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BE it ordained by the Mayor and Council of
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Passed, July 2d, 1638.
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July 5.
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POETRY.
THE PLANTATION
“ Farewell, awhile, the City's hum,
Where busy footsteps fall,
And welcome to my weary eye
The Planter’s friendly hail.
Here let me rise at early dawn,
And list the mock bird’s lay,
As warbling near our lowland home
He waves the bending spray.
Then tread the shading avenue,
Beneath the Cedar’s gloom,
Or Gum tree with its flicker'd shade,
Or Chinquapin'B perfume.
The Myrtle tree, the Orange wild,
The Cypress' flexible bough,
The Holly with its polish'd leaves,
Are all before me now.
There, towering with imperial pride
The rich Magnolia stands,
And here in softer loveliness,
The white bloomed Bay expands.
The long gray moss hangs gracefully—
idly I twine its wreaths,
Or stop to catch the fragrant air
The frequent blossom breathes.”
IWISCELLA3¥Y.
From “ Sketches,” —By Quiz.
THE FUNNY YOUNG GENTLEMAN.
As one funny young gentleman will
serve as a sample for all funny young gen
tlemen, we purpose merely to note down
the conduct and behaviour of an individ
ual specimen of this class, whom we hap
pened to meet at an annual family Christ
mas party in the course of this very last
Christmas that ever came.
We were all seated round a blazing fire,
which crackled pleasantly as the guests
talked merrily and the urn steamed cheer
ily—for, being an oldfashioncd party,
there tens an urn, and a teapot besides—
when there came a postman’s knock at
the door, so violent and sudden, that it
startled the whole circle, and actually caus
ed two or three very interesting and most
unaffected young ladies to scream aloud
and to exhibit many afflicting symptoms
of terror and distress, until they had been
several times assured by their respective
adorers that they were in no danger. We
were about to remark that it was surely
beyond post-time, and that it must have
been a runaway knock, when our host,
who had hitherto, been paralysed with
wonder, sank into a chair in a perfect ec
stacy of laughter, and offered to lay twenty
pounds that it was tlint droll dog Griggins.
He had no sooner said this, than the ma
jority of the company and all the children
of the house burst into a roar of laughter
too, as if some inimitable joke flashed up
on them simultaneously, and gave vent to
various exclamations of—To be sure it
must be Griggins,— and How like him
that was, —and What spirits he was in!—
with many other commendatory remarks
of the like nature.
Not having the happiness to know Grig-,'
gins, we became extremely desirous to see
so pleasant a fellow, the more especially!'
as a stout gentleman with a powdered f
head, who was sitting with his breeches’ i
buckles almost touching the hob, whisper-j
ed us he was a wit of the first water, when .
the door opened, and Mr. Griggins, being 1
announced, presented himself, amidst an- j
other shout of laughter and a loud clap
ping of hands from the younger branches.
This welcome he acknowledged by sun
dry contortions of countenance, imitative
of the clown in one of the new panto
mimes, which were so extremely suc
cessful, that one stout gentleman rolled
upon an ottoman in a paroxysm of delight,
protesting, with many gasps, that if some
body didn’t mak-e that fellow Griggins!
leave off, lie would be the death of him, he |
knew. At this the company only laughed
more boisterously than before, and as we
always like to accommodate our tone and
spirit, if possible, to the humor of any so
ciety in which we found ourself, we laugh
ed with the rest, and exclaimed. “Oh!
capital, capital!” as loud as any of them.
When he had quite exhausted all be
holders, Mr. Griggins received the wel
comes and congratulations of this circle,
and went through the needful introduc-!
tions with much ease and many puns.
This ceremony over, he avowed his inten-;
tion of sitting in somebody’s lap unless
the young ladies made room for him on the
sofa, which being a great deal
of tittering and pleasantry, he squeezed
himself among them, and likened bis con
dition to that of love amongst the roses.
At this novel jest we all roared once more.
“You surely should consider yourself
highly honored, sir,” said we. “ Sir,” re
plied Mr. Griggins, “you do me proud.”
Here every body laughed again; and the
stout gentleman by the fire whispered in
j our ear that Griggins was making a dead
' set at us.
The tea things having been removed,
|we all sat down to a round game, and
here Mr. Griggins shone forth with pecu
liar brilliancy, abstracting other people’s
fish, and looking over their hands in the
most comical manner. He made one most
j excellent joke in snuffing a candle, which
I w * s neither more nor less than setting fire
, to the hair of a pale young gentleman who
sat next to him, and afterwards begging
his pardon with considerable humor. As
the young gentleman could not see the
joke however, possibly in consequence of
its being on the top of his own head, it
did not go off quite as well as it might have
done; indeed, the young gentleman was
heard to murmur some general references
to “impertinence,” and a “rascal,” and to
state the number of his lodgings in an an
gry tone—a turn of the conversation which
might have been productive of slaughter
ous consequences, if a young lady, be-!
trothed to the young gentleman, had not
used her immediate influence to bring
about a. reconciliation; emphatically de
claring in an agitated whisper, for his
personal edification, but audible to the !
whole table, that if he went on in that
way she never would think of him other
wise than as a friend, though as that she
must always regard him. At this terrible
threat the young gentleman became calm,
and the young lady, overcome by the re
vulsion of feeling, insntantaneously fainted.
Mr. Griggins’s spirits where slightly de-i
pressed for a short period by this uulook-i
ed-for result of such a harmless pleasant-1
ry, but being promptly elevated by the at- J
tentions of the host and several glasses of|
wine, he soon recovered, and became j
even more vivacious than before, inso
much that the stout gentleman previously
referred to, assured us that although he
had known him since he was that high
(something smaller than a nutmeg-grat
er), he never beheld him in such excel
lent cue.
When the round game, and several
games at blind man’s butt', which follow
ed it, were over, and we were going down
to supper, the inexhaustible Mr. Griggins
produced a small sprig of misletoe from
his waistcoat pockel, and commenced a
general kissing of the assembled females,
which occasioned great commotion and j
much excitement. We observed that
several young gentlemen—including the
young gentleman with the pale counten
ance—were greatly scandalised at this
indecorous proceeding, and talked very
big among themselves in corners; and we
observed too, that several young ladies,
when remonstrated with by the aforesaid
young gentlemen, called each other to
witness how they had struggled, and pro
tested vehemently that it was very rude
and that they were surprised at Mrs.
Brown’s allowing it, and that they couldn’t
bear it, and had no patience with such
impertinence. But such is the gentle
and forgiving nature of woman, that al
though we looked very narrowly for it, we
could not detect the slightest harshness
in the subsequent treatment of Mr. Grig
gins. Indeed, upon the whole, it struck
us that among the ladies he seemed rather
more popular than before !
To recount all the drolleries of Mr. Grig
gins at supper, would fill such a tiny vol
ume as this, to the very bottom of the out
side cover, —how he drank out of other
people’s glasses, and cat other people’s
[bread, how he frightened into screaming
! convulsions a little boy who was sitting
lup to supper in a high chair, by sinking
j below the table and suddenly re-appear
ing with a mask on; how the hostess was
! really surprised that any body could find
a pleasure in tormenting children, and
how the host frowned at the hostess, and
felt convinced that Mr. Griggins had done
it with the very best intentions; how- Mr.
Griggins explained, and how every body’s
good-humor was restored but the child’s;
to tell these and a hundred other things
ever so briefly, would occupy more of our
I room and our reader’s patience, than ei
ther they or we can conveniently spare.
Therefore we change the subject, merely
observing that we have offered no descrip
tion of the funny young gentleman’s per
sonal appearance, believing that every so
ciety has a Griggins of its own, and leav
ing all readers to supply the deficiency,
according to the particular circumstances
of their particular case.
A Revolutionary Hero —A fact.
The Fourth of July, 18—, was cele
brated in the usual manner, with civic
and military rejoicings, in one of the most
considerable towns in Eastern Pennsylva
nia. In the evening of the day a public
festival was held within a beautiful grove
at the suburbs of the tow n. The co’hmiii
tce of arrangements, by request of the ora
tor appointed for the occasion, Mr. ,
collected all the revolutionary veterans,
they could find within the compass of sev
eral miles, and arranged them within fine
effect on either side of the chair of the
president. Every thing went off charm
ingly—the dinner was excellent, the wine
was delicious—the music was soul-stirring
and the toasts patriotic. After tbe-Dec
laration of Independence was read, Mr.
6 arose and addressed the meeting,
in a strain of eloquence which called forth
heart-felt and rapturous bursts of applause.
He dwelt pathetically on the hardships and
privations of that little band of heroes who
fought by the side of our beloved Wash
ington, through all that memorable strug
gle which ended in the glorious achieve
ment of our liberties. In the midst of this
| discourse, he turned round to the old vet
; erans, whose moistened eyes showed how
well the chord that awoke in their recol
i lections the thrilling deeds of bygone days,
! had been touched, lie suddenly questioned
a silver headed septuagenarian:
“What battle, my old friend, have you
fought in, wont von tell us?
I “I crossed the Brandywine with Wash
ington; fought at Yorktown, and saw the
surrender of Lord Cornwallis.”
“And you,” continued the orator.
“I was at Saratoga; and, I tell you, it
done our hearts good to see the red coats
march by us with furled banners and re
versed arms—fine looking they
were, too.”
“And you?”
“I was with Greene through all his
southern campaign, and I fought with him
in every battle.”
“And you; where were your laurels
won?”
“On the sea,” answered the weather
beaten old tar. “I was with Barry, wheu
he taught the proud Britons that we
were as invincible on the ocean as on the
land.”
The cheering was tremenduous.
The orator went on. “And you tell us
where your honored garlands were earn
ed?—speak, old father, upon what field of
blood did you behold victory perched up
on our flag?
“Vy, by Jo, I vash at Trenton.”
“Under Washington, gallant soldier,
under Washington?”
“O, ya, I vach oonder Vashington, als
ven ve soorrenders—”
“Surrendered!—what do you mean my
old hero? Surrendered!”
“Vy ya, main her! be sure ve soorren
dered oonder Shenderal Vashington; 1
vash one of de Hessians!”
Imagine, reader, the surprise of the au
dience, the momentary suspense, and the
deafening roar of laughter and plaudits
that followed.
In speaking of the superstition, that
Friday is an unlucky day, the Baltimore
American says:
“Every one knows that according to
received notions, to commence an under
taking on that day, is to insure a disas
trous result. An old fashioned sailor
would stare at one who would be so rash
as to think of going to sea on what has
been called hangman’s day, and the luck
less seamstress v. ho by chance might cut
out work and not finish it before sundown
would go to bed with the full assurance
that some mishap would attend the arti
cle thus begun. Now strange as it may ap
pear, this unlucky day has served to ush
er in some of the most important events
of modern times. It was on Friday, as
ascertained by the calendar, that Colum
bus set sail on his successful voyage for the
discovery of the American Continent,
and a Friday that he first made the land.
It was on a Friday that the Pilgrim Fath
ers of New England landed on the rock of
Plymouth, and it was on Friday that
Washington, Madison and the younger
Adams were born. Whether the fact of
being connected v. ith the history of the
New world has any thing to do with de
priving the sixth day of the week of its
unlucky character or not, we w ill not pre
tend to say, but if our information be cor
rect, the charm seems to have been broken
as the occurrences above mentioned took
place on that day.”
Large Snake. Our readers may re
collect that a few weeks ago we gave an
account of a large Rattle Snake, taken
on the farm of Col. Kirklaud of Henry
county, which we thought at the time a
pretty large Snake Story. But it appears
we are out snaked by upwards of two feet !
We knock under, ’pon honor—hear the
following from the last Tuscaloosa Intel
ligencer : — lrwinton Herald.
Perry County, May 17.
Mr. Bradford, Dear Sir: Yesterday
my overseer, with the aid of several ne
groes, killed, I presume, the largest Rat
tle Snake that has ever been seen in Ala
| bama. It measured 13 feet 5 inches in
I length, and 3 feet 101-3 inches in circurn-
I ference around its belly—which, however
(was larger than usual, for upon skinning
it, we fcGtid it had swallowed a Fox entire
ly whole. It weighed 73 pounds, I have
! the skin preparing to present to our Uni
versity Museum.
THOS. BIRDSONG, Jr.
“Timothy,” said a certain Grocer to
his clerk, “I’ve joined the Temperance so
ciety, and it won’t look well to sell liquor
before folks ; so if any person calls for a
ny, you sauat take them intet the back
room*’’
[TBRM MIN ADVANCE.
A WAY FOR THE SOUTH *»''%**
Debts. The N.O.Bulletin ofdth’uflrMyj,
“ It is estimated that from the five ffouffi
ern States, Mississippi, I T l|a.
bama and South Carolina, fifty
persons travel northward every
for the purpose of and pleas
ure. To put down the travelling and
incidental expenses of this army of tour
ists at five hundred dollars a head toould
be a moderate estimate. Many of them,
without question, spend their ofieT and
two thousand. Add to this five hundred
dollars ahead laid out in purchases of vari
ous kinds, and we have the sum of forty
millions of dollars disbursed every year at
the North, by the travelling gentry from
the South. Now if this Immense treasure
could one year be applied to the liquidation
of Southern debts, instead of the purchase
of Northern pleasure, gewgaws, et cetera
et cetera, it strikes us very that
the people of the five States above men
tioned would, at the end of twelve month*
find themselves relieved of a heavy Weight
of indebtedness. An arrangement so desk'
able can, it is evident, easily- be tMCom
plished. All the Southerners- have tedo,
is to stay at home and save travelling ex
penses. If they don’t soon find theif debts
paid after a rigul adherence to this rule
for one or two years, then our calculation
is wrong. At any rate the experiment is
well worth trying; and so strong is our
faith in its success, that we ourselves are
resolved to stay at home the whole sum
mer, and set a good example to cor errat
ic neighbors.
The Rev. Sidney Smith. —The Lon
don Quarterly in a review of BoZjfqpotes
many good things of this witty divion’s.
The following anecdote, not among the
rest, is too good to be lost if it be authen
tic, as told by a former American minis
ter at the court of St. James. At one of
the Holland House Sunday dinner parties
many years ago, Cockford’s club then
forming, was talked of; and the noble hos
tess observed, that the female passion for
diamonds was surely less ruinous than the
rage for play among men, upon which
Sydney Smith wrote the following im
promptu sermonet most appropriately,** a
curd: ' •
Thoughtless that ‘-all that’s brightest fades,”
Unmindful of that knave of spades,
The sexton and his subs;
How foolishly we play our parts !
Our wives on diamonds set their hearts.
We set our hearts on dubs.
[N. Y. Mirror
Talking of barking, two gentlenMAihc
other day, at a public table, got into a vi
olent dispute upon a subject on which it
was quite evident that both were profound
ly ignorant. A big bull dog, which had
been quietly sleeping on the be
came roused by their violence, and began
barking furiously. An old gentleman who
had been quietly sipping his wine while the
disputants were talking, gave the dog a
kick and exclaimed, “Hold your tongue,
you brute, you know no more about it than
they do.” The laugh of the whole table
was turned immediately upon the noisy
brawlers.
Antiquity of Modern Dress.— The
ladies of Paris are at least as much attach
ed to thin clothing as those of London.
A lady of distinction there, having become
very conspicuous by the thinness other
attire, one day, when she had agQOfldeal
of company, a packet was brought direct
ed to her, and entitled * Dress foiFftad
ame .” It was brought up, and think
ing it was an elegant dress she ordered
from her milliner, the lady resorted to
treat her friends with a sight of this new
invention of her fancy. It was opened,
and there appeared a trine leaf. — Pkiladcl.
Focus.
■ vt-’
A Black Joke. —Blackee passing a
loug Fleet Street, was astonished at hear
ing a voice call out.— “ How d’ye do’ roas
sa Mongo, how d’ye do. Snowball,” and
on looking up, observed it proceed from a
parrot, in a splendid gilt cage; “Aha,
massa Parrot,” said Blackee,
man here ; you live in gold mm nets,
but me know you fader very wtM, ke live
in dt busk.”
It is said thm stso,ooft hi money, and
SIO,OOO in watches and jewellery, were
lost ou board the Pulaski*
Bulwkr and ms Critics. Christopher
North, in. the last number of Blackwood, thus
disposes of & small firjr who are-so fond of
poking their wit at thwnuthor of PelhsUu
‘Mr. Bulwer in his ‘pride of place,’ may by
some ‘ mousing owlet bo hawked <>t
he is in no danger of being killed; and we
have looked with admiration on hi* daring
flights. Among living novelists IpkilMM no
equal, among living writers no 4afe|ferior; yet
we could upset, we think, soap of his moral
opinions, correct and qualify others, and tear
out a f«" by the tootK