Newspaper Page Text
S>. COTTIKCi) Editor.
\>. ;{.—Nl'iVV SERIES.]
Him & PLANTERS GAZETTE.
T E RI\IS:
Published weekly at Three Dollars per iinMiin,
if paid at the time of subscribing; or Three
Dollars and Fifty Cents, if not paid till the expi
ration of six months.
No paper to be discontinued, unless at I lie
option of the Editor, without the settlement of alt
arrearages.
ID” Letters, on business, must In: post paid, to
insure attention. No communication shall hi
published, unless we arc made anptainlcd with the
name of the author.
TO ADVERTISERS.
Advertisements, not exceeding one square, firsl
insertion, Seventy-fire Cents; and for each sub
sequent insertion, Fifty Cents. A reduction v. ill
be made of twenty-five per cent, to those who
advertise by the year. Advertisements 1 !
limited when handed in, will be inserted till !■ r
bid, and charged accordingly.
Sales of Land and Negroes by Executors, Ad
ministrators, and Guardians, are required bylaw,
to be advertised, in a public Gazette, sixty 1 ays
previous to the day of sale.
The sales of Personal Property must bo adver
tised in like manner, forty days.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an K. Into
must be published forty days.
Notice that application will be made to the
Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Ne
groes, must be published weekly for four mouths:
notice that application will be made for Letters of
Administration, must be published thirty days;
and Letters of Dismission, six mouths.
mu,,
AGENT S.
THE FOLLOWING GENTLEMEN WILL FORWARD TIIE
NAMES OF ANY WHO MAY WISH TO SUBSCRIBE :
.7, T. <)- G. 11. Wooten,'A. D. Slatham,Dnnburp,
M il lory sville, !. F. Talom, Lincoln-
Fclix G Edwards, l’e-| ton,
tersburg, Elbert, jO. A.Luckett, Crawford
(ien. Grier, Raytown] viile,
Taliaferro, j IV. Davenport, Lcxing
.7miv Dell, Povvelton] ton,
Hancock, ! S. J- Dash, Irwington,
Wm. 1! Nelms, Elber-j Wilkinson,
tarn, j Dr. Cain, Cambridge,
John A. Simmons, Go-j Abbeville District,
shen, Lincoln, ‘ South Carolina.
Mail
POST OFFICE, (
Washington, Ga., January, 1841. $
AUGUSTA MAIL.
ARRIVES.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 5, A. M.
CLOSES.
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 2J, I’. M.
‘ MILLEDGEVILLE MAIL.
ARRIVES.
Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday, at b, A. M.
CLOSES.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 11, A. M.
CAROLINA MAIL.
ARRIVES.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 11, A. M.
CLOSES.
•Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 8, A. M.
ATHENS MAIL
ARRIVES.
Sunday and Wednesday, at i>, A. M.
CLOSES.
Sunday and Wednesday, at !!, A. M.
ELBERTON MAIL.
ARRIVES. CLn . n.
Thursday, at 8, P. M. | Tnumd.v., a 8, I. M
LINCOLNTON MAIL.
ARRIVES. CLOSES.
Friday, a’ 12, M. | Friday, at 12, M.
Dotting & bi tjleu,
ATTORMES,
HAVE taken an OFFICE over Cozart &
Woods Store.
March 11,1841. 28
JYoticc*
MR.W.W. WALLER, is hereby autiMiri/,
eel to act as my Agent and Attorney dur
ing my absence. A. A. CLR\ ELAND.
A u o!: s t *26, 1841 •> -
For Sale,
a The Subscriber oilers for sale, the
• fv premises on the Northeastern corner
SS.iiiiv th® Square, at present occupied by
JjJs&m. Mr. R. H. Vickers, as a Tavern.—
From 1..-: convenient locality, it is well suited for
either a Tavern, private Boarding-house, or a
private Residence. Any one disposed to pur
chase, can do so upon reasonable terms.
JAMES N. WINGFIELD.
July 8,1841. 45
For Sale*
a ~,A The Subscriber offers for sale his
place, within one mile of Raytown,
iu Taliaferro county, situated on
.-sassayga. Beaverdam Creek, adjoining James
Bro. , w.sq. and Messrs. Luckett’s. The im
provements are good, with a Gin and Gin House.
There are about Three Hundred and Sixty A
cres in the Tract, and about 175 Acres of which
are woodland. The place is very healthy, ‘and
there is a good Spring of Water near the Dwel
ling-House.
Also. —A Tract of Land in said county, situa
ted between Raytown and Washington, on Har
den's Creek, containing One Hundred Acres,
adjoining Mr. Joseph Campbell and Mrs. Ran
dolph. About GO Acres of this Tract is Wood
land—with some improvements thereon.
Any person wishing to purchase the above
property can have them on reasonable terms.
Apply to TERRENCE ROARK.
Raytown, August 18,1841. si 51
JYotice •
ALL persons indebted to the Estate of MARK
ANTHONY’, late of Lincoln county, dec'd,
are requested to come forward and make pay
ment, and those having demands, are requested
to present them in the time prescribed by law,
for payment.
J MARK S. ANTHONY’, Adm’r.
ELIZABETH ANTHONY’, Adm’x.
1 s *
WAsaiasoTflfto, (Wiife-iLs county, khitk3iishis ns, mss.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A.\ AWFUL WARNI U
liEI'ORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASK.
Nathan Novcrpay, of Baldwin county,
the gentleman immortalized in that won
derfully erudite work, The Georgia Jus
tice, was, as every on, asserted who did not
know him well, “a very good sort < ‘ u man
in Ida way,” and so said some of those who
did know him, but they always added
“ Hang his nay !”
Nathan got the character of a “very
clever sort of man in his way,” because he
never took drunken frolics—oftmer than
once a week ; a! ay.- paid id.-debt: —
execution was got out against him ; never
killed his neighbors’ pigs or poultry—when
any one was looking on ; never stole their
corn—in the day-time; was a kind father—
when ho was dead drunk ; and an affec
tionate husband—when his wife did not
cross him ; when she did, he thrashed her.
Nathan, by means of his excellent art of
hiding, might have got along throu.'/h the
world very well, gone out of it Vi ry res
pectably, and then had an elegant grave
stone and a flattering epitaph, had it not
been for one grand error of his life ; what
that error was the sequel will show :
Om dark and cloudy night, lie, on his old
horse Hall, was jogging along (not soberly,
for he had spent the day at a grog-shop
where he had got spirited, cavorted largely
and had three fights, and a foot race.) —
Nathan, we say, was making for home
something the worse for whiskey, dozing in
the saddle, and occasionally rousing him
self to address some observations to himself
or his steed. Now, Old Ball, horse as he
was, was much the most intelligent animal
of the two. Ilis character was a study for
a philosopher. lie never, like Balaam's
ill-behaved charger, attempted to argue a
point with his master, but always gave a si
lent assent to his observations. He always
comprehended his master’s situation, and
accommodated himself to his lurches when
in a particular condition. Did Nathan fall
forward till his nose was buried in Old
Ball’s (angled mane, or backward till his
bump of philoprogenitiveness was pillowed
on the crupper, did he sway to the right or
to the left, the horse understood it all, and
governed himself accordingly, so his mas
ter generally kept the saddle till his steed
carried him borne, or if he fell off, Old Ball
stood by him like a Trojan, till Nathan had
had his nap out.
They had descended, from the usual lev
el of the pine woods, into a swampy bottom
where the gloomy and thick foliage of the
vines and bushes made the road extremely
dark, when Old Ball suddenly pricked up
his ears and stopped. This unusual pro
ceeding on the part of his nag, waked Na
than from his doze.
“ Hallo,” lie muttered, “ what’s the mat
ter now—any thing broke ? Get up Old
Ball. What do you ’spose the old woman
’ll say, if you keep on stoppin’ here all
night? Humph! ah! yes! The old wo
man always lecturing me about liquor and
temp’rance sieties and so on. How dern
dark it is, wonder they don't snuff up them
stars so they’d give a belter light ! I say,
where are we Old Ball, are yon guano to
stop here, or are you gv ine -u ? What,
you won’t ay ! well, - tend still, I'm agreed,
and when you are tir and of re-tin . v. by, go
ahead, will you ! 1 say, old horse, let’s
have a song, jine the chorus will you ?
Come, here goes ! “ sound,” as the singing
master says. Fa, sol, la. me, hum ! “ sing.”
Old King Cole was a jolly old soul,
And a jolly old soul was he, was he,
lie called for his pipe and he called for his
bowl,
And he called.for his Wo ! stea
dy Old Ball !” But Old Ball wouldn’t
“ steady,” he suddenly bolted off in a fright
and deposited his burden with no very gen
tle emphasis, in the road. Nathan's grunt,
as his back struck the ground, demonstra
ted the force of the concussion.
“ Thar now ! I declar !” grumbled the
dethroned, when he had picked up a few of
his scattered senses, “what’s got into the
old crittur! Never know’d him cut up sich
a shine before !” Seen the and 1 I reckon.”
“ Exactly so,” said a voice in his ear,
and instantly, much to Nathan’s astonish
ment, every thing in the vicinity Mas illu
minated by numberless flickering lights,
which seemed to start out of the earth, and,
as he afterwards said, looked like “ ten
thousand Jacky-me-lanterns,” and under
every light appear a hideous baboon-like
form and a grotesque visage. Nathan came
to the conclusion he had fallen into the
hands of the person he had just mentioned,
and therefore attempted to get up and run
away, hut for some reason or other his limbs
refused to do duty, he therefore M as obliged
to content himself with lying still and u'on
dering what was coming next.
“ Good morning, Nat,” said one of the
imps advancing and giving a kick that sent
ail the breath out of his body again, “ How
are you, old fellow ? Glad to see you,”
said another, pulling out a handful of his
hair. “ How is your crop,” shouted a third,
twitching his ear. “ How goes it, old coon,”
screamed a fourth, twisting his nose, and
the whole legion commenced drumming on
his carcase and tormenting him in every
sort of way ; yet, at the same time making
the most solicitous and friendly inquiries
after his health and prospects in life, ail 0;
which proceedings seemed to add greatly to
the clamorous glee of the operators, but
were much to the discomfort of the operat.ee,
M’ho was unable to make the slightest re
sistance. Nathan opened his mouth to re
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
monstrato, in he most polite and formal
way he knew of, against this uncourteous
ti< atment, but had scarcely uttered the first
words of his address, “ Friends and Fellow-
Citizens !” m lien Ids M'liple face was plas- j
lend over with about a gallon of swamp
mud which cui his speech shorter than the
“Hour Ilule” does that of a long-winded
member of Congress, and while he was
sputtering it. out his mouth and yanking it
out of his eyes, (lor he could not lift his
bund to clear them,) sonic one called out in
an authoritative tone, “Oh yes, Oh yes,
Oh yes! Nathan Ncverpav, come into
Court!”
“ Coining,” exclaimed all his tormentors
in shrill chorus, and Nathan felt himself
lifted and carried some distance; so uln 11
he at length succeeded in getting the mud
out of his optics, he found himself laid on
tlm ground under a swampgrape vine winch
(brined a spacious arbor, light as day from
the “Jacky-me-lanterns” carried by the
posse of imps.
“ Let the prisoner stand up,” said a stern
voice.
Nathan found himself standing on his
head with his feet in the air.
“ Stop those pranks,” said the same
voice, “ and stand him up on t’other end.”
Nathan revolutionized and came right
side up as suddenly as if his fi et had been
“ fifty-sixes,” and his noddle a balloon !
He saw, before him, sitting on the trunk
of a fallen oak, a grave-looking personage
neatly dressed in the latest and most fash
ionable style ; indeed in so unexceptiona
j ble a manner, that any one Mould have
I thought he just ernergi and from a ball-room,
except that his feet seemed not formed for
dancing, and an appendage appeared in his
rear which might have proved an inconve
nience in a Multz. However, he Mould
have been thought a nice young man lor a
ladies’ tea-party, if his physiognomy had
not betrayed that he M'as no longer young,
Ids complexion having the appearance of
leather, scorched and shrivelled by fire,
j out of M’hicli his great, green, fiery eyes
shone like an mil’s in tie- dark.
“ So, here you are, Nat,” said he, “ how
do you find yourself by this time ? 1
thought all along you’d get into my clutch
es at last! You’ve been a great rascal in
your time, hav’nt you, Nat ?”
Now Nathan, though a little frightened,
was yet too much intoxicated to ho abso
lutely panic-struck. His ire Mas raisi dat
the tone of the question, and be felt by no
means disposed to accede to a propt .’.ion
so plumply put ; so steadying himself and
looking as ferocious as he well could, he
answered the interrogatory of the gentle
man in black by asking another, and a ve
ry saucy one:
“ Who tlie d- —-1 are you, old one
“You have hit it, I am just he and no
other! Who Mould have thought you was
so cute at a guess, ho ! ho ! ho !” and old
Nick opened his mouth and laughed till
Nathan could see his throat glowing like a
fiery furnace. All Ned’s impudence de
serted him in a moment at learning the pre
sence lie was in, and he stood staring at the
“old one” in mute dismay. “Butcome,”
continued the man in black, “my time
i here is short, for I’ve got an Election to at
j tend in New-York in a few Ilnurs, and my
; political friends there can’t get along n ith
j out me ; so let us proceed to business.—
You’re in a Lad fix, my friend, I’ve got
many grievous accusations against you,
hut will try you only on the most serious
to-night; I’ve said you were a great rascal,
now I’m going to prove it : Clerk read in
dictmerit No. 10, against Nathan Ncver
pay !
A short, pursy fiend stepped out of the
croM'd of attendants and placing a mon
strous pair of spectacles upon his nose,
which organ by its rubicund hue, betoken
ed an acquaintance M’ith the bottle, (spirits,
from affinity, wo suppose are fond of spirits)
he commenced reading the following accu
sation, in a voice that sounded like that of
an asthmatic locomotive.
“ Nathan Neverpay, of Baldwin, long
subject to the jurisdiction of this honorable
Court, stands charged with having
CHEATED hH EDITOR.
For that, whereas the said Nathan did
subscribe to, and was for a long time, to
wit, for the space of a year or more, weekly
receiving a certain newspaper called the
WASHINGTON NEWS, and neither at
the end of said year, or during the lapse
thereof, ever paid for the said paper, but ut
terly neglected and refused so to do ; and
moreover, when dunned, said “ He’d he
hanged if he would pay,”—and for that,
although the Editor out of his natural kind
ness of heart and with some faint hopes of
getting his money, still continued to for
ward the said paper to the said Nathan—
yet the said Nathan confiding in the dis
tance between him and the said Editor, and
supposing himself out of his reach, still ut
terly refused as aforesaid and ordered the
Post-Master to send the said paper hack,
although he liked it so well that he after
wards sent his boy every week to borrow it
of his neighbor, who was a good paying
subscriber, by that means cheating the Edi
tor out of his hard-earned dues, and show
ing a meanness that would have put even
the Prince of Darkness himself to the blush.
And for that the said Nathan, M'as a sub
scriber to, and did receive a certain other
newspaper called the (I , and, when
dunned for the pay, sent the publisher some
ragged shin-plasters not worth the postage,
knowing them to be worthless, having pre
viously tried to pass them at a Grocery, and
afterwards M’ont about vainly trying to os
tablish a character for honesty by saying
be had paid for his m u paper, uhich wa
a great lie, and every body, who knew sn:d
Nathan, knew it to lie so. AllofM-hich
was contrary to every dictate of conscience
and like a dirty scoundrel v-hich said Na
than is.
B. BELIAL, Solicitor-General.”
“Well, Nat, what have you to say to this
catalogue of crimes, do you acknou'ledge
the corn, or must we proceed to the proof?
To this query of the gentleman in black,
Nathan answered not a word. During the
proceedings, he had been gradually getting
more sober, and as the liquor died within
him, his heart died with it. lie was total
ly chunk—founderc and !
“ He stands mute, please your honor,”
said the pursy Clerk.
“ Silence is taken, in this Court, for a
confession of guilt,'’ said iho Judge solemn
ly, “tin re fore it only remains to pass sen
tence Lpon hint. Nathan, till the world
says (and For a wonder, in this matter, all
the uorld speaks the truth,) that 1 love sin :
hut all the world ought to add that 1 don’t
love shifters ; therefore, it is not only my
duty, hut my pleasure to punish such hei
nous offenders as you are ; not from any
particular love 1 hear to Editors, they have
indeed my special aversion, because by dif
fusing knowledge they make the most a
larming inroads into my kingdom. But
the code I administer compels nm to punish,
far more severely than others, offenders a
gainst them. They, of all meu, have the
best proof of the truth of the doctrine of to
tal depravity ; for it seems to me, every
tody takes a pride in defrauding them ; but
let all who attempt it, he ware, sooner or la
ter those who wrong them arc sure to fall
into my power.
i !o;tr your sentence, as you said you’d
he hanged if you’d pay for your paper, I am
now going to have you hung, because you
didn t. It is a light punishment, but let all
such chaps as you take an awful warning
from your fate. You are to be taken by
the servants of this Court and upon the top
of the highest tree in these woods are to he
hung by the .”
j Tiie grinning crowd of demons, which
surrounded the prisoner, did not give the
j Judge time to finish the sentence. “ Hoist
! him up, was the cry ; Nathan felt himself
going up, up, up! despite of his shrieks ;
1 there was a crash, a grating s-. nsation along
. his bad bone, and all M’as over.
Next morning, a person passing near the
place Mas alarmed by the cries of a person
iu dix'ress. A voice which seemed to com
from the vicinity of the clouds cried out—
“ Hallo! murder! fire! hoopoe! Some
cudy come here !” After a diligent search,
he found Nathan suspended from otto of the
topmost limbs of a gigantic pine, which
passing beneath the waistband of his pan
taloons came out above the collar of lit
coat. Very embarrassed circumstances he
was in, to ho sure ; and his legs and arm
sprawling about in every direction, 1 - lo h
ed likeaniinineti.se frog danglin'; by a fish
hook run through his hack. The nd--la
bors were summoned, and with great diffi
culty, Nathan was got down (rum his ele
vated situation. But he ties - r rce ivete.l
the adventures of that night. On ncco :1 it
of bis pendulous position, till the whiskey
in his carcase hud accumulated in the hol
low place where his brains ought to have
horn, and brought on a disease that and dud.
the doctSrs; so one fine evening Nathan
Neverpay, went the way of all flesh. But
he paid the Printer before he died, on ac
count of which riglHeous act, let us hope
that some of his foibles M ere forgotten and
forgiven.
From this veracious history, delinquent
subscribers may learn to he careful how
they travel late at night.
From the Brother Jonathan.
OPPOSITION PSALMODY.
BY EZEKIEL JO.XES, ESQ.
Such commotions, and heart-burnings,
and quarrels, and contentions, as we have
had down here to Jonesville, would bo hard
to heat. One part of the parish sot right a
gin the other, and all the milk ol human
kindness forgotten, just as if there never
was such a thing. It had been e’en a most
brother agin brother, and quite husband a
gin wife. But I’ll go back and begin at
the beginning.
Well, the fore part of last winter there
was a roving jour shoemaker come along
with his kit. He got a job of Guttridge,
who sells shoes among the rest of his dry
goods, groceries and medicines ; found a
corner for his work-bench down to the shop
that used to he Jo Gleason’s, and went to
shoe-making and psalm-singing in right
good earnest. The creature belongs to
Connecticut, and is just the most real, gen
uine specimen of a Yankee that ever hap
pened to light upon our parts. He isn't
much beholden to any body for good looks,
that’s a fact. He’s screwed base notes out
of his wapper jau’s, till his mouth is askew,
like a blighted apple. He’s smoked a pipe
till his cheeks are tanned and stuck down
to the bones of his face like an old shoe to
the foot, and the color of his skin comes as
near sole-leather as any thing in creation.
It’s a treat to sec old Gould work, and to
hear him sing. He picks out leather, and
cuts out a sole to tiie tune of Old Hundred,
or Wells, or some such slow-moving long
metre. Hammering leather on his lap
stone is an occasional performance, that he
always sets to an occasional anthem, and if
the leather had any feelings, it would find
amen! A-a-men ! Ah-ah-men ! a leetle the
most striking word with a shoe-hatnmer ac
companiment, that ever was set to music,
lie stitches to or “As shep
herd s watched. ’ This last is a rent fa
vorite tune ol his. as will he scon hv-and
bye. tie rubs off soles sometimes to one
tune, and sometimes to another, according j
as he o ‘:•■■■. 1- wid-’ awake; . i.d tie,
boot gem.-rally to the 1)• ixology. Ive Match
ed him c.nr tderuble, for John Gould is an .
original, and no mistake.
John Gould is a great sth kler for Scrip- !
turn ; hut lie's like a good many others in I
tli” application of Holy Writ to Itk-oMti
purposes end notions, lie picks out on
text, and you'd think, to hear him talk, tlia
there wau't any thing eh in the Bible.
You vo seen such people, I daresay.—
There s some for lest.us e, make a< ..
handle of the command, “ he net right< o,
over much,” and precious good cere .1. v
1 do take not to hurt themselves u ith over
much righteousness. Ti n, thens the
permission, “take a little min • for the
I stomach’s sake and thine often itifinnitie:
j has made more invalids, and stomachs that
have soaking sakes, than ever will be
j known til! the day of judgment. .1 dinm
| Gould s ti xt is what St. I’aul says about
being all tilings to all men ; and M’ln ther
j lie’s got the apostle’s idea or not, lie’s got
011 c of his own. that he carries out prettv
considerable thorough.
John worked himself into every body’s
j mess before he had been in town a month.
1 here was no body living like John Gould.
Every body found him the most entertain
ing and agreeable and intelligent mon in
conversation that ever was. And what do
you think he said to please \in all that
way ? Only half a dozen words.
Ive told you before about a ’pothecary s
shop being a great lounge in the country.
So is a shoe-maker's. There always hap
pens, I can’t toll how it is so, but it is so,
to.be just one bench that nobodv uses ; for
in a gang of shoemakers, somebody is al
ways sick, or gone down to York or Boston
for shoe binding, or leather, or to carry
1 home work done to order, or something.—
! When that ain’t the case, somebody is gone
I to mill, or to u’ork on the farm, or mending
a pig stye, or trading horses. Let it come
I about as it will, it is always an establish’ and
I fact that there’s one bench in a shoemaker’s
shop that nobody is working on. Bid you
I ever set down on a shoemaker’s bench ! i;
1 you didn t never, you’ve got a treat in store,
; 1 can tell von. It goes ahead of stuff and
! mahogany chairs lor real case and com for'.
: anv dav in the Meek.
•Shining like a glass buttle, with ap ■ ii
! that can’t he got at if you try a pure
there it is, inviting and cos.’ : g the ! •eu
| ger. In he conn .-. first coin- . first set''.” and.
“ Where’s Bill, or Jo- ?” he ask as th
j ease may he, when he sees the oinpt’ seat.
I “Oh, he’s gone to mill, or to York, or - .
lor something, somebody answers. Loun
ger then me Ices hitch after hitch towards
j tin- bench, till down he squats into it. as ea
;sy as rolling oil’ a log. It’s so low, and
j gives so nicely, lets tli-• whole body dou n
I into such a regular easy fix, that a real
I loafer is made ; r ; - day Mi en i.
gets squatted. Then a fellow don’t want
j for amusement; neither. There's plenty of
| bit afloat: . layin.fr tad to wliiith . .
:km • ito cut V'Uir n ■ -mu 1, wh
’ sharpen your own ktii.e, woo.! n • !t ■
Ito chew up.and a whole bench full oflhmgs
| that you can put out “ford r • : r. ‘ll . >ic
! fort. It ti: re's any real hap; in s it:
world, it’s in disturb:::., and disarranging
another limit’s tools. Af-er all this pri •
face, I'll give you a sample of one . John
■ Gould's levee...
“ A pleasant day,” . ays - fid! nv that
may be on tin stool.
j John Gould is singing a hymn, of course.
ile jus! kc ps up the • ■ u ion, - ayi: .
| one of his two or three words in parenthesis
j like ; aluuiys putting hi . an ever right into
| the middle of tiie line. “ A pleasant day,
j says lounger; John is singing:
“When I-a-isruel of—Je •’ *—• lie I, -v iailovc 1"-
“ Fine grou'ing w-eithcr too.”
“ Out from the i. .d— j- >•>—of bondage van.".’’
Then may be there’s considerable of a
pause. The weather finished, politics came
next. “ President Tyler's just the right
sort of a man to take General Harrison's
place,” says the visitor.
“Hark from the tombfl-exc%-a doleful sound.” •
“ Right up and down, and plain as a pike
staff.”
“ Mine ears attend —-jest so —the cry.”
By this time there’s tM'o or three more
conic in, standing in regular order for their
turns at the bench. No. 1, he gets up when
he thinks lie’s bothered the others long e
notigii keeping them waiting. No. 2, slides
into the seat, and the u'eather is attended
to first, of course. Then No. 3, taki sup
the newspaper—for there’s always a neu’s
paper in a shoemaker’s shop—“ Well, 1
swan to man if old Tyler haint made a fool
of himself!”
“ Lite is the time —do tell —to serve the Lord”—
“ Why, he’s neither one thing nor anoth
er ; he’s just nothing at all!”
“ The time to insure —jest so —the great reward.”
That’s the way he docs it. That’s the
May John Gould understands St. Paul.—
He’s all things to all nun sure enough, ad
ministration, opposition, orthodox and uni
versalists—he agrees with ‘em all. lb
just their opinion exactly. 1 nev. see him
fairly cornered hut one o, and then !, wr.g
gled out of it, just like ail eel. tie was
“ jest so’ing” to an out-an out democrat,
while a whig was waiting for Ins oca.!, and
hearing every word; and udiut uot.s the
fellow do, hut winked to the whig, while he
“ jest so’ed” to the democrat ; ns much as
jto say wc understand each other.” And
.Mm G Mud did understand thorn both • u t
n. .9. LAFPEL, Printer.
as he and” >k every body els ■ —but it lakes a
long head and pretty middling sharp eye;
t” read him. T can tell ymu.
F.iin li., ’ th” h■-i.lt r oft li. ,1
had p.ct'y much all to do with the ranging;
la re, ever since I can renumber. Sam i-t
i fi u. nr Ily •■ and M ll : te'ir
upper crust along with Squire Fniith, and
Pui-oii Williams, and tin - I. and master,
;aid lin -hi as woil say,my. elf, ’ tuc 11 us,
jymhe m I!>• nev 1 1 “iild lie 1: un lit cx
.1 tly to like .1 hn (build's ■ :y !c et singing,
. ami 1 have s; • u him turn round as short as
, I something bit him, <<f a Sunday in the
• tii;: 1 ’ 0. ‘ . -. when .1, hu Gould let out a!!
,he knew, ami mad Id v oice >.>unil above
i;:V Sax bury plays the h. s vie.!, and
■’ 0 e :.im or • ‘!: i, u!mi: J'llltl Gould puts
iii ■ loud, Pit! : into e, ■ jdiit too, and
, teak, . (!•• •o! l v. l l tell •'•: loud'.u -;• u'y*. —
Beta n Yin i til. 1!., v m ■;• •. .•.’ pretty
much all the music; but, they're getting
I me ahead of my story.
Sam never gave John Gould the least
shade of cn ouiau. iiient. He ivould’nt so
imien „ ■ “11 down to the singing meetings
i that ( build kept a getting up, and as to ask
ing the inter!'-; . r to his own house—sorry!
I guess he’d .e soon m nt an invite to Black
Hum k. But it he’d a had one rain of John’s
knack at managing, he would’nt hare In eu
so uppish. Old Guttridgc’s bov are too
tarnal busy to clear the >i: lies out of their
tillage laud, so they gather them up ill
heaps, and say they’re good to draw the
sun. That’s the May to deal uith trouble,
some things that you can’t get rid of. Man
age them, that's the uay Sum Baker ought
to have done M’ith die singing shoemaker;
but he wasn’t up to it. He buffed and
slighted him, got him aiurry and wicked :
: and now see M'liat followed :
Gould didn’t “ jest so” to very body for
j nothing. He didn't waste all that polite
ness for nothing, I etui tell you. lie had a
j wheel within a whev 1 ; a deep calculation
and scheme to carry'out. lie wanted to
! run an opposition to Bam Baker, right iu
1 the very eyes of the u h le congregation,
I and the cunning fellow worked it so that he
; did it too. us tin” us silk. It never seemed
: to be his plan, neither, nor to come out of
ids head any’ more than if he wasn’t a natty
! interested, “ John,” say's one of the loun
rs. one day “ you ought to get up a sing
-1 mg school.”
■ l. i’ y ml V” m— —in triumph on
” Tiicr” liuln't la en a regular singing
dic'd her. these five years, and there’s a
I lot on us would go.”
i“ ii.- chariot;:, ha- hii'semei. —-jest si —all sunk
—iV. ... ’ . 01, sol, s' 1 , la sol.”—
•Rap. tap, tap, til!‘>ry bang! went the
: iap-s!one 011 the floor, with u regular :.hoc
maker’s shy. I want to know—really—
j well—if I could g< 1 up one,” said John—
:if he hud;: ‘ i-• “ cutti,., :. “and con: ri
! ving hoyv it mas ;■i •• and ie for the last th ee
I ill'll.s. W. !!. til > li.ng and abort of it
! v. . . that J.din did op n. th:: e evening ; in
1 . • ;■! 1. i< . r an i John took up
•i: . fashion .! 1 lion of idling < * erv
!v that thev h • voices, at. i tha every
iy can sing well enough, iftl. y will o
.p: 11 tin ir mouth-;. 11” got in all the o!d
i ■ s that Bam Baker had told they
ii iild’nt ;. mid as 8u m : . uthcr afi der
-1 aiist, and strongly snap: eted of having an
in? lof hi.. v.'ii, and .Mill Gould is ar •
! :rular democrat. ho was never known lo
:iis:i■ with any L iy. he walla and stfaiglit
j ovc .’ the course. ‘ 1 L hit 1 lots of scholars,
and even some of the old choir undertook to
learn over again. Wc have (ichions up
1 .hero us well as down to York. John’s
inginn ho and b came all the litshion.—
l\ llows went to go Ii ‘ine M’ith the girls, and
the girls went because they Mere sure the
: fellows would !>•? there to go home with
1 them. Ho “jest soed” the scholars into a
precious good humor with him, and through
I them he got a great Gould party in the
i whole congregation. Sam Baker, he only
looked on and sneered to find folks could he
1 taken in so, but he said nothing.
Last Sunday’ M'as a week since John
’ Gould managed it so, that good old Parson
j Williams suggested that the new scholars
j had better take places in “ the seats” and
1 help out the choir. The dear old gentle
-1 man never has his eyes open to more than
I half what is going on, and really thought
| that he Mas recommending something that
j Mould delight all hands, and the old choir
jin particular. As soon as th thing was
j proposed, it was as good as sure. Ido
j wish you could have heard Aunt Sally run
on, when she heard ol it. “Lord!” says
she, “ 1 hope their parents Mill come up
and take care of the children.” The
volume st of these children is fourteen year
old, and thinks herself considerable of a
I young M'oman. But Aunt Sally, she be
gins now to count every body a child that
under thirty, and to .peak of folks oi forty
asyoung women.
Well, into the seats they come. There
I was never such thing scon before iti .Tone.’
viile meetinghouse, as an administration
j arid an opposition singing party before—
i and 1 guess tin re cover will be again.—
j Bam !'.a!;or y.d as stiff and tall, just like
• s mi fellow you may have seen before now
duxt fi • Is he’s in a kind of an awkward fix
that was none of his own seeking, and tha
;he aint a bit to blame for. When tiie by m
j v, as named, he gave out the tune, and to!
j the page, and the way the “ children” a
\ ’ •: ‘- - • 1 1 v calls them, rattled and vu *:
[von i\u: xxvii.