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NEWS & PLANTERS’ E AEETT E. \ W 9 i- ■ n. G. COTTING, Editor. No. 36.—NEW SERIES.] NEWS & PLANTERS GAZETTE. terms: Published weekly at Three Dollars perannmn if paid at the time of subscribing:; or Three Dollars and fifty Vents, if not paid till the expi- Katilof six months. .'.paper to be discontinued,unless al the tfln of the R.litor, without the settlement of | . i(. arrearages. j O” Letters, on business, must be pest] aid, to iinsure attention. No communication shall he | •published, unless we are made acquainted with I the name if the author. I TO ADVERTISERS. I Advertisements, not exceeding one square, first Insertion, Seventy-Jive Cents; and for each sub sequent insertion, Fifty Cents. A reduction will Ibe 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. Ijjjj Sales of Land and Negroes by Executors, Ad oinistrators and Guardians, are required by law, y, be advertised, in b. public Gazette, sixty days previous to the day of sale. ‘ The sales of Personal Propert y must tc adver tised in like manner, forty days. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate roust be published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or No ;roes, must be published for four months— notice that application will be made for Letters at Administration, must be published thirty days; and Letters of Dismission, six months. Mail Arrangements. POST OFFICE, ) Washington, Ga., January, 18411. $ AUGUSTA MAIL. ARRIVES. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 5, A. M. CLOSES. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 12, M. MILLEDGEVILLE MAIL. ARRIVES. Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 8, 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 0, A. M. LEXINGTON MAIL. ARRIVES. Tuesday and Saturday, at 2, P. M. CLOSES. Monday and Friday, at 9, A. IVL ELBERTON MAIL. ARRIVES. CLOSES. \mrsday, at 8, P. M. | Thursday, at 8, P. M. I LINCOLNTON MAIL. ARRIVES. CLOSES. Friday, at 12, M. j Friday, at 12, M. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Li” Office in Mr. Barnett’s new building, North west corner of the Public Square. Washington, Willies county, Ga., ) December 22, 1842. [ 17 CUTTING & BUTLER, ATTORNIES, HAVE taken an OFFICE in the rear of Willis & Hester’s Store. January, 1843. 29 \EW GOODS. Hie Subscriber lias just received from New-York, part of his Spring Stock or Gooms, { 10NSISTING of: Calicoes, Muslins, Lawns and Cambrics, and an assortment of Goods for Gentlemen’s Summer, wear—all of which will be sold at the lowest rates for CASH, or on credit to those who have been punctual in pay ment of their last year’s accounts. A. A. CLEVELAND. Washington, Aprii 13,1843. 4t 33 The Subscriber , Wf ISHING to close business,oilers atßedu- * ced Prices, his present STOCK, consist ing in part, of the following : *Tf*] Ladies’ Kid and Calf walking i f | Shoes, just received. Misses Calf and Seal do. do. Children’s Shoes,of various kinds j Boy’s Calf and Kip, sewed and peg’d. Shoes, Men’s Shoes, sewed and peg’d. a variety, Women’s sewed and peg’d. Kips, Women’s fine Leather Bootees, Gentlemen’s fine Calf Boots, Coarse Brogans, men’s and boys, bc-t quality, Do. do. extra size, Men’s Leather Slippers, Men’s Calf and Seal Pumps. ALSO, Ladies’ Kid Buskin Ties, and a case of Gentle men’s sewed Shoes, soon to arrive. Factory Oznaburgs, at 9 cents per yard, and woolen Linseys, nearly a yard wide, at 28 to 30 cents, which article was sent-invoiced at 45 cents, and cannot be bought at. the Factory now at much less than 40 cts. by the quantity 7 . ST Persons wishing any of the above articles* m will do well to call at the SHOE STORE oi A. L. LEWIS. I N. B.—Persons indebted on account will please I call and settle at the earliest possible date. I . January 12, 1843. A. L. L EVERY VARIETY OF r . EXECUTED AT THIS -©FF a JHisrcUanccts.o, i ■■■■ ‘•'■—r—’ a-t— 1 "r ■ . .. ■• l .1 THE PARTNERS. A Story of New-England Village-Life. liV H. HASTINGS WELD. Neyy‘ Store —Smith & Brown respectfully inform the public of Ccdarvillo and vicinity, and their friends generally, that they have taken the Store on Main-street, a few doors from the Meeting-llouse, where they have on hand and for sale, every description of goods, at prices as low as at any other place, in city or country. The above, with the customary abundant sprinkling of italics, capitals, and full-faced type, was the only new advertisement in the columns of the Cedarville Universal Advertiser, on the morning of the sth of May, 18—. “ Who is Smith & Brown ?” inquired the old ladies of the village, as their eyes wandered from the record of the deaths to the advertisement below ; and “ Who is Smith & Brown ?” echo ed the young ladies, who, after study ing the Hymeneal Register, glanced also at the advertisement. Methinks the reader is inquiring too —who are the Smith and Brown, introduced by you so abruptly ? Patience, gentle sir.—if sir you be ; if madam, it is of no use to preach patience ; patience, and you will in proper time, be come acquainted with The Partners. Smith and BroYvn had decided to con nect themselves in business, and astonish the natives of some country toYvn, Yvitha store a touch above any thing of the kind out of the limits of the metropolis. Cedar ville happened to he the place pitched up on. and so rapidly Yvas theij- migration ef fected, and the business of opening perform ed, that, until they. Yvere ready for custom ers, not more than half the women Yvithin ten miles of their store kneYv that such a thing Yvas in contemplation. The Cedar ville Universal Advertiser hail the merit, ■for once, of containing something of which the universe yvqs not previously advised ; and the gossips of Cedarville Yvere nearly distracted ; such a march lied been stolen upon them ! They fell in readily with the opinion of Old Pimento, at the old stand, that, as the hcyv store “sprung up like a mushroom, in a night, it would disappear too, betYveen two days.” Commence busi ness Yvithout making six months preparato ry talk ! the thing Yvas preposterous and unprecedented. But they succeeded, nev ertheless. The young Yvomen had become ‘tired of shop-Yvorn commodities, especially Yvhen sold by a crusty old Benedict, and the temptations of neYv goods and the new faces of Iyvo young bachelors Yvere irresistible. All the influence of the editor of the Uni versal Advertiser Yvas on the side of the neYv store, for the “ trader” at the old one never could he persuaded, that in a tdYvn Yvliere there was hut one store, there was any need of advertising. Even noYv, that there were tYvo, he yvouUl hot he provoked into a paper war ‘vith the iicyv comers, whose advertisements added some ten dol lars to the annua! income of the Advertiser —no inconsiderable item, by the Yvay, in the receipts of a village editor. For this sum they were alloYved a square, which, in the means a page of the paper. 1 AyyTul was the .iiism created in Cedar ville by lho new store ! Old Mr. Pimento stopped his paper, because he liked an in dependent press, and the Advertiser had had the impudence to publish Smith & RroYvn’s advertisements, to his manifest in jury. Such is the general idea of newspa per independence—subscribers wish to see j an editor untiammellcd, and therefore re ! lieve him oftheir names, upon less grievous causes than that Yvhich induced Pimento to discontinue the Cedarville Universal Ad vertiser. The old ladies sided Yvitli Pimen ton, the young ones belonged to the other faction, and the men stood neutral, or moved as driven by Yvife, daughter, or Yvife inten ded. Such Yvas the posture of things in t! e town of Cedarville, the parties alter nately going up and doYvn, as Old Pimento sold the best molasses, or the other house the best bargains, when affairs began to come upon the carpet more directly inter esting to Smith & BroYvn, and therefore to the readers of our veritable history. The star of the young firm had been some days on the ascendant. After a good day’s work, both partners Yvaited in the store, as ifeaeh | had something to tell the other, Yvith Yvhiclt j it Yvould not ansYver to trust any Yvalls hut | their oYvn. Each made awkward Yvork of his com munication ; but Yve shall omit the stam mering preface, and state only the substan ce of both their confessions, Yvhich Yvasthat each bad como to the conclusion that when if was said “it is not good for man to he a lone,” partnerships in business Yvere not the associates deemed necessary. Though Sa tan is ever fond of rebuking sin, yet neither party could condemn the other for the in tended crime of matrimony, in the abstract; hut each thought his disapprobation of the other in the choice of an accomplice. ‘Humph !’ said Smith, to himself; Brown is determined, then, to throYv himself away on that lowbred dowdy. She is as poor as she is avaricious.” ‘Well,’ said Brown, with a shrug, ‘Mr. Smj;h may yoke himself for life to purse pride and expectation:-, if lie chooses. It is no Business of mine. And so they par i ted for ftic night. *-\ * * * * ’ Married. hi B ,Gy Rev. Mr. Thump cushion, Mr. John Smith, in Cedarville, of the firm of Smith &. Bro Y-. il, to Miss Ann Matilda, only daughter of the Hon. Crtesus Ingot, of B In E , Mr. David Brown, of Cedarville, of the firm of Smith & BroYvn, to Miss Mary K. Tidd. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. WASHINGTON, (WILKES COUNTY, GA.,) MAY 4, 1843. | Another feather floated in the cap of the editor of the Cedarville Universal Adverti ser, —for iho above interesting item of in telligence beamed first upon Cedarville through its columns, so silently had every thing been conducted. In dilating upon the square inch of cake which hacked the re quest for insertion, Mr. Editor ground out tho only original article which had appear ed in his columns, since, six weeks before, Mr. Allen’s hoy supplied a ‘Narrow Es cape,’ by cutting his finger with a case knife. The effect of the announcement upon the inhabitants ofCedarville, was the breaking up, in a great measure, of the party divi sions. The old ladies were indignant that this news had hurst upon the community, without their having had so much as a nib ble of it in advance of the general promul gation ; the unengaged young ladies, each of whom had,secretly, and in her own mind, appropriated one of the firm to herself, be gan to have a manifest leaning to the Pi mento party ; and the married and engaged vonng ladies, who stuck to the firm in hopes of being invited to their parties, were in the minority. Things began to look squally, when, as is often the case in emergencies, a somethin!; was found to stem the current, and save the falling fortunes of the house ofSmith & Brown. Faster than the slow heels of the carrier hoy circulated the Ce darville Universal Advertiser about the vil lage, the intelligence flew orally, t hat Smith &. Brown were “livin'!; a treat.”— This at once formed anew accession to the new store party, as every man in a New England village, in 18 —, would drink, where liquor ran without money and with out price ; and every boy would be on hand to eat the sugar from the bottom of the tum blers, suck the toddy-sticks and long to he men—that being as near drinking as boys were permitted to go—their elders sagely backing their own examples, by warning boys not to drink spirits. They manage these things better now-a-days. The edi tor gained such credit hv an impromptu toast, concocted during all the night before, in which he hoped the ‘house ofSmith & Brown would fare none the worse for having taken sleeping partners.” Pimento, who found his way into the store for the first time, went home growling that they “would spoil the trade, if they did not reduce their spirit more.” Upon reaching his own store, he put another gallon of alcohol into each of his bar-casks of water and alcohols swept a peck of flies from his windows, and some of the dust off his shelves. ‘Will they give a party, I wonder ?’ Here the Cedarville Universal Adverti ser could not forestall the women, who are the exclusive venders of this sort of news ; and the women soon got hold of circumstan tial evidence, that at Smith’s house some thing was in preparation. Mrs. Smith had sent to one neighbor for eight quarts of milk, and her‘helps’ had borrowed anoth er’s heart and rounds. ‘Shall I get an in vite?” vvnsthe next question—hut the wor thy foil; were kept hut a little while in sus pense. ‘File shop hoy ofSmith & Brown soon left printed‘invites’ at every house in the village, not excepting those of the Pi mento-ites, and that of old Pimento him self. Business like, these invitations were issued in the namcoftlie firm. * * * * + It was over. Old Pimento who had lin gered, the last of the guests, as if determin ed to do his full share in eating out the substance of the young men, had at last taken his hat. Mr. and Mrs. Smith sat alone. ‘My dear,’ said the lady, ‘I do not see why you would invite all that canaille to our house.’ ‘Policy, Matilda l wish to become popu lar with the Cedarville people.’ ‘Well, I don’t like to be bored to death. I hope you have not so soon forgotten my feelings and my standing in society My father, Mr. Ingot was never so anxious to please the rabble.” ‘Mrs. Smith, I hope you not so far forgot ten my interest as to stand in the way of my business. The distant gingle of your, father’s gold will not support us.’ Mrs. Ann Matilda Smith sobbed hyster ically'. * * * * * ‘David,’ said Mrs. Brown to her hus band, as they walked home, ‘I am afraid I have done you no credit to-night; 1 always told you I was unused to society.’ “Why, Mary, I thought you succeeded to admiration with the villagers—mothers and daughters.’ ‘Oh, yes, and I have many pressing invi tations to visit them. But lam dreadfully afraid of Mrs. Smith. She carne and sat by me to night, and said something about the Great Unknown. I didn’t make any answer, and then she said that Waverly alone is enough to set him up. What did she. mean David? Is there to be anothet store in the village? !am sure I’m sorry if there is. I told her 1 did not know Mr. W averly.” Brown gently explained her mistake to her. It was a bitter evening, in conclu sion, for both partners —one had to drive away his wife’s hysterics with volatile salts and promises of indulgence—the other to console an intelligent, though unculti vated mind, for the lack of that information which one evening had convinced her was al! essential to her creditable appearance. On theMiorrow, Mrs. Ann Matilda Smith went hack to the house of her father, to recover, as she said, from the effects of ail excessive infliction of rusticity. She was not missed exjeept by her husband, for truth to tell, she did not win many hearts at the party.’ Weeks passed, and simple Mary Brown grew daily in the good graces of the dwellers in Cedarville. The parson’s wife ‘thought it a pity site had been ne glected, hut deemed her an intelligent lady like young woman, nevertheless. Some others might have made the same remark hut all loved her; and through her popular, ity, added to pre-existing circumstances, the tide set sadly against the store of Mr. Pimento. At the end of a few weeks, Mrs. Ann Matilda Smith returned. ‘My dear 1 have brought you a present.’ I thank you for returning yourself, Ma tilda, before I open the package, lest you should accuse me of selfishness, in thank ing you afterward. The direction was in the compting house hand of Mr. Ingot. Smith broke the seal, and found instruments possessing hint of a large landed property, and a check for several thousands. ’Matilda, after tlie unthinking and cruel taunt I gave a few weeks since, I cannot accept this.” ‘Mr. Smith!—Mr. Smith!’ There was something hysterical in her tone, —and Smith hasily interrupted,‘allow nte at least to secure this to you, l— ’ ‘No! no! take it as I offer it, or— ’ Poor Smith! He plied his wife alter nately with volatile and sugared words; the latter of the two remedies brought her to, because they imported an acceptance of her father’s present. It is said of his Satanic Majesty and the wight who accepts his fa vors, that the latter becomes bound to him. I do not intend to compare Mrs. Smith to the devil, —huther present was the purchase money of the—inexpressibles. Smith was sold to her from that day. * * * * * ‘These people pay a great deal of atten tion to your partner’s wife, Mr. Smith.’ ‘They would pay you the same my dear, if you would accept it.’ ‘But I shall not. Who can endure to drink yepon tea, out of earthen cups—and hear disquisitions upon sage-cheese, stock ing-yarn, the price of eggs, and the raising of poultry,—l cannot, Mr. Smith.’ ‘M rs. Brown does.’ M rs. Brown! It is herelemont; the hate- j ful, ignorant creature. I desire you will not ask her or her husband to the house a gain.’ ‘He is my partner, my dear.’ ‘I dont see why you need such a part ner. You don’t wan’t his capitol, certain ly.’ •His capitol is experience. He owns no thing, but receives a share of the profits for his services.” ‘lndeed! Well, lam sure you can hire a good clerk cheaper, and not he obliged to court Brown or his ignorant wife. I wish you would dissolve, Mr. Smith Ido not like the idea of finding Mr. Brown capital to trade upon.’ Foor Smith! * * * * * Dissolution. —The connexion in business, heretofore existing under the firm of Smith & Brown, is this day, by mutual consent dissolved. Mutual —Yes, that is the word, when a strong man kicks a weaker out of doors; and the aboveisa litoral transcript from the Cedarville Universal Advertiser. One of the sleeping partners had upset the house, thus making our editorial friend’s toast as mala propos as were his editorials. .Mr. Brown and his poor ignorant wife made their round of calls; stepped into the stage with light hearts, and a purse which honest gains had pretty well ballasted, and hade adieu to Cedarville. Nothing wor thy of note occurred at their departure, ex cept that the Editor of the Cedarvile Ad vertiser stopped the stage before his door, to ask Brown if he might not send him the paper; to which he, the said Brown, mali ciously answered, that he would pay him the price of it, if he would keep it away. Mr. Editor as a guardian of public morals, was not profanely inclined, but upon this occasion, he could not refrain from giving his opinion that Brown ‘was ad and un civil fellow, and as illiterate as his wife.’ Everybody in the village regretted their departure except Mrs. Smith, Mr. Editor, and Old Pimento. Tho latter had reason to he pleased, for Brown’s withdrawal would, he knew, essentially weaken the new faction. The tide turned into its old channel, and Pimento soon saw all the old faces back to his counter, —except, perhaps, a few whose wives trimmed their bonnets and caps like Mrs. Smith, and esteemed it an honor toget a nod from her. In proportion as business lessened, she, thinking the portion she brought inexhaustible, increased her ex penses. She figured in the streets of Ce ilarsville, in dresses which would have at tracted notice for their expensive quality, in Washington Street or Broadway. Clouds of the family connexions, connexions of the Ingots, settled on Smith to rusticate, de vouring his substance like a swarm of lo custs. And every city carriage which rol led to his door, rolled away the patronage of some villager, who preferred purchasing sugar of old Pimento, to being hurriedly served by the now exclusive and genteel Mrs. Smith. ***** As Pimento was spelling out the Cedar ville Advertiser, —for sincethe editor had returned to his allegiance, ho had again subscribed; he chuckled over the following notice.—All persons indebted to John Smith, are notified that his hooks and ac ; counts are assigned to Croesus Ingot, to j whom immediate payment must be made, j Creditors may beeome parties, by signing i the assignment.’ ‘Holloa! neighbor,” he ] shouted ton passer-by who been one of i the new store party, ‘why can’t yon tell me how Smith & Wife sell London and French Prints!’ ‘Smith & Wife’fj Store had be come the cant term. * * * * * Years had passed away. Two persons accidentally met on Change. There was a look of uncertain recognition. ‘Brown?’ ‘Smith?’ A hearty shaking of hands followed. ‘How is your-lady. Brown?’ ‘Well. She is now acquainted with Mr. Waverly.” , ‘And mine has forgotten her hysterics.’ The four met at the city residence of Mr. Brown, who had, by industry, become pos sessed of a handsome property. Smith, al so, taught wisdom by his reverses, had re trieved his. pecuniary affairs. The hus bands came from the library together. “Ladies,’ said Smith, ‘we have again en tered into copartnership. Matilda do you thinkyou can now invite that hateful'Mrs. Brown to our house?’ ‘Mary,’ said Brown, “are you now afraid of Mrs. Smith?’ It is unnecessary to say that explana lions had taken place. Mrs. Smith was not naturally vain, nor was Mrs. Brown ever dowdy, though once ignorant. Both were placed by marriage, in situations for which they were unfit, and each had learned to adopt herself to her situation. Mrs. Smith learned the thrift and pleasant manners of Mary Brown; and if the latter did not ac quire all the shining accomplishments of Mrs. Smith, she at last became deeply read enough to make her an agreeable compan ion for her husband and to place her above the danger of appearing to ridiculous dis advantage. Ofthetwo, Mrs. Smith had in her education, cost her husband the most. One partner married above, theother below, his station in life. In the last connexion in business, the sleeping partners have proved such valua ble auxiliaries, that their husbands’ paper is quite as good as that of any Ingot on ’Change. Old Pimento buys his goods of the importing house of Smith & Brown, who advertises to country traders in the col umns of the Cedarville Universal Adverti ser ; and the editor of that respectable pa per carries his head higher than ever. POPPING THE QUESTION. One of the merriest fellows of the day is the gallant Col. Carter of the Lycoming Gazette. The following are his grave and profound remarks upon the important sci ence of “Popping the Question:” Girls are queer little animals—angels, we intended to have said : and we love ’em all, in spite oftheir faults, folly and flirting-. We have “popped the question,” at least a dozen times, and a dozen times have we been refused. The frequent r*erses have not engendered a feeling of despair ; and strange as it may sound, yvc are on as good terms with ourselwes as ever. We rather attribute this want of success to a want of taste and discernment on the part of certain fair ones ; and dark as the prospect now is, we entertain a faint hope that, perhaps at some distant day, we may yet woo and win some young, middle-aged, or even old lady, worthy of our small means, hut extensive prospects ; worthy ofour high standing, (six feet in our socks); and worthy of those gra ces of mind and person which we are sup posed by many to possess. But this is an episode—only indulged ir, loshoYv our dear “Maria,” that the decision of tin’s momen tous question has been left to a person who has had some experience in the wayward, strange, queer, puzzling, provoking, per plexing, incomprehensible and capricious wavs of lovel v woman! Now to the text. If a gentleman should meet with a re pulse—a refusal—it is wholly and solely his own fault. It is in his power to ascer tain the state of the lady’s feelings before he “unbosoms” Tiimself. But how ? Os course, she will never make a tender con fessions in tender words or tender looks.— Olt, no! She will use every little artifice to convinW: him that she docs not care two straws for him, hut if she really loves, she betrays the existence of the tender passion in a hundred different ways in the presence of the “dear object.” If she meets the “ob ject” in the street, she tries to look cold and composed, but blushes to her temples. If they should he left alone, and are in close proximity, they become excruciatingly em barrassed ; have a sort of choaking sensa tion about the throat—trembling of limbs —faltering of words—changing of color, &c. If he admires any peculiar mode of wearing the hair—any peculiar style of dress—he will discover that she innocently and unconsciously enough acemmodates herself to his fancy. If, on entering the room, she is the last to greet his approach, he may set it down as a very favorable symptom, ad injinitem ; hut we have furnish ed enough for all useful purposes. If, then, a gentleman finds a lady in the state Yvhich Yve have attempted to describe, he may propose with perfect safety. But lie must be careful as to the time and place. The season of sunshine and flowers is the j time— Yvhen mountain and hill, plain and j valley, are clothed in the richest verilur.— : Yvhen the birds carol forth their songs of joy and love— Yvhen the balmy Yvinds of the South give color to the cheek and life to the step —YY-.lien the SYveet murmuring of the brook breaks upon the silence of the forest —when the rosy goddessofthe morn bathes the smiling landscape in one bright stream of golden effulgence—when the eyes ho M. .1. K APPEL, Printer. come soft, tender, dewy, and the low ing of herds proclaim the close of day—when each field speaks df jov and plenty —when every tremhling’lea'Kyvhispers of love—Oh, then is the time ! As to the place—in some secluded walk, where there is no pos ihilrty of interruption. Tremblingly place the del\iitV, white, soft hand within your own mutton ..fist, pop tb/e question, and murmur into hei expecting ears voyvs of love and constancy ’. If she is a sensible, candid, off-handed sort of a girl, she will say “Yes,” and thank you.— If she is a timid, loving girl, she will pro bable burst into tears, hide her head in yOur bosom, and refer you to her “pappy.” If she is a foolish girl, she Yvilt say “Yes,” eagerly, and jump up and kiss von. If she is a coquettish girl, she will look pleased, but pretend to be astonished, and it Yvil! re quire many succeeding interviews before you are able to make Iter “define her posi tion.” True love, yvc all knoYv, is diffident, and the question is frequently “ponped” Yvith out the “popper” knowing wlat the com plexion of the answer will he from the “poppee.” Ifthe lady hears vou coldly and unmoved—betrays no alarm no em barrassment, no soft fluttering oitle heart, hand and voice—and blasts your hopes Im polite utterance of the terrifically terrible monosyllable “No,” we advise you imme diately to get on your feet again, careHlly brush the dirt off your knees, take vour jat in your hand, how politely and indifferent ly to the lady, as if the disappointment yv not so great as she expected, Yvalk yoursel oft’to your lodgings, light a cigar, cornpu. yourselfon a soft-cushioned chair, specu late upon the. future, the caprices and im perfections of the sex, the blessings of a bachelor’s life, and it is probable you Yvill soon forget her. It must he evident that she don’t care a copper about you. It is true, by dogged perseverance you might eventu ally obtain her consent ; hut, in nine cases out of ten, hearts do not accompany hands Yvon in that Yvay. But if the ladv savs “No!” when all her loolts and actions say “Yes,” do not, we beseech you, tear your hair and fly oft'in a tangent. The hook has caught, and by giving her plenty of litn , and playing with her delicately and scien tifically, you can, in good time, draw her to your arms, as she blusliingly confesses the power and potency of your charms. A booby of a fellow, now, may spoil all, in this stage of the proceedings, by his haste or tardiness, and let the fair one escape from his unskillful hands, to be caught in the net of some old sportsman. Sensations in a Trance. —The sensations of a seemingly dead person, while confined in the coffin, are mentioned in the following case of trance :—“A young lady, an atten dant on the Princess , after having been confined to her bed fora great length of time with a violent nervous disorder, was at last, to all apperance, deprived of life. Her lips were quite pale, her face resem bled the countenance ofa dead person, and the body grew cold. She was removed from the room in which she died, was laid in a coffin, and the day of her funeral fixed on. The day arrived, and according to tb cus tom of the country, funeral songs and hymns were sung before the door. Just as the people were about to nail down the lid of the coffin, a kind of perspiration was observed to appear on the surface of her body. It grew greater every moment, and at last a kind ofconvulsive motion was observed in the hands and feet oftlie corpse. A few minutes after, during which time fresh signs of returning life appeared, she at once opened her eyes, and uttered a most pitiable shriek. Physicians were quickly procured, and in the course of a few days she was considerably restored, and is pro bably alive at this day. The description which she gave of her situation is extreme ly remarkable, and forms a curious and authentic addition to psychology. She said it seemed to her that she was really dead ; yet she was perfectly con scious ofall that happened around her in this dreadful state. She distinctly heard her friends speaking and lamenting her death at the side of her coffin. She felt them put on the dead clothes and lay her in them. This feeling produced a mental anx iety which is indescribable. She tried to cry, but her sou! was without power, and could not act in her body. She had the contradictory feeling as ifshe were in the body and yet notin it at one and the same time. It was equally impossible for herto stretch out her arms, or to open her eyes, or to cry, although she continually endea vored to do so. The internal anguish ol her mind was, however, at its utmost height when the funeral hymns were begun to be sung, and when the lid of the coffin was a bout to be nailed down. The thought that she was to be buric-d, alive was the one that gave activity to her mind and caused r. to operate on her coporea! frame.” One of the papers states that the Bostor ladies are holding lemonade parties. A large punch bowl of water is provided which is sweetened by the young ladies all. placing their lips to ihe brim. The old maids then look into it, and the lemonade i. “ done did.” A man in Springfield, G., thus announ ces himself as a candidate for constable.— , He is certainly a candid man. Phillip E. Barnet, Loco-foe;:—has a wi e and 13 children—poor—afraid to sioul loo lazy to work—and would like to be o lectcd constable.” [VOLUME XXVI]I.
