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About News & planters' gazette. (Washington, Wilkes County [sic], Ga.) 1840-1844 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1843)
YE W 8 & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE. I>. . DOTTING, Editor. No. 51.—NEW SERIES] Mews & planters’ gazette. terns: Published weekly at Three Dollars perannum if paid at the time of subscribing; or Three Djllars and Fifty Cents, if not paid till thoexpi ration of six months. No paper to be discontinued, unless at the option ot the Editor, without the setllementof all arrearages. \ CT Letters, on business, m ust be post pa id, to Nre attention. No communication shall he /timed, unless toe are made acquainted with ■! name of IheMulhor. / JO ADVERTISERS. Advertisements, not exceeding one square,first insertion, Seventy-five Cents; and for each sub sequent insertion, Fifty Cents. A reduction will be made of twenty-five per cent, to these 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 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 [VOI.UMJ3 XXVIII.
