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LEGISLATIVE.
The following important bill was not among
the published Acts of the last Legislature. It is
possible that in the hurry of legislation, it was
never engrossed lor a third and final reading.—
Its provisions, however, are so salutary and just,
that we cannot consent to its remaining in the
darkness and silence of the unfinished business
of that august body, before whom it should have
been read a third time, and passed.
A Bill, to be entitled an Act to declare
That the Sheriffs and Constables all shall act fair
hi the county of Appling, and not take their pay,
When they levy on cattle, in April or May,
June, July, or August, when rich milk the cows
give,
And enable said officers so well to live
On butter, clabber, good cream and rich cheese ;
But these shall said officers take for their fees,
Whereas .he poor land in Old Appling, allows
The people to raise nothing else but some cows,
Which range through the wire-grass pastures so
green,
And produce the best butter that ever was seen:
And whereas the Sheriffs and Bailiffs do seize,
Under color of li. fas, the finest of these ;
And of butter, milk, clabber and whey, do deprive
The defendants, who with them scarce make out
to live,
While the Sheriffs and Bailiffs not only do eat.
The cattle’s rich produce—a very fine treat,
But receive in addition some cents as their pay
For keeping said cattle each and every dav:
To remedy which most oppressive of evils
Which grinds to the dust we pour pinev-woods
devils
By the Senate and House then of Georgia, proud j
State,
Who are met in our General Assembly so great,
Be it therefore enacted and passed to a law,
And it is hereby declared to be one without flaw,
Henceforth and hereafter in all time to come
When said officers seize on and take a cow home,
By virtue of fi. fas. from courts high and low
In the months above slated when green grass
doth grow.
They shall charge for such levy and sale of such
cows,
No fees which the statute at present allows,
But the milk, and tho butter, cheese, curds and
whey,
Alone shall be taken for their pay.
In support of the bill, the honorable mover in
tended Lo make the following remarks which, as
we have not had the pleasure of seeing among
the published debates, we are gratified to lay be
fore our readers:
Mr. Speaker, 1 hope that tins measure will pass
For if it ’amt needed, you may call me an ass.
I live in the pine woods, among lizards and go
phers,
And am called in my province the monarch of
loafers,
And since this bright house, though distinguish
ed for learning,
In piney-wood things are not very discerning,
I now take this chance a few facts to relate sir
And shew that the need of this measure is great
sir:
Vou must know, Mr. Speaker, in tho piney-wood
levels,
A cow is the fortune of all us poor devils ;
In the summer, the wire-grass pastures she’ll
roam,
And each night with her udders distended, come
home
And give us a bait of milk, butter and clabber—
’Til the Constable comts with a fi. fa. to grab her.
1 lo takes her oft’ home, on her produce lives high,
sir,
Whilst we the defendants do perish and die sir;
And the Constable eating our sweet milk each
day sir,
Receives for so doing, extravagant pay sir.
Now, I hope that this House will prevent from
thus doing,
The Bailiff, who fattens anil thrives on our ruin,
And enact that no Bailiffs shall get any pay
For eating milk, butter, anil clabber each day,
But, that these, with the whey, and our piney
woods cheese, sir,
Be considered in future, such officer’s fees, sir.
MISCELLANEOUS.
MY FIRST PARTY.
Writ, by the sufferer as soon as he got over it.
‘ Charles you must go with me to Mrs.
Brown’s to-night.’
1 Me ! Why, Ellen, you know
‘ That you have never ‘been to a party be
fore,’ I suppose. So much the more rea
son why you should go now. Here you are
eighteen years old, and half through col
lege. It’s high time to make a beginning.’
I don’t know what under heaven I should
do there.’
‘What all the other young men do ; talk
to the ladies.’
‘ I’m afraid I could’nt do much that way.
To tell you the truth, I hav’nt ‘small talk’
enough to go to a party.’
‘Vastly complimentary! But. suppose
WASHINGTON, (WILKES COUNTY, GA.,) FEBRUARY 88, 1841.
I you pulldown your towering intellect a lit
tle, and condescend to lay aside your books
for one night, and mingle with us ordinary
I mortals, on a footing of equality. It won’t
I do you any serious injury.’
‘ But, Kllen, I have no invitation.’
Because, Mrs. Brown did not know that
! you were hero. If she had known of your
j arrival in town, she would certainly have
| sent you an invitation. Don’t you remcm
j her she gave you a general invitation last
I winter V
I was not altogether convinced by this
I logic, but my cousin was determined to lake
;no excuse. Finding escape impossible, I
j resigned myself to my fate, and went to
Stewarts for a pair of white kids.
| Parties and balls have always been my
I especial detestation. I have often wonder
! cd why they were invented : and alter 111a
jny profound cogitations on the subject,
I could only find these two reasons ; first, to
enable ladies and gentlemen of fashion to
kill time ; and secondly, to afford a sort
of market, where young women may lie
shown oil to tlie best advantage, arid young
men most readily entangled in the snares of
Cupid anil Hymen. Now, touching the
first of these motives, 1 never find the hours
hang heavy on my hands. ‘ Ars longa, vi
ta brevis.’ ‘Artis long, and time is fleeting,’ j
as Longfellow translates it; and 1 have al
ways quite as much to do as I can conve
niently manage. With respect to the sec- !
ond. I have never been matrimonially in-j
clincd ; and least of all just now, when it I
requires all my energies to support my siti
! glo seif. Heaven knows what I should do I
with a wife and three small . But !
lam digressing. Suffice it to say, I have j
no earthly motive to go to parties of any ]
kind, except it should be the supper ; and
that, to use a common but expressive phrase |
‘don’t pay.’ But I write of a time when I j
was younger. I had not then ‘seen the fol- :
ly’ of the thing, and I consented in spite of
my better judgment.
The eventful hour ot my ‘first appear
ance’ drew nigh. ‘ l arrayed myself tor the
nonce in a full-dress suit, with pumps and |
silk stockings. I abominate pumps. They j
seem to have been invented on purpose to j
cripple the wearer. If they are tight, you
are forced to manoeuvre about like a cat :
shod with walnuts. The man who first in- I
trodueed dress-boots, deserves to be enrolled
among the benefactors of the human race.
But at this time tiiey were not generally
worn : so I crammed my feet, as I have j
said, inlo a pair of pumps. Having perfor- j
mod my ablutions with the most scrupulous j
care, and ascertained, by divers surveys 1
that I was ‘commeil faut’ in every respect, |
“* I I
I emptied about half the contents of a hot
j 1
tie of Cologne upon my white kerchief, took
a moderate draught out of the same, (I
mean the bottle,) by way of inspiring my- |
self with a little Dutch courage, and then i
drawing on my new gloves, I sallied forth, j
Now behold us, myself and cousin, de- j
sccnding from the dressing-room to Mrs. 1
Brown’s well filled parlor. I heartily wish
ed myself safe at home again, for in spite of
the Cologne, I felt a sort of all overishness
which as the novel writers say, can bo more
easily imagined than described.’ It was
not modesty, nor bashfulness; these are
commodities with which I was never over
stocked. I could even then, at an examina
tion, rattle ofTan extempore translation of a
passage which I had never before seen,
with such rapidity as to puzzle the profes
sor completely ; or hold a half-hour’s alter
cation in the reading-room with the tutor, j
on the proper reading of a line of Ilomer ; j
and since that time, l have delivered lec- j
turcs, addressed political meetings, called |
on very particular friends to borrow money,
and performed various other acts, which re- j
quire an extra quantity of brass. It was ;
the sense of utter unfitness for my present
situation, of being completely ineptus, as
the Old Romans used to call it, it was the
consciousness of being as much out of my
element as a shad would be on the top of a
church steeple. I hate to he a cipher
any where ; here I was the veriest of ci
phers.
We had exchanged the usual civilities
with our hostess ; my cousin was surround
ed by a group of beaux, and 1 stood still
and silent, without the slightest idea of
what was to be done next. A young man
approached, in a claret-colored coat, yel
low gloves, and blue cravat. Ilcwasone
of those cousins or nephews who are always
at hand, on such occasions, to make them
selves ‘generally useful.’ Mrs. Brown in
troduced him ; we bowed and shook hands
after the most approved fashion.
‘ Do you dance. Mr. Cebo V
PUBLISH KD EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
1 ‘V e—es, that is,—l believe 1 know how.’
‘ Let me have the pleasure ofintroducing
you to a young lady, quoth he; andtaking
possession of my unresisting arm, he draged
me through the crowd, halfaeross the room,
ami presently came to a sudden halt in
front of a Miss, apparently some fifteen
years old.
‘Miss Cleveland, allow me to have the
measure of introducing to you Mr. Colic.’
‘ Good evening, Miss Cleveland,’ said I.
executing a bow with all the grace 1 could
Waster. Otfsliot my evil genius in the yel
lin’ gloves, leaving m c sub cullro.
Miss Cleveland murmured something in
! rqily which I did not hear; then she look
el down at her feet very sentimentally, and
presently the little foot moved, ala Kve
Kfingham,
Miss Cleveland continued to contemplate
her shoes with remarkable assiduity, while
I. lo keep company, took a comprehensive j
survey of my pumps. In this situation we
stood ior some minutes; I waited very po
litely for the lady to open the conversation :
but finding no indications of such adisposi
tio|ion her part, I at length made a desper- i
atij attempt.
‘Very warm evening, Miss Cleveland.’
I Miss Cleveland replied in the affirma
j live.
‘But it was wanner yesterday, continued
I, rigorously following up my first move-j
mint.
The lady assented to this proposition like- !
1 wi.ie.
There was another long pause. 1 began |
to feel fidgetty. M years, which I felt gro
-1 1 - • ° I
wing red, were stunned by the incessant j
clatter of tongues every where around me.
The more 1 desired to say something, the
more I did’nt know what to saw At last
an idea flashed across my mind, and was
instantly pressed into service.
‘ Have you seen the exhibition of the Na
tional Acariemi, Miss Cleveland ?
• No Sir, I have not !’
This was a complete damper. 1 was ut
terly compulsed. Happily, at this moment
was heard the welcome call : “ Gentlemen
take your partner for a cotillion.’ lied nil’
Miss Cleveland to her place, trying to rec- !
olleet as much as I could of ‘the steps’
which I had learned three years before at
school.
Jingle, Jingle ! went the piano. ‘ For
ward two! quoth the M. C. pro tem ; and
off started the dancers. I believe I trod on :
my partner’s toes occasionally, and once or
twice came near ruuingover a small young I
lady who was my vis-a vis. But on the j
whole, things went off, as could ho expoc- i
ted.’
‘ Anything for a change,’ as the vaga- j
bond said’ when they took him to the watch
house. The company decided that it was
too warm to dance, (l had been ofthat opin
ion for some time previous,) and determined 1
to have a little music, by way of variety.—
Accordingly, demand was made on a young 1
lady, who. after declaring, first, that she
never sung; secondly, that she did’nt know
how to sing; and thirdly, that she liad’nt
practiced for six months, finally marched
up to the piano in grand style. I took Miss
Cleveland ‘in tow,’ as a sailor would say,
and sauntered in the same direction, on the
principle of what mathematicians call ‘the
sufficient reason,’ namely, because there
was no particular motive Cor my going any
where else. The fair performer, after tur
ning over about two dozen songs, at last
succeeded in finding one to her taste. My
eye was accidentally caught by the title.—
To my utmost surprise and gratification, it
was neither I Di Piacar,’ nor ‘Tu Vedrai ,’
nor any other fashionable Italian—melody,
I suppose 1 must call it—but a beautiful
Scotch ballad.
The diffident artiste commenced, There
is an old adage about not hallooing,’ etc.,
and never was it more forcibly exemplified
than in the present instance. As it has
been said of Carlyle and his imitators, they
write German with English words, so it
might be said of the young lady, that she
sung Italian with Scotch words. She length
ened out the strains, as if she never could
have enough of them, like a fly crawling
through a pot of honey. Annoyed beyond
measure by the performance, 1 leaned a
gainst a corner of the wall, and sought the
last refuge of the miserable. But a ‘coy
dame was sleep to me.’ I could command
only a reverie.
I was awakened by a grand crash. A
young lady, with any amount of mouth, and
a very small quantity of nose, was doing
execution on the unfortunate instrument, at
the rate of twenty knots an hour, and let
ting loose upon society a vast number of
words in some unknown tongue pitched in
I the shrillest possible treble ; while a gen
tleman in two waistcoats, with one side of
[ li is collar standing up and the other turned
| down, and his mouth awry with musical in
j tensity, was accompanying her in die very
deepest kind of bass. 1 listened out ui’purc
| astonishment, and soon distinguished tiio
I words, ‘Dove, dove, dove, il moi valor.’—
‘(1 am not sure that I have spelt the words
; correctly,) repeated again and again, in
; the loudest conceivable tone, and terrible
thundcrings of the piano.
Now is it not surprising, that hearing
those words so often repeated, I should have
felt some curiosity to learn their meaning.
‘Il moi valor,’ I conjectured to mean either
■my \alor or ‘my value most probably
the funner, since the value of such a per-
I formanee appeared to me exceeding
ly trifling, whereas the valor required to
execute it before so large an audience might
jhe considerable. But ‘dove’—what could
j that mean ? Ilooked anxiously around, in
hope of discovering some from whom tile i
desired information might be extracted.— 1
To my great relief, I recognised two old
i school mates whom 1 had not before obscr
j veil.
‘Good evening, Johnston! llow are
; you !’
1 ‘ Good evening ! Glad to see you here. ’ j
‘Canyou tell mcwhati/ore means ?’
‘ Vo-vtiy ? (he knew rather less Italian!
than I did,) why, ‘go away !’ to be sure.’
Not feeling quite certain of the oorrect- j
ness of this version, I applied to the second, j
All, Smith, how arc you ? Can you tell
me what dove means !’
Do—ve 1 I believe it is the Italian for ;
dove.’ And with this lucid explanation, 1 |
was obliged to rest content.
The duet like all other sublunary things t
came to an end m course or time. Slipper
soon followed, during which 1 enjoyed some J
sensible conversation concerning old times J
with mv two friends; but as soon as we I
had imbibed the necessary quantity of re- j
treshment, they carried off, or were carried
off, by their respective ladies. Someone
else had made away with Miss Cleveland, I
; and I was left to my own resources. First, !
I stood still in one corner for a few min
! utes; then I walked over to another, and !
! stood there ; next, I tried to listen to a song,
which was ‘ being murdered,’ but the in
| stinet of self-preservation soon Compelled I
me to retire to a respectful distance. Then j
1 trod on a lady ’s toe, and begged her par
don for so doing. Even this little incident
aflbrdcd me great relief.
Suddenly, a fan was dropped, I sprang
forward like a young comet, nearly demol
ishing an exquisite tv ho was advancing with
the same object, seized the fallen article,
and presented it to its fair owner. But at
that moment, l was sensible that something j
about me had given way. Partly conceal
ing myself behind a window-curtain, I on- (
I deavored to reconnoitre the extent of the ;
damages. My worst apprehensions were
i realized ! 1 had ruptured my coat, from
under the right arm half way across my
hack.
‘ Well, thought I, Tempus cst eundi, as
thogranunar has it; it’s time for me to he
off!’ And without bidding good-bye to any
one, 1 manoeuvred myself out of the room
as quickly as quickly as possible, and star
toil with rapid march forborne, leaving my j
cousin to be escorted thither by someone
of her many beaux, although 1 had left be
fore any one seemed to begin to entertained
an idea ofgoing, it was past twelve when I
reached my comfortable dormitory. It.
took me a very little while ‘to peel,’ and
snugly ensconce myself between the sheets.
Next morning I was awakened by ourl
rish waiter making a variety ofnoises in the
room. I rubbed my eyes and stared at him
vacantly.
‘ Breakfast is ready, Mister Charle.’
‘ Well, Patrick, tell them not to wait for
me : and—l say, Patrick !’
‘ Yes, sir.’
‘ Y r ou need’nt put any thing by for me : I
shant want it.’
THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE.
They who have not given the subject some
thought, are hardly aware of the remarka
ble extension of the English language, an
extension that almost seems to warrant the
entertainments of such an idea as the title
of this article indicates. If we glance at
North America, we will find that, with but
a few unimportant exceptions, this lan
guage is universally spoken. In the Brit
ish West Indies, it has become the natural
tongue ; and, in South America, though the
British and American merchant, it is fast
’ supplanting the Spanish. In Atrica, it
i has been introduced at thq Cape of Good
tl . J, KAl’l’fli i* r inter.
I Hope, Sierra Leon, and other British settle
ments on the coar* ; and at Liberia, by the
transfer of a large number of colored emi
grants from the United States, who will, no
doubt in time exercise a leading and im
portant influence over the. extensive and
thickly peopled districts traversed bv the
Niger. Already, many of the chiefs ire the
immediate neighborhood of the colony,
send their sons to the schools of the colonists
j to have them instructed in the various bran
: dies of the English education. Egypt is
said to contain more who speak the Eng-
lish language than ofthose who speak anv
other foreign tongue. In Ilinlostan, the
continued increase of British population,
and the gradual diminution of the Hindos
tancc and other native languages, in conse
quence of the chiefs and persons of distinc
tion sending their children to the English
schools—an example which is followed
more and more every year—will natural
ly tend to swell the number of those who
I speak the English language. Tho pre
sent Chinese expedition will have the ef
fect, no doubt, to open the way for tho ex
tensive introduction of the language to the
“Super-Celestials.” In the Eastern Arcli
} ipelago, and in the Islands of the Pacific
j Ocean, by the aid of colonists and miswion
| aries, it has become widely dili’uned. It is
the language of all except the natives on
the continent of Australia on Van DieninnV
Land. In each of the four quarters of the
j globe, except continental Europe, this lan
! guage is spreading with great rapidity ;
ami even there, among German and French
scholars, a knowledge of English is deemed
indispensable. When this extensive diffu
sion of the English tongue is considered, in
connection with the fact that two hundred
years ago it was spoken only by a few
thousand of the millions who peopled the
Globe, the idea that it is to become, in time,
! the Universal language, does not seem so
1 improbable, as when merely glancing at
. tho subject. The increasing tiieilities fur
rapid and cheap communication with all
’ parts of the world, and the advance posi
j tion with Great Britain and the United
’ States now hold in manufactures, trade,
the mechanics arts, literatuje, sciences and
! natural philosophy, will naturally tend to
! the extension of the English language. As
! the desire for knowledge increases in the
I now darkened and thickly por
| t ions of the world, the inhabitants ofthose
I regions will naturally turn to where mind
gives the most imposing and brilliant ema
nations. But we will not enlarge further
at this time, on a subject that grows as w j
consider it. We have said enough to call
the attention of those who are interested in
the progress of the human mind towards
perfection to an idea which we may, at
j some future time, more fully illustrate.—
! Baltimore Sun.
SELECTION OF BOOKS.
Biographies of good men, well written,
and, by the way, such hooks are scarce,
cannot be too much sought or tun closely
perused. Works of this description, if they
are what they ought to Lo, exhibit human
character in portrait, afl’otd us noble exam
ples of perseverance, of benevolence, of vir
tue, and, not unlikely of errors to lie shun
ned. They often tend to unravel and rend
that mysterious mantle which shrouds front
the inexperienced eye of the young and ob
scure frailties and imperfection of the great
man’s character. None respect men of c
minence so little as their own valets—and
why, but because these, their dependants,
are witnesses of their honors of relaxation,
and have discovered the important secret
that they are nothing but men and in most
respects very much like themselves.
The fact is, that, without enjoying the un
reserved intimacy of the great or learning
from biography, the means by which they
have become so, we are prone to look at
them as they are and not as they “ were,
and hence to attribute their political or in
tellectual elevation to superior mental en
dowments by nature, when in all instances
at anv rate in tiiis country, they are boih,
almost exclusively, the fruit of the “perse
verance that never relaxes, and vigilance
that never tires.” We need not commend
to the perusal of any young man the biog
raphy of Dr. Franklin, for all, under whose
eyes this article may fall, have probably
read it. If not, let them do so and learn the
way to wealth—to eminence. That little
book ; that little anti-biographic duodecimo
of one hundred and seventy-five pages (the
form in which we have read, and re-road,
has by its circulation in the United States,
t done more in redeeming talent from obscu
t rity, than any-. —than all other works of the
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