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Newspaper Page TextNEWS & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE. D. €r. COTTHACw, Editor. No. 25.—NEW SERIES.] NEWS & PLANTERS GtIEVIE. terms: Published weekly at Three Dollars per annum, if paid at the timo of subscribing; or Three Dollars and Fifty Cents, if not paid till the expi ration of six months. No paper to be discontinued, unless ai the option of the Editor, without the settlement of alt arrearages. O’ Litters, on business, must be post, yah!, to insure attention. No communication shall be published, unless we are made acquainted with the name of the author. TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisements, not exceeding one square, lirst insertion, Seventy-Jive Cents; and for each sub sequent insertion, Fifty Cents. A reduction will be made of twenty-five 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 ministrators, and Guardians, are required by law, 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 ot Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Ne groes, must be published weekly for four months; notice that application wili be made for Letters of Administration, must be published thirty days; and Letters of Dismission, six months. AGENTS. THE FOLLOWING GENTLEMEN WILL FORWARD THE NAMES OF ANY WHO MAY WISH TO SUBSCRIBE I J. T. cj- G. 11. Wooten, Maliorysviiie, Felix G Edwards, Pe tersburg, Elbert, Gen. Grier, Raytown, Taliaferro, James Ball, Powelton, Hancock, Wm. B Seims, Elber ton, John A. Simmons, Go shea, Lincoln, i Mljui j&xv&to^csienib. , POST OFFICE, ) /Washington, Ga., January, 1842. v AUGUSTA MAIL. ARRIVES. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 5, A. M. CLOSES. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 2-1, P. M ’ MILLEDGEVILLE MAIL. ARRIVES. Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 8, A. M. CLOSES. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 11, A M. CAROLINA MAIL. ARRIVES. I Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 11, A. M. CLOSES. Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 8, A. M. ATHENS MAIL. ARRIVES. Sunday and Wednesday, at 9, A. M. CLOSES. Sunday and Wednesday, at 9, A. M. IELBERTON MAIL. ARRIVES. CLOSES. Thursday, at 8, P. M. j Thursday, at 8, P M LINCOLNTON MAIL. ARRIVES. CLOSES. Friday, at 12, M. | Friday, a’ 12, M Washington, \.()th January, 1542. m IE Co-partnership heremiore existing iie i ween the undersigned, under the firm ol CALLAWAY, WILLIS & Cos., is this day dissolved by mutual consent. The business wiii be closed by M. P. Calla way and C.L. Bolton. FRANCIS T. WILLIS. M.P. CALLAWAY. JAMES NOLAN. CHARLES L. BOLTON. January, 1842. 20 wYMice* ril iIE Co-partnersmp u_ Cozart & Woods, j is this day dissolved by mutual consent.— Green I’. Cozart, alone, is authorized to settle the business of the lirm. G. P COZART. (JOHN G. WOODS. Washington, January 8, 1842. 20 A LL persons niueuied to the Estate of Thoni as Rlakey, late of Wilkes county, deceased, I* are requested to make immediate payment, and those having demands against the same will pre sent them in terms of the law for payment. WM. Q. ANDERSON, Adm’r. January 27 22 I . ——. ■ ■ ■■■ ■ ■ ■ O” Take JYotice • 1 ! HOSE who are yet in arrears to the late I I. Voncern of LANE &. WINGFIELD, are MiturmoC that payment must be made by Janua ry next. -Otherwise, their Notes will be left in the hands of an Attorney for collection. I have Snow been engaged four years in settling up said ■concern to (he neglect of much of my private ■business. The debts due us are of four to six Byears standing, and longer indulgence cannot be ■Expected. A. S. WINGFIELD. 1” September 9, 1841. 2 § NEW SHOES. V inO-WIT, the following : Ladies’ Kid, Calf, -MJL and Prunelle Walking Shoes ; Women’s | Mow’d Kip Shoetees ; Boys’ Calf and Kip Shoes, [Siw’d and peg’d ; Coarse Brogans, making my Hisortment complete from the smallest size to I Hie largest extra size, low for Cash’. | ■ i A. L. LEWIS. I H December 1(1. 1847. If, I J Our beautiful Mezzotint Engravings. it alibrds us much sausiactioii io bo auie to state, that we have made arrangements with Mr. Sanain, the accomplished mezzotint engraver, whose plates have contributed so much to Uie beauty ot the Magazine heretoiore, by which we i-ecure his spleiiUtu mezzotints lor tins work a lone. No other Magazine ot this kind can have them without permission irom us. In addition to those, we ha ve secured the bu rme oi another talenteu mezzotint engraver, li. S. Sadd, Esq. of New-York—that there may be no disappointment as to number or regularity. These will be equal to any tiling published,'so that we are auie confidently to promise a Mez zotint in every number. These beautilui engravings will, there,ore, form a lea, ure m Graham’s Magazine, in even number, so that we shall lie able > disutuu: anything like competition on tins ground. Tnese plates are the most expensive thai can be go. iq ior a Magazine o, large circulation, in conse quence oi the great price ot prim mg —being more than double that ot hue engravings—amt tiie necessity ot reduplicating the plates ; our e diiioti already rendering it necessary that tuoot three plates u; ,he same subject must be prepar ed ior eVery number in winch they are used.— We now print an edition greater than ihut ot any cotemporary tor the last year, and confidently assert tba. ,u the same rate ot increase wesiiai. •sue, in 1042, an edition ol not less than 30,u60 copies monthly. Our Splendid Steel Engravings. VV e have also entered into a distinct and per manent arrangement with Rawdou, Wright, iia.ch & Smillie, and with A. L. Dick, Esq. New- 1 orh, .or a series o, splendid engraving.-, , be go up in a styie unsurpassed by any that nave ever been done in this country. The wide spread lame o, those artists is a sufficient guar antee or the character ot the work we shall re ceive rrom their hands. Go that, with such an organization, we may safely dety competition in .tie way oi embellishments, show die world a pat era tor others to follow, in ihe way ol liberal and judicious expenditure, and nx anew era in die history oi Magazine puuiishitig in this country. Elegant Embossed Work. An agreement h, a. • ..eeu made with that :ien or.ous am; ;-xo .up Uetl artist, F. tTuarre, i., ~., mr a iun , up;- . l>: , is e.th Embroidery, Lace-VV erk, fii ~. 1 .,\ >s, and Landscapes, cu - red m tne most finished and elegant style. — I’hi.-j will ionnan expen.-ivo, but popular and at tractive ieaaire i. :he work, and with the varie ty which will be thus introduced, will aiways be novel and pleasing. Richly Colored Fashions. In compliance with; he anno.- unanimous wish o, our iady subsenuers, we shall furnish them with a beautiful and correct plate ot FASH ION'S, and shad also give the style lor gentle men, which has been decidedly popular with both sexes, and has rendered tiie work the Text Book o; Fashion, the Union over. These, however, shall in no wise interfere with the regular and choice engravings and music which accompany each number oi the Magazine, as we shall no: suffer ourselves to be surpassed in number or oeauty ot illustrations by any other work, but shall maintain the position we have assumed, oi leading all others m the richness, beauty, excel lence, and variety ol Magazine embellishment. .4. D. Statham, Danburg, Id. F. Tatom, Lincolti ton, O. A. Luckett, Crawford vilie, W. Davenport, Lexing ton, .S'. J. Bush, Jrwington, Wilkinson, | Dr. Cain, Cambridge, I Abbeville District, I South Carolina The Literary Character. The reputation oi the Magazine thus far, would be a sufficient guarantee tor he future; but that it may be seen that nothing has been les undone to maintain every department ot the work, and to elevaie the literary, as well as the pictorial department, we beg leave to announce a tiost of talented and eiegant American writers. List of Contributors. In addition to the old contributors, whose names and articles have given a high celebrity to the Magazine, a number ot new ones, it will be perceived, are added, of worth and note, so that we may lairly say that we have the strength of American talent enlisted in the work. Theo. S. Fay, author of “ Norman Leslie, the Countess Ida,” &c. Miss E. Leslie, Morton McMichael, Esq. Hon. Robert T. Conrad, Philadelphia, Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, Chas. J. Peterson, Esq. l)r. Reynoll Coates, Rev. Thos. 11. Stockton, Mrs. R. S. Nichols, E. Armstrong, Esq. Dr. J K. Mitchell, Park Benjamin, N.York, Emma C. Embury, Douglas Jcrrold, Eng’d. Geo. I’. Morris, James F. Ot:s, N. York. John S. Du Solle, Esq. J. Ross Browne, The Author of‘Stanley,’A. M’Makm, Esq. Edgar A. Poe, Fhiladei. E. Holden, Esq. TG. Spear, do. J. Beauchamp Jones,Bal- Auihur of ‘Howard timore, Pinckney,’ J. E. Dow, Wash’ll City, Mrs. Catharine Esling, Mrs. E. F. Elliot, Boston, Mrs. E. C. Stedman, Louis F. Tasistro, Mrs. Lydia Jane Piers> ,11. W. IlerberJ, author A. M. Ehvood, of ‘ Cromwell,’ ‘ The J-R. Lowell. Brothers,’ fee. k NEW VuLutat; JttXi. Grahams Lady’s & Gentleman’s kULCMki&KQL With more Splendid Embellishments than a ny other Magazine in the Lilian. This work,devoted to both sexes, opens a New Volume with ihe number for January, 1842, wiih an array ol Contributors of talent and lame, which no periodical m the country can boast or pretend to rival. The Volume opens with anew and beautilui type, tiie finest white paper, and with the nrst u. anew series ol Embellishments, unsurpassed by any w Inch have appeared m any Magazine. The style 01 elegance, Uie beauty and finish 01 these illustrations, and lire extensive improve ments which wnl he made in us typographical appearance, and above all, the tone 01 ns Litera ry Department given it by the brilliant array o. .is Contributors, whose articles v\,n enrich .ue pages 01 each number, win given a character ü bove any Magazine m the Union. The Magazine lias become the standard oi taste m matters 01 embellishment, and has ieu tiie way in every dung really beautilui pubiisfieu in the Magazine o. last year. The voice 01 the public press, while it places the work at the bead 01 American Literature, is unanimous in the a.,- nouncement, that no work ever started m cue country iias been so elegantly embellished, or iias so rapidly increased. For the new volume, the most extensive arrangements have been made w ith tiie most distinguished artists in the coun try ior a supply ui elegant embellishments 01 ah sorts. WASHINGTON, (WILKES COUNTY, GA.,) FEBRUARY 17, I*l2. I Robert Morris, .1. E. Snodgrass, j l'liny Earle, M. I). Feme H Selton, J. N. Freltgh, Herman l’rintzhoffj 11. l’ercival, Mrs. \ . E. Howard, Mrs. Lambert, Mrs. E. Ashton, Mrs. A. N. Whelpley, G. G. Brooks, Mrs. M. S. il. Dana, Mart m Thayer, George Lunt, E. G. Mallory, .1. Topliam Evans, J. Tomlin, R. M. Walsh, Thomas Ilanton, VV. Gilmore .Simms, S. 1). Anderson, Mrs. Ist. Leon Loud, J. VV. Forney, H. Hastings Weld, 11. S. Vernon, troiessor Ingraham, au-S. VV. Whelpley, A. M. Dior o; La Fitte, William Duane, i rolessor John Frost, Rufus Dawes, l'hiladelpiua, CharlesWosi Thompson Troiessor N. C. Brooks, J. 11. Dana, Baltimore, A. A. Irvine. In addition to this brilliant array of names known to mine, the distinguished services of best ol anonymous wr.ters ol no ordinary abiu les will give worth and character to <lie pages ul the Magazine. The series ol tiie wen-know . nautical papers entitled “Cruizing m the W. War,” and “ The Keeler ol ’76,” have hqd ;; run unequalled by any senes published .n any M _ aznie lor years The an lior promises to ope . ..evv series ol “ Taies u. lie Me n” and irom known abilities as a depict or of sea scenes and me, much may be relied upon from him m main i.i.iiig the popularity ol :he Magazine Taper may be expected during die volume aiso, from tiie aulhor ol tiie well-known articles entitled “ l’he Logoi Old Ironsides,” besides a variety oi choice articles in prose and verse, from various writers ol celebrity, as Contributors to the pro mment Magazines in the country. Sterling Criticisms. The critical liepui tuieo shall still form a dis tinctive character ol the work, and is under the control ot a gentleman ol critical acumen and re pute, long established, and held every where second to none lor sagacity and an honest, fear less independence. ‘Tiie review ol books may therefore be expect ed to be candid and entirely tree irorn the mane pulling which marks ihe bookseller’s hack; but siiaii lie thoroughly impartial and severely just. Time of Publication. Tito work will be published on the first of the moii'h in every quarter ot the Union. The most distant subscribers will consequent iy receive it on that day, as well as those who reside in Tln ladeiphia. The Lowest Terms. The proprie or being more desirous of pub lishing the handsomest and best,than the cheap est work in ihe Union, while at the same time he is anxious to bring it within Tie reach oi all, offers the following as ihe lowest possible terms at which he can alibrd the work in its elegant style ior 1842. Tiiree Dollars per annum in advance for a sin gle copy. Or, Two Copies yearly lor Five Bol ins, invariably in advance, post-paid. [Li Editors who may copy this Prospectus en tire, and send a copy, marked with ink, address oil to the Saturday Evening Post, (which will save the publisher the postage on newspapers,) shall be promptly furnished with ihe Magazine ior 1842. Address, post-paid, GEORGE R. GRAHAM, .'-outhwest corner of Chestnut and Third Streets, Philadelphia. ‘A\t,e Subscriber* |Si viiVu purchased the entire interest o! J e John G. Woo os, in the late firm oi CO- Z.AR j’&, WOODS, intends continuing busi ness at the same Store lormerly occupied by said firm. He has a well-selected stock oi GOODS on hand, which he will sell on very reasonable terms. The Subscriber earnestly requests all those indebted to the late firm, either by Note or Ac count, to call and settle immediately. G. I>. COZART. January 13, 1842 20 • Yoli.ee, A LL persons indebted ,o me la:e firm oi Mc- AIILLAN & VINCENT, are requested to make payment immediately to JOHN 11. DYSON. January 6, 1842. 19 Notice to Debtors and Creditors. A LL persons indebted to the Estate ol Joseph Henderson, late of Wilkes county, deceas ed, are requested to make payment immediate ly, and those having demands will present the same in terms of law for payment, to FELIX G. HENDERSON, / , MI I’CHEL HENDERSON, t, i January 13, 7842 <i ■-'> JYotice* rrillE Subscriber having sold out his Stock of ] 1_ GROCERIES to .Mr. Edgar Vincent, respectfully recommend him to tiie patronage oi iiis friends and former customers. GEORGE W. JARRETT. February 8,1842. 3m • Yoiiee* HAVING purchased the Stock of GROCE- t KIES of Mr. George W. Jarrett, the Subscriber will continue the business at the Store formerly occupied by Mr. Jarrett, and will sell upon the most reasonable terms. Persons in want oi Groceries are respectfully invited to call. EDGAR VINCENT. February 10, 1842. 3m To Hire , BY the Month or tor the balance of the Year, two strong able-bodied NEGRt > MEN— both tolerable good Carpenters. Apply to WILLIAM A. QUIGLEY. February 3,1842. 4 For Sale A LIKELY young Woman, a Seamstress and House-servant, about i8 years ot age, and her child 8 months old. Enquire at this Of fice. February 3,1842. 3t EVERY VARIETY OF EXECUTED AT THIS ‘-IS ri? fl (H (P* j . j —j j PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. ! ‘ jHAferrlUmrous. | BLACKWOOD AND THE V VNKEES. The January number of Blackwood’s | Magazine has a chapter on “ Foreigners in ! London,” including Frenchmen, Italians, j Germans, Americans, and Jews. The fol ! lowing is the Yankee portion of it. The picture is most laughable : “ Americans are to he found in the com mercial quarters of our world, hut by no means in the numbers they contribute to i Liverpool, where they may be lound at eve ry evening party. As we do not in these papers intend to inflict upon the reader de- 1 scriptions of that which we have not had l leisure and opportunity to contemplate, we cannot undertake to describe the American , in England. Once, and only once, had we an opporluuitv of contemplating tli na tive born Yankee, at the hospitable board ot a commercial acquaintance in the city. The biped was certainly curious, we ‘ might say unique ; though, us we have said, we cannot undertake to describe the species, we make no scruple of identifying the individual, in the hope that our Zoologi cal Society may secure the animal without loss of time. The giitius in question was attired in an amorphous blue coat, with huge brass buttons, a flaming vest, profu sion of projected shirt and doulde ruffle, | boots shaped like fire-buckets, nankeen un- i wliispc rubles fluttering about Ids limbs, re- : sembling a purser’s couple of shirts on a couple of handspikes, a white neckcloth with loosi tie, and a churn-shaped castor under his arm. At first, we concluded he must be lunatic, but felt relieved upon hear ing he was only republican. He ate much, 1 drank detip, talked loudly and incessantly; Ins topics were varied, and, as we thought, j somewhat tinctured with incongruity; from j one subject he rattled to another, doginati- j j zing and soliloquizing ; “ free and inde- I : pendent—niggers ; rights of man—Lynch | ! law ; Fourth of Juiy—slave breeding; | | civil and religious liberty—tar and loath- | | ers ; John Tyler—Jim Crow ; (these he called great men—the latter may 1). —corn | laws—loafers; shin-plasters—Vanßutvn; Congress —loco focas ; civilization—Ken tucky ; ex-president Adams, and the pud- j dings made by Cobbett’s corn and treacle, j which he said Adams had every day for j dinner; General Jackson—clam soup; canvass hacks—Governor Biddle,” and so on, from the beginning of the fish to the end of the Madeira. On the retirement of the ladies, this extraordinary mammel culled lor brandy and cigars ; which, being forth with provided, he began to imbibe and ex hale, talking between his teeth in u high nasal tone, expectorating, at short intervals, between the bars of’the grate, with the piv cision of a Chickasaw rifleman. The impression produced upon the com pany by the conduct and conversation ol this sample of transatlantic humanity, ap p. ared to be unqualified contempt with Christopher Columbus tor having discover ed America, and a general inclination to take refuge with the ladies. We should he sorry indeed to suppose that this remark able item represented liis nation; on die contrary, we imagine him to have been a living caricature of the American citizen, who is no doubt modest, well-bred, Clnis tian like, and sensible, as becomes his Brit ish origin. These ridiculous stories of Lynch law, tar and feathers, John Tylers and Jim Crows, we take tube merely little imaginary extravaganzas, in which men will at times indulge, who know that the listener must travel four thousand miles to contradict them.” From the Knickerbocker. EVENING BEFORE A WEDDING. ‘1 will tell you, continued her aunt to Louisa, ‘two things which l have tully proved. Tie first w ill go far towards pre venting the possibility of any discord after marriage ; the second is the best and sur est preservative of feminine character.’ ‘Tell me!’ said Louisa, anxiously. ‘Thefi i st is this, to demand of your bride groom, us soou as the marriage ceremony is over, a solemn vow, and promise your self nevt r even in jest, to dispute or express any disagreement. 1 tell you never !—for what begins in mere bantering will lead to serious earnest. Avoid expressing any ir ritation at one another’s words. Mutual forbearance is the great secret of domes tic happiness. If you have erred, confess it freely, even if confession costs you some tears. Farther, promise faithfully and so lemnly never, upon arty pretext or excuse, to have any secrets or concealments from each other ; but to keep your private affairs from father, mother, brother, sister, rela tions and the world. Let them be known only to each other and your God. Re member that any third person admitted into your confidence becomes a party to stand between you, and will naturally side with one or the other. Promise to avoid this, and renew the vow upon every temptation. It will preserve that perfect confidence, that union, which will indeed make you one. Oh, if the newly married would but practice this spring of connubial peace, how many unions would be happy, which are now miserable.’ We are exceedingly sorry to say any thing against the ladies, but we have lately heard thievish reports about them. It is currently reported and generally believed of the whole sex, that they do not scruple to hook each other’s frocks 1 BARNABY DIDDLEUM. Tim Slocum and his neighbors—the honest poik stealer — impudence Extraordinary ; the Irishman in a quandary—the pig and the puppy—the deni in a tiro bushel bag. I have before mentioned my old neigh bor Tim Slocum, and the great zest with which he always enjoyed a joke, lie liked a hearty laugh so much, that he would sooner have it at his own expense, than not have it at all. Tim lived in a remarkably honest neighborhood. Nearly all of his neighbors belonged to the church ; indeed they were so exceedingly pious, that they could hardly engage in an ordinary con versation, without interlarding their lan guage with scripture phraseology. Like the hypocrite described by Pollock, “in scripture terms they bought, and sold and lied.’’ But notwithstanding the very at mosphere which T m breathed was filled with piety, still Tim was sure there were rogues somewhere near him, for nearly every night did In miss pork from the bar rel in his cellar. He knew not whom to suspect. If lie should mention it to one of his neighbors, ten to one but lie would be answered with a quotation from tile Bible. So Tim concluded be might better say no thing. but watch the closer. Where all were saints he knew not wliom to suspect, he therefore tried to preserve the utmost se crecy till such a time as lie should be con vinced by occular demonstration, who tin thief was. Me was not long kept in sus pense. One night at about J 1 o’clock, hav ing occasion to go to his cellar after a mug of cider, he was not a little surprised in discovering one of the elders of the church in the very act of filling a bag from Tim's pork barrel. Tim stood riveted to the spot with astonishment; expecting every instant to see the thief fall on his knees and im plore for mercy ; but his surprise may well be imagini and when the elder with a sanctl monious twang, exclaimed, “ The wicked flee when no man pursueih. hut the right eous are as hold us a lion,” at tin- same time thrusting his hand in the barrel and bringing forth another piece of pork ! Th“ joke was too good to be lost. A soon as Tim recovered from his surprise, he roared with laughter, at tin- same time exclaiming, •• You infernal weazel-faoed, hypocritical scoundrel, vour impudence beats the devil by fifty per cent. It is a perfect curiosity, and worth paying for ; take the hag of pork in welcome, you have earned it.” “ And,” says Tim, as he afterwards fro qu-ntlv related the story with a hearty laugh, “the rascal did actually tak up the hag, placed it on his should- r. and with a stately sanctified walk, marched out of the sain door he cam ■ in at, merely sav ing, ‘good night neighbor Slocum.’ ” Tim once had an Irishman employed on his farm, but afters* veral years he became so much of’ a toper, that Tim was obliged to discharge linn 1! afterwards In-cam a little more steadv, and obtained employ, ment at a Mr. Clarke’s, a couple of miles north of Tim’s residence. It so happened that on a certain occasion, Mr Clarke be came the fortunate owner of a fine litter of young dogs of a peculiar breed. He was anxious to present one to a friend of his, who resided a mile south of our village; so selecting a favorite whelp, he placed it in a bag, and writing a line to his friend, gave it to Pat with tic- necessary dir ctions. at the same time char;ir:g him not to stop on the way. Pat started, hut having to pass the house of Tim Slocum, tin- recollec tion of whose excellent whiskey, was not to be withstood bv a gentleman of Pat’s taste, he made a halt there. Tim soon learned what Pat had in his bag, and while tiie latter went into the cellar to replenish Tim’s whiskey bottle. Tim dexterously slipped out tiie dog and substituted a pig of about the same weight. Pat returned from the cellar, took a good puli at the whiskey bottle, and proceeded on his journey, totally unconscious of th • strange metamorphose which had taken place in his hag. Arriv ing at the place of destination he produced the letter, and the gentleman was much pleased to learn that his friend Clarke had sent him a dog of the real Newfoundland breed. “ Take the little fellow out gently,” said the gentleman, addressing Pat. l'he Irishman put his arm in the bag, and was somewhat startled at hearing a grunt, and then a squeal ; but when the animal was brought to the light and proved to be a pig, Pat could not help exclaiming. ‘Holy Virgin !if it isn’t a pig may I be hanged!’ *A pig 1 To be sure it is, you rascally knave,’ exclaimed the gentleman in a rage, supposing that Clarke and his servant were thus attempting to insult him—‘and if you do not take it up and leave this place in two minutes: I’ll break every bone in your body, and I’ll serve your master the same sauce when I catch him.’ Pat protested both to his own and his master’s innocence, and swore ‘as true as St. Patrick, the animal was a puppy when he left home,’ but the enraged gentleman would not listen for a moment, but giving him a kick, the effoctsof which he felt the next half hour, started him towards his master. Pat trudged towards home in a dreadful quandary. ‘Sure,’said he to himself, I saw my master put the puppy in the bag, and how the divil he has changed to a pig, bates me all out, unless, as I believe, he is the divil himself.’ Os course, the poor fellow could do no less than stop on his return, and toll the M, .1. kAI*I* Il L, J 9 riii ter . j wonderful news to hisquandam master Tim Slocum. Tim listened with much appa rent astonishment, and when Pat had con cluded his story, he could offer no possible explanation. While Pat stepped to the j well fora pitcher of cool water, the young porker was removed by Tim, and the dog put hack to its old quarters. Pat took a j strong glass of whiskey and started once I more with the hag, which he tremblingly said, -he was sure contained the divil him self.’ On his arriving home he was accosted by his master, who was supprised at percei ving something in the nag. •Why, Pat. what have you brought in the bag?’ ‘Sure and its the animal what you was after sending to the gentleman ; and a divil a hit would he have it.’ •Not have it ?’ Why it is the likeliest whelp in the county. Why would he not have it V ■Whelp or not whelp, your honor, but be ‘S nte if it wasn't a pig when I cot there and no little kicking did 1 get for that same.’ V pig ‘ What do you mean, you stupid scoundrel, to call that beautiful dog a pig? ‘Faith and you turn him out, and if lie’s not a pig, I’ll eat every ounce of him, not barrin his tail.’ Clark seized the bag and rolled the whelp out upon the floor. There! what do you say now. vou Irish blockhead ? Pat’s eyes looked as if they would start from their sockets as he staggered back, and raising both his hands exclaimed, ‘By the holy St. Patrick, hecati be pig or puppy just as h pleases!’ It was impossible for Clark to fathom the i mystery ; hut all his attempts to get Pat to I repeat his journey, were fruitless, for lie j swore he would now require a hundred j masses to save his soul from Purgatory, ’ for having carried the devil six miles on j his shoulder, and he would not do it again j if Ids dying mother should command it. i In a few days the mystery was fully ex . plained by Tim Slocum, and many a hear j ty laugh did the anecdote give rise to ; hut j Pat to this dav believes or professes to be i lieve, that Tim’s story is fiction entirely, ; and that as sure as St. Patrick drove the snakes from Ireland, he carried the di | vil six miles in a two bushel bag. A JACKDAW IN CHURCH. On Sunday lust, two sermons were j preached at the parish church, Newport, | I’agnell, in aid of the Church Missionary : Society, by the Rov. Mr. Grimsliawc, M. ! A. of Biddenhaw. Just us the morning ser j vice was about to commence, Miss Beat* ; ty s jackdaw flew in at the door and perch ed herself on her (Miss IPs.) family table. He was pretty quiet till the Litany was be ing said, looking very serious. As soon as it was finished, he called out ‘Frank,’ loud j enough to be heard all over the church, | and sonn thou, lit it was Amen. They tried to drive him out, lout he only laughed |at them, calling out “Frank, Frank.” to | tin 1 no small amusement of the congrega ! tion. During the most part of the sermon ihe was pretty quiet except hopping from one pew to another ; but as soon as the bell j began to chime from one o’clock, he flew ! from the sounding hoard to the top of the | organ, calling out “dinner ’ most lustily, : w Inch set all the congregation in a titter.— I At that tint he tried to get out of the church ; and as soon as the service was over, half : |iast one, flew out of the window.— English j Taper. Curious Astronomical Theory. —We state the following on the authority of M. Arago, the emimnt French astronomer: If we place, in a horizontal line, a series of fig ures, of which the law is evident, each dou bling the preceding : 0 B (i 12 24 48 90 192 —and afterwards adds lour to each, we should have a series denoting the relative distances of the planets from the sun. Thus: 4 7 II) 16 28 52 100 190 Mercury, Venus, Barth, Mars, Jupiter, Sa turn, Uranus. If 10 represents the dis tance of the Earth. 4 will be that of Mercu ry, 7 Venus, 10 Mars, and 52, 100, and 190, the respective distance of Jupiter, Sa turn, and Uranus. This law was known as far as lOObefore the discovery of Ura nus ; and the distance of that planet being found to correspond, affords a very remark able confirmation of its truth. But, it will be observed, there will be a deficiency of one term between Mars and Jupiter ; at the proportional distance of2B from the Sun.— At this point a small planet was some time since discovered. This planet was named Ceres ; and since, three others have been found—Pallas, Juno, and Vesta; all of which have their orbits so near each other as to lead astronomers to believe that they are fragments of a larger planet, which had been shattered into pieces by some internal explosion, or the shock of a comet. “Jim,” said Abner Phelps, the other clay, to his son, “ Jim, you are lazy—what on earth do you ex pect to do for a living V “ Why, father, I’ve been thinking as how 1 would be a Revolutionary Pensioner !” ‘ 1 understand,’ said a deacon to a neigh bor, • that you are becoming a hard drink er.’ ‘ That is a slander,’ replied the neigh bor, 4 for no man can drink easier.’ Newspaper Borrowers —May theirs be a life of single blessedness ; may their path be carpeted by cross-eyed snakes, and thei i nights be haunted by knock-kneed tem ■ “-cats ‘ —[ Fe\ [VOLUME XXVII.