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'flic fallowing capilal piece of droHory fi>ofn judge Httliluirtmi’s lulu work, •* Tlie Atluelie,” or “Sara Slick in Euglsrid,” is cxtremelji rieh, as ail must laughingly admit. Sum Slick is the ro I liter : Well,there lived nil old woman come yours ago at Jlusijuasii Creek, in Smith Carolina, tliut had u largefortin’and an oniv darter. She was a wid. ■der, a miser and a dunker. Slie was very good and very cross, as many overly righteous folks are, and had a loose tongue, and a tight purse of her nun. All the men dial looked at her darter she thought had an eye to her money, and she warn’t (nronto 1 the way nother, for il seems as if beauty end money was too much to go together in a gen- eral uuv- Rieh gals and handsome gals are set* <tom good for nothing else than their cash or their looks. Pears and peaches aiut often found on the same trees, I tell you. She lived alone almost with nobody hut her darter and her in the house, and some old nigger slaves, in a hut near her land ;— tnd she soed no company she could help. The aniy place they went to, in general, was to meetin,’ and Jerusha never missed tliut, for it was the only chance site laid sometimes to gel out alone. Burney had a beautiful voice, and nlwnys went jherc, too, to sing along with the gals ; and l)ur. dry liearin’ of tho fortin’of Miss Eels, made up to her as fierce as possible, and sung so sweet, that he soon slued number one with the heiress. But then ho didn’t often gut the chance to walk home with her, and when lie did, she darn’t let him come in lor fear of tho old woman ; hut Barney wern’t to be pul offthut way long. When a gal is in one paslui'i’and a lover in another, it is a high fence they can’t get over, that’s a fact. "Tell you what,” says Barney, ‘sit up alone in thekeepin' room. Uoosliy dear, urter old mother has gone to bed, put out tho light, and I’ll slide down lira rope Irom I lie trap door on ihe roof. 'Tell her you were exercised in your mind, and want to meditate alono as the words you have heard this day have readied your heart.” Jerusha was frighted to death almost, but what Wonts woman do when u lover is in tho way ? So that very night she told tho old woman she was ex ercised in her mlmr, ami would rustle with tho evil ipirit. “Do, dear,” says her mother, “ and you wont think of the vanities of dress, and idle company, no more.—You see how i have given them all up since 1 made a profession, and never so much as speak of them now, no, nor even thinks of cm’, Strange Squire, aitit it ? But it is much easier to cheat our selves than cheat the devil. That old hug was loo stingy to buy a dress, hut pursuaded herself it was bein’ loo good lo wear it. Well ihe house was a flat roofed iiouse, and had a trapdoor in Ihe eealiu’ over Ihe keopin’ room, and ilmre was a crane on ihe roof, with a rope to il lo pull things to spread out to dry there. As soon as the lights were ull out, and Barney thought the old woman was asleep lie crawls upon the house,opens the trap door, and lets himself down iu the chimney corner cuurtiu,’ or as they call it, in them diggins ‘snufflin' ashes.’ When tho daylight began to show, he went up the rope hand over hand, hauled it up arlcr him. closed the trap door, and made him seif scarce. Well, all this went on as slick as could be for a w hile, hut the old woman seed tliut her darter looked pule, and ns if she hadn’t hi d sloop enough, and mere was no gullin’ of her up in the morniii’; and when she did she was yawnin’ cud gapin’, and so dull lliat she had'nl a word to say. She get very uneasy about it ai Iasi, and used lo gel up in llte night sometimes and call her darter, and make her go off io bed, and once or twice came plaguy near cinching them. So what does Barney da but takes two niggers with him when ivc goes v<>b. XXXVI gms blessed and thaukod.ond Ilirthked mid hlcsscil ti l Im was tired of it. ‘Oh !’ aais the old woman, ,Mr. Usman, the moment Jerusha throwdedlhe evil "tie, the house shook like an ourlhqunko, nod ns 1 ootern J tlie room lie seized me, put me into his bus. km, and flow off with me. Oh, 1 never shall for ge! his firery eye-bulls, »ud tlie horrid smell of brimstone he had.’ •Mud he a cloven fool, and a long tnil V snis Bar ocy- ‘I couldn't see in the dark,’ sais she, but bis c.nws was awful sharp ; oil, how they dug into my ribs! o’on a’mosl toulc the flesh off—oh, dear! Lord have mercy on us ! I ho|»o lie’s laid in tlie Red fcea now !* ‘Tell you wliut it is, aunty,’ sais Barney, ‘that’s an awful story, keep it secret for your life ; folks might say the house was haunted ; that you was possessed, and iIiqi Jerusha was in lengtiu with the evil one. Don’t so much as lisp a sylublo of it to a livin’ sinner breathin’; keep the secret and I will help you.’ The hint took the old woman lmd no wish to be burnt or drown’d for a witch, and tlie moment that a feller has a woman's secret, he is that woman’s ma, sicr. Me was invited there, stayed there, married there j but the old woman never know’d who the evil one was, und always thought till her dyin’ day, it was old Scratch himself. After her doatli they didn’t keep it a secret no longer, and mnnv n good laugh Ims there been at tlie story of Barney Ox mun und tlie Devil. TIIE milts TED RUBBLE. nrtur that, an u Urge husk fed ihe rope not speak a the old wuini ‘Jerusha, sui you git up t lint’s a (feu resiling uui: i ij',’ ‘Uear.dc euou If v, to tin them on the roof, mid tautens rope, and tells them il they led lo hoist away for dour life, bui ,'ord for the world. Well one night ii came lo ttie door as usual, and sais, slie, what on earth ails you to make I night that way ; do cumo lo hod, .’ 'Presently, inarm,’ sais slie, ‘I’m evil one now ; i’ll come present ’ sais she, ‘ you have resiled long him lo have thrown him by tins time .threw him now, give it up, or he may throw you.* 'Presently marin,’ sais her darter. , ’ll s always the same tune,’sais her mother, go. l gulf grumbling—*iis alwavs presently—what bus 8 J t into the ga| iu ad go. Oh, dear! wliut a pro- Taclcd lime she has on it. Sho has been surely Mortised, poor girl. As soon us she lmd gone piracy larfed so that ho had to pul his arm round bar waist t„ steady him mi (lie bench, ill a way that oido’t Inuk oii'igo rmripin,’ and when he but touch* •phercheck with his lips, in a way that looked phi. Cl py hke kissing, and felt like it too, and she pull* to gel away, and they liud a regular rustle as 'hey sul on me bench, when as luck would have it over Wont the bench, and down went both on’em “H tlie fl.,,,1- with uu awful smash, and in bounced »ieold Human, ‘Which is uppermost’ 1 sais site ; nt thrnw’d Satan, or Ims Satan thruw’d 'pen!:. Ruasliy ; speak, who’s throw’ll 1— 'have ii,row’d him,’sais tlie duller; ‘and 1 Impel « l ',hroko his neck, lie uciod so.’ 'Come lo bod, 'hen,’ ‘saisshe,Mailing, and say a prayer backward " — just then llio old woman was seized ’“und the waist, huislud through the trap door to '""f, and 1 rum thero lo the top of the crane, ^ 'arc basket slopped, and tlie first tiling she knowd V B ®us away up over so far ill the air, swingin’ '"a-large hasltci, and no soul near her. Barney his niggers cut slick doubly quick, crept into [‘.hashes, and went all round lo the road, just as ."as hreakin’. The old woman was then sing- . [ "at fur dcur life.kiekiil, and squealin' and cry- j) 1111 ""'I prayin' all in one, properly frightened. „ 11 r " ls Barney ns hard as he could clip, lookin’ ’"Docc-ut ua if he’d never hooured nothin’of it, PWondio’ to bo horrid frightened, offers liis * vices, climbs up, releases tho old woman, und | “ The mind of mortals in perverseness, Imbibes with diru docility the wrong.” Who but remembers to huveseeiL heard or read something of that great impostor, Joanna Souili- coio—she who could bare faceuly assert tlmt it was her lot and divine commission to give birth to tho Messiuh, tho Son of Ciod ! und bv fearless audaei* ty seduce thousands to become tier followers ? Speaking of this imposter brings lo mind a story which wo remember lo have heard from an authen tic source. It wus Joanna’s doctrino that all who believed in her should never full victims to dealli; but that tliey would be severally called for and curried to Heav en by an angel. Ono of her proselytes was the wife of a hard laboring, honest man, who lived in the vicinity of Manchester. Constantly did this woman harranguc lier unbelieving husband about her newly imbibed religion. His breakfast was disturbed by the relation of her reaiculous dreams, his dinner lie either prepared himself or did with- out it, for his wife was litterly a follower of Joanna Southcote. Each evening was made unquiet by the continued warning that an angel would came that very night and carry off his oetler half (?) a consummation dev.mtcdly to be wished, no doubt. Tlie poor man. at last wearied beyond ull endur ance, concluded that it was necessary that the an gel should call soon, and accordingly sought means and opportunity lo accomplish. Ins desire. Long ufterthey had retired one night, the good woman’i midnight sermon wus put to uu end by a loud lap ping at the door. ‘Tboro’s tlie angel!’ cried tlio wife. ‘Nonsense,’ answered the husband. ‘Oh, but it is, l must go.’ ‘Lie still, you silly tiling, till I sec who il is; Tlie husband put his head out of tlie window and cried, ‘w bo’s there V ‘An angel!’ answered a coarso voice. ‘The Devil!’ cried tlie husband. •No zur, rcg’ler angel, coine after year wife.’ *1 thought so,’cried tlie wife; ‘farewell John, I must go.’ Thus saying slie jumped out of bed. ■But you won’t go though, will you, Zukey?’ anx iously asked the husband. • Won’t I inougti J o Juminy, Jolmny, vvliy ctiun l you believe, and you’d u gone tuo ?—Good bye, Jolinny, good bye, the angel is waiting !’ •Well, if you must you must, and it can’t be help ed !’ cried the husband. Thereupon the wife hurried down stairs, whore she found a dark looking man, (an angel, no doubt,) waiting witli a donkey. Site was soon comfortably seated behind her angelic conductor, und the two rode off. Now tlie good spirit had conveyed his cltargo to about the distance of three miles from the house, when suddenly hu stopt short and bado her alight, asserting tliut lie had to go and bring another passenger who was going the homeward way. ‘You won’t be long, good Mr. Angel, for it’s aw- fill cold on this ere snow bank, will you ?’ •Oh no! good Mistress Mortality, I shan’t bo over two or three get up, Dubbin,’ and the Angel rudo away. The poor woman wailed a long lime, and began to imagine that tlie iwo or three minutes waxed lo hours. The old clock of Manchester had tolled one ; the wife could just distinguish tiio sound as il floated on theslilluess of tlie night. She sat mus ing on heavenly things, and ever und anon, gave vent lo a sigh for tier poor sin-suffering husband. Tlie cloak struck two ! Doubts began to work in tlie woman’s brains, faintly ai first, but gathering thicker and darker as time waned away, a good deal (us the poet would say) as twilight brings in its train tlie gloomy hours. Now did she seriously begin lo envy tiie comfortable situation which she supposed her husband to he enjoying. Could il be thill slie wus deceived ? The dock struck three ! Yes,in her heart she actually denounced Joanna Southcote and all her doctrines ; and trudged her way home, with the settled determination of pour ing waieronus many angels or devils ns should ever call her from a well warmed bed. She arriv ed at iter house and knocked several times veiy hind at the door. •Who’s there ?' cried tlie husband at last, pulling bis bead out of llio window. •On ! Johnny, do let mu in !’ answered a voice.’ •Let who in V •CJo away, go away, you have got to the wrong house. You mistake me for some other miserable leliow,’ The Washington Family The following letter, translated from the Ger. man, contains some interesting particulars respect ing a brunch of the Washington family. Thu let- tor from General Washington, to which tiie writer ulludes, may he seen in Spark’s Washington, vol. xi, p. 893 ; and oilier particulars concerning the fumily in vol i, p. 554. Jumcs Washington is thero mentioned us buying been a merchant iu Rotter dam ; Munich, February 21 1844. Honored Sir—It wus not til! ilie 17th of thin month that 1 received your fuvor ol December 13ili; I could not, therefore, answer it earlier. In com pliance with your wish I will, with pleasure, com municate to you facts relating to mv family. Tho branch from which 1 um descended has undoubted, ly the sumo ancestor as that from which the Amer ican branch descended, which is proved ulso by tlie sums coat of arms. Tlie fumily of Washington is descended from a good old English family, which, in early limes, owned considerable possessions in llio counties of York and Norlhamplon, and in other places. It became connected, by marriage, with tlie family of Shirley, Earl Ferrers. Sir Lawrence Washing ton married Elizabeth, a daughter of the second Earl Ferrers. It wus also connected with that of Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. A branch of llio family, from unknown causes, for they were weal thy, emigrated about the year 1650 to America; and tlie well known (one may say with truth tlie universally famous) General and President George Washington wns descended from it. My groat grandfather, Jumcs Washington, was so deeply implicated in tho unfortunate affair of the Duke of Monmouth, in tlie lime of Charles ii, 1683 and 1684, that ha was obliged to fiy from England, and, after losing by shipwreck on the const of Port ugal every thing of his personal property that he had been able to carry away from England, he came to Holland. While there he was frequently demanded on the part of England by its urribussu- dor, and his delivery insisted upon ; but the Gen eral Stutes did not consent; and thus lie became Ihe founder of that branch which then began lo (lourbh in Holland, and is sliil in existence in tho persons of two individuals, cousins, lieutenants in the army and rrnvy, I possess an autograph letter of ihe great man, Goorx'u Wushimilon. irom Mount Vernon, January 20,1709, in which, among oilier things, it is said . ‘‘There can he little doubt, sir, of our descending from tlie samo slock, ns the branches of it proceed, ed from the same country , at what lime your uu- cestors left England is i ol mentioned ; mine came to America nearly one hundred and fifty years ago.” At tlie age of sixteen I received, iu 1794, a coin- mission in the Dutcli service, but was unwilling to serve the Ilutayian Republic founded in 1795 ; mid being u faithful follower of tlie Iiouse of Orange, I emigrated. At tlie formation ol tlie Dutch brigado of tlie Prince of Orange in tlie English service in 1799, I was appointed lieutenant in tliut brigade, until the disbanding of tlie latter, after the peace of Amiens, in 1802. A few months later I had the good fortune lo enter tlie Bavarian service. Since then, nearly foriy-two years have passed, of which 1 have been attached no less tlmn thirty-seven years to the most high person of tlie King, partly us marshal of the Court, and partly as aid-de camp TUESDAY, MARCH II, IS45. ! Thfe following article we found upon our ediio- 1 rial di sk a lew days since. Ii was written by one inf the young rueu employed in our office, and wc have concluded lo give il a place ill our columns, it: is n truthful picture of the Printer’s life, and we hope mny serve to call llio attention ol llmso who a re gratified by the Primer’s toils, to bestow tlie h.ird.earned reward.—Bangor Whig. THE PRINTER. Mow few men there are, of thosn who gaze ad miringly upon ihe Printer ns ho ‘nimbly flings tho slender Idlers runnd,’ ilinl know of his privations and toils. From the nature of this occupation, he is comparatively unknown lo ihe community at largo. Immured in a closely confined pluco of bu siness from uu early to a Into hour.—(and those who work upon a duily paper, frequently through, out the niglil)—having no regulur hours lor repose, —inhaling llio noxious vapors incident to a close room with lamp smoke mid steum, an ! gasses, it is no wonder that ho should appear cadaverous and emaciated. The Compositor is most exposed to ull these baneful influences; the materials of which the types are comp -sed exert a pernicious effect upon his system, especially when, for llio pur pose of expedition, he is obliged to dry his typos by the fire, after distribution, llo being obliged to stand till duy in one position, and his stooping pos ture while correcting and ‘making up,’ tends souner or Inter, to destroy the harmony of his internal or gans ; and llio sodaiitury nature of his business, to gether with llio variety of temperatures he is ob. liged to undergo, and lo which from his physical state lie is extremely sensitive, often produce chro. nic disorders which hasten him lo a premuturo grave. But printing is n noblo work? nnd though the Printer be confined to a narrow circle, and amidst ahe hum of tlie busy world without, and the coaso- le.ss di n of llio poliliciau and tho newsmonger with, in-—though compelled lo inhale the noisome air of tho printing office, und by llio dim lump at mid night,— “Work, work, work! Willi iio^ord wcurv and worn— JEyolida heavy aud red,” yet c'oes lira bosom thrill and his eye glisten, ns he ‘sels up’ the news of some ‘great victory’ of his fa vorite parly* and ho gloats with eager delight, while at lh« .s.mm lifiie.l'- I”” - 'Im nine, liie speech ot his grout orator! lie enters inlo tlie spirit oi all of liia work; he cannot be n mero machine —th o very nature of his work sets his thoughts in motion ; and while tiie ‘types go click, click, c lick, in his stick,’ lie may in imagina tion, be si ;ruti nizing the inmost recesses of some distunt co untr y,—wandering amidst ‘pleasure and pluccs,’ ot ridi ng oil tho deep sen. lie smiles at the ludicro ns, h Jolts grave ut the disasterous ; the thrilling roman ce gives him u pleasant excitement, and poetry ruis es his thoughts to the sublime; and it may truly be said of him tliut, often whilst he is outwardly st rivitrg for the highest. Then ho ap proaches the artist; for lie is tho true artist who works both with his head and bunds. The Prime r enjoys few of tho luxuries of life, tlie publicutiu ’> must appear regularly and conse- qucnliyull hi s time is employed. Ho hears the •tinkling of tit > merry hells,’us sleighs fly swiftly ' over hill nnd va lley, but he cannot mix with the gay ; and happy tlirul g, lie knows tlie domestic' evening circle is a hupp y place, but ho cannot ho there' NO. 24 I have also planted a stock in Bavaria, which, if • q n (q, 1Ci | le | ias ), L ,[ j jule time for social duties I ev God will, is some lime lo bear good fruit to tlie King and country. I have three sons—tlio eldest, Ludwig, sixteen years old, is a page of bis Majesty llio Kim! : the second, Muz, fourteen years o! *, is pupil in tiie Koyal Corps oi Cadet* ; and the ibiut, Karl, ten years old, frequents the public school— By my two marriages with daughters of families of ihe highest nobility in the land, my children urn placed in agreeable circumstances, even when I shall be no more ; and in this manner, this branch j of the family in this new country may flourish.— God give liis blessings to it! It would lead me loo fur to enter inlo details of my biography ; for, being in earlier years frequent. !y exposed to liie storm of fate, brought on chiefly by revolutions, and ut u later period placed in im portant offices nnd oilier relations, I could not do it witiiout being very long ; and, since this letter lias on upon liie Sabli atii lio cannot always rest for if nerciianco some ‘i pecial message’ arrives or some •dreadful calamity ’ occurs it must be published The Mnriler of Frnuk Combs. A Touohinh Nakiiativb.—Uen. Leslie Combs lias written a letter in relation io tlio death of liis son. which we find published iu a lute number of liie Louisville Journal. Tlio Gunerul slules that about iivo yeuis since, he purchased u place for his sun, just below llio mouth of Red Rivor, to which young Combs removed und Commenced work. A few mouths altar, a now neighbor died, and a man mini, cd 0’Bluunis, purchased the place of llio deceased, and pui some hands on it, bill not liis family. Tho duy he loro young Combs visiled Kentucky in Jn'y Iasi, lie bought a small strip of laud, lying between him aud*0'Rliiiiiiis, at public salo. O'Blouuis do- sired this luud, and each lmd endeavored to buy il from tho claimuitl. who refused in sell it to u’Blen. nis, becuuse he lmd first promised it to young Combi. Gen. Combs continues ; After my sou started back last November, I re- ceived a letter from bis agent, Dr. Jacks, addres,. ed to him, nnd advising him of the hud conduct of O’Blenuis during his absence, in destroying bis slock, nnd especially of his-crueliy towards bis rid- ing horse, in forcing him, with iliL-uid of one of his negroes; over the river bank backwards inlo u hog from which lie could not extricute himself, nnd when found and prized out he died. Siioeki d ns 1 was by such inhumanity to a dumb brute. I became seriously alarmed ior the safely of mv sou, and wrote lo him to bo on liis guard—to have nolhing. personally, to do willi O’Blennis, but to seek a legal redress for any injuries he had sustained, if, on consultation with liis friends, it was deemed advisa ble. This course he adopted, although soon after liis retikii to liis place, he was informed by a man iu the employ of O’BImmis, that tho latter iudivid- uni lmd offered to pay him if ho would kill mv son, und that O’Blennis himself was ropuatedly absent till a late hour in the night with a double barrel gun, loaded with buckshot. My son apprised me of these alarming circumstances, and that some of his neighbors advised him to leave iiis place, but suid tliut he ‘'bad rather die than he thus driven uff,” in the meantime, however, lie tvus preparing, un* der my instructions, lo « ind up his business us soon as possible nnd come off, temporarily at any rate, uni. I something could ho doi.e lo render his residence Safe, and but lor his murder ho would have left ear ly in January. ,, Filings remained in this situation until ihe 30lh Ol Uocember, my son novor nmnug mei a» but unce,on which occasion ho told him of liis in- tention to sock legal redress for '.lie injuries he had done him, and expressly disclaimed ull intention of auy personal injury to him. From this circuin- stance, and llml two months hud neu|dy elapsed since his return and O’Blennis hud pot executed his threats, my son begun to think lie was merely boast ing, and, at any rule, that-he would not venture to attempt any open act of violence upon him. On ilmt day my son was visiting a fiiund in the neigh- liorhood, when O’Blennis rode up to the front fence a few slops from the house, and seeing my son iu ihe portico, dismounted and came in without being invited lo do so by tlie proprietor. Soon afterwards dinner was announced, and my son seeing tliut O’Blennis lmd seated himself ut tlio lable, ilecliucd eating; a brief altercation ensued, when tho host interfered and ordered or desired O’Blennis to leave ids house, telling him lie would not allow him t ms to insult his guest. My son remained all night und until one or two o’clock llio next day. In tho meantime, O’Blennis hud sent ono of liis slavos lalo at niglil io a neighboring grocery for a gallon of whiskey, with a written order very strangely word- cd, showing that he lmd some desperate deed in Anecdote.—K plain, unlettered man from the bnck country, in the Stale of Alabama, came to Tuscaloosa, and on the Sabbath went curly to church. He had been accustomed to attend meet, ings iu school houses and private dwellings, wliciu each one appropriated lo himself the first conveu. ieut seal which lie found unoccupieJ. Ho there, fore selected u seat in a convenient slip, and await ed patient ly Ihe assembling of the congregation.— Tlie services commenced. Presently the music of a full toned organ burst upon his astuiiished ear; lie lmd never lieurd ono before. At llio snme time the gentleman who owned the slip came up the uislo. As lie approached tlie door of the slip, Im motioned to the countryman to come out, in order to give place to the ludy; This movement tlie coun- trymun did not comprehend, and from ihe situation of tlie gentleman and lady, associated as it was in his mind with tlie music, he immediately concluded that u cotillon, or French four a conlrudancc, o< some other dunce was intended. Rising partly from his scut, he said to the gentleman, who was still beckoning lo him, "Excuse me, if you please— I don’t dance.” Tooth Ache.—Put a piece of lime, about the size of a walnut, into a quart bottle of water ; with this rinse tlie mouth two or three times a day, and clean the teeth, using this water every morning.— H it taste strong, dilute it, for is should he just trong enough lo. taste tlie lime and no stronger.— was tormented with tlie tooth ache for some weeks till I. used Ibis mixture, but have never had it since. A friend to whom I. recommended it, and who was a great sufferer, fias been equally fortun ate ; she attributed tier’s lo rheumatism. Alter a few weeks. I asked her how tho lime water sue cecded. "Oh,” said she “I liavo never had thu rheumatism since•”—Hart. Jour. days, lie him a the A Tailor's Secret.—Alphonzo Karr, as clover uscibblurus any France possesses in the- relates that he lutely sent for a tailor lo. nial coat of a piece of cloth lie had purchased. "Can’t do il,” suid Snip, after mease cloth, ‘‘can’t do it; there isn’t stuffenough Karr then sent for another tailor, who. after carefully measuring llio material, underlouk to make the coal. In due lime ihe garment " as de livered, nnd Karr stuck hiinsolf inlo il. liis first visit was tu thu tailor. •‘Well,sirrah,” said he,“behold inn in the coat from Ihe very stuff you snid wus insufficient ! You see that there was sluff'enough alter all!'' ‘Very likely,” said Snip, with imperturbable sang froid ; ‘‘very likely ; but tlie son of thu tailor who mudo it, is not so big as mine !” dogs about a meat s, top, ready lo devour ‘ihe news.’ Many a sweet flown r does lie cull by the midnigbl lamp for the readers to toy with in the cushioned arm chair at their eat ie. A.nil yet, loo often is his j remuneration considered of but secondary import ance and many persons see oi to think it is of but little importance whether th i Printer is paid or not. Whoever heard of a .rich Pointer ? Wo may in deed ‘pause fora reply,’ for the man who writes for glory, and prints on (trust, cannot be expected to jlieup up liis cullers. ] Sncii is tlie life of tlie .Printer—such is tlio life of jibe man whose days, and frequ ently nights are em ployed in administering to llio tvauis, thu necessi- already attained a considerable, extent, tliut which |j t j e8 nnl | lho ccmforls'uf others—in the art of ull lias been said will, I hope, satisfy you. I will only add, in order that you may become altogether ac quainted with my situation here, that I will subjoin lo the signature of my name what is ulherwise not usual ; but in this case I think I may make an ex ception, because it forms in a manner a part of my biography. Thanking you for llio literary production trails- milted lo me, which possesses, by lho preface of tlie renowned Professor Hedmann.an enhanced value, I remain, with sentiments of perfect esteem, your devoted. BARON VON WASHINGTON. Royal Buvnriun Chamberlain, Lieutenant General mid Aid-do-Camp to liis Majesty liie King, Com mander of llie Order of Civil Merit of tlie Bava. riau Crown ; ufilie Greek Ordar of the Saviour, ol ihu Brilisli Military Order of the Bulb, Knight of the Royal French Order of llio Legion of Hon or. and Lord of Nolzing. To Dr. J. K. Fluzel, Consul uf tlie U. S. of N. America in Meipzic. arts, tho beacon light of ilia worliL Quod. Hava voii ! 1 tell you, Johnny, its no such thing, he was imposter. I’ll never have any tiling more lo do with any of those creatures again, Joanna, or any of them.’ *Aru you suro of tlial,* criod the delighted bus* baud, •Oh yes, indued, if you’ll only lot me in, I’ll pro. mise Vou any thing,’ suid the imploring wife. The husband took the poor woman at her word, and admitted her on conditions that, l believe, slie never afterwards violated. Mazepfa.—Vohuire in liis history of Charles XII., says :—“Muzeppa was a Polish noblemuii, born in I’alaiimateof Pondolia. He was educuied as a |i:igo to Jean Cassiinir at whose court ho tic- quired some knowledge oftlio Belles Leltres. An intrigue which lie had with the wife of a Polish Pula line having been discovered, tlio husband lmd him tied naked on a wild horse, which was then lot loose. Tlio hnrsu, who came from Ukraine, went bnck thither, carrying with him Muzeppa, half dead from hunger und fatigue, Some peasants took care of him ; ho remained with them a long time, und distinguished himself in several excur sions against the Tartars. His superior informa tion made him highly respected amongst the Cos sacks ; mid Ids fame, which was daily increasing induced the Czar to create him a Princo of the Uk- 11 Such is tho historical fact which furnished Lo r d Byron with lho subject of his poem with this title , The pdblic eye.—Wliut sacrifices are daily made to propitiate the public eye, to dazzle its scru tinizing glance, to avert its scorn. Tlio proud victim of poverty, emerging from liis garret, where, with squullid want for liis companion, lie Ims a bun- dred times tasted of the bitterness of death, smooths down his knitted brow, und calls up a smile to his cureworn features as ha passes into the street to j encounter a crowd he knows not and to whom ho is unknown. God knows his sorrows, but bo is unwiPing that tliev slmlt bo seen by the public eye. Tho sluttorn wife who moves about bet own dwell ing in rags nnd filth, careless oi her husband's re- preaches and indifferent to his disgusl, will spend hours to adorn herself for a bull, in hope of winning lance from lho public eye. The hard man, whose sou! is impervious to Charity, who coins his wealth out of broken hearts, whoso Banker is Ruin, and whose God is Gold, will do an alms in the mar. ket place—llmt he may attract the public eye.— , ihe earth. Virtuous women, who would shrink from the whis. 1 1 know por of a libertine ns from tlie fangs of an aspic, : have at the dictate of fashion bared their bosoms to ( liie Common Gaze and courted llte licentious glnn- | cis of the public eye. Tlio Fakirs of the East transpierco their flesh with speurs, or measure the length of a river by successive prostrations, or hold their limbs in one alliitudo until theywillier flcsli ami marrow, and all that tliey mny seem ns saints to llio public eye. Nay, even the criminal on llte gallows holds tlie tremendous leap he is a. bout to take from light and life into the unexplored abyss a secondary consideration to that of causing tiie public eye lo dilate with wonder uttha holdnoss with which lie encounters death.—N. Y. True Sun. An Old Bottle.—A short time-' ago, a member if a temperance society, in on c of I lie Suffolk sneie- lies, was accosted by an old ti ppler who has earned in unenviable notoriety by'liis oon slant and fro- pient visits lo'.lie spirit bottlo and beer barrel, and die following colloquy ensued . •Isay! you teetotaller,” ‘•Well, wliut is ii?” "You’re all wrung, and I can prove it.” "Hoiv 7” • Ob ! out of the Bible, 1’vc b aen ponding il.” “Tliut is worthy remarking ci Tlniiily ; but what 'lo you find there condemnatory of tetolnlism ?” "Why this here—it say you n luiuf put no strong drink of no sort into ‘old bottles..’ "Does it say so ?” ‘•Yes, and you can’t make *ny thing of it—can yon ?” "Certainly I cun ?” "No you can’t—I defy you.” "But I can ; you suy men ought not tc.put strong drink into old hollies?” "Yes, that’s it ; ha ! ha/” "Then yni must keep ull strong Brink out of yourself, for you are a regular ‘old hol.ilu.” Hem ! I can’t stop wusling my time with you— good morning. Me,non y and Conscience.—F/om a. discourse by ! the Rev. Doctor Bucher, we select the following paragraph on llio association of memory and Con science. 1 "Connected with Conscience is llte office of ■ Memory. The retrospections of the mind urc us | rapid as tho flashing of lightning. More rapid are 1 they tliun llio transmissions of ideas by tlie Tele graph, between Washington and Baltimore, or than I that transmissions will bopvhon, as such may Imp- pen, thoughts urc curried in it fewgmoments round A New Test.—A lawyer who was yesterday testifying in one of our courts, snys the Journal of Cotnmerco, in relation to a mans 9anity, said, ‘I have no doubt of tho old gentleman being perfectly sane at tlio trial referred to. I rocolloct that lie refused lo pay mo my costs, or at least ho made mo strike several items off my bill.’ mun who said, tlmt in falling twenty feet, when lie expected to die, the thoughts of a life tiiuo seemed to pass through liis mind. He thought of bis business,—of his wife,—of his childicn,— and of that eternity to which lie was going. A life seemed to pass through Ilia mind, and nothing was lost. So it will be when memory summons the acts of a life, at the last tribunal. Nothing is lost. Thoughts once inpres>ed,but apparently lost, will come out again. A life is urilten on our memory, as witli invisible ink. It is apparently lost to our frail sight while here. But in the Judg. mum light il "ill lie seen enveloped around us nnd wiil be unrolled till every line and letter is made visible ! 1 know a sailor once, who said that when once in u storm,on, tlie giddy mast, while trying to furi a sail nnd could not, he cursed God. ft passed out nf his inind for twenty yoars, but now, in a sea. son of excitement, ho said uow 1 remember it, I am lost ! A man having drowned himself at Boonvillo, Mo. the Coroner’s jury brought in a verdict of “ wilful murder.” the forenoon, U’Blennis wus seen by several persons walking in tlie public road, or silling on a log by its side, armed witli a double barreled gun. Along ibis road my sun would bo compelled to travel in returning home. Although uwure of the difficulty between them, they did not suppose lie was contem plating mi attach, and, therefore, did not tnko the trouble to notify my son of liis danger, so llmt, at 1 or 2 o’clock, when he started home, accompanied by a young gentlemun, named Johnson,so far from intending or expecting an attack, ho put his pistol (a small six barrel revolver) in his saddle.bugs, unload. ed, and look neither powder nor bull witli him. When they arrived nl O’Blennis’ plantation, they saw him in tho field near liie road, and by the lime they hud come opposite tlie house, lie was in the yard. Witiiout speaking to him, or hearing him if lie spoke lo them, they passed on at n slow pace.— When they had gone a few hundred purds, and was iu sight of Frank Combs’ house, they lienrd a horso upprouclniig them in tho rear al a rapid guil, und looking hack suw O’Blennis with u double barrel gnu on his shoulder, riding ut full speed. Johnson immediately said to my son :—“O’Blennis is com ing after you, to shoot you,” and lie replied : "1 ex- pect he is." O’Blennis rode pastas fust us he could, hut suid nolhing, and when hu hud got some twenly or thirty yards, jumped from liis horse and j attempted to hitch him to thu fence, but failed, and immediately levelled his gun at my son and ap proached him ; lie and Johnson both jumped to the ground, and Johnson said, "Mr. O’BIcnnis don’t shoot him.” My son exclaimed, raising Ills right hand, without attempting to draw any weapon,; “Stop,O’Blenuis, stop?” O’Bleimix made no re ply, hat still approached, till within a few paces, my son looking him right in the face, and wholly unprotected ; built burrcls were then discharged, so nearly at tlie samo lime lhat Johnson thought hut one wus fired, although several persons at my soil’s iiouse distinctly lieurd two reports. The par ties were so close together tlmt liie whole load ('.lie first one in my opinion) entered his forehead, with out touching liis hut, in u circle not exceeding two inches in diameter, crushing the skull and lodging in the brain. Tlio second load must have passed over Ids head as he full, as there are marks un llio fence where several shot struck it, just behind where lie stood. Johnson, filled wilh horror al tlio scene, mounted his horse and started to look for help ; just as he did so, he heard O’Blennis cull him, and looking back saw him standing near or over the body of my son, und lieurd him sny something about liis being armed. Il wns more than an hour before Judge Black and Mr. Hopkins readied the place, accom panied by Mr. Johnson. Iu tlie meantime a neigh, bur was accidently passing and suw a man lying on his fuco by the road side with his horso grazing near him. He supposes it must have been ten or fifteen minutes after llio deed was done, lie im mediately dismounted nnd ascertaining that it was my son, turned him on his back ; liis pulse was slill boating, be groaned several times and died.— Whether lie was rendered insensible at the moment lie wus shot, or was suffering liie agonies of death ut this time, God knows. O’Biennis was subsequently arrested, and Gen. Combs concludes his tuuuhiug uccuunt wilh this language : "My son’s body is deposited temporarily in a neighbor’s gravo-yard. i shall bring it home with me and bury him by tlie side of his mother. The sod on which liis head lay when lie died is slill sat- urated and red wilh liis blood, I shall dig il up and plane it at tho heud of his grave in Kentucky. If ho had been a boisterous, forwurd boy, I do not think my lioart would have been so sorely bruised, but he was os mild and retiring in Ills manners, as ho was bravo and higli-lonpd in liis feelings and principles." An Original.—There is an enterprising and industrious maiden ludy residing in Richmond, Va., who keeps a simp, does divers chores for a respect able living, and rejoices in the mellifluous coguo- meii of Matilda Mugs. According to ihe Star slie lately Ining out the following bulletin ut in r simp a *—-■■“VI “v,limivn nauer w.ilii ehai wn!LThleli proves tliut Manilla is ol altogether loo pi ueiicnl u turn uf mind lo wuste her leisure moments, if nnv slie have, in acquiring such trumpery accomplish ments as are taught by tlie school master. Matil da must be a rare bird and an ornament lo tlie cir cle in which she moves. Read her KNOWT1S Members ov tlio leggeslateyure nr rcspkfooly infuwined that 1 liuv a slok of ekselent urtikkles, sicli ns lerbukker, siggare, likkers,. here, sighder, and menny other sicli likes, tu kncwmin us tu it - slum,oil law sail ehepe faw Itash or shawl kieddit lo piniklurel kustummers. P. S.—Wosshing, Running, nnd suing dun nt shawl knowtis, witli mutchpleshur, elicpu. Ko!l in: Shopping'—We happoned to be in a dry goods store tlie oilier day when a lady entered, and iuqui. red for some trifling article, which was shown.— The article was examined, laid down, and another taken up. But wo will describe wliut look place ear as possible : I see,” said tlie lady, "you advertise some cheap ribbons ; please let me see them.,’ [They were hownjand Ihe lady unrolls some dozen pieces.]— VI...I i ,;r.,l ,.„ii«- i -o> l.n. A i. a ..... [Examines it.] These are delicate muslins ; what is tlio price ? Will they wasli ? Are you suro ? — Whut is tho price of this shawl? That's too high. O! 1 waul to look ut some hook muslins. [They were shown und turned over.] 1 forgot, il is swiss 1 wanted to see. [Swiss shown.] Are not those new patterns o( delaines ? Do lei me see them.— [Shown.] Now llmt 1 am here 1 may as well look ul fine cotton hose. [Shows four parcels.]— Please show me a few sumplcs of silk hose, I was informed you hud received a new lot of silks—dross silks ; will you let me see them, sir ? [Tho clerk handed down und unrolled some eight or nine pie ces.] Whut a luvuly lace? pleaso lei me see il ? [Shown.] Have you no oilier patterns ! [Olliers Shown.] Well only think that it was thread luce I wunlcd. and this is cotton ; please let me see your thread luces. [Showsa largo box full, "liich "ere al! examined.] 1 am sorry to give you so imicli trouble, but do let me see some of your besi Fiem li kid gloves. [Several dozen shown and a half do zen pair triod on.] Wliut un elegant tunic ; plctisu let me see il. Wlml is the price? is not lhat rn. llier high? Have you others 1 [Olliers slumn.J Really, I’m afraid you’ll think I’m troublesome’’-— “Not at all,” said the clerk, and blushed as lie spoke il. ‘•But let me see your Cashmere sliauls, of the latest style. [A duzen shown,opened and i xam- ined—counter by this tunc piled up so llmt tlie clerk, who wus rather slierl in slalue, stood uu tip toes lo look over.] I would like to see some Irish sheeting.— What an embroidered pocket handker chief—</e let me sue it. Lovely. Have you others ? [Others handed.] Wliut is tlio price of ibis mus lin ?” “Ten coins a yard, ma’in.” “ I’ll lake two yards. [Tlie countenance of the clerk lighted up as lie ntuusured il.] Lot me see vour sowing silk. How much a skein ! I’il lake one, [3cts'J Ull, dear ! 1 had alniust forgot i wanted lo see your carpets.” Piece after piece was unroll—this piece had too much red, that loo much green, llio oilier too much blue ; thu next wns loo high, and llio one following to low,— Imally site said, “I'll cull again if I cannol get better suit- cd.” The 23 cunts -vorih wus folded up, paid for, and when tlie clerk bunded tlie parcel lo the lady, she said, “ Plcuso send it to No. » , York street.” "1 would madam,”said the clerk, “but the curt- men are ull gone home.” The ludy left the store, and lho poor philosophi cal clerk set about liis one hour’s work to fold up und put away thu tossed goods. We guve up—'.mi thought the printer’s cry of “copy—copy—more copy,” wus llio must annuying thing in the world, out llio practised shopping lady goes ahead ol it. Brooklyn Advertiser. Chicken Salku.—Boil a chicken that weighs not mine limn u pound and half. When very ten. der, tuko it up, cut it in sinull strips, nnd make tlie following cause, and turn over it: boil lour eggs three minutes—take them out of tlio shells, mush and mix them with a couple of table-spoonfuls if olive oil, or melted butter, two thirds of a tumbler of vinegnr, a leu spoonful of mixed musiard, u ten • spoon full oi sail, u little pepper, and essence of celery, if you Imvo il—if not il cuu be dispt-nseil witli. In making chicken salad, liie dressing should not bo put on till a few minutes lie loro the salad is to be eaten ; as by laying in ii the chicken and celery will become hard.—Mn. Ellis. Early Marrying.—After noticing the marriage In New Orleans, of a young mail aged seventy years, to a inudcmoiselle aged only eighty.four years,the Planter’s Gazette then remarks : “Wo are not on advocate for early marriages, and feel indignant at the parents of these children for per mitting them to go on so.”

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Georgia journal. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1809-1847, March 11, 1845, Image 1