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About News & planters' gazette. (Washington, Wilkes County [sic], Ga.) 1840-1844 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1841)
SI. i* . Cl Cl T ‘I” BN U , Editor. No. 7.—NEW SERIES.] mm & PLANTERS QAZEITE. terms: Published weekly at Three Dollars per annum, ; jf 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 the j option of the E liter, without the settlement of all arrearages. 03“ Lliters, on business, must he post paid, to insure attention. .Yu communication shall he published, unless we arc made acquainted with the name of the author. TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisements, not exceeding one square, first insertion, Seventy-fire Cents; and for each sub sequent insertion, Fifty Cents. A reduction will be made of twenty-live per cent, to those who advertise by the year. Advertisements not limited when handed in, will be inserted till for bid, and charged accordingly. Sales of Land and Negroes by Executors, Ad- j ministrators, and Guardians, are required by law, i to be advertised, in a public Gazette, sixty days \ previous to the day of sale. The sales of Personal Property must be adver tised in like manner, forty days. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate 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 months; notice that application will be made for Letters of Administration, must be published thirty days; and Cotters of DisvnU lon, six months. A GEN T3. TItE FOX. LOWING GENTLEMEN WILL FORWARD THE N AMES OF ANY WHO MAY WISH TO SUBStKIBE : ./. T. dp G. !!■ Wooten, A I). Sta/ham, I fanburg, Miliorysvilie, 11. F. Taloui, Lincoln- Felix (l. Edwards, Pe- • ton, torsbarg, Elbert, O. J.Lucked,Crawford (l ii. drier, Raytown, vide, Taliaferro, W. Davenport, Lexing- James li 11, Puvvolton, to i, Hancock, S. ./. Hush, Irwington, Wm. II A - fins, Elbor-f Wilkinson, ton, | Dr. Cain, Cambridge, John A. Simmons, Go-j Abbeville District, sben, Lincoln, I Sou!h Carolina. 4*l Arrangements. POST OFFICE, t Washington, Cu., January, 184 L. $ AUGi STA MAIL. ARRIVES. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 5, A. M. CLOSES. Tuesdav, Tliursdav, and Saturday, at 2£, P. M. MILLEDGEViLLE MAIL. ARRIVES. Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 8, A. M. CLOSES. Monday, Wednesdav, and Friday, at 11, A. M. CAROLINA MAIL. ARRIVES. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 11, A. M. CLOSES- Buudav, Wednesday, and Friday, at 8, A. M. ATHENS MAIL. ARRIVES. Sunday and Wednesday, at 9, A. M. CLOSES. Sandav and Wednesdav, at 9, A. M. ‘elberton mail. ARRIVES. CLOSES. Thursday, at 8, P. M. j Tliursdav, at 8, P. M. ’ LIfteOLNTON MAIL. ARRIVES. CLOSES. Friday, at 12, M. | Friday, at 12, M. fry* We tire authorized to an nounce WILLIAM M. BOOKER Esq. as a Candidate for Receiver and ‘Far Collector, tor the County of Wilkes, at the approaching Election. July 29, 1811. 48 iffY’ We are authorized to an- Bounce JOHN B. JACKSON, Esq., as a Candidate for Receiver and Tux Collector lor the County ol Wilkes, at the Election in January next. August 18, 1841. 51 ttj” We are authorized to an nounce THOMAS A. HEARD, Esq. as a Can didate for Receiver amt Tax Collector of Wilkes county, at the Election in January next. September i), 1841. 2 For Saie p BIJ j The Subscriber offers for sale, the 4# if® premises on the Northeastern corner M# of the Square, at present occupied by Mr. li. 11. Vickers, as a Tavern.— From .is 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, SfrrnL The Subscriber offers for sale liis place, w’ithin one mile of Raytown, a Taliaferro county, situated on jarrgj .Mask iieaverdam Creek, adjoining James Biu , . q and Messrs. Luckett’s. Tiie im provements are good, with a Gin and Gin House. There are about Three Hundred and Sixty A cres in tfie Tract, and about 175 Acres of which are woodland. The place is very heallhv, and t here 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 60 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. ts 51 Imm EXECUTED AT THIS CO f F 0 © 1 a C’aßln way 9 \Yilli*&( 1 . Respectfully inform the Citizens of Wilkes and adjoining Counties, that they arc now opening, and offer for sale on the West side of the Public Square, a General Assortment of STAPLE AND raev DRY GOODS, GROCESSiZFiS, Hardware* IMl%* BOOTS, SHOES, &c. Their Goods having been selected in the Philadelphia and New-York Markets with great cure and attention, and the STOCK BEING ENTIRELY NEW, and pur chased principally for CASH, is confidently offered as renal to any in the place. Having commenced with a view to a permanent Business, they intend selling their GOODS at such prices as will ensure i them their share of business. They would call attention particularly j to their Stock of w&mmt As they have been selected with much at tention, and for Variety and Richness of style, cannot be excelled. Their Slock consists in part of, Plain and figured, Black and Colored, Gros do nap. Grosde Rhine, Lus tring and Chonca SILKS. Embroidered , and Fancy, Silk, j Merino, Thibet, and Cotton SHAWLS ; j Plain and Hi mstitch Linen, Cambric, and | Silk HANDKERCHIEFS. Embroidered) jdain, figured, *sc second Mourning Mouslin DeLains. Striped, figured &. plain Chal leys. ‘Thread and Boltinet Paces, Edgings and Footings; Capes & Collars : j Scollop and Inserting Trimmings. I English, French and American [ Prints and Muslins. Cotton Cambrics ; Plaid, Mull, j Book, and Jackom : MUSLINS. English, French, and German MERINOS. Alt Pacha Cloths , anew nrli jdo for I,allies’ CLOAKS and RIDING I DRESSES. New Style, Florence, English, Straw Bonnets, and I [oods. Gauze, Grodenap, and Chenea Ribbons; Wreaths, and Sprigs. Silk, Cotton and Worsted Ho siery. Silk, Hoskin &. Worsted Gloves. Tapes, Needles, Thread, But tons, <fcc, &e. 3-4, 1-4, and 5-4 Bleached and : Brown Shirtings. j Red, W hite, Green, and Salis -1 bury Flannels. Rose, Whitney, and Maccinau | and Negro Blankets. Wool-dyed, Black, Clue, Mix ; ed, Oxford Mixed, Drab, Brown, Green, and j Invisible Green Cloths. Pilot { Math, an Extra Article for Over Gouts. Plain and Ribbed, Black, Blue, I and Drab Cassimers. Plain and Fancy, English and French Satins. V cslingr, Plain Gut Velvets, Silk, Cotton, &. Worsted Shirts, [ and Drawers; Assortment of Satinets, and Kentucky Jeans, Fur, Silk and Wool Hats, Fur, Cloth, and Seal Caps, Ladies’ and Gentlemens’ Boots and Shoes of every description. Negro Shoes, a medium and ex- I tra article. Hardware, Crockery, Drugs, Groceries, &e. No. September 30, 1841. 5 CUTTING &, BUTLER, ATTORNIES, HAVE taken an OFFICE over Cozart & Woods Store. March 11. 1841. __ 28 ADM INISTKATOR’S SALE. Will he sold at the Court-House door in Wash ington, Wilkes county, on tha first Tuesday in December next, within the legal sale hours, by order of the Honorable Inferior Court of said county, while sitting for ordinary purpo ses', A Tract of LAND, well improved, lying in said county, on the waters of Beaver-dam Creek, containing six hundred and thirty Acres, more or | less, joining F. G. Henderson, and others, belon- I ging to tiie Estate of John W. Jones, deceased ; I io be sold subject iO the Widow’s dower. Terms ! made known on the day. CHRISTOPHER BINNS, Adrn’r. Sept. 30,1841. ■> 5 I TjjlUUll months after date, application will be I made to the Honorable the Inferier Court of Wilkes county, while sitting as a Court of Or dinary, for leave to sell the LAND belonging to the Estate of John T. Dent, late of said county, deceased. THOMAS BLAKEY, Adm’r. July 8, 1841. m4m 45 lq 1 OUR Months after date, application wi 1 be -*■ made to the Honorable the Inferior Court of | YVilkes county, while sitting for ordinary pur ; poses, for leave to sell the LANDS belonging to the Estate of Asher Layne, deceased, this 10;,h of August, Ist H. THOMAS L. PSALMONDS, Adm’r. August 12. m4m 50 WASSI2WrO\, (WILKIE CTHJUTV, A.,) OCTOBCK 88, BSSS. MISCELLANEOUS. A TALE OF DIPPED TOAST. l’ltOM Tin: BLOTTER OF P. FICKLE, Jit., I ACCOUNTANT. (Errors Excepted) The curious shifts to which various spe- j cimens of” mankind have resorted in order to extricate themselves from this, that and \ the other dilemma, have often been happily j satirized.—Social regulations are adopted j to he broken, and laws enacted to be eva- j did, just as people are born to die. There i is a confounded sight more of the striped pig species of ingenuity in most of the procee- j dings of this world, than half the people are i willing to acknowledge. “Whipping the j devil round the stump,”—if wo may be al- j lowed the use of an expression not ovenvel- i come to cars polite ; is an amusement ox- i teusively practiced in all stages of exis- 1 tence, and all classes of society. These observations—so philosophical as ! well as truthful ; owe their existence to a freak of a friend of ours, one Sam Haw thorne. This same I lawthorne was a law- j j yer of no inconsiderable eminence, in a i nourishing Southern village. He was elo- , (ptent when he chose to he, a wit at all times,and shrewd in spite of himself; but he I was unfortunately a vagabond, when so dis- i posed; a capricious, reckless fellow always, and nine-tenths of his time laboring under the influence of potations, too much like. Fallstaff to be called “thin.” Very unfor tunately for Hawthorn, on the day when lie made his debut at the bar, he considered it necessary to fortify himself with some pret !ty powerful doses of Jamaica spirits. The j consequence was, he cared not a groat for bench, jury or spectators, but delivered a speech replete with spirit- stiring elo quence, and so irresistible in force of ar gument, that it at once placed his reputa tion as an advocate upon a solid basis.— ‘flic extraordinary success of this first effort | he did not fail to ascribe to the potency of j the Jamaica rum, and having commenced upon that capital he followed up the prae- I tice, and never attempted to make a speech j without a well filled tumbler of old Jamai ca beside him, to replenish, during the pro i gress of hisargument, the stock wit!) which jhe had commenced. So that it finally ri ! pened into a proverb, that it was only when | Hawthorne was two thirds corned that tie I could win his case, for when sober he al | wavs failed to do justice to himself and his client. An important civil suit was to be tried before the District Court, involving legal questions of the highest consequence, and upon the issue of which depended a large amount of property.—Hawthorne had the management of the case, upon one side, and his intimate friend, a lawyer of consider able ability upon the other. The day be fore the trial, Hawthorne remarked care lessly in th? course of conversation, that he felt perfectly confident that lie should win tiie ease. “ If you will follow my directions, you I will not win it,” replied the other. “ What are those directions V’ “To drink no spirituous liquor for twelve hours before the trial, and none from the | time it is commenced until the verdict of ! the jury is rendered.” “ Whew !” exclaimed Hawthorne; “that j is coming it rather strong ; is that the best you will do ?” “ That is the best.” ! After deliberatiuga moment or two, Haw- I thorite offered a small bet—which was in j stanlly accepted—that lie would not swal low a single glass of spirits during the tri al, and for twelve hours previously and yet would win the case for his client, acknowl edging at the same time that his success with the jury depended almost solely upon his adroit management of the facts to be proven, united witli a clear,logical and pow erful argument. They separated. The next morning the trial commenced: Hawthorne was there as fresh and read}', apparently, as usual, but those familiar ; with the man could easily discover that ! something was wanting. A jury was cm j pannelled and sworn, and the witnesses I were carefully examined and cross-cxam | ined. The case looked bad for Hawthorne; it was tangled, intricate and confused.— The testimony seemed to be particularly contradictory, and, so far as his side was concerned, miserably trifling and deficient. Those who watched iiis face, however, watched in vain for any symptoms of disap pointment or fear of discomfiture. His antagonist delivered a strong and i x ceedingly plausible argument, carefully considered, and framed upon a most perfect conception of the weak points in the evi dence of the opposite party. So thorough was his examination, and so seemingly just his deductions, that when he concluded it appeared as though he had left nothing upon which Hawthorne could build even an ordinary declamation. Some three or four minutes before his opponent finished, Hawthorne had been busily engaged swal lowing some slices of dipped toast, brought him by his servant. He suspended the op eration us the other ended, and addressed the court. It was a hard start, and the countenance of his client changed its hue rapidly as hiscounsel attempted to progress, j As was his custom, Hawthorne had taken ; no notes,but had relied exclusively upon his j memory for the details of the evidence, j knotty as it was. It was manifest enough I that he was not in tiie vein, there was nei- ! ther his usual fluency of speech, or accu- ! racy in stating the testimony. After floun- | dering about four or five minutes, he beg-! PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY .MORNING. ged t ho indulgence of the court for a mo- j merit, as ho was slightly indisposed. A-I gain the servant handed him the dish, and j for a sick man, ho swallowed five or six ad- j dilional slices of toast, not over delicate in | thickness, while the court looked with as tonishment upon the queer operation. Again lie proceeded in his argument. — ; Gradually he warmed over his subject, his j method of reasoning increased in cogency; [ more and more lucid became his analysis [ of the different branches of the testimony, j Discrepancies were reconciled; slight facts | were brought into great importance by the j clear explanation of their bearing upon the J question at issue, and the fog of mystery i which had shrouded the case, faded away before the bright sunlight of truth. After swallowing, at different intervals, several more slices of toast —a ludicrous operation at the best; lie brought his argument to a close m a peroration of th rill ing force and beauty ; having torn the. sophistries of his; opponent to tatters, and spread out the case with all the well defined accuracy of a map, before the court and jury. The ! | charge from the bench was confined to a j ; simple statement of the law applied to the j case. The jury gave a verdict in favor] j of the client of Hawthorne, without leaving j ’ the box. i As Hawthorne and his antagonist, in company with several others,walked away i I front the courthouse, the former said— I “ You are willing to give up your bet, of course, my friend V’ “ Certainly, I pray, at the same time, 1 advise you never to make another speech under the influence of liquor. ‘Tiie best you have ever done, lias been done this day after twelve hours total abstinence, but for the sake of decency, my dear fellow, cat your dinner the next time before you com mence ; it looks so ridiculous to see you eat ing in the middle of a speech—ha ! ha !” At this instant, on turning a corner, Haw thorne's black boy. loitering home with the pail which had contained the toast, came in sight. “ Here, Pomp,” shouted Hawthorne, “is there any of that last quart of old Jamaica left in the bottle at the house V’ “ Not a hit, rnassa, use itebery dam drop to soak de bread in — not n ass of it at dal.'' — N. O. Picayune. JOHN BULL AND BROTHER JON AT II AN, OR, THE COCKNEY TOURIST. A young sprig of the London press hap pened some six months ago to be travelling in a stage coach, in which vehicle a raw Vermont youth was a passenger. The : youtlt boy was not one of your ‘ real cute’ fellows, but a shy, diffident stripling, trav elling from a distant school to spend his va cation at home. To the Londoner he was an object of great curiosity, being the first sample he had seen, and he pestered the boy with questions touching his mode of life, habits, studies, employment, &c., thinking to amuse himself, gather items fol ios journal, at the same time impress the other passengers with the proper idea of his vast importance. The hoy although evidently annoyed, answered politely, and . | displayed none of the characteristics of the j Green Mountain youths ; so tiie English ; man thought he could boast as he pleased ] with much impunity. He told the passen | gers that he had heat'd much of Yankee | tricks and Yankee shrewdness, ‘ but for his j part he had never seen any thing in them j that he could call clever, and, indeed, he wished very much to be made tiie subject of one of their tricks, for if they could fool him, he could then believe in what iie had heard of their character.’ This hint was not thrown away upon young Jonathan. He thought lie would set his wits to work for the honor of “ down east,” and soon hit upon a scheme. lie had heard the Englishman inquiring for the direction from the town where the coach was to stop, to a residence some five miles j distant. This direction happened to be the | very path the boy was to take home, but he \ said nothing. The coach stopped. Little Jonathan ! trotted home, and Johnny Bull, after having j deposited li is baggage in tiie tavern, soon followed. There was a lunatic asylum near the town we mentioned. Jonathan ! told every soul lie had met that one of the j mad men had escaped, and was coming a ’ long the road, and that they would know him by his perpetually inquiring for the residence of Mr. Brown. Not content with ! this, he turned to every farm house, and told the inmates in great alarm that a mad man had escaped from the asylum, and to beon tlieir guard against a man who would inquire for the residence of Mr. Brown.— The tiling succeeded to a miracle. John ny Bull had not advanced far on his way before he perceived a man plant himself on one side of tiie road, brandishing a thick cudgel, and assuming the attitude of one who expects danger, and was resolved to defend himself to the last. Johnny thought it was singular, but nevertheless put the quesiioti : ‘ Sir, can you direct me to the residence of Mr. Brown !’ ‘ Yes, 1 thought you was the man. Now look here, stranger, you just conduct your | self respectfully, and keep your own side lof the road, for if you come near me, 1 ; swung to man I’ll smash you ! Johnny’s eves opened and his mouth too. I My dear friend, 1 don't want to ap j proach you. I hon'y wish to know where ! Mr. Brown lives.’ ‘ Well now, you just follow your nose, and don't m.•!••<* t-oh'-'dy you tamal vnr min. ott’d better go homo and get on your waistcoat.’ The man who seemed in a liurrv, pass ed on. Johnny gazed after him an instant, quite confounded, and then proceeded on iiis way, saying to himself, ‘ Veil, upon my word, that person’s conduct was worry singular V Fie turned off’to a farm house. A woman was sitting at tiie door sewing. When sli e perceived him, she started from her seat, and darting in the door, held ii for an instant, while she turned to gaze at the stranger. ‘Madam, will you be so kind as to hill form me whether 1 ham on the right road to Mr. Brown’s ouse V ‘1 thought so!’ exclaimed the woman, slamming the door last, arid bolting it, and the next moment she was seen peeping sus piciously from the upper window. 1 Vot is the matter, madam ! I merely vant to know— ’ ‘Oh, go away, you unfortunate wretch 1 Don’ ‘t you attempt, to cut any of your tan trums here. Go away now—there’s a good fellow !’ The woman disappeared, and Johnny paused an instant to ascertain if there was any tiling frightful about him. He then proceeded and encountered a good humored countryman, coming whistling along the ] road. ‘ Pray, Sir,’ said Johnny, ‘can you di rect me to Mr. Brown’s ?’ i The thoughtless countryman had forgot | ten little Jonathan’s warning, but when he j heard the question it recurred to him, and j | without saying a word, took to his heels in j : sucli a hurry that he tumbled over a log, > | but picking himself up again, ho took into ! j the woods, and out of sight in an instant. ‘Veil,’said Johnny to himself, ‘this is! certainly worry hextraordinary !’ lie began to feel strange sensations, and walk ed on fora halfa mile, ruminating awfully | upon the unaccountable treatment lie had ! received. Here lie met another traveller, i and with very doubtful feelings about get- j ting an answer, propounded bis question, i The stranger paused right before John- j ny, and his hat seemed to be rising off his | head. To judge from his looks, his feel ings must have been like those of a bird fas- j cinated by a rattle-snake. Johnny noticed the frightful appearance of the stranger, ami terror now took possession of him. lie imagined something dreadful was going to ! occur, and forthwith took to his heels into ! the woods. | 1 God bless my art,’ exclaimed he aloud, i ‘ vot can be the matter with the people ? ; Vot kind of country av 1 got into ? Vy, these inhabitants are wild ! They are Walentiues and Iforsons ! Ilourang llou tangs ? regular vild men of the voods.’ He was now completely lost in a thick wood. When lie found the way again, lie was afraid to ask any more questions, and finally got back to the town, where the next ’ day, our hero visited him with “ Look here, stranger, Mr. Brown’s house is just where it was yesterday. When you see i him, tell him ivliat you think of Yankee ■ I tricks.” SI ICIDE. In some parts of the Roman empire the ! magistrate had the power of granting or re j fusing permission to commit suicide. If the decision was against the applicant, and lie persisted in his purpose, the body was buri ed with circumstances of insult and humi liation. In a later period, the laws of Jus tinian made a distinction between the sui cide of those weary of life, and that oft hose I who being accused of crime, Sought to os- I cape its consequences by self-murder, li i the crime was one, the conviction of which | would have been attended with confisca j tion of properly, the fact of self-murder ! was regarded as equivalent to a confession i of the offence charged, and the property of the deceased became forfeited to the state. If, however, the heirs were disposed to dis ! pute this inference, they had a right to have ; the cause tried, as if the deceased were still | living. In the Roman law, a distinction | was also made between a suicide of a sol | diet-and a private citizen. If a soldier at tempted suicide, he was tried, and if con i victed, punished with death. Insanity, or grief amounting to melancholy madness, j was the only defence that could avail him, j and even where this defence availed, he j was dismissed the service with disgrace.— | It would seem, however, from this distinc tion made between the soldier and the cit- I izen, that there was something of a recog nized right in the latter case, at least, that ! society felt its power unequal to deal with j the evil. The laws of Thebes deprived the | suicide of funeral rites. In Athens, the j hand of tiie self-murderer was cut off from ! ihc body, and buried apart from it. “The I hand,” said their law, “was a traitor to the ! body.” The suicide was classed “with j the public or private enemy ; with the trai tor or conspirator against his country; with i tiie tyrant ; the sacrilegious wretch, ami | such grievous offenders whose punishment was impalement alive on a cross.” WHICH SIDE. They are discussing anew, in tiie city of New York, the important question, which side of a lady on horseback should a gen tleman ride ; Those who insist upon the ! left side say that in passing strangers, car- I riages, &c: the feet and lower limbs of the I lady would be exposed to injury by contact; j and though it is admitted that in England I tiie right side is taken by the cavalier, vet j it is also added that such a course is adop | ted because in England the law of the road requires p;is H ei!gers to “keep t dm MV.” II . .. it I*l*li !j , fr inter. Those who contend (in-the right side, ‘de clare that l lie dress and limbs of the lady are placid in continued danger by the cas ual irrcgulurmovcmcnts of cither horse if the gentleman is on the left, and so the mut ter stands yet in dispute, as unsettled as the McLeod case or boundary qut stion. We propose a compromise, by which neither party may claim a triumph over the other whatever both partii s may have to concede. It is evident that which side so ever of t ho lady tin gentleman may take, the other side is unprotected ; and w hat ever arguments tuny be Uk/h| for the right, arguments of equal weight may he adduced for the left, and so vice versa. We propose then this compromise, and look to see it a dopted As the leftside is not right and the right not proper, and as no gentleman likes to he wrong or not right with a lady, let them split the difference, and instead of riding at the right or left hand of the lady, let the gentleman ride before, the latter upon a saddle, and the former upon a pil lion. This is resorting to first principles, and effectually settles the question. V r purpose setting the example as soon as wo can find a pillion, looking for no inconvent ! cnee in the compromise, excepting, perhaps, | the occasional family discussion as to the j tight of precedence. SINGULAR INSANITY. Lady Blessington visited the Lunatic As ylun) at A versa, near Naples, and she gives some striking sketches of the inmates. The following account of’ a religious maniac cannot be read without exciting a melan choly interest: i turned away, to pause at the open cell of a priest, who was prostrate before a wooden cross of liis own manufacture.— The crown of his head w as shorn, hut long locks of snowy hue fell from the sides of it. and mingled with his beard of tiie same ven erable color, which reached to the cord that confined his robe round the waist. His lace was pale as death, his eyes, which were raised to the cross, wore filled with tears, whicli chased each other down liis at ! teuuatcd cheeks. He was not sensible that i several persons were around him. and ho ! prayed with a fevor truly edifying ; the | words of the prayer breathing the very soul of piety, Christian resignation, and adora j iion of tiie Deitv. Never was a more ! touching picture presented to tne. 1 could j have fancied it 1 lie original of one of thosi- I fine pictures of (Jorrcgio or Rcmbrant, but I die deep intonations of his voice, and the i fervent devotion w hicli it expressed, gave a | sublimity to this living picture, that pain- I ting never possessed. The superinti ndont j told us, that for twenty years this priest j had not ceased to pray with a similar fer vor to that which we witnessed, during all j tiie hours of the day, save when lie hastily j swallowid some bread and water, the only j food he would touch. Sleep never stole oil ! him till he was exhausted by abstinence j and fatigue ; hut even in sleep he continued to ejaculate prayers, mingled with sighs j and groans. In the times of tiie primitive Christians, j this man would liu\ ■ been deemed a model i of holiness, and afti■ rdeath would have been | canonized as a saint. Y deep and never ceasing sense of self, un wort hi ness, a con j trite spirit, and all-i ngrossing adoration of the Creator, were so far from being then considered as proofs of un aberration of j reason that they were regarded as the most convincing ones of a more than ordinary pos j session ol'it. Yet these are the only symp- I toms of insanity attributed to tin's priest; I and from them, in our days of civilization, | and mundane occupation, he is declared to be insane ! The earnestness of bis pray ers, Ids total abstinence from all worldly concerns, and his life of sanctity in the midst of the herd of maniacs with w hom l he was surrounded, with, but not of them, reminded me of some pure stream, gliding through a turbulent river, without mingling ! its clear water with the turbid waves. j Philosophical Analysis of Dancing. — | The sum and substance of the matter seems io lie only this : “ A party of ladies and gentlemen (who elsewhere pass for intelli gent and rational beings,) assemble at the ball-room. They soon uvray tI-ioinsi>lves in opposing lines : Presently a young lady i jumps up from the floor, shakes one foot and tonics down again. Again she springs up i and the other foot quivers. Then she turns round in Iter place, springs up and shakes | both her feet. Iler intelligent partner op ! posite, performs the same operations.— Then both rush forward and seize each other’s hand, jump up again, shake their feet, and then stand still. The next lady and gentleman very rationally and soberly follow the example just set them, jumping, j shaking and turning, and so on to the end, | and for no other reason than because black | Cuflee sits in the corner yonder, draw-leg a - horse-hair across a cat-gut! A Gone Sucker. —A beautiful pair rc | cently appeared before a justice of the peace in Illinois, to be married; “Do you take this man to bo your lawful j husband,” &c., said Ihe justice, j The feminine Sucker lifted her Hushing ; countenance and in touching accents repli ] ed, “ Well I does, boss. ’ j A Footstep Follower. —Two men have been arrested at Rockport, Mi'-sou.i, for stealinw money from a sick man—one ot j them, Tallowing a great example, httdeon ’ crated #750 in bills in his (nival, keeping brr nmnci/ in hispoclc-.isto i/ngb- [YOLFMF. X-Wil.
