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About News & planters' gazette. (Washington, Wilkes County [sic], Ga.) 1840-1844 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1841)
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. 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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.
