Brunswick advocate. (Brunswick, Ga.) 1837-1839, May 18, 1839, Image 1
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BY CHARLES DAVIS.]
VOLUME 2.
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
AGENTS.
Bibb County. Alexander Richards, Esq.
Telfair “ Rev. Charles J. Shelton.
Mclntosh “ James Blue, Esq.
Houston “ B. J. Smith, Esq.
Plilaski “ Norman McDuffie, Esq.
Twiggs “ William H. Robinson, Esq.
ll'aync “ Robert Howe, Esq.
TERMS.
Three Dollars in advance—s 4at the end of
the year.
[tyNo subscriptions received for a less term
than six months, and no paper discontinu
ed unt'd all arrearages are paid except
at the option of the publisher.
(O’All letters and communications in relation
to the paper, must be POST PAID to en
sure attention.
(D= ADVERTISEMENTS conspicuously in
serted at One Dollar per twelve lines, or less,
£>r the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for ev
ery subsequent continuance—Rule and figure
work always double price. Twenty-five per
cent, added, if not paid in advance, or during
the continuance of the advertisement. Those
sent without a specification of the number of
insertions will be published until ordered out,
and charged accordingly.
Legal Advertisements published at the
usual rates.
HOB’T. WALSH & CO.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
General Agents, and Auctioneers.
BRUNSWICK, Ga.
api -dr
S'cw (kOOUM.
JOHN FRANKLIN.
HAS just received and lor sale, the follow
ing articles:
White Linen Drill. Brown do do.
Black Silk, do Sewing do.
Mixed Sattinet, Shirting Stripe, Brown do.
Liue Plaid Homespun, Fancy Stripe do.
Flag Handkerchiefs, Crimson do.
Black Italian Crape, Spool Cotton, Light
Cotton Handkerchiefs, Orange Plaid do, Blue
Romalls do.
Ladies Black Cotton Hose, do colored do,
Cotton Fishing Lines, ice. &c.
mar 10
ON the morning of the 25th April, a white
and red Carpet Bag, containing a few ar
ticles of clothing. The hag was left on the
beach, between the wharf and the residence of
Rob’t. Walsh it Cos. The finder will be re
warded by leaving the same at the store lately
occupied by Dart, Barrett £c Cos.
May I
Bi'iindv mad Idas*.
I TtINE Cognac Brandy and Holland Gin, in
* quantities to suit purchasers. For sale by
Api g 7 ROBT. WALSH ic Cos.
IVcirark Cider.
DOMESTIC Liquors and fine Newark Ci
der by the barrel. For sale by
Api 27 ROBT. WALSH & Cos.
Childrens Shoo*.
6N CASES just received per'sehr. James
Aj Francis, and for sale by
mar 10 J- YV. ATWILL.
Fob* Srlo,
BY JOHN FRANKLIN, Jr.
A GOOD four oared Canoe Boat.—Also,
The Life and Writings of Washington,
by Sparks, in XII. Yols. Mar 9
Academy.
JvggvjL MISS R. BURTON, will coin
mence a school at Waynesville,on
ISSiSn Wednesday tl’e first day of May
next, for Children and Misses.
Instruction will be given in most of the Eng
lish studies usually taught in Academies—also
instruction in drawing, painting, and fancy
work.
Pupils will be under the instruction and care
of Miss B. Several can be accommodated with
board at her house.
TERMS— Board $lO per month Primary
studies $6, the higher branches $7 to $lO per
quarter.
_ „ > Stephen C. King, Esq.
Reference je UMI . NO Atkinson, Esq.
A pi. 27
Boclors Wilson ami (iase,
HAVING entered into a copartnership will
attend to Professional business.
They are ready to enter into contracts with
families and plantations for Medical services
YVM PRINCE WILSON,
ja.i IB—tf F. GAGE.
Stisfar, Tea, Coffee, Are.
■'•RAW and Refined Sugar—Black
and Green Tea—Cuba Coffee—
IKtU 1 Canal Flour, Hawes' Fulton Mar
1* n L ket Beef for family use. Pickled
' beef Tongues Goshen Butter—
Lard—Ling Fish, Pickles, Soap, and Lamp
Oil. for sale by
Apl 27 ROB T. WALSH & Cos.
llricks.
THE Subscribers are ready to contract f> r
any quantity of Georgia Bricks, to be de
livered duing the Summer, and have now
ready for immediate delivery One Hundred
Thousand, 9 by 4 1-2, which they will sell at
low prices. _ „
Apt 27 ROBT. WALSH & Cos.
For Sale.
A TRACT of land containing two hundred
acres, situate near Sterling, eleven miles
from Brunswick, on which is a good dwelling
“jAiIS MOORE.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, IN THE CITY OE BRUNSWICK, GLYNN COMITY, GEORGIA
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, SATURDAY aSOUrJSBTG, WSJLYT £B, 1329.
Glynn C'o. Superior Court. ]
Elias I! Hurt 4
vs. > DIVORCE.
Sarah S. Hurt, )
IT appearing to the Court, by the return of
the Sheriff in the above case, that the de-!
fendant is not to be found, so that service can
be made upon her, it is,- on motion of plain- ;
tiffs’ attorneys, ordered that the said defendant.
Sarah S. Hort, do appear and answer, or plead |
in the above case, on or before the first day of!
the next term of this Court. And it is further ]
ordered, that a copy of this rule be published ]
once a week until the expiration of said time. !
A pi 27
(i eor§ in— Wa xn c Corn*! v.
TO all whom it may concern.—Jacob Ran* j
lerson lias applied to me for letters of ad- j
ministration on the estate anil effects of Noel I
Raulerson, late of said County, deceased.— j
Therefore ail persons arc hereby cited to be
and appear at my office, within the time desig- j
nated by law, to show cause, if they have any, ]
why said letters should not be granted.—-YVit- j
ness the Honorable Joseph Wiggins, one of]
the Justices of said Court. Given under my j
hand of office ibis 12th day of April. A. 1). |
1839. R. B. WILLSON,
Api 27 C.C.O.W.C.
Atlniiiti*f I’alor'* Sale.
ON the first Tuesday of July next, at the ]
Court House door, in the town of Bruns- 1
wick,"Glynn County, between the usual hours
of sale, will be sold
One lot in the town of Brunswick, known 1
and distinguished in the plan of the said town i
by lot No. four hundred and eighty six, (4~'l>) i
containing ninety feet in width, and one hun
dred and eighty fret in length. Also, one]
thousand acres of land in the County afore-]
said, on the head waters of Little Satilla, ori
ginally granted to James Armstrong, adjoining
at the time of survey land belonging to John !
Milton, Robert Montfort, and vacant—said lot (
and land belonging to the estate of Homer V. j
Milton, deceased, and sold by order of the j
Court of Ordinary for the County of Jefferson, [
for the benefit of the distributers of the said
estate. Terms of sale cash.
ROGER S. GAMBLE.
May 11 Adair.
Aotire.
J 7I OUR months after date, application w ill ,
be made to the Honorable the Inferior ;
Court of Wayne County, when setting for or
dinary purposes, for leave to sell the land ly- j
1 ing on the Great Satilla River, being part of \
the real estate of Sherrod Sheffield, de
; ceased, for the benefit of the heirs and credi
tors. ELIZABETH SHEFFIELD,
! jan 12 Executrix.
!
Actice.
Glynn Superior Court. April term. 1639.
IT is ordered that William D. Jenkins, Geo.
Harrison. Jas. B. Andrews, and John An
derson, be fined each in the sum of forty dol-
I lars, as defaulting Grand Jurors, and Jno. F.
1 May, Jno. Piles. Jr., Wm. Burney, William
| Sumerlin, Jas. Holland. Robert Payne, Noble
I Bell. YV. A. Sallens, Ciias. F. Rumph, and S.
! W. Taylor, be fined each in the sum of twenty
dollars, as defaulting Petit Jurors at the pres
: cut term of said Court, unless good and suffi
j cient excuse he filed in the clerk's office, in
terms of the law.
Apl 27—lm J. MOORE, Clerk.
Police.
VLL persons indebted to John Franklin, ei
ther by Note or Book account, are ear
■ nestly requested to make immediate payment
1 to John Franklin. Jr., otherwise the demands
will he indiscriminately placed in the hands of
the proper officers for collection.
Apl 27—ts
Aolifc.
WILL be sold before the Court House door
in YVoyne County, on the first Tuesday
j in June next, between the usual hours of sale,
■ agreeable to an order of the Inferior Court of
i said county, silting as a Court of Ordinary.
! the lands on the Great Satilla River, contain
j ing 700 acres more or less, commonly known
] by the name of Walnut Hill, belonging to the
] Estate of Sherrod Sheffield of said county, de
| ceased.—Sold for the benefit oT the heirs and
! creditors.
ELIZABETH S. wHEFFIELD,
j Apl 6 Executrix.
fjTOUR months after date, I shall apply to
the Court of Ordinary of Wayne Coun- I
j ty, for leave to sell a negro man by the name !
of Caleb, part of the Estate of Richard YV. ;
Bryan, deceased. MOSES S. HARRIS,
jan 19 Adair. ;
.Tot! CO.
A I.L persons having detrends against the
! Estate of Jno. Burnett. Jr. late of the Cos.
of Glynn, de eased, will hand them in duly
attested within the time prescribed by law; and
all indebted to said Estate make payment im
mediately to
ROBERT HAZLEHURST,
S. M. BURNETT,
Mar 9 Qualified Executors.
Notice
IS hereby given, that from and after this date,
wharfage will be charged for all articles of
whatever nature lauded on or shipped from
the wharf of the Brunswick Land Company.
Storage can be had for merchandize, &c., in
the Company s Cotton Shed on reasonable
krms. J. L. LOCKE,
May 11—2 w Res. Agent.
Taxes.
ALL persons residing in the city indebted
for their poll tax for the years 1638 and
j 1899, are requested to call at the store of the
subscriber and immediately adjust the same.
E. C. P. DART.
j Apl 19 Treasurer and Collector.
Furniture.
A FAMILY about to leave the city, wish to
dispose at private sale, some articles of'
Furniture, entirely new, for Cash only. Apply
to
Apl 13 RICE, PARKER & Cos
POETRY.
The following beautiful and affecting ‘•Re
quiem,” we extract from the Plidadelphia Ga
zette. It is probably the production of the
editor, Willis Gaylord Clark, who latclv lost
his kind-hearted, lovely, and accomplished
lady:
I see thee still!
Remembrance, faithful to her trust,
Calls thee in beauty from the dust;
Thou comest in the morning light—
Thou'rt with me through the gloomy night;
In dreams I meet thee as of old,
Then thy soft arms my neck enfold,
And thy sweet voice is in my ear;
In every scene to memory dear
I sec thee still!
I see thee still,
In every hallowed token round;
This little ring thy finger bound
This lock of hair thy forehead shaded,
This silken chain by thee was braided;
These flowers, all withered now like thee,
Beloved, thou didst cull for me;
This book was thine—here didst thou read—
This picture, ah', yes here, indeed
I see thee still!
I see thee still!
Here was thy summer noon's retreat,
This was thy favorite fire-side seat,
This was thy chamber, where each day,
I sat and watched thy sad decay;
Here on this bed thou last didst lie,
Here, on this pillow, thou didst die!
Dark hour! once more its woes unfold—
As then I saw thee pal* and cold,
I see thee still!
I see thee still!
Thou art not in the tomb confined,
Deqtli cannot claim the immortal mind,
Let earth close o'er its sacred trust,
Yet goodness dies not in the dust.
Thee, oh beloved, ’tis not thee,
Beneath the coffin's lid I see;
Thou to a fairer land art gone —
There let me hope, my journey done,
To see thee still!
HI K S C Ii L Iz A N 1 .
[From the Pennsylvanian ]
' Concerning Yourself.- —You cannot
find a more companionable person than
yourself, if proper attention be paid to
the individual. Yourself will go with you
wherever you like, and come away when
you please; approve your jokes, assent to
your propositions, and, in short, be it) eve
iry way agreeble, if you only learn and
practice the true art of being really “on
; good terms with yourself.” This, howev-
U-r, is not so easy ns many imagine,
who do not often try the experiment.—
Yourself, when it catches you in company
j with no other person, is apt to he a so
-1 verc critic on your faults and foibles, and
when you are censured by yourself, it is
; generally the severest and most intolerable
! species of reproof. It is on this account
that you are often afraid of yourself, and
] seek any associates, no matter how inferi
or, whose hold chat may keep yourself from
playing the censor. Yourself is also a jeal
| ous friend. If neglected and slighted, it
becomes a “bore,” and to he left for even
i a short time “by yourself,” is then regard
ed as actually a cruel penance, jfs many
find w hen youth, health, or wealth has de
parted. Low important is it then to
know thyself, to cultivate thyself, to re
spect thyself, to love thyself, warmly hut
rationally. A sensible self is the best of
guides, for few commit errors hut in broad
1 disregard of its abominations. It tugs
j continually at the skirts of men to draw
j them from their cherished vices. It holds
|up its shadowy finger in warning when
you go astray, and it sermonizes sharply
! on your sins after they have been commit
ted. Our nature is twofold, and its noblest
part is the self to which we refer. It
stands on the alert, to check the excess of
: the animal impulse, and though it becomes
weaker in the fulfilment of its task by re
peated disappointments, it is rarely so en
feebled as to he unable to rise up occasion
ally, sheeted and pale like Richard’s vic
tims, to overwhelm the offender with bit
terest reproaches. Study, therefore,to he
on good terms with yourself—it is happi
ness in he if'ofy pleased with yourself.—
Pleasure and successes cannot compensate
lor the loss of this good understanding
and amicable relationship between the par
ties who occupy “the house you live in.”
“Owe sclf-ttjiprnring hour whole years out
weighs
Os stupid starers and ofloud huzzas. '
A gentleman, travelling on a journey,
having a light guinea which he could not
pass, gave it to his Irish servant, and de
sired him to pass it on the road. At night
he asked him if he had passed the guinea.
“Yes, sir,” replied Teague, “hut I was
forced to be very sly; the people refused
it at breakfast and at dinner; so at a turn
pike, where I had four pence to pay, I
whipped rt in between two half pence,
and the man put it into his pocket and
never saw it.”
“Old Women.” —Tliis designation, as
a term of reproach, is too often found in ]
our newspapers. If a party editor, or a
party writer or speaker, wishes to bestow
an epithet of contempt or low malice upon
a political opponent he calls him ‘an old
woman,’ and imagines that he has disgrac
ed him forever. The use of this term al
ways strikes me with a kind of horror.—
It is, I think, as so frequently employed
and so generally approved, (or, at least,
not apparently disapproved,) indubitable
evidence of a half-civilized people.
Does an editor know, that when he
makes use of these words in this way, he
thereby deliberately insults his mother or
his grand mother? Or, if lie he an old
man, as many editors are, that he insults
his wife or his sister. Is he aware, that
he oilers a gross rudeness to every elderly
lady of his acquaintance, to half the fami
lies with wiiicli he associates, to his most
obliging and estimable neighbors, to a
portion of the families of the greater part
of his subscribers?
There are very few editors, party writ
ers, and political men, who have arrived
to any degree of celebrity or importance,
whose mothers, and perhaps wives, have
not become ‘old women’—elderly ladies,
gradually descending the hill of life.—
■ Most of them have acted well their parts,
and arc justly entitled to respect, liven
as women they are entitled to civility, to
j negative politeness, at least from all gen
tit mat, if not that gallantry and outward
deference, which every well bred man is
expected to accord to every reputable, well
behaved persons of the other sex.
Let every man think of the obligations
he is under to his mother. Let him think
of her care, labor, anxiety and sufiering
for him, in his infancy and youth. Let
him think of her unceasing love and
fondness, under all circumstances; her
constant care for his health and physical
comfort and welfare; and above all, her
most zealous, unweared endeavors to form
his mind and character, to preserve him
lrom vice, and to make him a good, mor
al, virtuous, respectable, estimable man.
Let him meditate on these things. Let
him arouse in dormant breast some
: due emotions of gratitude, for inestimable,
i disinterested services, which he can nevet
j repay; and he will cease to employ, as a
| term of reproach, what should excite in
! his bosom only emotions of inexpressible
: love and respect.
Wo advise those who are in the habit
of employing the term, ‘old woman,’ in
the way of reproach, to peruse attentively,
before using it, (Jowper’s beautiful verses,
written on contemplating Ins mother’s pic
ture. Jf, after the perusal, any one can
write the odious term in this sense, 1 should
never repose the least confidence in his
principles, or depend on his possessing any
genuine feelings of kindness and humani
ty.—[Boston Post.
Admirable linn ark. — One of the best
j and readiest answers vve recollect ever to
Itave heard, was made last year, at the
meeting held in Julien Ilall, for the sup
pression of intemperance. A highly re
j spcctable gentleman present had his tnis
j givings about the propriety of making en
tire abstinence the ground work of re
form, and frankly declared, that neither
courtesy to bis visiting friends, nor the
usages of social life, would permit him to
I subscribe to this restriction. Among oth
er illustrations to prove that spirits might
I be often advantageously used he instanced
i those authors who were said to draw their
inspiration from the bottle, and who wrote
best when most intoxicated, lie alluded,
particularly, to the supposed declaration
of Lord Byron that some of his best pro
ductions were written under the influence
ofgiij. The Rev. Mr. Pierpont. (vve must
be excused for naming hint in print,) in
answer, very happily said, “I believe he
was more under the influence of gin when
he made this confession, than when lie
wrote his poetry!” The effect of this re
ply was prodigious; notwithstanding the
character and solemnity of the meeting, the
audience expressed tjieir sensations in
some rounds of thundering applause.
[Philanthropist.
Persevere. —ls a seaman should put
| about every time he encounters ahead
ivind, he would never make a voyage.
So he who permits himself to be baffled
by adverse circumstances will never make
the voyage of fife. A sailor uses every
wind to propel; so should the young man
learn to trim his sails and guide his bark,
that every adverse gale should fill its
bellying canvass and send it forward on its
onward course.
W lien the farming interest is depressed,
every other interest suffers in proportion;
and it is just as necessary to keep that
interest i:i a sound, healthy and flourish-,
ing condition, as it is to keep open and
tree the springs of existence itself. One;
of the best means of effecting this desir
able object, is to make farming popular,
and not to associate it with the idea of un- j
paid or involuntary work of the hands.
[Daily Times.
A Reformer. —There are some people j
in the world, who, it would seem, have tin- j
dertaken to reform all creation; who have
entered upon a crusade against all the es
tablished customs of antiquity, and wish
to change the whole order of things.—
These people are infinitely wiser than
were their fathers before them; they have
discovered, that it is wicked to resist an
injury, and contend that when one cheek
was smitUen, the other should be turned
to the smiter. They have discovered
that meat is very injurious, and must not i
ho eaten; and that people of every nation
and every age, have been brought to their
graves prematurely, by the use of coffee
and tea, which beverages must be hereafter (
discarded, as poisons. Another grand dis
covery has been made by these benevolent
beings, viz: that taverns are useless things, ;
and ought to be done away with, that there ,
is no need of having houses by the way- 1
side, in which a traveller can repose him
self or his horse; and that these fruitin'
sources of misery ought not to he cncoiir- j
aged. One of these reformers passed t
through this town the other day, and at
tracted much curiosity. He was acompa
nied by his lady, and was in a splendid
I carriage, drawn by a spirited horse; lie]
wore fine linen, and fine broadcloth, as all I
reformers do; and, in fine, lor k <1 as if he
; was one of the great ones of the earth,
and so indeed he was, lor his wind was
great, as we shall presently show. He
stopped, near the town pump, opp's'te
one ol the hotels, tied his horse to one of
■ the small trees, and set about preparing
his dinner. Decent to the store, near
by, and borrowed a measure, and bought
i some meal, went to the pump and moisten
ed it, and then gave it to his horse, lie
then got into his carriage with his lady,
I and produced a box, containing a geo Ily
quantity of I read and cheese, upon which
i hey made their dinner. The .Reformer
1 than alighted, drew some water in his
; measure, gave it to th :hors ;, carried back i
the borrowed aiticle, and then went his |
i way. Poor man !we really pitied him— 1
obliged by his philanthropic love for the
i human race to sit under the heat of a noon
day sun, and eat his pr winder in soli
tude! Oh thou Genius of Reform! Who
i this glorious pioneer in the service of hu
manity was, we have not been able to
I learn. It is thought, by some, that it was
the Rev. Bigot I' oghank of Grnhamvilie, or
j Deacon Moonshine Sawdust, from Famine
Point.—[Concord Yeoman s Gazette. i
Human occupations.— Why is it that
we find so many in all professions, occu
pations, and trades, who are dissatisfied
men? They :eim to he moving in a'
sphere in life for which they are neither
fitted by education nor taste. The answer
to this question is the most important view'
of the theme. It is because the profes
sion, trade or occupation, is forced upon
the child, before his mind has accquired
the power of judging; before his tastes are
developed, and his genius, or aptitude to!
any one pursuit, is evinced. Many men !
study law, who had better have been farm-!
ers or mechanics, and many mechanics
had better been lawyers. The parent, in
stead of studiyng the disposition of his!
child, gives him such a chance as agrees ■
with his own taste, rather than the child’s,
and, perhaps by this course, unfits him for j
all hope of usefulness. There is un
doubtedly such a thing as natural taste; a j
taste not innate, hut resulting IVoin organi
zation, or early, insensible education.—
The eye of the painter, the ear of the!
! musician, the love of mathematics belong-]
ing to sedentary men, and the phlegmatic !
temperament, all prove this. If, then,
]this natural taste should be consulted, in- |
stead of pursuing the arbitrary course now i
so common, we hope for better
work, in all the occupations of life. Be-!
side, a man’s moral character often de
pends upon the interest he feels in his oc
cupation. When they dislike it, they take
every occasion to rid themselves of it for
the time, and contract habits of idleness, I
which lead to poverty, and poverty, in;
nine cases out of ten, lends to vice.
The Great Hell of Moscow. — Much has
been said and written in relation to this i
wonderful mechanical production; and ns
there are many opinions afloat about the;
actual size of it; vve subjoin a
timate of its weight and cost. Its actual |
Russian weight is 12,337 poods, 443,772!
lbs. English gross weight. It was cast in
t lie reign of the Empress Ann, and cost a
sum equal to 327,500 dollars. The sound
of it rather amazed and, deafened than
delighted the inhabitants of Moscow. Its
i real value is probably double its original
cost, for every one ambitious to contri
bute towards it threw gold or silver into
the furnaces containing the metal, which
were four in number. The geometrical
dimensions are as follows: The pie.e
by which the bell was bung to the beam,
from the top of the bell to the beam, 3
feet 1 inch; length of the bell, froth the
beam to the bottom, 21 feet 4 1-2 inches;
diameter of the bell at the top, 7 feet 4 3-4
inches; diameter at the bottom, 22 feet
1 3-4 inches.
(TERMS *3 IN ADVAKC®.
RIUMBHH 60.
The Future, —lf we were to prophecy
that, in the year l‘J’3o, a population ni
fifty millions, better fed, clad, and lodgcu,
than the English of our time, will cover
these islands; that Sussex and Hunting
donshire will he wealthier than the wealtli
icst parts-of the West Riding of York
shire now are, that cultivation, rich as
that of a flower garden, will be carried
up to the tops of Ben Nevis and llel
vellyn; that machines, constructed on prin
ciples yet undiscovered, will be in everv
: house; that there will he no highways, hut
railroads, no travelling hut by steam; that
our debt, vast as it seems to us, will ap
pear to our great grand children a tri
fling incumbrance, which might easily be
paid off in a year or two; many people
would think us insane. Yet, if any per
son had told the parliament which met in
perplexity and terror after the crash in
that in a century the wealth of En
gland would surpass all their wildest
dreams; that the annual revenue would
equal the principal of that debt which
they considered as an intolerable burden;
that for one man of <£lo,ooo then living
there would,be five men of ,£50,000; that
London would he tw ice as large and twice
as populous, and that nevertheless the
mortality would have diminished to our
half of w hat it then was; that the post of
fice would bring more into the exchequer
than the excise and customs had brought
in together under Charles II; that stage
coaches would run from Loudon to York
in twenty-four hours; that men would sail
without wind, and would he beginning to
ride without horses—our ancestors would
have given as miyclt credit to the predic
-1 lion as to Gulliver’s Travels.—[Edinburgh
Review.
Mrs. Siddons anu the Pot-Boy.—
“The evening was excessively hot, and
Mrs. Siddons was tempted by a torturing
j thirst to consent to avail herself of the
| only obtainable relief proposed to her at
the moment. Her dresser, therefore des
patched a hoy in great haste to “fetch a
pint of beer for Mrs. Siddons,” at the
same time charging him to he quick, as
Mrs. Siddons was in a hurry for it.
Meanwhile the piny proceeded, and oil the
hoy's return with the frothed pitcher, he
looked about for the person who had sent
him on his errand, and not seeing her,
inquired “Where is Mrs. Siddons?”—
The scene-shifter whom ho questioned,
po ning his finger to the stage, wh t
she was performing the sleeping scene of
Lady Macbeth, “Th re she is,” —to th i
snip i<c and horror of all the performets,
the hoy promptly walked on the stage
c! s up to Mrs.* Siddons, and with a to
tal unconsciousness of the inpropriety he
was committing presented the porter.
Her distress may le imagined, she wav
ed t lie loy avvayin her grand manner sev
eral times, without effect; at list the peo
ple behind the sc- n ?s, by dint of beckon
iutr, stamping, and calling in half an lible
whispers, succeeded in getting hi ii off
with the beer, part of which in his exit
he spilled on the stage, while the audi
ence were in an uproar of laughter, which
the dignity of the actress was unable to
quell tor several minutes.”—[Memoirs of
Charles Mathews.
During tbo “panic” in the money mar
; ket sonic few years ago, a meeting of
merchants was field in the Exchange, at
JiYcvv York to devise ways and means to
extricate themselves from their pecuniary
; difficulties. The great hall was crowded,
| addresses were made, resolutions prase I,
committees appointed, and every thing
done that is usual and necessary. After
all this, one of the company moved that
the meeting stand adjourned until aone
future day, when up jumped a little job
ber, in a great state of excitement, and re
quested the merchants to linger a moment
as ho had something of the greatest im
portance to communicate. Tire jobber
was known to be a very diffident person:
and, ns be had never ventured on the
| responsibilities of a speech on any former
public occasion, all were anxious to hear
jwhnt lie had to say.—“Gentlemen/’ said
be, with evident emotion, and in the most
| emphatic, feeling and eloquent manner,
!, ‘‘what's the " sn Wising of some Jhtee*
| day? We want relief, I tell you I— \mmc~
i diate relief!” and down he set amidst a uni
versa! roar of laughter. The next day he
fulled.
Unlucky Paise. —A countrv actor per
forming the part of Riclimot and the < tl.tr
day, in the r.-agedy of Richard 111, bau
the misfortune to find his memory com
pletely fail when he had reached the irorda
“Thus lar into the bowels of the land
have we marched on withoutimpediment.”
After having repented -these words «ev
erai times, the audience trs'ified .heir
displeasure by a general hiss, when com
ing forward, he thus addressed them:
“Ladies rn I gentlemen, thus far into the
bowels of the land have we marched on
without impediment, and curse me ifl>
can get any further.”