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NEWS & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE.
D.. COTTIMtr, Editor.
No. 15—NEW SERIES.]
News and Planters ’ Gazette.
terms:
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insertion, Seventy-Jive Cents; and for each sub
sequent insertion, Fifty Cents. A reduction will
be made of twenty-five per cent, to those who
advertise by the year. Advertisements not
limited when handed in, will be inserted till for
bid, and charged accordingly.
Sales of Land and Negroes by Execut ors, Ad
ministrators and Guardians, are required by law,
to be advertised, in a public Gazette, sixty days
previous to the day of sale.
The sales of Personal Property must be adver
tised in like manner, forty days.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate
must be published forty days.
Notice that application will he made to the
Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Ne
groes, must be published for four months—
notice that application will he made for Letters
of Administration, must be published thirty days;
and Letters of Dismission, six months.
Mail Arrangements.
POST OFFICE, >
Washington, Ga., Sept. 1, 1843. $
EASTERN MAIL
By this route, Mails are made up for Raytown,
Double-Wells, Crawfordville, Camack, Warren
ton, Thompson, Dearing, and Barzelia.
ARRIVES.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 9, A. M.
CLOSES.
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 2,], P. M
WESTERN MAIL.
By this route, Mails are made up for all Offi
ces in South-Western Georgia, Alabama, Mis
sissippi, Louisiana, Florida, also Athens, Ga. and
the Nortii-Western part of the State.
arrives —Wednesday and Friday, by 6 A. M.
closes —Tuesday and Thursday, at 12 M.
ABBEVILLE, S.C. MAIL.
By this route, Mails are made up for Danburg,
Pistol Creek, and Petersburg.
ARRIVES.
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, by 1 P. M.
closes.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at G A. M.
f . LEXINGTON MAIL
- *By this route, Mails are made up for Centre-
Ville, State Rights, Scull-shoals, and Salem.
arrives —Monday and Friday, at 9 A. M.
closes —Tuesday and Saturday, at 9 A. M.
APPLING MAIL
By this route, Mails are made up for Wrights
boro’, White Oak, Walker’s Quaker Springs.
arrives —Tuesday and Saturday, by 9 A. M.
closes —Monday and Friday, at 9 A. M.
ELBERTON MAIL
By this route, Mails are made up for Mallo
rysville, Goosepoud, Whites, Mill-Stone, Ilarn
sonville, and Ruckersville.
Arrives Thursday 8 P. M., and Closes same tune.
LINCOLNTON MAIL
By this route, Mails are made up for Rehoboth,
Stoney Point, Goshen, Double Branches, and
Darby’s.
Arrives Friday, 12 M. | Closes same time.
EF The Letter Box is the proper place to de
posite all matter designed to be transported by
Mail, and such as may be found there at the
times above specified, will be despatched by first
“post.
’ ij® We are authorized to an
noui \ EDWARD R. ANDERSON, Esq. as
a cal late for Sheriff, of Wilkes county, at the
elect \i January next.
Nl her 30. 1843. 14
statFoTgeorgia,
WILKES COUNTY.
W. vernor, and to us di
(6as) wSfr rected, requiring us to
/ttAa cause an Election to
be held on MONDAY
mi t * 3e *”" st^ot
REPRESENTATIVE,
in the House of Representatives of the Congress
of the United States, to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of the Hon. John Millen. We the
Justices of the Inferior Court for the county a
foresaid, 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 the first day of JANUARY next, for
a Representative to fill the aforesaid vacancy.
LEWIS S. BROWN, 1. 1. c.
IIEZEKIAH L. EMBRY, j. r. c.
/ JAMES HARRIS, j. i. c.
WM Q. ANDERSON, j. i. c.
A. S. WINGFIELD, j. i. c
November 30, 1843 14
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
ALL persons indebted to the Estate of Timo
thy T. Smith, late of Wilkes county, de
ceased, are requested to pay the same immediate
ly, and those having demands against the Estate
will present the same in terms of the law for pay
fcnPEfrWAßD R ANDERSON, Adm’r.
Nov ember 30,184.1. 6t 14
. you ‘rjawimtiL
executed at this
\ . ® !F (F 0 © g a
Fall and Winter
CiJ'ttO
THE Subscriber has received his supply
of Fall and Winter Goods, comprising in
part the following articles—to which he solicits
( the attention of purchasers, as his prices are
fixed at unusually small rales.
Worsted Goods:
: Chusans, Tesans, Crape de Lyons, Mouslin
, deLaines, Grode Nap Marinos, Alpaca’s of all
colors and qualities, plain and figured Printed
Cashmere D’Escasse, anew and beautiful arti
cle for Ladies’ Dresses, Aeolians, Parisians,
Bombazines, and Merinos.
Silk Goods ,
Comprising a splendid assortment of Fancy,
Black and Blue-black, plain and figured, black
and white Satins, Velvets, some new styles for
Dresses, Gloves and Mitts, Men’s white, black
and colored Kid and Silk Gloves, Ladies’ black
Lace, fancy and fillet Gloves and Mitts. A
splendid assortment of Velvet, Chine and broche
Satin Gros de Naples Bonnet Ribbons.
Shawls.
Woolen and worsted winter Shawls, new styles
Thibet 4,5 & 0-4, mode colors.
Black Mourning and colored Marino.
Mouselin de Lane 4-4 to 6-4, plain &embroid’d.
10-4 Herman Siik Shawls, new and very fine,
8-4 Damask Silk “
Drapers 9 Goods.
Fancy Vestings, new style, Cacheinire figured
Velvet and black Satin Vestings,
Cloths and Cassimers, black, blue, green, claret,
Cadet and drab Cloths,
Black, blue and fancy Cassimeres,
Cravats, splendid soar! Cravats, Italian and Eng
lish Silk Cravats.
ALSO,
A general assortment of English, French and
American Calicoes, Satinets, Kentucky Jeans,
Linseys, Kersey, Blankets, Brown and Bleached
Sheetings and shirtings, some 3 yds. wide, Bed
tick, Apron Checks, Ginghams, Linens, Lawns,
Cambric, Silk and Satin Handkerchiefs, Hats,
Boots, Shoes, Clothing, Saddles, Bridles, Collars,
Nails, Hardware, Cutlery, Crockery, Groceries,
Paints, Oils, Drugs and Medicine.-, with the u
sual variety kept in a country store. Those who
make it an object to get Cheap Bargains, and
new and fashionable Goods, would do well to
call at
W. S. HEARD’S
Nov. 2, 1843. Cash Store.
HAVILAND, RISLEY & Cos.
Near the Mansion House, Globe and United
States Hotels,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
DEALERS IN CHOICE
DRUGS AND MEDICINES,
Surgical and Dental Instruments,
Chemicals, Patent Medicines,
Perfumery, Brushes, Paints, Oils,;
Window Glass, Dye Sturts,
&,c. &c.
Being connected with Haviland,
Keese & Cos., New-York, and Hav
ggjjry iland, Harral & Allen, Charles-
JUnl ton, they are constantly receiving
tresh supplies of every article in
• their line, which they are enabled to sell at the
lowest market prices.
ILF All goods sold by them, warranted to be of
the qualify represented, or may be returned.
Augusta, August 1843. 51
EXECUTORY SALE.
Will be sold on ihe first Tuesday in January
next, at the Court-llouse door in Elbert coun
ty, between the usual hours of sale, the fol
lowing Tracts of Land, belonging to the Es
tate of Mrs. Nancy M. Hunt, deceased, viz.:
280£ Acres lying in said county, adjoining
Eppy Bond and others; 459§ Acres in said
county, on the waters of the Beaverdam and
Doves’ Creek, adjoining Betsey Ham, et. ai. ;
200 Acres on the waters of the Beaverdam
Creek, joining lands belonging to the Estate ot
Thomas S. Carter; 400 Acres on the waters of
the Beaverdam, adjoining lands formerly belon
ging to the Estate of John Upshaw. Also, 131‘
Acres on the waters of the Beaverdam Creek,
adjoining lands of Smith and others. The terms
made known on the day of sale.
J. V. HARRIS, Ex’r.
October 25,1843. 9
EXECUTOR’S SALE.
VM/'ILL be sold on Wednesday the twentieth
* * day of December next, at the late resi
dence of Argyle Norman, deceased, in Wilkes
county, a part of the Perishable Property, con
sisting of Horses, Hogs, Cattle, Sheep, Corn,
Fodder, Oats, one yoke of Oxen and Cart, one
set of Blacksmith Tools, Plantation Tools, to
gether with many articles not mentioned. Terms
made known on the day of sale.
JOHN L. WYNN, Ex’r.
November 9, 1843. 11
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
Will be sold on the first. Tuesday in January
next, before the Court-House door in Elbert
county, agreeable to an order of the Inferior
Court of said county, while sitting as a Court
of Ordinary,
One young Negro man by the name of John ;
one Negro woman by the name of Siiva, and one
Negro girl by the name of Agga, belonging to
the Estate of M. C. Upshaw, deceased. Bold
for the benefit of the creditors. Terms on the
day of sale.
THOMAS J. HEARD, Adm’r.
November 1,1843. 12
EXECUTOR’S SALE.
Will be sold on the first Tuesday in February
next, before the Court-House door in Elbert
county, agreeable to the will of John Davis,
deceased,
Three Negroes, by the names of Lee, Sim and
Mary, as the property of the Estate of John Da
vis, deceased, for the benefit of the heirs of said
deceased. Terms will be made known on the
day of sale.
THOMAS JOHNSTON, Ex’r.
’ November 15,1843. ■ m2m 13
WASHINGTON, (WILKES COUNTY, GA.,) DECEMBER 7, 184.
CHEAPER THAN EVER.
WILLIS & HESTER,
HAVING removed their Stock of GOODS,
into the Store formerly occupied by Mr. |
A. L Lewia, offer them for sale at prices as low j
or lower than can be procured in Washington, j
Their Stock consists, in part, of the following j
articles:
Cloths and Cassimeres,
Domestics, bleached and unbleached Calicoes
and Ginghams, Table Covers, Damask Table
Cloths, 8-4 by 10-4, a superior article, a good
stock of Flannels, Merino and Cotton Shirts, Bed
Ticks, of good quality, Muslin Delaines, woolen
Shawls, green Baize and green Flannel. Merinos
and Merino Circassians, Cotton Cambrics and
Jaekonet Muslins, Marseilles Quilts and worsted
Counterpanes, Table Diapers and Bird’s-eye
Diapers, Bed Blankets and Duffle Blankets, Crib
Blankets and Counterpanes, Camlets, and a gen
eral Stock of
Hardware and Crockery.
And all articles usually kept, in retail Stores.
Thankful for the favors which have been be- !
stowed on them heretofore, they invite their for
mer friends and customers to call, assuring them
if ‘they are in want of an article which they
have in their Stock, that it can be had at the
lowest possible price lor Cash or credit
November 23, 1843. 13
PHILADELPHIA NEW CASH STORE.
Goods Cheaper than ever I
J. MAYER & BROTHERS.
RESPECTFULLY inform the citizens of
Washington and vicinity, that they have j
opened a
Stock of Goods
In the New Building on the West side of the
Public Square, one building above Messrs. Bol
ton & Nolan. Their Stock consists of
American and Foreign Dry <s• Fancy Goods.
Boots, Shoes, Ready-made Clothing,
and many other articles too tedious to mention. ;
Call and suit yourselves. Terms ‘
Cash.
November 9,1843. 3m 11
Cl AT r r * or sa k at Three Dollars per
l) XJL M-J JL Sack. Apply to
BOLTON & NOLAN.
October 19, 1843. 8
CUTTING & BUTLER,
ATTORNIES,
HAVE taken an OFFICE on the North
side of the Public Square, next door to
the Branch Bank of the State of Georgia.
October, 1843. 28
NELSON CARTER,
9 DEALER IN
Choice Drugs and Medicines,
Chemicals, Patent Medicines,
Surgical and Dental Instruments,
Perfumery, Brushes,
Paints, Oils, Dye-Stuffs,
Window Glass, Spc. Spc.
red"'mortar .\ ALGUSTA, Ga.
October 12, 1843. lv 7
TO MERCHANTS AND PLANTERS.
HAMBURG, (S.C.) July, 1843.
I BEG leave to inform you, that 1 continue the
WARE-HOUSE AND COMMISSION
BUSINESS at my old stand, known as the Wa
ter-proof Warehouse. Detached as it is from oth
er buildings, its location renders it nearly as se
cure from fire, as if it was fire-proof The floors
have been elevated above the high water mark
of the great freshet of May, 1840.
Planters will thus be secured from the possi
bility of loss and damage by freshets.
1 avail myself of the present occasion, to re
turn my thanks to my friends and patrons, for
their liberal support during the past season. I
solicit from them and the public generally, a con
tinuance of this confidence, and assure them that
in return for their patronage, 1 will use my best
personal efforts to promote and protect their in
terests, committed to my charge. In addition to
this assurance, I pledge myself that I will in no
case purchase a bale of cotton, directly or indi
rectly. I will attend personally to the sale and
forwarding of cotton to Savannah or Charleston;
also, to the sale of Bacon, Flour, &c. Sic., and to
the receiving and forwarding ot goods to the up
country. Having a line wharf attached to my
Warehouse, no wharfage will be charged on
Cotton consigned to my care, either for sale or
to be forwarded to Savannah or Charleston.
My commissions for selling cotton, will be 25
cents per bale, and 12 J cents for forwarding. I
will also attend to the buying of goods per order.
Verv respectfully, yours, &c.
G. WALKER.
August, 1843. 52
EXECUTOR’S SALE.
VMTILL be sold on the first Tuesday in Feb
* * ruary next, before the Court-House door
in Wilkes county, a part of the Real Estate of
William Hughes, deceased. Sold by an order
of Court.
BARNARD H. HUGHES, Ex’r.
November 16,1843. 12
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
Will he sold on the first Tuesday in February
next, before the Court-House door in Lump
kin county, agreeable to an order of the Infe
rior Court of Elbert county, when sitting as a
Court of Ordinary,
One lot of Land containing forty Acres, known
by number 1114, in the Eleventh District, first
Section, formerly Cherokee, but now Lumpkin
county. Sold as a part of the Lands belonging
to the Estate of JohnS. Higginbotham, deceas
ed. Sold for the benefit of the heirs of said de
ceased. Terms will be made known on the day
of sale
JOSEPH SEWELL, J Adm , rß
JOHN G. HIGGINBOTHAM, { AQm
November 15.1843. m2m 13
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING
irtforcUaucouG.
From the Democratic Review.
SLYDER DOWNEIIYLLE:
A SEARCH AFTER HAPPINESS
11V JOSEPH 0. NEAL,
Author of “Charcoal Sketches ,” fyc.
“How happy I’ll be to-morrow !” ex
claimed little Slyder Downehylle, in anti- I
cipation ofChristmas ; “oh, how happy 1
shall be to-morrow !”
“Couldn’t you contrive to be happy a lit
tle now ?” replied Uncle John, who had
learned somewhat to dislrusl anticipation
and its gorgeous promises.
“Happy now, Uncle John !” retorted lit
tle Slyder Downehylle, rather contempt
uously, “happy now !—what with, I should
like to know—what shall I be happy with
now? Where’s the candy, the cakes, the
pies; where’s the hobby-horse that some
body’s going to give me ; and all the Christ
mast gifts ? How I wish to-morrow had
came ; what a long day—what a long eve
ning—what a great while I’ve got to sleep!”
Little Slyder Downehylle became quite
cross, and Uncle John whistled. Twenty
four hoursafterwards, little Slyder Downe
hylle was still more cross—he had been
happy with candy, with cakes and with
pies, untill he was very uncomfortable in
deed ; he had been happy with toys, until
he had quarrelled with his little compan
ions and strewed the room with broken play
things ; lie had been happy with his hobby
horse, until he got a fall.
“Oh, what a stupid day !” said little Sl v- I
der Downehylle, “I wish to-morrow would j
come—l’ll lie so happy at aunt Betsey’s.” j
It is unnecessary to intrude at aunt Bet- ;
sey’s, for the events there were ofacharac- j
ter strongly resembling what had already
occurred. Little Slyder Downehylle went J
to bed in tears.
It was always so with the unfortunate
Slyder Downehylle. Throughout life, he
wanted something to be happy with ; and,
strangely enough, it universally occurred
that when he had obtained the thing, it did
not prove to be exactly the thing he wanted.
His expectations were never realized, and
he was, therefore, constantly in a state of
disappointment. Unlucky Slyder Downe
hylle ! It was deplorable too that such
should he the case, for Slyder Downehylle
was anxious to he happy ; he was always
looking forward to lit happy ; for something
“to he happy with.” He never got up in
the morning hut that it was his resolve to
be happy in the afternoon—and, if not suc
cessful in accomplishing his purpose at that
time, lin endeavored as far as possible to
retrieve the failure by forming a similar
determination for the evening. No one
ever had a greater variety of schemes for
living happy—very happy—than he ; for
living happy next week, for living happy
next month, or next year ; hut it appeared
to him that a malignant fate was sure to in
terfere, in order that his projects might be
frustrated. At school, he was always think
ing how happy he would he on Saturday
afternoon ; but then sometimes it rained on
Saturday afternoon, or his companions
would not do as he wished them to do on
Saturday afternoon, or it may be that al- j
though he had toiled hard for the pleasure j
on Saturday afternoon, and the toil for
pleasure is often the severest of work, he
returned home weary, dispirited and out of
temper. Ofcourse it was unavoidable that
his pleasure should be postponed until some
other Saturday afternoon. And it was e
ven so with the large holidays. They ne
ver were exactly what they ought to have
been ; what they promised to be ; what they
seemed to he, when viewed from a distance.
If Slyder Downehylle went a-fishing, w hy
a treacherous bank would often give way,
and then—pray who can possibly be hap
py when dripping wet, with iris clothes on?
Nobody but poodles. What felicity is there
in loosing one’s shoe in a swamp? Who is
perfectly happy when scouring across the
plain, like “swift Camilla,” with old Jen
kins’ big dog—that dog always biles, rus
tic dogs do—following close at his heels,
widely opening a mouth which showed no
need of the dentist? Then, if Slyder
Downehylle went skating, it not unfre
quently happened that lie cried with cold,
what a strange arrangement it is not to
have the best of skating on the warmest
days! At other seasons, there was the
sun. It never rains but it pours, in this
world. Is it happiness, think ye, to have
one’s dear little nose, incipient Roman, or
determined pug, as the case may he—all
of a blister, and have one’s delectable coun
tenance as red and as hot as a scarlet fever?
“There’s lime in the sack”—invariably, in
Slyder Dovvnehyll’s saek—it would he ea
sy to make mortar of it.
The young Downehylle, finding that
happiness eluded his grasp while a boy,
made sure of throwing a noose over its
head when he should be a man. What on
earth is there to prevent a man’s being hap
py, if he chooses—especially if a man has
money, as was the case in the present in
stance, Uncle John and Aunt Betsey both
being gathered totheir fathers and mothers.
May not a man do as he pleases ? go to
bed when he pleases, and get up when he
pleases ? eat what he pleases and drink
what he pleases ? A man is not compel
led to learn lessons. All his afternoons
are Saturday afternoons; his holidays last
all the year round. Who would not be a
man ? “Oh, when lam a man!” said Sly
der Downehylle. “I wish I was a man !”
exclaimed Slyder Downehylle. “I want
to be a man !” cried Slyder Downehylle,
with impatience.
Sooner or later, at least in the eye of the j
( law, most boys become men, in despite of’
remonstrance. These boys are remark- ;
able for an upstart tendency, and the Down
hylies themselves are not exempt from the
peculiarity. So Slyder Downehylle was
a man at last, though on the whole it must
beconfesscd that he did not derive the sat- |
isfaction from it that he had been led to ex- |
pect.
* * * * * *
Slyder Downehylle was extended at full
length upon a sofa.
‘I say, Spifflikens, what shall I be at?
I’m twenty-one—l’ve got plenty of money;
I’m as tired as thunder already—whatshall
I be at, Spifflikens ?’
‘Lend me a hundred, and buy yourself
a buggy, whv don’t you get a buggy, to
begin with ?’
‘Yes, Spifflikens, I will. You’re right ;
the Downehylles were always great on !
buggies, you know, Spifflikens.’
It was Slyder Downehylle’s theory, after
this conversation, for he often theorized—
that happiness was, to some degree, vehicu
lar ; that, like respectability, it was to be
found in a gig, if it were to . he found any
where. So lie bought him a sulky and a
fast trotter—a mile in two minutes or there- j
abouts. What could escape a man who,
followed so rapidly ? If you wish to be
successful in the pursuit of happiness, do
not forget to buy a sulky—there’s nothing
like a sulky.
‘Alia 1 that’s it 1’ muttered Slyder Downe
hylle, as he tugged at the reins, and went
whizzing along the turnpike in a cloud of
dust, passing everything on the road, and
carrying consternation among the pigs, the
ducks, and the chickens.
Slyder thought that this was ‘it’ for Se
vern! consecutive days ; but as the novelty
worn off; there’s the rub—(that Hamlet
was rather a sensible fellow, did he too keep
a‘fast trotter ?’) Slyder was not so sure
whether it was the thing exactly, and on the
recommendation of his friend Spifflikens,
who borrowed anether hundred on the oc
casion, he endeavored to improve it a little
by drinking champaigne and playing bil
liurds, at tho ‘Cottage.’ Fast trotters and
champagne—fast trotters and billiards,
harmonize very well. Under this combi
nation, Slyder appeared to think that ‘it’
was considerably more like the tiling than !
before. He had found ‘something to be hap- ;
py with,’ at last, and so had Spifflikens. it
was not however so difficult to make Spiffy
a happy man, only allow him to go ahead,
and say nothing about‘returns.’ He hates
any thing sombre, anything ‘dun.’
‘Now I’m happy,’ said Slyder Downe
hylle, as he stood on the portico of the ‘Cot
tage,’ and saw every eye fixed with admi
ration on his establishment, as the boy led
his horse and sulky through the crowd of
vehicles. ‘That’s it, at last!’ and he ligh
ted another cigar and called for an addi
tional bottle of iced champagne. ‘That’s
it, certainly,’ remarked Spifflikens, at the
explosion of the cork.
Slyder Downehylle was perfectly satis
fied that this was indeed ‘it’ for a consider
able portion of the afternoon, and, to tell
the truth, when he remounted his buggy,
nodding his head to the bystanders, as lie
hung his coat-tails over the back of the ve- i
hide, he was not a little ‘elevated.’
‘There—let him go !’ said he, tossing a
half-dollar to the hostler’s deputy.
Mr. Downehylle’s sulky flew like light
ning across the lawn.
‘Splendid !’ ejaculated the spectators.
‘Superiaw—fine !’ added Spifflikens.
The dogs barked, the colored gentlemen
who officiated as waiters grinned from ear
to ear. There was quite a sensation at the
‘Cottage.’
‘That’s it, at last!’ said Slyder Downe
hylle, triumphantly’. But he forgot that
existence, short as it is, cannot be crowded
all into the exhilarating moment of a ‘start. ’
Life is not to be distilled and condensed in
this way, though his life seemed to come as
near it as possible, on the occasion referred
to.
Why are we made ambitious ? Why
will we endeavor to jump over puddles that j
are too wide, when we so-often miss immor- |
tality by no more than a hair’s breadth ? I
But “touch and go” is the secret of great j
enterprises. Slyder Downehylle was struck i
with a desire to sublimate the sublime—to |
“o’retop old Pelion,” and old Pelion, as it
was natural he should, resent the insult.—
Downehylle was allowed to ‘touch,’ we of
ten do that; but there was a veto on his ‘go.’
He wished to shave the gate-post, in his cir
cular enthusiasm ; to astonish the natives
with his charioteering skill. Yet the pop
lars might have reminded him of Phaeton’s
sisters weeping, lank and long.
It certainly was the champagne; that
last bottle, so well iced.
Mr. Downehylle was out of his calcula
tion by about the sixteenth part ofan inch.
He was on a leeshore.
A cloud of splinters went up and came
down again. ‘There is but a Frenchman
the more in France,’ said a Burbon on the
restoration. It was also quite evident that
there was a sulky the less in existence. —
As this could no be considered the ‘fast trot
ter’s’ business, he having no further con
cern with the matter than to do a certain
number of miles in a specific number of
minutes ; he therefore went straight on to
fulfil his part of the contract, and it ;s to be
presumed that he -.vas successful, as noth
ing has been heard from him since.
‘That’s not it, after all,’ murmured Mr.
| Slyder Downehylle, as he was carried into
j the Cottage for surgical aid.
- The bystanders, lately so full ofadmira
1. J. hVPPEL, Printer.
| tion, ungraciously placed their thumbs up
i on their noses, and waggled their fingers.
Greatness always falls, when it meets with
an upset.
‘What could you expect from n fellow
that holds his elbows so, when he drives ?’
j was the general remark. When we are
j down every one can see the reason why.
i The world is always full ofsagacity, after
the event.
Slyder Downehylle is known by the col
ored waters at the Cottage as ‘the gcmplin
that got split,’ and he has so knocked down
hy the affair that he felt flat at the slightest
allusion to it. He never hunted happines
in a buggy again, but went slowly home
in the omnibus, and, though it did not en
able him to journey very rapidly, lie yet
contrived, while in it, to arrive at the con
clusion that, if‘fast trotters’ carried others
to felicity, the mode of travel was too rough
for him.
He was puzzled. What could be the
matter? He was a man, a man of cash ;
money in both pockets; hut yet Slyder
Downehylle was not happy, not particular
ly happy. Ou the contrary, striking an
average, he was, for the most part, decided
ly miserable. He yawned about all the
morning ; he was not hungry in the after
noon ; he was seldom sleepy at night, vexa
tious 1
‘There’s something I want,’thought Sly
pe r Downehylle ; ‘but what is it, that’s more
than I can tell ; hut it is something to be
happy with. What other peoplerret for the
purpose that they go grinning about so,
hang me if I can discover.
Slyder Downehylle was rather good look
ing, about these times ; not decidedly ‘a
love,’ but well enough ; and so, ,s nature
had been propitious, he struck out anew
line—a very popular line; the hail tine.—
He cultivated whiskers, ‘fringing tin ia . ■
of his countenance;’ lie set up a nmr
tache ; he starred his under lip with an
perial, and he balanced the superstructure
with the classical “goatee 1” Medusa her
selfnever had more luxuriant curls. When
Slyder Downehylle wanted to find hum e
he was obliged to beat the bushes. 11.-;
sed half the day with a brush in his h,.nd.
in adjusting his embellishments, in givi:.;
them irresistible expressions ; and the rest
of the time was consumed in carrying them
up and down all manner of streets, and to
all sorts of public places. Slyder Downe
hylle was now the envy ofthe young bloods
about town, and was regarded as a perfect
Cupidon by the ladies. How, indeed, could
it bo otherwise! Birnam Wood had come
to Dunsinane, not a feature was discern
able. Esau and Orson were shavelings
and shavers to Slyder Downehylle. But,
notwithstanding the fact that Samson found
strength in his hair, Slyder was not so luc
ky. A thickest hedge cannot keep out
ennui. It is true that the buffalo and the
bison at the menagerie took Mr Slyder
Downehylle for a patriarch of the tribe,
fresh from the head waters ofthe Oregon ;
yet, after all, Slyder’s spirit was nearly as
bald of comfort as the “hairless horse” that
unfashionable quadruped. It must he con
fessed, however, that there were gleams of
consolation attendant upon his bristly con
dition. The servants at the hotels styled
him “mounsheer ; how delightful it is to he
mistaken for what you are not! People
thought lie talked “pretty good English,
considerin,” and, best of all, the little boys
ran back wards that they might look with
wonder at his face, while the mailer chil
dren went screaming intotiie house to call
their mammas to see the “funny thing.”—
But “false the light on glory’s plume;”
and it is no less false on glory’s hair.—
Even the excitement of such enviable dis
tinction as this soon wears away, aud it
may be questioned whether, barring the ex
pense of soap, a furry-faced gentleman is,
in the long run, much happier than the
more sober citizen who lias so little taste
for the picturesque as to save several times
a week, and who is neither a “foundling of
the forest” nor a perambulatory Moses, al
ways among the bulrushes.
Slyder Downehylle, therefore, reinforced
his whiskers by an elaborate care of dress.
He was padded into a model of symmetry ;
but although the buckram was judiciously
placed, he soon ascertained that this was
not the kind ofbolstering he wanted. The
cotton made him warm, hut it did not make
him happy—nor quiet. It was “nothing to
be thus,” unless one were “safely thus.”
Slyder Downehylle began to feel small
when his muscular developemerits were
hung upon the bedpost. Which was Sly
der, in the main, he beneath the cover, or
that larger part of him against the wall?
He was tired of packing and unpacking;
wearied with being “spectacular.”
It was not exactly kind in Uncle John
and Aunt Betsy—though they thought it
was—thus to bequeath their savings to
Slyder Downehylle. Their legacy per
plexed him sadly. He discovered in a ve
ry short time, that money is not in itself,
notwithstanding the fact that it is general
ly known as the “one thing needful,” the
material of happiness. But lie was clear
in his own mind that it was something to be
got with money. Still, however, he could
not find it—that “something to be happy
with” that cake, that candy, that sugar-ice,
that hobby-horse. When his game was
run down, why, it was only a fox after all.
‘Life’s an imposition —a humbug,’ said
Slyder Downehylle, pettishly ; ‘l’ve tried
much ofthe fun that’s said to be ip it, and
I’m beginning to have an idea it’s a con
founded stupid piece of business, when a
man has seen it pretty much all through,
like a farce at the theatre. I’m sure I don’t
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