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*4- ,L_.V- '•.•-3a “The ferment of a free, is preferable to the torpor of a despotic, Government,” VO!,. II. ATHENS* GEORGIA, AUGUST 3, 1833. NO. 20. The Sou therm Banner, IS ruBUSHED IN THE TOWN OF ATHENS, GEORGIA, EVERY SATURDAY, 55 Y AIL 510.Y CHASE. TERMS.—Three dollars per year, payable in ad- nice, nr Four dollars if delayed to the end of the The lattor amount will lie rigidly exacted of all <vho fail to meet their payments in advance. No subscription receive.! for lesst'i >n one year, un- liss the money is paid in advance ; and no paper will is? discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except .it the option of the publisher. A tailure on the part of subscribes to notify us of their intention of re. limpiisjimcnl, accompanied with the amount due, will lie considered as equivalent to a new engagement, and papers sent accordingly. Ad ehtisf.sk.nts will lie inserted at thousual rates. Ti 'All Letters to tlio Editors on matters connected with the establishment, must bo jxtst paid in order to secure attention. [ , 'Notice of the sale of Land and Negroes by Ad ministrators, Executors, or Guardians, must be pub lished sixty days previous to the day of sale. The sale of 1’crsonal Property, in like manner, nust lie published forty days previous to the day of sale. Notice to debtors and creditors of an estate, must be published forty days. Notice that Application will be made to the Court iif Ordinary, for Leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be published four months. Notice that Application will lie made for Letters of Administration, must be published thirty days, and for I-otters of Dismission, six months. Watches, Jewelry, &c® $Joctrs>. ror. the southern banner. TO . They tell me I am foolish. To love so wildly now, But they know not how I cherish Thy long remember’d vow. They tell me I must banish All hope to call thco mine, But how can memory leave thee, Since all its hoards are thine. They censure and rebuke me, They smilo and then caress. But still my tutored feelings, Heave not for thee the less. For I feel that all my being, Is knit unto tiiino own, And smiles and censure given, Fall on an ear of stone. Thou wast my early vision, My soul’s endearing dream, And while my bark is roving, Down life’s too rapid stream, B it. LORD has just re ceivcd from New York, aud is now opening at his old stand in this place, a Splendid and Fashionable Assortment of Watches, Jeweiry, Cutlery, Jia;sscAds ittSTROflEATS, Fluted and Briltania Ware, Pfi’ftisner.v, &c. AMONG WHICH Alin Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Gold Lever and L’Epine Be its path or smooth or broken, I shall i till unchanged rejoice, While I hear what once was spoken, Repeated by thy voice. M. II. R. J&tsccUaws. W'.Vi't'UKS; Silver Lever, L’Epine and common do.; Indies’ and Gentlemen's Ear and Finger Rings, ..nd Breast Fins of a great and beautiful variety; Rodgers’ fine Fen Knives; Wade & Butcher’s, and ihr'or:.’ R'izcr.'.; a Kent Bugle. Clarionets, Flutes From, the Cincinnati Chronicle. THE COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE OK TIIK EL DER JOHN ADAMS. Some years since I spent a college vaca tion in the ^owii of Weymouth, Norfolk coun ty, Massachusetts. While there I attended church one Sunday morning at what was call ed the old Weymouth meeting house, and heard a sermon from the venerable pastor, the Rev. Jacob Norton. About tiie same time in company with a friend, I made Mr. Nor- ton a visit, spent a delightful hour with him and his agreeable family, and, in fact, became Ffigeolots" and Violins'; \V:ilkin;;~Cuncs TMathemat- 1 much interested with the old gentleman. I „r\! Instruments; Salts of Vinegar (a new article); mentioned my visit to an aged but intelligent Silver Table and Tea Spoons; Chess Men; Opera lady of the parish, whose acquaintance I had lasses ; Pistols, &.c. See. O'Clock and Watch Repairing attended to as nil. Athens, July 13—17tf. PROSPECTUS 1 Xor cl and Interesting Weekly Publication, T.i be commenced on Saturday, the 6th of July, en suing, to be entitled The Spy in Philadelphia, A N D SIM RIT OF TH E AG E. S T is very philosophically observed by Addison, that our greatest pride arises from doing good to each other, or in other words, from being individually servicea.de to society. This can t-c best effected by proper application of our intelligences, meting made. The lady loved the church as she did her own soul; it was the place where she had heard from infancy to advanced age, the words of eternal life, and it was literally to her, the very gate of Heaven. Next to the church itself, in the scale of her regards, was her reverend pastor, Mr. Norton. . Weymouth is situated twenty or thirty miles northwest of the old Plymouth Rock ; it was settled not long alter our forefathers landed at the latter place ; and of course this church must be among the most ancient of New Eng land churches. This estimable old lady be guiled me of many a delightful hour at differ ent times, in giving me the traditionary histo ry and relating anecdotes of the old church the ordinary civilities of his house ; he was not asked to partake of the hospitalities of the table, and it is reported that his horse was doomed to share with his master the neglect and mortification to which he was subjected, for he was frequently seen shivering in the cold, and gnawing the post of the parson’s door of long winter evenings. In fine, it was reported that Mr. Smith had intimated to him that his visits were unacceptable, and he would do him a favor by discontinuing them ; he told his daughter that John Adams was not wor thy of her; that his father was an honest trades man and farmer, who tried to initiate John in the arts of husbandry and shoe-making, hut without success; and that he seat him <o col lege as a hist resort. He, in fine, begged of his daughter not to think of an alliance so much beneath h; r. ¥ Miss Smith was among the most dutiful daughters, but she saw Mr. Adams through a medium very different froiq that which her fa ther viewed him. His vision was clouded bv the film of prejudice,hers was assisted by the warm and radiant glow of affection, which magnifies every fancied excellence an hun dred fold. She would not for the world of fend or disobey her kind father, but still John saw something in her eye and manner, which seemed to say “persevere,” and on that hint he acted. Mr. Smith, like a good parson and affec tionate father, said, that if they would marrv with his approbation, he would preach each of them a sermon the Sunday alter - the joyful occasion, and that they should have the privi lege of choosing the text. After the due preliminaries of courtship, the appointed time lor the espousal of the el der dan ! liter, Mary, arrived, and she was uni- ted to Mr. (Ta..cli iu the holy bonds, with the approval, the blessing, and benediction of her parents and all her friends. Mr. Smith then said to ner, “Mary my dutiful child, I am now ready to prepare your sermon for next Sunday ; what do you select for your text ?” Said Mary, I have selected the latter part of the 4‘2d verse of the 10th chapter of Luke. “ Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken from her.” “ Very good, my daughter,” said her father, and the sermon was preached. Mr. Adams persevered iu his suit in defi ance of all opposition. It was many years after, and on a very different occasion, and in resistance of a very different opposition, that he uttered these memorable words, “ sink or ceremony, to which it exposed me. At the J called inthe language of palaces his closet,in head of them, was my introduction to the sov-1 to the entre rooms, I presented to him Mr. ereign. I desired to do all that full respect John Adams Smith, as public secretary of the required, but not more: yet—the external legatiqn, and Mr. Ogle Tayloe, as attached observances of it—what were they ? They I to it personally. Other special presentations defy exact definition before hand, and I had took place ; among them, that of the Prince never seen them. From the restraints, too, of Hesse Homberg, by Lord Stewart, both that prevail in these spheres, lapses, if you fall distinguished in the then recent battles of the into them, are little apt to be told to you, continent. The Prince Regent moved about which increases your solicitude to avoid them, these rooms, until he had addressed every I had in softie of my intercourse, caught the body, all awaiting his salutation. Doors hith- impression, that simplicity was considered I erto shut now opened, when a new scene np- best adapted to such an introduction ; also, I peered. You beheld, in a gorgeous mass, that the Prince Regent was not thought to be I the company that had turned off to the right, fond of set speeches. This was all that I I The opening of the doors was the signal for could recollect. Rut simplicity, all know, is the commencement of the general levee. I a relative idea. Often it is attainable, in the remained with others to see it. All passed right sense, only through the highest art, and ouc by one, before the Prince, each receiving on full experience. a momentary salutation. To a few he ad- I arrived before the hour appointed. My dressed conversation, but briefly, as it stop- carriage having the entre, or riglit to the pri- ped the line. All were in rich costume, vate entrance, I went through St. James’s I Men of genius and science were there; the P.irk, and got to Carlton House by the p ived nobility were numerous ; so were the milita- way, through the gardens. Even this ap- ry. There were from forty to fifty generals ; proach was already filled. I was set down I perhaps as many admirals, with throngs of of- at a side door, where stood servants in the ficcrs of rank inferior. I remarked upon the Prince’s livery. Gaining the hall, persons number of wounded. Who is that, I asked, were seen in various costumes. Among them pallid but with a countenance so animated ? were yeoman of the guard with halberts in « That’s General Walker,” I was told, “ who their hands; they had velvet hats with wreaths I was pierced with bayonets whilst leading on round them, and rosettes in their shoes, the assult at Badajosand he, close by,°tall From tiie court yard, which opened through but limping ? “ Colonel Ponsonby ; he was. the columns of a fine portico, bauds of music left for dead at Waterloo ; the cavalry it was were heard. Carriages as in a stream, were thought had trampled upon him.” * Then approaching by this access through the doub- came one oflike port, but deprive_d of a leg. le gates that separated the royal residence I As he moved slowly onward, the whisper from the street. The company arriving by I went, “That’s Lord Anglesea.” A fourth this access, entered through the portico, and j had bccu wounded at Suringapatam ; a fifth at Talcvcra ; some had suffered in Egypt; some in America. There were those who hud received scars on the deck with Nelson; others who carried them from the-days of Howe. One, yes one, had fought at Sarato ga. It was so that my inquiries were an swered. All had “done their duty this .. _. , „ , . _ with as much grace as possible, as many a them out according to the necessities of the coinmu- 1 and its different pastors. prudent father has done before and since that nity, and less lamenting the decline of public virtue , She informed me that Mr. Norton was or- 1 time. Mr. Adams was united to the lovely than checking the progress of public vice : for vice | duined their pastor when about twenty-one 1 Miss Smith. After the marriage was over, rc-tardod is virtue advanced. As the direction and ^ i .1 . . . 1 . 1 . . _ » discussion of measures of national and state polity turned off to the right. I went to the left, through a vestibule, leading to other rooms, into which none went but those having the entre. These consisted of the cabinet minis ters, the diplomatic corps, persons in chief employment about the court, and a few oth ers, the privilege lining in high esteem. Knights ol the Garter appeared to have it, for I was the favorite praise bestowed. They I observed their iasignium round the knee of I had earned a title to come before their sover. several. There was the lord steward with eign, and read in his recognition their country’s his badge of office; the lord chamberlain with j approbation. The great number of wounded his; gold stick, and silver stick. The j was accounted for by recollecting, that little foreign ambassadors and ministers, wore their I more than two years had elapsed since the national costumes; the cabiuet ministers, such armies and fleets of Britain had been libcra- as we sec in old portraits with bag and sword; ted from wars of extraordinary fierceness the lord chancellor, and other functionaries I and duration in all parts of the globe. For of the law, had black silk gowns, with full so it is, other nations chiefly fight on or near wigs ; the hishops and dignitaries of the their own territory; the English every where church had aprons of black silk. The walls I Taking the whole line, perhaps a thousand swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my j were covered with paintings. If these were I must have passed. Its current flowed through historical, so were the rooms. As I looked I the entire rooms, got onward to the vestibule, through them, I thought of the scenes de- and was finally dispersed in the great hall scribed by Doddington; of the Pelhams, the I where it *>tood in glittering groups of frag. Bolingbrokes, the Hillsboroughs; oftheancc- ments. Those who composed them, found dotes and personalities of the English court I themselves there, by a course reverse to that and cabinet in those days. The Prince had of their entrance, and went away through the not yet left his apartment. Half an hour 1 grand portico, as their carriages came up. went by, when Sir Robert Chester, master of ceremonies, said to me in a few minutes he I From the Portland Courier. would conduct me to tl\e Prince. The Span-1 GREAT UPROAR IN DOWNINGVILLE. heart and lumd to this measure.” But though the measure was different, the spirit was the same. Besides, he had already carried the main point of the attack, the heart of the young lady—and he knew the surrender of the citadel must soon follow. After the usu al hesitation and delay that attended such an unpleasant affair, Mr. Smith, seeing that resis tance was fruitless, yielded the contested point art; the business of the daily press, the full application of Addison’s remark is necessarily neglected, and the consequence is, that vice, shielded by wealth and worldly influence, are abroad among the people, not only unsuspected, but courted and requited; and that a publication is nocess .ry which will not only detect, but oxliil.il these wolves iu sheep’s clothing to putilie scorn—a mark by which others will be warned from their intent and a service be rendered to society. In efleeting this object wc shall pursue a yet untrod- years of age, and that he had been with them, j and all things settled and quiet, Miss Smith at that time, nearly forty years. She obser- remarked to her father, “ You preached sis- ved that most of the present parishioners could remember no other pastor ; but that she could well remember his predecessor, the Rev. Mr. Smith, and that he and Mr. Norton had filled the pulpit for the better part of the last eighty years. “ Mr. Smith,” said she, was a very different man from Mr. Norton— an able man—an excellent man—and a fine ter Mary a sermon on the occasion of her marriage; won’t you preach me one like, wise 1” “Yes my dear girl,” said Mr. Smith, choose your text and you shall have a ser mon.” “ Well,” said the daughter, « I have ish Ambassador had gone in and I was next Extract from a letter from Major Downing’s cousin in turn. When he came out, the master of Nabby to the Editor of the Portland Courier, ceremonies advanced with me to the door. I Respectable sir;—As cousin Jack is al Opening it, he left me. „ I entered alone, ways so mity budge in writing letters to you The Prince was standing, with Lord Castle- and as he and the President lias showed us a reagh by him. No one else was in the room, most provoking trick and run off like a stream Holding in my hand the letter of credence, I of chalk back to Washington without coming approached, as to a private gentleman, and here, arter tucy had promised over and over said, in the common tone of. conversation, I again that they would come, and we had got that it was “from the President of the United all slicked up and our clean gownds on, and chosen the 23d verse of the 7th chapter of States, appointing me their Envoy Extraordi-1 more good victuals cooked, than there ever <len path; one where tho necossary thorn shall be ! . . . , r L mingle,! (not concealed) with contrasting flowers.- Poacher ; but he had high notions of h.mselt The manner of the “ Spy in Philadelphia" shall he and family—in other words, “that he was perfectly ilclicato, and uncontaminutcd by cant or something of an aristocrat.” One day she vulgarity; its censure shall be judicious, its satire ! said to me, “to illustrate to you the character chaste. Literature, and the arts, shall find in it an of Q , d 0 „ S|nith> J wU1 te| | vou all anec . imtirnri mwl •rn-iln'.ia Frionn • I .'ItUI I .ltftKirV 1 l * 1 • » l dote that relates to hunsclt and some other untired and zealous friend: Dramatic and Literary criticisms shall meet with most attentive and impar- . tial study, and sketches of tho Bar and Pulpit of persons of distinction. Mr. Smith had two Philadelphia shall occasionally appear from the pen charming daughters, (the elder of these daugh- of competent judges, uninfluenced hy personal ac- ters was Mary, the other name I have forgot- quaintance or professional attachment. To these te „ v who wcre the admiration of a fl the recommendations, our Poetical column will add an- . > . , , ,, . , other, which, coming from an already popular source, ; ”® aux i an ^ the envy of all the belles of the will, wc trust, bo equal to that of more pretending I country around. Various sage and deep dis- public.itions. It is unnecessary to lie more explicit,j quisitiuns were had by the wise ones of the as we presume the want ot tho proposed journal is ; parish, on the dark question, who would be not only admitted, but generally/r/1. We therefore 1 nary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the was in all Downingville before, I say, blazes court of his Royal Highness ; and that I had about it, and I mean to write and tell you all been directed by the President to say, that I about it if I live, and if cousin Jack dont like could iu no way better serve the UnitedStates, it he may lump it, so there now. or gain his approbation, than by using all my Ye see cousin Jack writ to us that he and endeavours to strengthen and prolong the I the President and some more gentlemen should good understanding that happily subsisted be-1 he here the 4th of July, aud we must spring tween the two countries.” The Prince took I to it and brush up and see how smart we the letter and handed it to Lord Castlcreagb. could look and how many fine things we could He then said, that he would “ ever be ready I show to the President. This was a Saturday on his part to act upon the sentiments I had before the 4th of July come a Thursday.— expressed : thql I might assure the President The letter was to Uncle Joshua, the Post preference of the distinguished individuals of this, for that he sincerely desired to keep I Master. Most all the folks in Downingville who had sought them in marriage. Of them 1 up and improve the friendly relations subsis-1 were at the Post Office waiting when the Zo ...111 I. . Jl.. I a A ... a « .• i _ at i... a* Ll-L I — I mn il /tnmn in (nr tt»n nx'nopfnn fra linnr frnm Luke.” “ For John came neither eating bread nor drinlting wine; and ye say hr. hath a devil” The old lady, my informant, looked on me very archly in the face as she repeated this passage, and observed, “if Mary were the more dutiful of the daughters,.I guess the oth er had the most wit. I could not ascertain whether the last ser mon was ever preached. It may not be inappropriate here to remark, how well these excellent ladies justified the ^ the h W l-df that should find favor in the upon their love of justice .mil of public virtue, await c ) cs these ladies • But wmlst these care- ! 1 • • *-■-* —fi.i~.i-. fol guardians of the parson’s family were hol- their decision respectfully but confidently. CONDITIONS. The first number of “ Tho Spy in Philadelphia,” will he issued on the first Saturday in July. It will bo printed on fine white paper, in eight large quarto pages and with good type. As it is intended to ren ding consultation on the subject, it was rumor ed that two young lawyers, (I think both of the neighboring town of Quincy,) a Mr. Cranch and a Mr. Adams, were paying their addresses to the Miss Smiths. As every man, dcr the contents worthy of preservation, for amusing ; woman, and child, of a country parish in or instructive reference, the advantage of the propo- j New England, is acquainted with whatever sed and more portable size will be evident. The terms aro §2 por annum, payable in advance, or Jj$2 50 if not paid tie fore the expiration of six months. Agents will be allowed a discount of 10 per cent, on all subscribers they shall obtain, on remitting one year’s payment in advance, or becoming responsible for the same, and a gratuitous copy of the paper. “ The Spy in Philadelphia” will contain humorous engravings after the manner of tho celebrated Cruik- shank. They will bo executed by skilful artists and be accompanied with comic illustrations in prose or verse from tho pens of original and competent wri ters. All orders must be addressed, post paid, to WILLIAM HILL &. CO. No. 1, Athenian Buildingt, Philadelphia. Caro will bo taken to have tho work carefully packed when sent ont of tho city. Dissolution. T HE Firm of SCHOONM AKER & WHITING^ was dissolved by mutual consent on tho 20tli April lost. All parsons having demands against the firm, and all those indebted, will call on L. Schoon- tnakcr for settlement, who is alono authorised to set tle tho same. LOD. SCHOONMAKER, WILLARD WHITING. -July 13—17—it. I takes place in a parson’s family, all the cir cumstances of the courtship soon transpired. Mr. Cranch was a member of a family of some note, was considered a young man of promise, and altogether worthy of tho alii- ance he sought. He was very acceptable to Mr. Smith, and was greeted by him and his family with great respect and cordiality. He was received by the elder daughter as a fa voritc lover, and was, in fact, a young man of much respectability. He afterwards rose to the dignity of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Massachusetts, and was the father of the Hon. Judge Cranch of the District of Columbia. The suitor of the other daughter was John Adams, who afterwards became President of the United States. But at that time, in the opinion of Mr. Smith and family, he gave but slender promise of tlye distinction to which he afterwards attained. His pretensions were scorned by the family, excepting the young lady to whom his addresses were especially directed. Mr. Smith showed him none of it will hardly be esteemed extravagant eulo. gium to say that they were, respectively, an honor to their husbands, the boast of their sex, and the pride of New England. Mrs. Adams, in particular, who from the elevated position she was placed before the world, was brought more conspicuous before the public eye, was supposed to hold the same elevated rank with the gentler sex, that Mr. Adams did among the men, and she is reported to have rendered her husband much assistance in his multiplied labors of the pen. H. ting between the two nations, which he re gar-1 mail come in, for we expected to hear from ded as so much to the advantage of both.” Jack. I replied, that I would not fail to do so. Uncle Joshua put on his spectacles and The purpose of the interview seeming to opened the mail and hauled out the papers be accomplished, I had supposed it would and letters ia a bunch. In a minute 1 see here end, aud was about to withdraw; but I one to Uncle Joshua with the President s the Prince prolonged it. He congratulated I name on the outside; so I knew it was from From Rush's Memoranda of a Residence at the Court \ of London. RECEPTION BY THE PRINCE REGENT— THE LEVEE. February 9.—Received t> note from Lord Castlereagh, informing me that the Prince Re gent had appointed Thursday the twelfth, for my reception at Carlton House, at a quarter past two, previous to the levee. February 12. Had my reception. A com- potent knowledge of the world may serve to guide any one in the common walks of life, wherever he may be thrown; more especial, ly if he carry with him the cardinal maxim of good breeding every xvhere—a wish to please and unwillingness to offend. But if, even in private society, there are rules not to be known but by experience, and ii'these differ in different places, I could not feel insensible to the approach of an occasion so new to me. My first desire w;is not to fail in the public duties of my mission ; the next, to pass property through the scenes of official and personal me on of Mr, i my arrival. He inquired for the health I Jack, for the President always puts his name . Adams, and spoke of others who had on Jack’s letters. We all cried out to Uncle preceded me in the mission, going back so I Joshua to open and let us know what was in far as the first Mr. Pinckney. Of him, and it.—But he is such a provoking odd old man Mr. King, his inquiries were minute. He I that he wouldn’t touch it Ullhe got every one made others, which it gave me still more pleas- pnf the papers and letters sorted nnd put up ure to answer. He asked if I knew the la- in their places. And then he took it and sat dies from my country, then in England, who down in his arm chair, and took out his to- had made such favorable impressions in their I backer box aud took a chew, and then he society, naming Mrs. Patterson, since the broke open the seal and sot an cuawe and Marchioness Wellesley, and her sisters, the read to himself. We all stoo tiptoe with Miss Catons of Maryland. I replied that. I our hearts in our mouths, and he must needs did, and responded to his gratifying notice of read it over three times to himself chawing these my fair countrywomen. A few more his old quid and once in a while giving us a remarks on the climate of the two countries, knowing wink before he would tell us what closed the audience. was in it. And he wouldn t tell us arter all, It would be out of place in mo to portray but, says he, you must all be ready to put the the exterior qualities of this monarch. The I best side o.'. Thursday morning ; there 11 be commanding union of them has often been a I business to attend to, such as Downingville theme in his own dominions. He was then] never see before. in his fifty-sixth year; buf in fine health, and At that we all cut and run, and such a hub. majntgjnjnfr tho erect, ambitious carriage of bub as we were, in from that time till Thurs- early life. I will only say that he made his day morning I guess you never see. Such audience of foreign ministers a pleasurable a washing and scrubbing and making new duty to them, instead of a repulsive ceremony. I clothes and mending old ones and baking an The envoy extraordinary and miuister plcni-1 cooking. Every thing seemed to be in a ing before sunrise and march’d ’em up and down the road three hours a day. He sent to the store and got a whole new set of but tons and had ’em sowed on to his regimental coat, and had a new piece of red put round the collar. And had his trowsers washed and his boots greesed, and looked as though he might take the shine off of most any thing. Lilt the greatest rumpus was at undo Josh ua’s, for they said the President must stay there all night. And aunt Kcziah was in such a pucker to have every thing nice, I didn’t know but she wood fly off the handle. She had every part of the house washed from garret to cellar, and the floors all saud- ed, qnd a bunch of green brashes put into all the fire places. And she baked three ovens full of dried punkiu pies, besides a lew dried huckleberry pies, and cake, and a great pot of pork and beans. But the worst trouble wan to fix up the bed so as tb look nice; for aunt Kcziah declared the President should have as good a night’s lodging in her house as he had in New York or Boston. So she put on two feather beds on top the straw bed, and a bran new calico quilt that she made the first sum mer after she was married and never put it on a bed before. And to make it look as nice as the New York beds, she took her red silk gown and ripped it up aud made a blanket to spread over tho top. And then she huny up some sheets all round the bedrvam, and the gals brought in a whole handful of roses and pinks and pened ’em up round as thick as flies in August- After we got things protty much fixed, un- cle Joshua started ofl'to meet cousin Jack and the President, and left Sargent Joel to put matters to rights, and told us we must all be ready* and be paraded in the road by nine o’ clock Thursday morning. WellJ Thursday morning come and we all mustered as soon as it was daylight and dressed up. The chil dren were all washed aud had their clean aprons on and their heads combed and were put under the care of the schoolmarm to bo paraded along with her scholars. About eight o’clock all the village got to- * gethcr down the road os far as uncle Joshua’s new barn; and Sargent Joel told us how to stand, as he said in military order. He pla ced Bill Johnson and cousin Ephraim out a little ways in front with each of ’em a great long fowling piece with a smart charge in to fire a salute, and told ’em as soon as the Pres ident hove in sight to let drive, only he care ful and pint their guns up so as not to hurt any body. Then come Sargent Joel and his com pany ; and then coinc the Schoolmarm and the children; and then come ail the women* and gals over sixteen with aunt Kcziah at tho head; and then come all the men ia town that owned horses riding on horseback ; and all the boys that Sargent Joel didn’t think was large enough to walk in the profession got tip and sot on tho fences along hy the side of tho road. There we stood till about nine o’clock, when sure enough we saw somebody como riding out of the woods down the hill. Tho boys all screamed ready to split their throats hoorah for J.tcksdn, and then bill Johnson fir ed off his gun. Cousin Ephraim who aint so easy fluttered, held on to his and did’nt fire for he couldn’t see any body, but uncle Joshua on his old grey horse. Along come uncle; Joshua on a slow trot, and wc looked and looked but couldn’t see any body coming be hind him. Then they all becun to look at one another ns wild its hawks and turn all manner of col- ors. When uncle Joshua gc»t up so we could* see him pretty plain he looked as cross as a thunder cloud. He rid up to Sargeut Joel, and says he you may all go home about your business, and put away your nick .lacks, for Jack and the President are half way to Wash ington by this time. My stars what a time there was then, I never see so many folks boiling over mad be fore. Bill Johnson threw his gun over into the field as much as ten rods, :md hopped up and down, and struck his fists together likor all possessed.. Sargent Joel. marched back and forth across the road two or three times, growing redder and redder, till at last he drew out his sword and fetched a blow across a hemlock stump and snapped it off like a pipe stem. Aunt Keziah fell down in a connip tion fit; and it was an hoqr before wc could bring her tu and get her into the house.— And when she came to go round the house and see the victuals she had cooked up and go into the bed-room and sec her gown all cut up, she went into conniption fits again an d had ’em half the night. But she’s better to day and has gone to work to try to patch up hcr gown again, I thought I would just let you know a hot;: these things, and if you are a mind to send word on to cousin Jack and tho Presidents I’m willing. You may tell ’em there amt five folks in Downingville that would lioar fa for Jackson now, and I don t believe ther n one that would vote for him unless ’tin J03-. ua, and he wouldn’t if ho was.a t afrai-i ot loossing his post office. * JL potentiary from Sicily and Naples, Count Lu- dolf, had his reception immediately after mine. When the Prince came from his apartment, » clutter all over the neighborhood. Sargent Joel flew round like a raven-distracted roost- He called out his company every corn er. Coincidence.—On the same day that Ke-td the great tragedian died, a lady also ijied in this town who had officiated as bridesmaid at his wedding. Keau was then in nurable cir cumstances, and the lady alluded.to, lcnt-hira money to pay the wedding-feet, and o]her ne cessary expenses, which sum was honoura bly repaid some ycara after, when the hero of the tragic muse obtained the celebrity of-be ing the greatest actor of his davCheltenham. Chronicle.