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YE W 8 & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE.
I>. . DOTTING, Editor.
No. 51.—NEW SERIES]
Mews & planters’ gazette.
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Sales of Land and Negroes by Executors, Ad
ministrators and Guardmns, 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 of Ordinary, for leave to sell J .find or :\'e
groes, must bo published for four month •
notice that application will ba-made for Letter:--
of Administration, must be published thirty days;
and Letters of Dismission, s ix months.
■■MOSBMWWWWMIMWWW 1 —:
(K?” A meeting of the Democratic Party
of Wilkes county will he held nt the Court
House in Washington, on t! o first Tuesday
in September, for tho purpose of nomina
ting a Ticket to represent tlie County in tin
next General Assembly. 49 td
J. A. CLEVELAND, Dentist.
HAS arrived, and will remain in Town about
two weeks. Office at the former resi
dence of L. S. Brown, Esq. .-.j
Washington, August 10, 1843. 2t
Factory Clothe
rBTIIE Subscriber has just reeeived from Poul
-I- lain Factory :
4 bales Cotton Yarns,.
4 “ very heavy Negro Shirtings,
1 “ fine do. do.
23 pieces Cotton Bagging,
Bagging Twine,
Which he oilers on very reasonable terms, for
Cash. G. P. COZART.
August 10,1843. 50
BASON.
\ • prime lot of MIDDLINGS, for sale by I
R. H. VICKERS, i
August 10, 1843. 50
COTTING &, BUTLER,
ATTORNIEg,
HAVE taken an OFFICE in the rear of
Willis & Hester’s Store.
January, 1843. 23
STATE OF GEORGIA. !
WILKES COUNTY.
Pursuant to a Writ
M) 53) rected, requiring us to !
iSlmteLlfli b cau se an Election to
nUt TO) be h e>d on MONDAY
JffSftbe second day of OC
nex!’ r 0110
House of Representatives of the Congress of the j
United States, to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of the lion. Mark A. Cooper. We
tho Justices of the Inferior Court for the county
aforesaid, hereby give notice, that an Election
will be held at the Court-House in the Town of
Washington and at the several Election Pre
cincts in said County and State aforesaid, on
MONDAY tho second day of OCTOBER next,
for a Representative to fill the aforesaid vacancy.
LEWIS S. BROWN, j. i. c.
IIEZEKIAH L. EMBRY, j. i. c.
JAMES HARRIS, j. !. c.
WILLIAM Q. ANDERSON, j. i. c.
A. S. WINGFIELD, j. i. c.
August 8, 1843. 50
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
ALL persons indebted to thS Estate of Nancy
A. Mcßca, late of Wilkes county, deceas
ed, are requested to make immediate payment,
and those having any demands will please pre
sent them in terms of law for payment.
LEWIS S. BROWN, > „ .
* JOHN H. DYSON, i lyX rs ’
July 20, 1843. 6t 47
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
■VAT” ILL be sold on the first Tuesday in Sep
* * lember next, before the Court-House door
in Washington, Wilkes county, between the le
gal hours of sale, the following property, to-wit:
One Negro Girl named Essy, about sixteen
years old, sold as the property of Edward Jones,
deceased, for the purpose of paying the debts of
said deceased, by order of the Honorable the
Inferior Court of Wilkes county, while sitting
for Ordinary purposes.
Terms made known on the day of sale.
FELIX G. HENDERSON, Adm’r.
de bonis non.
June 29,1834. 44
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
VAT"ILL be s °ld on the first Tuesday in Sep
* * tember next, before the Court-House door
-Tn Cuthbert, Randolph county, a Lot of Land
known by number (131) one hundred and thir
ty-one, in the (8) eighth District of said county,
as the property of James Sutley, late of said
county, deceased. Sold for the purpose of a di
vision, and by an order of tho Honorable the In
ferior Court of Randolph county
JOHN M. CHRISTIAN, Adm’r.
Randolph co. June 22, 1843. 9t 43
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
\XJ ILL be sold on the first Tuesday in Octo
ber next, before the Court-House door in
Henry county, agreeable to an order of the In
terior £ourt of Elbert county, when sitting as a
Court of Ordinary, one Tract of Land containing
Two Hundred two and a half Acres, being num
ber tw6 hundred and fifteen, in the twellth Dis
trict of Henry county. Sold as a part of the
Lands belongingto tho estate of Thomas Haynes,
deceased, late of Elbert, county. Terms will bo
made known oil the day of sale, this 27th day of
July, 1843.
LETTY HAYNES, Ex’x.
BENJAMIN THORNTON, Jr., Adm’r.
August 3. m2m 49
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
I f.L be sold on the first Tuesday in Octo
* * her next, before the Court House door in
Elbert County, agreeable to an order of the Infe
rior Court of Elbert county, while sitting- as a
Court of ordinary, one Tract of Land containing
three Hundred and fifty seven acres more or
less, lying on Cold Water Creek, adjoining lands
belonging to Barden Rucker, Joel Hutcherson
and others. Sold as a part of the lands belong
ing to the Estate of Janies Banks Jr. deceased,
late of Elbert County. Terms will be made
known on the day of sale, this Ist day of August,
1843.
JEREMIAH S. WARREN, Admr. on the
Real estate of James Banks Jr. deceased.
August 3. m2in 49
ADMIN 1 STRATRIX’S SALE.
AI7ILL.be sold on the first Tuesday in Octo
f r ber next, before the Court-House door in
Rabun county, agreeable to an order of the Infe
rior Court of Elbert county, while sitting as a
Court of Ordinary, one Tract, of Land contain
ing four hundred and ninety Acres, in the
third district, number three of Rabun county.—
Sold as a part of the Lands belonging to the Es
tate of George Wyche, deceased, late of Elbert
■ (unity. Terms will bo made known on the day
oi sale, this I0:h July, 1843.
AGATHA WYCHE, Adm’x. with
the will annexed, on the Real Estate of
George Wyche, deceased.
July 20,1843. m2m 47
ADMINISTRATRIX’S SALE.
TI7’ILL be sold on the first Tuesday in Sep
* * tember next, before the Court-House door
in Elbert county, agreeable to an order of the In- j
ferior Court of Elbert county, when sitting as a I
Court of Ordinary, the one-fourth part of an un- |
divided Tract of Land, containing four hundred
and seventy-eight Acres, in Elbert county, ad- j
joining lands of William Penn,’ and other’s, and j
one Negro woman by the name of Fanny. Sold
as the property of the Estate of Georgo’Wyche,
deceased. Terms will be made known on the
day of sale, this 29th of June, 1843.
AGATHA WYCHE, Adm’x. on the ‘
Perishable Property, and Adm’x. with the will i
annexed on the Real Estate of George Wyche,
deceased.
July 6. m2in 45
ADMINISTRATRIX’S SALE.
WILL be sold on the first Tuesday in Sep
tember next, before the Court-House
door in Appling county, agreeably to an order of
the Inferior Court of Elbert county, when sitting
as a Court of Ordinary, one Tract of Land, con
taining four hundred and ninety Acres, in the
fourth District, number four hundred and eighty
three (483.) of Appling county. Sold as a part
of tho Lands belonging to the Estate of George
Wyche, deceased. Terms will be made known
on the day of sale, this 29th ddy of June, 1843.
AGATHA WYCHE, Adm’x.with
* the will annexed, on the Real Estate
of George Wyche, deceased.
July G. _ m2m 45
. ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
WTLL be sold on the first Tuesday in Octo
ber next, before the Court-House door in
Elbert county, agreeable to an order of the Infe
rior Court of Elbert county, while sitting as a
Court ot Ordinary, one Negro woman by the
name of Sally and her child. Sola as a part of 1
the Negroes belonging to the Estate of John
Hall, deceased, for the benefit of the creditors of !
said deceased. Terms cash.
TIIOMAS J. TURMAN,’ Adm’r.
July 20, 1843. m2m de bonis non. j
EXECUTOR’S SALE.
DItTILL bo sold on the first Tuesday in Sep
* * tember next, before the Court-House j
door in La Grange, Troup county, between tiie 1
legal hours of sale, the following property, to- i
wit:
The east half of Lot No. (138) one hundred
and thirty-six, in the twelfth District of Troup
county, containing one hundred and five and a
half Acres, more or less, belonging to the estate
of Ann Leavitt, late of YVilkes county, deceased.
Terms made known on the day of sale.
GEORGE SHANK, Ex’r.
July 12,1843. 46
GEORGIA, ) To Thomas O’Kelly and his
Elbert county. \ wife Elizabeth O’Kelly, Thom
as J. Sandidge, Richard S. Sandidge, Albert G.
Sandidge, John Q. A. Sandidge, Louisa A. Pace,
Elizabeth Jane Pace, and Martha Pace, heirs at
law and distributees of the Estate of Claborn
Sandidge, deceased, late of Elbert county, you
aro hereby notified that we intend to apply to the
Honorable tho Inferior Court of Elbert county,
while sitting as a Court of Ordinary, on the first
Monday in November next, for an order and to
divide the Negroes belonging to the Estate of
Claborn Sandidge, deceased.
JAMES M. SANDIDGE, ) . . ,
ANDREW J. SANDIDGE, \ AdlJl rs
June 22,1843. m4m 43
1750 UR months after date, application will bo
- made to the Honorable the Inferior Court
of Elbert county, while sitting as a Court of Or
dinary, for leave to sell all the Lands belonging
to the Estate of John S. Higginbotham, deceas
ed, late of Elbert county, this 26th April, 1843.
JOHN G. HIGGINBOTHAM, > , , ,
JOSEPH SEWELL, Aom rs
May 4. 1843. m4rn 36
FOUR months afterdate, application will be
made to the Interior Court of Eibert coun
ty, while sitting as a Court of Ordinary, for leave
to sell all the Lands and a part of the Negroes,
belonging to the Estate of John Nunnoiee, de
ceased, late of Elbert countv, ’his 10th Uii,', 1843
NICHOLAS BURTON, Adu’r.
July 20.1843. m - ‘ 47
FU BIDS HE ft EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
WASHINGTON, (WILKES COUNTY, GA.,) AUGUST 17, 1848.
j .There is something in the lines below, copied
from Blackwood's Magazine, sweetly pathetic
and touching. The author is unknown.
. THE CONFESSION.
There’s somewhat on my breast, father,
There’s somewhat on my breast'.
The live long day I sigh, father,
At night 1 cannot rest;
I cannot take my rest, father, #
Tho’ I would fain do so,
A weary weight oppresseth me—
A weary weight of wo !
| ’Tis not the lack of gold, father,
Nor lack of worldly gear;
My lands are broad and fair to see.
My friends are kind and dear;
My kin are leal and true, father,
They mourn to see my grief;
But oh ‘. ’tis not a kinsman’s hand,
Can give my breast relief!
’Tis not that Jenet’s false, father,
’Tis not that she’s unkind ;
Though busy flatterers swarm around,
I know her constant mind.
’Tis not her coldness, father,
Tliat chills my laboring breast—
It’s that confounded cucumber
I’ve ate and can’t digest.
j&toteUsoirouis.
THE NINETY-NINE GOOD TURNS.
BY LAJIAN BLANCHA'KD.
“Blessed are they who have favors to be
stow, for they shall be shunned of no man!”
Thus spake my cynical friend the other
day, when he had just vainly sought an
audience of some great personage, who be- j
| sieged with suppliants, was unapproaeha- j
ble accordingly.
My cynical friend knew little ofinankind. |
People who have favors to bestow will al- !
j ways be shunned by two classes. By those I
I first—who, out of a false pride and enor- |
j mous self conceit, regard every acceptance j
] of a favor as a compromise ofindependence, J
| and who associate the instinct of gratitude \
for kindness rendered with a degrading ad
mission of inferiority. Next, by those who j
having been laden with bounties and ser- j
| vices, freely bestowed, on ninety-nine oc- j
i casions, are refused the expected and cus- |
tomary boon upon tho hundredth.
| As the malignant nature can never for
give the innocent being it has injured, so;
the ungrateful nature eonnot forgive the I
generous man who has served it.—Strange,
that among the inconsistencies of which we j
are made up, one so gross as ingratitude
should be found, seeing that the grateful
feeling implies, not a sense of inferiority,
I but the conviction that somebody has
thought us worthy of sympathy, and enti
tled by desert to kindness.
Not less strangely inconsistent is it ’that
one who is thankful in his heart for a sin
gle service, should be ungrateful for a long
continued series. Such too frequently is
he who fails to obtain the hundredth favor.
Show him nt the outset of your acquain
tance, a little courtesy; offer your opera
glass or your snuffbox ; write him what is
called a civil note when there is no abso
lute necessity for doing so, and he will
trumpet your praises as one of the most gra
cious of mankind. Proceed from small
■ civilities to essential benefits ; heap favor
upon favor on him ; go out of your way to
j evince an anxiety for the promotion of his
I interests, the gratification of his desires, cx
! tend your disinterested kindness from him
j self to his family, get an appointment for
| his eldest boy, and reconcile a high family
to a match with his daughter; invent anew
: hair dye expressly to accommodate his
j wife, and lose a guinea a night to him at
J whist, the whole season round ; bind him
I more and more tightly in obligations to you,
and hear him proclaim you nine times a
day for nine years the best friend ho ever
had in the world; the most generous of!
mortals, the noblest of benefactors, and at
the very moment when he is your own for
ever, only just refuse to lend him your gun
or your horse ; or tell him that you could
not think of writing to the Review to solicit j
a puff of his new phamphlet; dial’s all !
How, in such a case, will the grateful
fellow, to whom you have rendered the
ninety-nine good turns, turn round upon
you ! He will tell you in no time, a curi
ous lesson ; that it takes years to confer ob
ligations, but only moments to forget them.
Why, he will undertake to forget, on the
very spot, all that you have done for him ;
all that he has said of.you. He will, at the
shortest notice, recollect nothing concern-*
ing you but your refusal to oblige him in
the very trifling matter wherein he had cal
culated upon your assistance.
You dragged him out of the ( river once,
saving his life at the risk of your own ; you
lent him a thousand pounds; you intro
duced him to all the connexions in which
he finds the best charms of society. Does
he remember one of these little incidents?
No, he only recollects that you yesterday
refused to buy a share or two in the crazy
speculation ho was so rashly concerned in.
\ ou snatched If n out of a gambler’s net,
just in time to save him from from ruin;
you chivalrously upheld him when he was
traduced, and effected his admission into
the club, when r.n extra black ball would
have had a damaging effect upon his repu
tation. Does he now bear these little ser-
I vices vividly in his mind ? No, he only
, bears in mind that you positively declined
to to take his three gawky nieces to the
opera, and distinctly refused to ask that
most inveterate of bores, his wife’s brother,
to stay a fortneight with you in the country.
You have all but fed and clothed him
from infancy—does he, all on a sudden,for
get tliis.slight obligation? Yes, utterly;
you have a dinner party that did not in
clude him.
And what tone docs ho adopt now, when
he speaks of the “most generous of men,”
of the ‘best friend he ever had in the world?’
Oh, the tone of an injured man, to be sure;
of a man slow to resent, reluctant to speak
out, hut deeply injured ! ‘Ah ! my dear
madam,’ lie remarks to Mrs. Blab. ‘I
thought as you did once ; I would have
staked my honor on that man’s friendship
and liberality ; but the mean mind, you
j know will betray itself. Only think of his
refusing to give young Scamp (a relation
of mine by marriage,) who wants a few
j suits of clothes, such a simple thing as an
; introduction to his tailor !’ ‘Shame !’ cries
I Mrs. Blah, on the part of the whole town :
‘this to you too, who have been such a
| friend to him—who have ever spoken of
i him so highly; to whom he is under so
! mrnv obligations.’
I The receiver of the ninety-nine good ;
| turns is not ungrateful at an earlier stage j
jof the obligation. His gratitude never
j breaks down until it is past the point where j
the demand for it is higher than ever.
He has been so long accustomed to re
j ceive favors that a temporary stoppage
, stuns him; and he recovers his senses only
i to feel that he has been cruelly ill treated.
I Hitherto, to ask has been to have ; the de
| nial, therefore, seems so strange, so wan
ton, so unprovoked, that it cancels tho re
collection of every debt, and turns honey
into gall.
When we hear one, with malice and dis- j
appointment breathing in every word, im- j
puting to an absent person every disobli
ging quality, it is not uncharitable to sup
pose that the absentee had done him many
good turns and then stopped. When we
have listened a long hour to a fierce railer,
who, having fastened his teeth on the char
acter of an old acquaintance, tears it to tat
ters —who is ready to swear that no parti
cle of kindness or generosity lurks within
the man—who rates him as tho impersona
tion of all meanness and covetousness —it
is not always unfair to ask, “How long is it
since you first began to borrow ofhim ? and
on what day this week did he decline to
lend you the guinea?”
Whenever I find any one unusually bit
ter and boisterous in his denunciations of
“man’s inhumanity to men,” exhibited in 1
a case of personal experience, the declaim
erappearing as the victim, lam aptenough
to think, “Now here is a gentleman who
wanted'thehundredth good turn, but could
not get it.”
It behooves us surely to take care, when
we censure another as incapable of render
ing a single service, that we do not mean
the hundredth. Many honest natures, that
would blush to he deficient in the acknowl
edgment of kindness, have been precipita
ted, by an unexpected refusal, into a total
unconsciousness of countless benefits re
ceived. There is, it must be owned, some
thing exasperating in this sudden turning
off at the hundredth turn. One is uneasy
at receiving ninetv-nino obligations and a
point blank denial. Custom lias become
our second nature, and a repulse seems a
wrong. We feel that our benefactor ought |
to have no will in I lie matter —that he lias 1
a right to comply with our modest little ap
plication, to give a largo party expressly
to please a few particular friends of ours
whom heistoask. Non-compliance dash
es us down from the high ladder, when we
have attained tho last stave but one. Just
at the top of the steep ascent, we slip and
roll to the bottom when we least dream of
it. We had made sore, and feel sore.—
Et tu Brute, we cry. The well that was
always brimful—to find a drop in it at lasi!
Tiie tree that dropped its ripe fruits lor as
we approached, to be bqrren suddenly !
Why, the well that was always empty, the
tree that never bore at all, are taken into
favor in preference. There is forgiveness
for the man who refused at first to stir a
foot in our cause, and keep his word ; but
there is none for him who, have walked a
thousand miles toserve us, now declines to
move an inch at the bidding of our caprice.
Our self love wounded by the discovery
that we cannot dictate to him; and, with
pride hurt, we inconsistently humble our
selves to the dust—degraded by the disa
vowal ofobligations we can no longer com
mand.
Even when the spirit of exaction, defeat
ed after many victories, expressess its sense
of disappointment in a milder and less re
vengeful form, it still fails not to draw a dis
tinction between the one who was never
obliging and the one who was always obli
ging till now, to the prejudice of the last.
A favor is received from an unexpected
quarter. “This,” we cry, “is most kind,
most generous, most noble ; he never did
tne a good turn before.” A favor is with
held in a quarter where it was anticipated:
“This,” we cry “is unkind to the last de
gree, most unworthy, most pitiful, he never
hesitated to render me kindness before.” —
Now desert in the one case makes the sin
gle good deed lustrous ; desert in the other
gives to the solitary refusal the blackness
of an irreparable injury,
i No man can be perfectly sure that he
| has not within him the seeds of an ungrate
ful scoundrel until he has been refused the
hundredth good turn. If true there, ho is a
true man!
j From Godcy's Lady’s Book, for August.
\ THE CONSEQUENCE OF DRIVING
THINGS OFF.
BY I'ROI liSSOR FROST. J
Mr. Samuel Saunter was such an un
j punctual person about keeping hisappoint
! meiits that he canfo, at length, to be called
by his acquaintance the late Mr. Saunter.
‘By and by,’ ‘ All in good time,’ ‘Slow
and sure,’ ‘ More haste worse speed,’ &c.
&c. were his favorite quotations ; and his
wife, good lady ! was one of your bustling,
fussing, fidgeting, never-easy sort of per
sonages, born and educated for the express
j purpose of tormenting lazy husbands, was
daily and hourly put off with one or anoth
er of these phrases.
One summer, several years ago, they j
j went out of town to spend the hottest part of
| the season among gardens, farms and or.
j ohards, in a pleasant town in the interior of
Pennsylvania, about one hundred and fifty’
j miles from Philadelphia, and a very pleas
| ant sojourn they made of it. Their chil
. dren, a little girl of eight and a boy of six
i years old, enjoyed their residence in the
country greatly, and were much improved
in their health and vigor by their diet of
home-made bread, fresh milk and eggs, and
ripe fruit. Exercise and fresh air did
much also for the parents, and made Mr.
Saunter himself almost an active man. All
that was wanting was the will —or, as met
aphysicians call it, the moral ability to be
stir himself when the occasion called for |
exertion. But, truth to tell, the quiet rctir ;
ed farm house in which they were quarter- !
ed, was to him a perfect Castle of Indolence. |
When dragged out upon an excursion by |
his active lady, he went, indeed ; but he |
contrived so to arrange matters that while |
tiie rest of the family were gathering ber
ries, or weaving garlands of flowers, ho was I
reposing under some shady tree ; or quietly j
angling in the river, which intersected the j
farm. Whole days did he spend reclining j
on the heaps of fragrant new.mown grass. !
watching the labors of the hay-makers.— !
His habit of procrastination, however, was
indulged even in reference to these excur
sions into the fields. He was always the 1
last of the party to be ready for a start, and
he often put off his return to the house till
the rising thunder-cloudspoured forth their
watery contents upon his head, and made
him regret his not having heeded the warn
ings of his faithful helpmate.
When the mowers descended from the
higher ground to the ‘ intervale’ as it was
called, by the river bank, Mr. Saunter fob
lowed ; and reclining under a clump of
willows, he would listen hour after hour, to
the pleasant ringing sound of the scythes as
they cut through tho tall, heavy grass.—
Bv his patient study of the subject he must |
have attained a pretty good knowledge of
the theory of mowing; tiie practice he
would have found altogether too laborious
for his taste. In this agreeable occupa
tion, however, ho was not entirely without |
company. Tho mosquitoes abounded in j
the ‘ intervale,’ and as Mr. Saunter was a |
light eomplexioned, thin-skinned gentle- ■
man, they conceived a particular affection j
for him ; so that by the time he had pulled j
off his coat and thrown himself comforta- ;
bly, at full’length, upon the grass, beneath I
his favorite willows, they began to settle !
upon his hands, face and arms, and pay him ‘
a great many personal attentions—more,
in fact, than were quite agreeable. Too j
much attention, at certain times, is quite o- I
verpowering. Mr. Saunter, however, was
a very benevolent a;id tolerant person, and
seldom disturbed them till they had taken
their fill. He had, he said, a good deal of
blood to spare, and this mode of venesection
was attended with much less form and cer
emony than sending tor the doctor ami sub
mitting to the operation of the lancet. Be
sides, he had his own peculiar notions a
bout the rights of men and mosquitoes ; and
he would frequently address himself to
some thirsty citizen of the insect common
wealth, who was quietly enjoying himself
upon his hand or arm, in such terms as
these:
‘That’s a good fellow, now, suck away
and enjoy yourself. I daresay this is the
first good drink that you have enjoyed for a
long time. Swig away, my good fellow,
and be thankful that you live in a liberty
country, where every man and mosquito
may enjoy himself in his own way. Some
people would consider themselves as per
fectly justified in taking your life for a per
sonal assault ot this kind. But for my'part
I don t believe in the lawfulness of capital
punishments; and I think that the fit of in
digestion you will have after this carouse,
will he quite punishment enough tor so
light an offence. There, you are full now ;
You are round as a pea and as red as Bar
dolph’s nose. Good morning ! Take care
of yourself!’
But all human enjoyments have their
term; and the time at length drew nigh
when the family party were to leave their
pleasant abode in the country.
The first of September was the day ap
pointed for returning to town. Mrs. Saun
ter got everything ready in her department.
The requisite parting calls were made, her
own and her children’s travelling clothes
were put in order ; the apartments were
made ready to be abandoned ; the house
keeper in town was written to and ordered
to prepare a late dinner in anticipation of
their arrival. But, alas! when the long
looked for morning came, Mr. Saunter was
found to have procrastinated every tiling
which it was his province to have dispatch
; od. Their hill was not settled; nor the
■ money received from his agent in town,—
HI. J. KAPPEL, Printer.
Indeed, upon a severe cross-examination
■ conducted by his amiable better half, it
caine out in evidence that he had not even
to his agent to have the money sent;
Hpm’ had he written to have certain papering
‘ r aml painting about the house done which
j were considered by Madame to he indis
pensably necessary to their comfort on re
suming their residence in town. Neither
had Mr. Ewing been written to, to mend
that spout, which had formed the subject of
a very nxeiling discussion between Mr. &
Mrs. Saunter at the breakfast table every
morning for a month before they left town ;
nor had Mr. Picot been written to, to re
serve a place in his school for Rosalie, nor
had any arrangement been made about
Tommy’s schooling. In short, the list of
j Mr. Saunter’s omissions was perfectly ap.
palling. His excellent lady lost all pa
tience with him, and incontinently determi
ned to postpone tho journey a fortnight
longer, in order that all arrearages might
he brought up—a fortnight!—a whole fort
night ! Mr. Saunter assented very placid
ly to this arrangement. A fortnight seem
ed a .whole age in prospective; and he
would have time enough to set every thing
to rights. So hv way of showing his deci
sion of character, he resolved to write to his
agent in a week ; and to the other people
before the fortnight was up. At the end of
the stated time he was still unprepared, and
another day was fixi and ; and another disap.
\ pointment followed, and so on, till the month
of October was pretty well advanced and
I the mornings and evenings were getting
! quite cold.
A; last, thanks to the indefatigable exer
, tions of Mrs. Saunter, all was prepared.—
; The trunks were all packed ; the bills were
l all paid ; the people in town were all in
structed in their several duties and had re
turned satisfactory answers. It was eve
ning. They were to go the next morning
bright an early ; and the children were sent
of}'to bed betimes, so that they might bo
waked early without depriving them of
their accustomed quantity of sleep.
‘My dear,’ said Mrs. Saunter, ‘did you
call this morning at the stage office and set
down your name so as to make sure that
the stage coach will step for us it passes?’
‘No, my dear,’ he replied, -I thought I
would put it off’ till this afternoon ; and
when the afternoon came I forgot all about
it.’
‘Well, I declare, Mr. Saunter, that is too
bad. We sliaji be left behind after all ; and
it will be three days before there will he
another opportunity to go. And hero we
are all ready, packed up and waiting to
start. How uncomfortable these three days
will be.’
‘Oh ! never mind, my dear, I will be up
early in the morning, and semi Mr Jones’
hired man, Nathan, down to the plaee in
tie road whi re tho coarh passes, to stop it,
when it will come along ’
‘Well, we shall be left behind, I know we
shall. I thought something would happen
to disappoint me. I declare, if I once get
hack to Philadelphia, I never will go into
the country again,’ &c. &c. This was
merely the text. The lecture lasted three
quarters of an hour, without greatly dis
turbing the equanimity of Mr. Saunter.—
Custom will reconcile a man to any thing ;
even to Curtain lectures.
The next morning, all was bustle and ac
uity. The lady and children were up
betimes and dressed for the journey; Mr.
Saunter reluctantly obeying the fifth and
last call, at length rose and made himself
ready. A hasty breakfast was despatched,
and Nathan was duly sent off to his post,
to stop the coach.
It happened, however, that after he had
stood sentinel a full half hour, an unruly
cow from the highway broke through tho
fence and jumped into one of his master’s
enclosures, whereupon Nathan, consider
ing his duty in that quarter paramount, de
serted his station and ran off to turn the an
imal out and repair the breach. While he
was thus employed, one of tho farmer’s
children, playing in the field, saw the coach
approaching, and ran to the house with flic
intelligence. Instantly the party obeyed
the summons. The farmer’s oldest boy
took the travelling trunk on his shoulder,
Mr. Saunter seized his portmanteau and
umbrella, and Mrs. Saunter her basket,
and the children following non passilnts
cequis, off they set, upon the run, towards
the highway. They saw the coach com
ing rapidly along. The children shouted,
the lady waved her handkerchief, and tho
gentleman uplifterl his voice and his um
brella at the same time. But it was all in
vain. They were not seen nor heard ; and
the coach whirled past long before they
could reach the desired point. The only
consolation they had was that of seeing that
th” vehicle was packed full, with four pas
sengers outside, besides ;he driver.
‘I told voti so, M . Saunter,’ said the la
dy. -1 knew it would he so. We never
shall get home n.. aim I give up all expec
tation of it now We are here for life.’—*-
■N v r mind my dear,’ said Mr. Saunter,
‘it is no great loss any how ; you see the
coach is full, and ten to one they'could not
have taken us in. We shall have better
luck next time.’
‘I don’t believe,’ said Mrs. Saunter, ‘they
were so full that wo could not have been
stowed away somewhere. It is the old sto
ry. It always was so and always will be
■so This ali comes, Mr. Saunter, of your
way of driving things off.’
‘1 beg your pardon, mv dear,’ replied the
gentleman with great suavity of manner, Y
beg your pardon ; hut it does seem to me
that in the present case our disappoint is
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