ten tluiruiagie, and display some new form, j
which you dream the voice of your destiny
must come. Vou may. talk of their influ
ences, but vainly would you attempt to
describe them. Imiagination can conceive
of nothing more delicious than kissing such
l,p-
I am overwhelmed at the thought of
such blis
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE,
re wis a time, in the days when the
Tb
ambition of ;ipoleon aimed at universal
empire, that the French flattered their van
ity with the prospect of making their ver
nacular the language of the world. Twen
ty years have effected great changes in this
respect, and it is now more than probable
that if there ever shall be one ..universal
language, that language will be radically
oiir-ownthe English. Let us see. - --- -
Twenty ..five millions are undcy the Brit
ish government in Europe ; 100,000,000 in
Asia.1 Besides the whole Cem 1 1 nen t of Kew
Holland, with more than two millions of
square miles,, and,. with the millions that
must some day inhabit if, will speak noth
ing but Eiiglitih In Africa, tim English
and American colonists will yet carry their
language with thc-tide of empire, from the
Cape to the Isthmus. In America, in the
United States, the Canadas and uest In
dies, 20,000,000 of the people speak En
glish. Thus it appears that .a quarter of
the world is subject in language and gov
ernment to English and Anglo-American
influence. And what is to check its pro
gress ? The Isthmus of Darien will prove
but a cobwed barrier to American enter
prise and American ambition; whilst the
English language and power will go on to
overspread all Asia.
We entertain but little doubt that, ere
this century shall close, the study of the
dead languages will be banished from all
our collages, and the youth will be accoun
ted smart who understands his own. Could
Demosthenes and Cicero again revive, the
horrible murder of their languages by our
school boys and their teachers, (with but
few exceptions,) would speed them back to
the tomb. , -
There was a time when it was necessary
to study the dead languages, because the
most valuable books were written in them.
But now things arc changed. Pope's Iliad
is far superior to Home a, and there are
translations of Cicero, aj;d paraphrases of
irg;l, infinitely superior. to their original.
Few will dispute til's save tonic who think
it smart, to interlard their conversation with
scraps of Latin, &c. like the pedant in the
play, who sang the bong thus Commencing :
Amo, amas ; I loved a 1ip,
As cedar tall and slender,
Sweet Cowslip's grace, her nom'at i vc case,
And she's of the feminine gender.
Rorum, corum, sunt divorum ; harum sca
rcm, divo, tag rag ; merry, derry ; periwig
and hat band ; hie, hoc, hprum gonitivo.
We would as soon looVthfo a Polynesi
an Pjwlling book for information, as to ex
pect much advantage from spoiling our eyes
over Latin and Greek. What did these
barbarians know of canal?, rail-ronds, and
steamboats ; glass and china ware, watch
es, clocks and newspaper, and a thousand
other things? Give us good English forev-
, er,
Grcuul Gulf Advertiser..
THE CAUSE OF FARMERS.
The following citr.iets from an address
delivered by Hooter Limb-ley before the Un
vcrsity of Tennessee, and the remarks made
upon if, should be particularly noticed and
cherisned by the farmers of our country.
None but enemies of the people will ever
gravely maintain that a nnmiunn srltnnl nr'ii
cation, in the ordinary meaning of ihe phrase
is an they need. This would be virtu
;,!v telling them to be hewers of woo l and
drawers of wafer under noTirif--.ii iMsfc-mn
iei ioreer. nny is u mat our lawyers
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rule the nation, and till all our lucrative
olives, ironi the presidency downwards?
Mmply and solely because they eaudosoino
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lining more man reau ana write. It our
mechanics and fanners would enter the lists
with our lawyers, they must acquire the
same degree of intellectual power and ael
''drciss?1"'''''"
I have been pleading the cause of farmers
and mechanics for some terror a dozen years
past. Because upon th f? :s enl'ghtcm !,
judicious, independent, patriotic. eiti :i
.1..-. I 1 . : - C.I i ! mi
ut jm'ihi uie ucMiiucti oi uns repuijiie. I lie
question is, shall they lead or be led Shall
they arrest and put down the factious spirit
of unprincipled ambition, or shall they tame
ly lend themselves as instruments and the
victims of its desperate and treasonable pur-
pit; mu?t speak and act wisely, or their abili
ty to speak ami act, with decisive etlieiencv,
will be lost forever.
The lawyers arc noti- our snle ooliiical
guides and instructors.
Tin v engross the
Laming of the country; I moan all that
learning which is brought to bear on gov
ernment, legislation and public policy for
the physicians rarely intermeddle in these
affairs and the clergy ought forever to be
excluded by law, if not by a high sense of
duty. Our farmers and mechanics, there
fore, who constitute fhe great body of the
people, are governed by the lawyers. Now
is it not in human nature, that in such a
country as ours, there should not grow up a
sort of professional aristocracy, which in
! time may become irresistsble? Wherever
there is a privileged order, no matter how
constituted whether like, the patrician of
ancient, or the tcclcsiastic of modern Rome
it will if not duly chcckedmd counterbalan
ced, in the long run, become overbearing
and "tyrannical. I look to the college f"f
a reasonable supply ofcouhtcrvoilirig agents.
I look to a well educated, indepehdaht veo
mmtYf a the sheet anchor of the rej.ublic.
I look forward to the period when it will not
be deemed anti-icpublican for the college
graduate to follow the plough; nor a seven
days' wonder for the laborer to be intellec
tual and to comprehend the constltu'H'oHof
his country. '
I am not unfriendly to lawcrs. I could
say much in their praise, were I in fhe hu
mor of passing encomiums. In their pro
per sphere, they arc useful and necessary.
But that thry should engross the legislative,
judicial, and executive funclious of the
government, is neither rcpublicnn, nor safe,
nor upon any ground defensible. There
would be reason in the thing, if, like the
farmers, they composed a large and numer
ical majority of the population. But that
a few thousand of any particular profession,
class or order, should rule over millions, is
as anomalous, and as inconsistent with the
genius of our popular institutions, as would
be an hereditary aristocracy possessing the
same exclusive privilege. The farmers have
no alternative but to yield their necks to
the joke, or to open up for their, sons a
great' high-way to the scientific halls of the
university. Belonging as I do to their res
pectable -fraternity by birth, by early asso
ciation, and by all the ties of kindred the
son of a laboring farmer, the brother of la-
boring farmers, and the father, it may be,
of laboring farmers and mechanics I can
not be indifferent to their welfare, even up
on the most selfish considerations. But I
feel conscious of a higher motive. I seek'
to elevate my country, by imparting to all
her sons the noblest attributes of humani
ty. That we may be forever a nation of
enlightened, generou?, high-minded, self
governing freemen. The envy and the ad
miration of the world.
MAXIMS FOR THE SEASON.
Keep yourself as cool as possible. Al
though we are well aware, that by many,
this direction will be treated with ridicule,
it constitutes, nevertheless, one of the chief
means for preserving health during the
warm season. It docs not imply that you
are to live in an ice-house, or to seek for
my artificial refrigerant, but simply to a
void all unnecessary excitement whether
moral or physical.
Let your clothing be liglit and loose.-
At the same time that this maxim is adhe
red to, care must 1k taken, whenever any
sudden reduction of temperate occurs, to a-
dapt the clothing to this change; hence, a
warmer dress will be required carljrin the
morning and late at night, than during the
middle of the day.
ITAtrt in a state of profuse perspiration,
nicer throw off a portion of your clothing.
The lcst plan in such cases is to retire
immediately within doors, and change the
damp clothes for Olivers perfectly dry, the
whole surface of the body being previously!
well rubbed w'ith a towel. The same pre
caution is proper when vou have been ac
cidentally wet by a .shower of rain.
Drink nothing but iratcr. The experi
ence of the last fifteen years, in almost ev.
cry climate, and at every season of tlo
year, has shown inconteshbly that the wa
ter drinker is far less liable to disease of
everv -kind, and especially of the stomach
and Iwwf l tlia. he wlH iiiakes.uac of..,ci.
thcr distilled or fermented liquors. The
epidemic cholera, while it has consigned
iiiillions of the latter to the grave, has at-
tacked but few who habitually refrain from
tlie use ol all intoxicating dnnKs. During
the warm season, and especially during the
present summer and autumn, they who wish
to avoid an attack of the cholera, will act
wisely in making water, -toast-water, or an
infusion of the slightly aromatic herbs their
ierer tirtnk 4arge draughts ot cola wa
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ter, especially irhtn in a profuse perspira
tion or when exhausted by fatigue. Hy
drant or river water, that has stood a short
time after it has been drawn, drank in mo
deration, will never produce any inconvc'
nience ; and all should recollect, that a
small quantity of water leisurely swallowed
is far more ellectual in allaying thirst, than
arge draughts hastily swallowed.
Rise, early in the morning. Hy rising
during the summer with the sun, we gam
two or more Itours, at th": most pleasant
part of the -day, and w hen exercise and la
bor can be the mo?t advantageously pursu
ed, w'hile we avoid spending so much time
exposed to the enervating influence of a
warm bed and a con lined atmosphere.
Ncrer walk in the sun without un umbrel
la. The shade of an umbrella is a very
great protection against the injury which is
so Ijable to result from exposure to the di
rect rays of the sun. We have often tho t
that all niechanics who-aro -obliged to labor
in the open ai r Would immense gainers: in.
comfort and in health, were they guarded,
in summer, from the son by an awntxrg or
a shed of boards. The additional trouble
and expense of the erection of such a screen
would create, would be amply repaid by its
good cflects.
If'jy)ssi1lt,'rt
the middle of the day, from 12o 3 o'clock.
This maxim might be followed by a larger
number of persons than would at first be
supposed. Early rising and a diminution
of secular holy days, spent too often in dis
sipation and in incurring diseases which
cause the loss of many other days, would
make up, to the lower class of mechanics
who work in the open air, the time lost by
leaving work during the period specified1.
When fatigued, or in a prof use perspira
tion, never lie down upon the ground, or
fall asleep in the open mi Bjj such im
prudence the body becomes -more or less
chilled, and diseases of a very dangerous
character are often produced.
Keep the body strictly clean by frequent
bathing. They who neglect this maxim,
deprive themselves of a very powerful safe
guard to health, and a source of real enjoy
ment. Ncrcr use a cold bath when the body is
in a state of exhaustion fromfatiguc or
perspiration, Without entering into a con
sideration of all the rules to be observed in
bathing, we think it important to urge up
on our readers the foregoing precautions.
Many persons who would hesitate to wet
their lips with cold water, plunge their ho
dies fearlessly into the river,or a Cold bath,
at a time when from the energies of the
system being reduced, the most serious in
jury is to be apprehended from the chill
which invariably results.
Never sleep in crowded apartments, or
with a draft of air blowing upon the bed.
During sleep the system is always more li
able to suffer from morbific causes tlian
when awake ; hence the impure and confi
ned air of a crowded chamber, and the chill
produced by a current of air is far more de
leterious during the night than they would
be during the day. We wish to be under
stood, however, that while we deprecate in
the stongest terms, the habit of sleeping
exposed to a draft of air, we at the samo
time insist upon the necessity of a free ven
tilation of the bed-chamber, which can rea- .
dily be elfected, particularly when the room
is sufficiently spacious, and properly con
structed, without any-infringement of tho
maxim we have laid down.
GEN. COSS AND COL ALMONTE.
"Gen. Cos was taken two days after the
battle, and was brought back to camp, a pic
ture of fear. When I first saw him, he was
lying upon the ground, and had hid himself
under a little old blanket the only part9
which could be seen, of him was his hair,
which is dark brown, and his hand which
held the blanket over his head, was small
and had remarkably short finger nails. I
saw him afterwards, when his fright was
over. lie is about nve leet nine Indies
high, built for activity has a high forehead,
but not very broad his nose is long, straight
and well formed ; his eyes a brilliant black.
He has large, long black whiskers,, sun
burnt at the ends and red, sandy mustaches.
His complexion is sun-burnt, and he wears ,
little gold rings in his cars. He is a cousin7
to SanmrAijnicr
" The third personage, Colonel Almonte,
is the reputed natural son of a Spanish priest,
by a full blooded Mexican woman He has
a good countenance was educated in Eu
rope, and speaks English well, and is regard
ed as a man of superior talents."
Clearness erf Sound at Night.- The great
er clearness with which distant sounds -
are heard during the night, is an interest
ing phenomenon. It was noticed by , the.,
ancients, and asseribed to the repose of
animated nature. When Humboldt first
icard the nois of the great cataracts of
Oronoco, his attention was directed to this
curious fact, and he was of the opinion that
the noise was three times louder during the
night than in the day. As the humming of
tho insects was much greater in the night,
than in tho day, and as the breeze, which
might have agitated the leaves of the trees,
never rose till after sunset, he was led to
seek for another cause of the phenomenon.
In hot days, when warm currents of air as
cend from the heated ground, and mix with
the cold air above of a different density, tho
transparency of the atmosphere is so much
affected, that every object seen through it
appears to be in motion, just as when wo
look nt an object over a fire or the flame
of a candle. The air, therefore, during the
day, is a mixed medium in which the sounds
are reflected and scattered in pacing
through streams of air of different densities,
as in the experiment of mixing atmospheric
air and hydrogen. At midnight, on the
contrary, when the Jiir i transparent and
of rrriifprm density, as may be seen hythe. .
oriiuancy ana number oi inc stars, tne "
slightest sound reaches the ear without in -
terruption. M.'Chaldni has illustrated tho
effect of a mixed medium, by an experi
ment of easy repititiori.
ing Champaigne into a tall glass till it is
half full, the glass cannot be made to ring
by a stroke on its edge, but emits a dull
disagreeable, and puffy sound. The effect
continues as long as tho effervescence lasts,
and while the wine is filled with air bubles.
But as the effervescence subsides, the sound
becomes clearer, till at last the glass rings
as usual, when the air bubles have disapear
ed. By-reproducing the effervescence, the
sound is deadened as before. The same
experiment may be made with effervescent
malt liquors : and with still more effect, by
putting a piece of sponge, or a little wool or
tow, into a tumbler of water. The causo
of the result obtained by M. Chaldni, that
the glass and the liquid contained, in order
to give a musical tone, must vibrate regu-
larly in unison as a system, and if any con
siderable part of a system is unsusceptible
of regular vibration, the whole must be so.
This experiment has been employed by
Humboldt to illustrate and explain the phe
nomenon of distant sounds being more dis
tinctly heard during the night.
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