NEWS & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE.
D. Cr. COTTINCi, Editor.
* No. 40.—NEW SERIES.]
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Mail Arrangements.
POST OFFICE, >
Washington, Ga., Sept. 1, 1843. )
EASTERN’ MAIL.
By this route, Mails are made up for Raytown,
Double-Wells, Crawfordvjlle, Cnmack, Warren
ton, Thompson, Dealing, and Barzelia.
ARRIVES.
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CLOSES.
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WESTERN MAIL.
By this route, Mails arc made up for all Otfi
. ces in South-Western Georgia, Alabama, Mis
sissippi, Louisiana, Florida, also Athens, Ga. and
the North-Western part of the Elate.
arrives —Wednesday and Friday, by 0 A. M.
closes —Tuesday and Thursday, at 12 M.
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Pistol Creek, and Petersburg.
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LEXINGTON MAIL.
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boro’, White Oak, Walker’s Quaker Springs.
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rysville, Goosepond, Whites, Mill-Stone, Harri
souville, and Ruckersville.
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LINCOLN TON MAIL.
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Stone, Point, Goshen, Double Branches, and
Darby’s.
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posile 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
COTTING Sc 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,
DEALER IN
Choice Drugs and Medicines,
Chemicals, Patent Medicines,
Surgical and Dental Instruments,
Perfumery, Brushes,
Paints, Oils, Dye-Stuffs,
Window Glass, Spc. Spc.
RED Vo'RTVR \ AUGUSTA. G.
October 12, 1843. ly 7
l HAVILAND, RISLEY Sc Cos.
Near the Mansion House, Globe and United
r States Hotels,
I AUGUSTA, GA.,
I DEALERS IN CHOICE
DRUGS AND MEDICINES,
I Surgical and Dental Instruments,
i Chemicals, Patent Medicines,
[ Perfumery, Brushes, Paints, Oils,
| Window Glass, Dye Stuffs,
j &c. &c.
t Being connected with Haviland,
Keese & Cos., New-York, and Hav
iland, Harral & Allen, Charles
ton, they are constantly receiving
fresh supplies of every article in
I their line, which they are enabled to sell at the
I lowest market prices.
I IT All goods sold by them, warranted to be of
H the quality represented, or may be returned.
I Augusta, August 1843. 51
CLAY CLUB.
AT a regular meeting of the CLUB, held on !
Tuesday the 7th instant, the following na
med gentlemen were chosen Delegates to rep
resent the Club in the Convention to be held in
Milledgeville ou Monday the 24th of June next: j
lIEZEKIAH L. EMBRY,
DAVID G. CUTTING,
JOHN L. WYNN,
JOHN C. STOKES.
J. It. Sneed, Secretary.
May 7,1844.
mmmr,
WILL spend two or three weeks in Wash
ington. Persons desiring his Profession- !
al services, will do well to call soon.
Washington, Wiikes county, )
May Kith, 1841 ( 38
Bargains ! Bargains !!
The Subscriber will sell bis Stock
of
Staple and Fancy
Foreign and Domestic
G 00/PS.
At very reduced prices—cheaper than they
were ever offered in Washington before.
If you want good GOODS, at low prices,
call on
WILLIAM S. HEARD.
May 2. 1844. 2in 36
New Spring & Summer
GOODS.
J. MAYER & BROTHERS,
RESPECTFULLY inform the citizens of
Washington and vicinity, that they have
just received a
New Supply of
Spring & Summer
GOODS,
Consisting of the following Articles, viz.:
Foulard Silk, new style ior Lad.es’ Dresses, 37]
cents per yard,
Lawns and printed M uslins, 31 to 45 cts. per yd.
Calicoes, ot every description, (> to 18| do.
4-4 French Calico, 25 do.
Fine Irish Linen, 50 to 87 do.
Summer fancy Cassiraers, 1 37 to 1 50 do.
Darp d’etc’fur Summer wear, 87! to §1 do.
Large assortment of Broadcloths, $2 to s6] do.
Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Gloves of
every description, from 12£ to§l
Great variety oi Linen Cambric
Pocket Handkerchiefs, 18J to $1 each.
Summer Stuff lor Pantaloons, 12,j- to 37 per yd.
Linen do. do. 37] to 02 do.
Swiss and Jaconet Muslins of every
description, 25 to 62 do.
Scotch Gingham, 31 j do.
Also, a great variety of Manches
ter Ginghams, 12] to do.
Ali kinds of Laces, Silk and Fil
let Shawls, Neck Ties, of
the latest style, 45 cts. to §7 each.
Ladies’ S.ik and Cotton llose oi
ah kinds, 12 cts. to §1 50
Leghorn and Straw Bonnets of
every description, *1 12] to 4 50
A great varieiy of Bonnet and Cap Ribbons,
Marseilles Vesutig from 20 cts. to 75
Latest stylo ol Ready-made. Summer Clothing
for Gentlemen’s wear, a large assortment,
Also, an assortment of Summer Hats,
Ladies’ Shoes and Pumps of all kinds, from 25
cents a pair to $1 12!
Also, a large assortment of Gentlemen’s Shoes
and Pumps, from 02! to §2 75 cts. per pair
Boots from s2to!S>t. do.
Bleached and unbleached Homespun of every
description, at. the Charleston prices.
Coffee, Sugar, Tobacco Sc Segars,
Which will be sold as cheap as can be bought
in this country. IT Call and tee—nothing
charged for showing Goods.
April 25, 1844 35
FIRE INSURANCL
rniIE NEW-YORK CONTRIBUTION- 1
SHIP FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY ‘
have established an Agency in Washington, I
Wilkes county, Georgia, and are now prepared j
to Insure Buildings and Merchandize against I
loss or damage by Fire.
Capital $300,000,
All paid in and safely invested.
Apply to
WILLIAM S. HEARD, Agent,
- Washington, Ga.
May 2, 1844. 36
Richmond Hotel.
A THE Subscriber, having taken the
above named HOUSE, formerly oc
cupied by Capt. Edward W. Collier,
would be happy to receive the pat
ronage oi his friends and the public generally.
The House is situated in the vicinity of many of
the principal Warehouses in Augusta, making it
a convenient location for persons visiting the
i city on business. Families can be accommoda
ted with retired and pleasant Rooms.
Persons favoring me with a call, will find due
attention, comfortable lodgings, the best fare,
attentive hostlers and moderate charges.
JOHN T. WOOTTEN.
April 25, 1844. 35 ■
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
ALL persons indebted to the Estate of John
Wilkinson, late of Wilkes county, deceas
ed, are requested to pay the same immediately,
and those having demands against the Estate
will present the same in terms of the law for
payment.
WM. S. HEARD. > Ex >-„
SAMUEL tV. WYNN, ( bx rs ’
May 16,1844. 6t 38 ‘
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
WASHINGTON, (WILKES COUNTV, GA.,) MAY 80, 1814.
iHtectU.incous.
j PETER CHANCERY, ESQ., AND HIS
S3 HILL.
Showing the blessings that may follow the
settlement of the smallest account.
BY PROFESROR J. H. INGRAHAM.
‘Sir, if you please, boss would like you
to pay this little bill to day,’ said for the
tenth time a halfgrown boy in a dirty jack
et, to a lawyer in his office.
The attorney at length turned round and
stared the bov full in the face, as if he had
been some newly discovered specimen of
zoology, gave a long whistle, tliurst his
inky lingers into one pocket and then into
i another of his black cloth vest, and then
gave another long whistle and completed
his stare at the boy’s face.
‘Ho, ha, hum ! that bill, eh V and the le
gal young gentleman extended the tips of
his fingers towards the well worn bit of pa
per, and daintily opening it, looked at its
contents.
‘Hum ! for capping and heel tapping, six
shillings—for foxing, ten and sixpence, and
other sundries, eh ! So your master wants
me to settle this hill, eh ? repeated the man
of briefs.
‘Yes, sir. This is the nineteenth time I
have come for it, and I intend to knock off’
at twenty and call it a half a day.
‘You’re an impudent boy.’
‘l*s always impudent to lawyers, coz 1
can't help it—it's catchin !’
‘Your eye teeth are cut, I see !’
‘That’s what boss sent me for instead of
the ’prentices as wasgettin’ their teeth cut.
1 cut mine at nine months okl wiih a hand
saw. Boss says if you don’t pay that bill
hu’ll sue you V
‘Sue me ! I’m a lawyer !’
‘Jt’s no matter so: that! Lawyer or r.o
lawyer, boss declares he’ll do it—so fork
over!’
‘Declares he’ll sue me !’
‘As true as there’s another lawyer in all
Filadelfy.’
‘That would he bad !’
•Wouldn't it!’
‘Silence your vagabond. I suppose I
must pay this,’ muttered the attorney to
himself. “It is not my plan to pay these
small
sion for, if he can’t get clear of paying his
own bills ? He’ll sue me ! ’Tis just five
dollars ! It comes hard, and he don't want
ihe money ! What is five dollars to him ?
1 lis boy could have earned it in the time he
has been sending him to me to dun for it.
So your master will sue for it if 1 don’t
pay V
‘He says he will do it, and charge you
anew pair of shoes for me.’
‘Hark’ee. 1 can’t pay to-day ; and so
if your boss will sue, just be so kind as to
ask him to employ me as his attorney.’
‘You V
‘Yes ; I’ll issue the writ, have it served,
and, then you see I’ll put the costs into my
own pocket, instead of seeing them go into
another lawyer’s. So you see if 1 have to
pay the bill I’ll make the costs. Capital
idea !’
The boy scratched his head awhile, as
ifstriving to comprehend this ‘capital idea,’
j and then shook it doubtingly. ‘I don’t know
; about this ;it looks tricky. I’ll ask boss,
though if as how you say you won’t pay it
no how without being sued.’
‘l’d rather be sued if he’ll employ me,
boy.’
‘But who’s to pay them costs—the boss ?’
The lawyer looked all at once very seri
ous and then gave another of those long
whistles peculiar to him.
‘Well, lam a sensible man, truly ! My
anxiety to get the costs of suit, blinded me
to the fact that they were to come out of my
own pockets before they could be safely
put into the other pocket! Ah, well, my
hoy, 1 suppose I must pay. Here is a five
dollar bill. Is it receipted ?it is so dirty
and greasy I can’t see.’
‘Well, here’s your money,’ said the man
; of law, taking a solitary five dollar note
’ from his watch fob; “now tell your mas
ter, Mr. Last, that if he has any other ac
! counts he wants sued, I’ll attend to them
! with the greatest pleasure.
‘Thank’ee sir,’ answered the boy, pock
eting his five,‘but you is the only regular
dunnin customer boss had, and now you’ve
paid up, he hain’t none but cash folks.—
Good day to you.’
‘Now there goes a five dollar note that
will do that old fellow Last no good. lam
in great want of it, but he is not. It is a
five thrown away. It wouldn’t have left
my pocket but that 1 was sure his patience
was worn out, and costs would come of it.
I like to take costs, but I don’t think a law
yer has any thing to do with paying them.’
As Peter Chancery, Esq., did not believe
in his own mind that paying his debt to
Mr. Last was to be of any benefit to him,
and was of opinion that it was money
thrown away,’ let us follow the fate of this
five dollar bill through the day.
‘He has paid,’ said the boy, placing the
five dollar bill in his his master’s hand.
‘Well, I’m glad of it,’ answered Mr.
Last, surveying the bank note through his
glasses, “and it’s a current bill, too. Now
run with it and pay Mr. Furnace the five
dollars I borrowed from him yesterday,
and said I would return it to-morrow. But
I’ll pay it now.’
‘Ah, my lad come just in time,’ said Fur
nace as the boy delivered his errand and
the note. “I was just wondering where I
! could get five dollars to pay a bill which is
’ due to day. Here, John,’ he called to one
of his apprentices, ‘put on your hat and
take this money toCapt. O’Brien, and tell
him I came in one of disappointing him,
when some money came in I didn’t expect.
Capt. O'Brien was on board of his schoo
ner at the next wharf, and with him was a
seaman with his hat in his hand, looking
very gloomy as iie spoke with him.
‘l’m sorry, my man, I can’t pay you—
but have just raised and scraped the last
dollar I can get above water to pay mv in
surance money to-day, and have not a cop
per left in my pocket to jingle, but keys
and old nails.’
‘But lam very much in need sir ; my
wife is ailing, and tny family are in want
of a good many things just now, and I got
several articles at Ihe store expecting to get
monev of you to take ’em up, as l went a
long home. We hain’t in the house no
flour, no tea, nor .’
“Well, my lad, I’m sorry. You must
; come to-morrow, I can’t help you unless 1
sell mv coat offmy back, or pawn the schoo
ner’s kedge. Nobody pays me.’
The sailor who had come to get an ad
vance of wages turned away sorrowful,
when the apprentice boy came up and said
in his hearing.
“Here, sir, is five dollars Mr. Furnace
owes you. lie says when he told you he
couldn’t pay your bill to-day, he didn’t ex
pect some money that came in after you left
his shop.’
‘Ah, that’s my fine boy ! Here Jack,
take this five dollar bill and come Satur
day and get the balance of your wages.’
The seaman, with a joyful bound, took
the bill, and touching his hat, sprung with
a light heart on shore, and hastened to the
store, where he had already selected the
comforts and necessities his family stood so
much in need of.
As he entered, a poor woman was try
ing to prevail upon the store keeper to set
tle a demand for making his shirts.
‘You had best take it out of the store,
| Mrs. Conway,’ he said to her, ‘really I have
I not taken half the amount of your bill to
| day, and don't expect to. I have to charge
| every thing, and no money comes in.’
‘I can’t do without it,’ answered the wo
| man earnestly ; ‘my daughter is very ill, dr
iin want of every comfort; lam out of fire
wood, and indeed i want many things
which I have depended on this money to
get. I worked night and day to get your
shirts done.’
‘l’m very sorry, Mrs. Conway,’ said the
store-keeper, looking in his money drawer ;
•I have not five shillings here, and your bill
is five dollars and nine pence.’
The poor woman thought of her invalid
j child and wrung her hands.
| ‘A sailor was here while ago and selec
j ted full five dollars worth of articles here
!on the counter, and went away to get his
wages to pay for them, but I question if be
comes back. If he does and pays mo for
them, you shall have your money, mad
am.’
At this instant Jack made his appear
ance at the door.
‘Well, siiip mate,’ he cried, in a tone
much more elevated than when he was dis
covered speaking with the captain ; ‘well,
my hearty, hand over ray friend, I’ve got
the document, so give us possession,’ and
displaying his five dollar note, he laid hold
of his purchases.
The store keeper examining and seeing
that the note was a good one, bade him take
them with him, and then sighing as he took
another and last look at the bill, he handed
it to the poor widow, who, with a joyful
smile, received it from him and hastened
from the store.
In a low and very humble tenement,
near the water, was a family of poor chil
dren whose appearance exhibited the ut
most destitution. On a cot-bed near lay a
poor woman, ill and emaciated. The door
opened, a man in coarse patched garments
entered with a wood saw and cross, and
laid them down by the door side and ap
proached the bed.
‘Are you any better, dear ?’ he asked in
a rough voice, but in the kindest tones.
‘No—have you found any work ! If you
could get me a little nourishing food, 1
should regain my strength.
The man gazed upon her pale face a
moment, and again taking up his saw and
cross, went out. He had not gone far be
fore a woman met him, and said she wished
him to follow her and saw some wood for
her. His heart bounded with hope and
gratitude and he went after her to her
dwelling and abode, little better than his
own for its poverty, yet wearing an air of
comfort. He sawed the wood, split and
piled it and received six shillings, with
which he hastened to a store for necessa
ries for his sick wife, and then hurried
home to gladden her heart with the delica
cies he had provided. Till now he had no
work for four days, and his family had
been starving, and from this day his wife
got better, and was at length restored to
her family and to her health, from a state
of weakness which another day’s contin
uance of, would probably have proved fa
tal.
These six shillings which did him so
much good, were paid him by the poor wo
man from the five dollars she had received
from the storekeeper, and which the sailor
had paid him. The poor woman's daugh
ter also was revived, and ultimately res
tored to health ; and was lately married to
a young man who had been three years
absent and returned true to his troth. But
for the five dollars which had been so in
strumental in her recovery, he might have
returned to be told that she whose memory
j had so long been the polar star of his heart
had perished.
So much good did the five dollar bill do,
which Peter Chancery, Esq , so reluctantly
paid to Mr. Last’s apprentice boy, though
little credit is due to this legal gentleman
for the results that followed Lot this lit
tle story lead those who think a “small
bill” can stand because it is a small bill,
remember how much good a five dollar
bill has done in one single day—and that
in paying a series of twenty bills and dis
pensing good to hundred around them.-
THE VICTIM OF a PROOF-READER.
“ Foul murder hath been done—lo! here's the
proof.—Old Play.
Oh ! for the good old times of Typogra
! piiy, when operatives in the art could ren-
I der the ancients ; when Caxton translated
I ‘ Ye Seyge of Trove’ from the language of
j Greece ! Would that, in this latter age,
j when Champollion has deciphered the hie-
I roglyphics of Egypt ; when the spirit of in
quiry is every where abroad ; someone
might be found, who could continue to shel
ter from typical aggression a writer for the
I press!
lam the victim of a proof-reader. The
blunders of others, and not my own. have
placed me in a state of feeling akin to pur
gatory. Ever since I began to shave for a
beard, I have been more or less afflicted
with the cacocthcs scribendi, and 1 flatter
myself that I have not always been unsuc
cessful in mv writings. But tny printed
efforts have neither been honorable to my
genius, nor grateful to tny vanity ; ‘ on the
contrary they have been quite the reverse.’
I I have had the sweetest poems turned into
j thrice-sodden stupidity ; sentences in prose,
j on which I doated in manuscript, have been
: perused in a deep perspiration, and with
i positive loathing, in print. Ali this has a
: risen from a consjiiracy which seems to
| have been formed against me, by all the
i typographical gentlemen of the country. —
j It is true, I write what Mrs. Malaprop might
l call an ‘ineligible hand ;’ for to the piti
ful minutiae of crossing fs, and dotting Vs,
j I never could descend. 1 have often given
| directions to publishers, that if a word was
! otherwise ‘ past finding out,’ they should
; count the marks ; but the plan failed, as
I have indeed all my plans for correct habits
jof thought beff “ j the public. If this nar
j rative shall proveto be correctly printed, it
i will be the first article from my pen that
I has ever met with such an honor, and I
shall be proportionably pleased.
Like all other mortals, I am penetrable
|ts the arrows of Cupid. My heart is not
! encased with the epidermis of a rhinoceros,
nor the bull hide of Ajax ; consequently 1
am what they call in romances a suscepti
ble person. When I was nineteen I fell in
love, and as I found prose too tame a medi
um, too staid a drapery for my thoughts,
what could I do, but express to mv fair one
my passion in song ! She was a beautiful
creature, ‘ a delicious arrangement of flesh
and blood a country parson’s daughter,
with excellent tastes and accomplishments.
She was fond of poetry, and so was l.—
This circumstance sent my fancy a wool
gathering, for tropes, figures, and emblems.
Y oung ladies have a passionate admiration
for genius, and I determined to show that I
was not deficient in that particular ; that I
belonged of right to those who merited the
saying, ‘ Poeta nascilur non ft.’ During
the spring of 18 I was attacked with a
perfect incontinence of rhyme. My ladye
love was always my theme. But of all my
compositions, none satisfied me save the
following, which I produced with great li
vice labor, and studious care. I think poor
ly enough of it now :
TO EMILY B .
‘Dear Girl! an angel sure thou art—
The muse of every spell
Which brings one transport to my heart,
And bids my bosom swell.
And oh ! carnation on thy cheek
Its richest lustre lends;
Ami thy blue eyes forever speak
A welcome to thy friends.
Alas ! if fate should bid i- ran,
Life would be naught v, ah :
A load would rest upoi
Without a smile from i.
Where shall 1 meet am f ■■ .r
In Nature’s open pa
With thee the bo.-t'.U _•*< tiov/nr
And e’en my gr: f at ■
Forgive, my love, :ii .t t- a; I
And let i-s numbers “ ■
Sweet mom* rs tha* lay by
Shall bid time thn:k o: in •
This production l .n! to tne village
newspaper. I waited a long week, to te it
appear. Final’ - important Wednes
day arrived. 1 a r.. and :•_> the office, but
the affair was no* published. I glanced
with a hurried eye over the damp sheet,
and found a notice at last, commencing
with three stars turned up and down. It
read thus:
‘ *** The tribute to Emily, by ‘ J. S.’ is
unavoidably postponed until our next, by a
press of advertisements, for which wc are
thankful—since we do that kind of busi
ness, as likewise all sorts of job-work, on
the most reasonable terms —blanks, cards,
handbills, and other legal documents, be
ing executed by us at the shortest notice.
Not to digress, however, we would say to
‘J. S.’let him cultivate his talent; he has
tremendous powers, but he writes a bad
hand. He should make his penmanship
like his poetry— perfect .’
I I had the curiosity to look into the ad
! vertising columns to see what envious
‘things of traffic had displaced my lines.
JH. J. KAPPEL, Printer.
There were but three advertisements, a
sheriff's sale, a stray cow, and a wife elop.
|ed from bed and board. I read the sheriff’s
notice with that deep interest which these
documents usually excited. It discoursed
| of lands, messuages, and tenements, desig-
I nated ‘ by a line, beginning at the north
| west corner of Mr. Jenkins’ cow-house,
running thence north seventy-five chains,
fourteen links, thence east twenty-nine
I chains eleven links, to a stake and stones ;’
j and so on to the end of the chapter,
i Yet the notice filled me with exceeding
I great delight. I sent it to Emily : I told
her that 1 J. S.’ was myself, but begged her
j not to mention it to a third person. She
j kept her secret as women usually do. In
i three days it was all over town, that I had
l a piece, ‘ that 1 had made out of my head,’
’ coming forth in .the next week’s newspaper,
| addressed to Emily Brinkerhoff.
Never did seven days roll more slowly
round than the week’s interval which fol
lowed the foregoing notice, in the publica
tion of the ‘Elucidator of Freedom, and
Tocsin of the People.’ When it did finally
come out, I sent Flmily an affectionate note,
with a copy of the paper, assuring her that
the poem contained my real sentiments. I
determined not to read it myself until I vis
ited her in the evening By great self-de
nial I kept my resolve, and when the young
moon arose, bent tny steps toward the man
sion of my mistress.
She received me coldly'. I was surpris.
ed and abashed. ‘What is the matter,
| Em.,’ I tenderly inquired: ‘did you get
j my billet-doux and the verses to-day V
1 Y'es—they came safe.’
‘ Well, how did you like them V
‘ The note was kind and good, but the
j verses were foolish, ridiculous nonsense.’
I was thunderstruck. I asked to see the
j paper. Emily arose and handed it to me ;
I and sitting down by the vine-clad window,
j she patted her little foot angrily on the
j floor.
j 1 opened the Elucidator and Tocsin, and
I read my poem. Solomon of Jerusalem 1
what inhuman butchery—what idiotcy !
But I will give the effusion as it was print
ed, ‘ and shame the devil ;’
TO EMILY B —.
Dear Girl! an angel sour tiiou art—
The mule of every spell;
That brays o’er trumpets to my heart,
And bids my bosom swell.
And oh ! rlarnation o’er thy cheek
Its rudest blister bends ;
And tlry blear eyes forever speak
A welcome to thy friends.
Alas ! if late should bind us fast,
Life would be rough with me ;
A toad would rush upon my heart,
Wiihout a smile from thee.
Where could I meet a lamp so fair
In Nature's open passage !
With thee the barbarous flower compare,
And own my grief a sausage 1
Forgive, rny bore, this nasty lay,
And let its numbers be
Su eet monitors, that drily dry,
Shall bid thee think of me ! J. S.
When I had read this diabolical mass of
j -stuff over, I flew into an uncontrollable
J rage. In the blindness of my chagrin, I
j depreciated the judgment of Miss Emily ; I
! thought everybody could sec the errors, and
I detect them as readily as I did ; and I said
to my young friend that she must have
been very stupid or inattentive, not to see
how the poem ought to read. This roused
in her bosom, ‘ all the blood of all the Brin
kerhoffs.’ She handed me my hat, and
pointed significantly to the door. I went
out at the aperture thus indicated, and have
never darkened it since. Emily is now
the wife of a Connecticut school-master,
who blows the pitch-pipe and leads the
choir on Sunday, in her father’s church.
This was my first passion, and my last,
except that into which I have been roused
every time I have sent a piece to be pub
lished. Y r et I still love to console my drea
ry bachelorship by writing, and seeing my
thoughts in print; but 1 despair of ever see
ing them rightly uttered. Fate, in that re
! gard, is against me, and probably always
J will be. JOHN SMITH.
“ HASH FOR DINNER.”
A few weeks ago, a wealthy family in
: i ri ■- Iphia, (says the Times) having hi*
:■ : cook who had been highly recomend-
I ed to them, she was ordered one day to pre
pare among other thing a ‘hash’ for dinner.
The hash came, and it was charming ; all
j eagerly partaking of it until the dish was
scraped out. So popular after this did the
hashes of the new cook become, that it was
nothing but hash every day. At last the
poor cook, bringing in a large dish of it,
the perspiration pouring down her. face,
which was as red as coal on fire, she set it
down, and turning to her mistress and draw
ing herself up, said—
‘ Madam, I strikes !’
‘ Strikes ! why, what is the matter, Bet
ty V
‘ Cause ma’am, I can’t give you hash ev
ery day and forever—me jaws is all broke
j down, and me teeth is all wore out, chew
ing it up for ye’s !’
Odd. —Sometime ago, the newspapers
were highly indignant at the fact that Chang
and Eng, the Siamese twins, had married
two sisters, in North Carolina. The fol
lowing announcement, which appears in
•one of the papers, will afford opportunity
for another burst of indignation. It is an
odd case indeed :
Birth. —In North Carolina, the ladies of
Chang-Eng, the Siamese twins, of daugh
ters.
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