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NEWS & PLANTERS’ GAZE'P
l>. U . ( OTTIAW, Editor.
No. 7.—NEW SERIES.]
News and Planters ? Gazette. j
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tittle sos Land and Negroes by Executors, Ad
ministrate rs and Guardians, are required by law, !
to be advertised, in a public Gazette, sixty days j
previous to the day of sale.
The sales of Personal Property must he adver- j
tised in like manner , forty days.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate
must be putpinhed/orty days.
Notice that application will be made to the
Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Ne
groes, must be published -for four months—
notice that application will be made for Letters
of Administration, must be published thirty days;
and Letters of Dismission, six months.
Mai! Arrangements.
FOST OFFICE, )
Washington, Ga., Sept.. 1, 1848. $ j
EASTERN MAIL.
By this route, Mails are made up for Raytown,
Double-Wells, Crawfordville. Camack, Warren
ton, Thompson, Doaring, and B irzeha.
AREIVES.
Mo.iTfV, Wednesday, and Friday, at 9, A. M. j
CLOSES,
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 18, M. |
WESTERN MAIL.
By this route. Mails are made up for all Ofli :
ces in South-Western Georgia, Alabama, Mis
sissippi, Louisiana, Florida, also Athens, Ga. and
the North-Western part of the State.
arrives —Wednesday and Friday, by 6 A. M.
closes— Tuesday and Thursday, at 18 M.
ABBEVILLE, S.C.. MAIL.
By this route, Mails are made up for Danburg,
Pistol Creek, and Petersburg.
CLOSES.
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, by 1 P. M.
ARRIVES.
?>Xojday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 0 A. M.
LEXINGTON MAIL.
By this route, Mails are made up for Centre- !
vilie,. 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 O ik, 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
rysvilie, Goosepond, Whites, Mill-Stone, llarri
souville, and Ruckersville.
Arrives Thursday 8 P. M., and Closes same time.
LINCOLNTON MAIL.
By this route, Mails are made up for Rehobotli,
Stoiiey Point, Goshen, Double Branches, and j
Darby’s.
Arrives Friday, 18 M. | Closes same time.
O’ The Letter Box is the proper place to do
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.
COT TING &, 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, 1848. 88
NELSON CARTER,
-:V DEALER IN
Choice, Drugs and Medicines,
Chemicals, Patent Medicines,
Surgical and Dental Instruments,
Perfumery, Brushes,
Faints, Oils, Dye-Stuffs,
Window Glass, <| -c. $-c.
UE B ”MORTAR. | AUGUSTA. Ga.
October 12, 1843. ly 7
FIRE FnSURANCET
rplIE NEW-YORK CONTRIBUTION-
X SHIP FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
have established an Agency in Washington,
Wilkes county, Georgia, and are now prepared
to Insure Buildings and Merchandize against
loss or damage by Fire. v
Capital f300,000,
All paid in and .safely invested.
Applv to
WILLIAM S. HEARD, Agent,
Washington, Ga.
September 19, 1844. 4
GUARDIAN’S SALE.
WILL be sold on the first Tuesday in No
vember next, before the Court-House
door in. Cobb county, between the legal hours of
sale, the following projierly, to-wit:
Lot of Land, No. 38, in the 30th District and
‘ 2d Section of Cobb county, (originally Chero
kee.) Sold as the property of Henry F. Bailey,
a minor, ior the benefit of said minor.
HENRY F. ELLINGTON, Guardftn- ;
August 89, 1844. 1
WAREHOUSE
AND
Commission Business,
Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
(|M]O undersigned thankful for the patronage
heretofore received, respectfully inform his
friends and the public generally, that he still
continues the WAREHOUSE AND COM
MISSION BUSINESS, at his old stand on
Broad-street, (long known as Rees & Beall’s)
and will give strict personal attention to all busi-
I ness entrusted to his care.
Liberal advances made on cotton instore.
I His Commission for selling cotton, is reduced
from this date, to 25 cents per bale.
WM. A. BEALL.
j Augusta, Sept. 16th, 1844. 2m
a
Ct REN SI IA W’S Improved Antifriction Gins,
> warranted equal to any m the Southern
i States, tor sale by
A. A. CLEVELAND.
Washington, July, 1844. ts 50
Helling off at Cost.
r|MIE Subscribers respectfully inform their
friends and the public in general, that they
are now selling oft'their
STOCK OF GOODS
at Cost and Charges.
They would particularly invite (heir custom
i ers to rail early and select such Goods as they
may want—and to those who have open accounts
| with ns, Goods will be charged as heretofore
:at Cost pr ces. Our Stock of Goods is very
I general, of recent purchase, and our terms can
! not fail to be entirely satisfactory to all. Call
and see.
BOLTON & NOLAN.
July 16, 1844. 47
Dissolution.
! nMHE copartnership heretofore existing in the
X name of PALMER &. McMILLAN, was
: dissolved on the Ist instant, by mutual consent.
. Those indebted, will please call and settle by
I note or otherwise.
JOHN T. PALMER.
H. McMILLAN.
July 10,1844.
ILTThe business will hereafter be continued
by the Subscriber, who solicits a continuance oi
the patronage of Ins former customers.
JOHN T. PALMER.
July 11, 1844. 46
NOTICXS.
Bacon and Lard.
For sale by JOHN D. THOMPSON,
j September 5, 1844. 2
To Teachers.
j \ TEACHER wanted to take charge of the
Rock-Spring Academy, in Wilkes county,
■ for the ensuing year. For particulars, apply to
’ the Subscriber, living 14 miles N. W. of Wash
ington. L. M. HILL.
October 3, 1841. 0
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
ALL persons indebted to the Estate of Wil
liam C. McKinney, late of Lincoln county,
j deceased, are requested to pay the same immedi
j atoly, and those having demands against the
I Estate will present the same in terms of the
law for payment.
‘ GEORGE McKINNEY. Adm’r.
I October 3,1844. 6t 6
Notice to Debtors and Creaitors.
ALL persons indebted to the Estate of Wiley
Hill, late of Wilkes county, deceased, are
requested to settle the same immediately, and
those having demands will please present them
in terms of law, for payment.
L. M. HILL, Acting Executor.
September 5,1844. fit 2
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
ALL persons indebted to the Estate of Mica
jah Antony, late of Wilkes county, deceas
ed, are requested to make payment immediately,
and those having any demands will present them
in terms of the law for payment.
MARY ANTONY, Ex’x.
September 26,1844. 6t 5
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALES.
be sold on Friday the 25th day of Oc
** tober next, at the late residence of Mary
Gaar, deceased, late of Elbert county, all the
Stock of Horses, Cattle, Hogs, &c., Corn, Fod
der, Cotton, &c., Household and Kitchen Fur
niture, Plantation tools, &c , together with a va
riety of other articles, not here mentioned.
And at the Court-House door, in Elbe rt coun
ty on the first Tuesday in December next, One
Tract of Land, lying on Beaverdam Creek, ad
joining R. C. Adams, J. M. Cleveland and others,
and all the negroes belonging to the Estate of
said Mary Gaar, deceased, in pursuance of an
order of the Honorable the Inferior Court of said
county, while setting for Ordinary purposes.—
Terms on the day of sale.
JOSEPH RUCKER, J ...
WILLIAM B. WHITE, ( Aumr s ‘
October 6, .1844. 3
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
[postponed.]
TX/TLLbe sold before the Court-llouse door
* * in Lineolnton, Lincoln county, on the first
Tuesday in December next, agreeable to an or
, der of the Inferior Court of Lincoln county, the
Tract of Land, whereon Robert Ware, (late of
said county,) resided, containing4oo Acres, more
or less, lying on the waters of Grey’s Creek,
adjoining lands of John Bentley and others, sold
for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said
Estate. Terms made known on the day of sale.
N. C. WARE, Adm’r.
September, 26, 1844. 5
EXECUTED AT THIS
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WASHINGTON, (WILKES COUNTY, GA.,) OCTOBER 10, 1844.
3/MiscfUancov.g.
From Arthurs’ Ladies Magazine.
THAT HOLE IN THE POCKET,
j In this lies the true secret of economy—
the care of sixpences. Many people throw
I them away without remorse or considera
tion—not reflecting that a penny a day is
more than three dollars a year. We would
complain loudly if a tax of that amount
were laid upon us ; but when we come to
add all that we uselessly tax ourselves for
our penny expenses, we shall find that we
waste in this way annually quite enough to
supply a family with winter fuel.
It is now about a year since my wife j
said to me one day, “Pray, Mr. Slackwater, j
have you that haif dollar about you that !
gave you this morning ?” 1 felt in my j
waiscoat pocket, and I felt in my breeches \
pocket, and I turned my purse inside out,
but it was all empty space—which is very
different from specie ; so I said to Mrs.
Slackwater, “I’ve lost it, my dear; positive
ly, there must be a hole in my pocket!”
“I’ll sew it up,” said she.
An hour or two after, I met Tom Stcb
bins. “How did that ice-cream set ?” said
Tom. “It set,” said I, “like the sun, glori
ously.” And as I spoke, it flashed upon
me that my missing half dollar had paid
for those ice-creams ; however, l held my
peace, for Mrs. Slackwater sometimes
makes remarks; and, even when she as
sored meat breakfast next morning that
there was no hole in my pocket, what could
I do but lift my brow and say, “Ah ! isn’t
there ! really !”
Before a week had gone bv, my wife,
who like a dutiful helpmate as she is, al
ways gave me her loose change to keep,
called fora twenty-five cent piece that had
| been deposited in my sub-treasury for safe
| keeping ; “there was a poor woman at the
| door,” she said, “that she’d promised it to
1 for certain.” “Well, wait a moment,” T
cried ; so I pushed inquiries first in this di
rection, then in that, ami then in the other ;
but vacancy returned a horrid groan. “On
my soul,” said I thinking it best to show a
bold front, “you must keep my pockets in
better repair, Mrs. Slackwater; this piece,
with I know not how many more, is lost,
because some corner or seam in my plaguey
pockets is left open.”
“Are you sure V’ said Mrs. Slackwater.
“Sure ! ay, that I am, it’s gone !” My
wife dismissed her promise, and then, in
her quiet way. asked me to change my
pantaloons before I went out, and to bar all
argument, laid another pair on my knees.
That evening, allow me to remark, gen
tlemen ofthp species “husband,” I was
very loath to go home to tea ; Iliad half a
mind to boro some bachelor friend, and
when hunger and habit, in their unassu
ming manner, one on each side, walked me
up to my own door, the touch made my
blood run cold. But do not think Mrs.
Slackwater is a Tartar, my good friends,
because 1 thus shrunk from home ; the fact
was that I had, while abroad, called to mind
the fate of her twenty-five cent piece,
which 1 had invested, in smoke, —that is to
say, cigars, and I feared to think of her
comments on my pantaloon pockets.
These things went on for some months ;
!we were poor to begin with,and grew poor
| er, or at any rate no richer, fast. Times
grew worse and worse ; my pocket leaked
worse and worse, even my pocket book U'as
no longer to be trusted, the rags slipped
from it in a manner most incredible to re
late ; as an Irish song says,
“And: uch was the fate of poor Paddy O’More,
That his purse had the more rents, as he had
the fewer.”
At length one day my wife came in
with a subscription paper for the Orphan’s
Asylum. I looked at it, and sighed, and
picked my teeth, and shook my head, and
handed it back to her.
“Ned Bowen,” said she, “lias put down
ten dollars.”
“The more shame to him,” I replied.
“He can’t afford it ; he can but just scrape
along any how, and in these times it aint
right for him to do it.” My wife smiled
in her sad way, and took the paperback to
him that brought it.
The next evening she asked me if I
would go with her and see the Bowens, and,
as I had no objection, we started.
I knew that Ned Bowen did a small bu- j
siness that would give him about S6OO a
year, and I thought it would be worth
while to see what that sum would do in the
way of house keeping. We were admitted
by Ned, and welcomed by Ned’s wife, a
very neat little body, of whom Mrs. Slack
water had told me a great deal, as they
had been school-mates. All was as nice
as wax, and yet as substantial as iron ;
comfort was written all over the room.
The evening passed, somehow or other,
though we had no refreshment, an article
which we never have at home but always
want elsewhere, and I returned to our own
establishment with mingled pleasure and
chagrin.
“What a pity,” said I to my wife, “that
Bowen don’t keep within his income.”
“He does,” she replied.
“But how can he on S6OO ?” was my an
swer ; “ if he gives ten dollars to this chari
ty and five to that, and live so snug and
comfortable too ?”
“ Shall I tell you V* asked Mrs. Slack
water.
“Certainly, if you can.”
“His wife,” said my wife, “finds it just
as easy to do without twenty or thirty dol
lars worth of ribbons and laces as to buy
them. They have no fruit but what they
raise and have given them by country
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
I friends, whom they repay by a thousand i
| little acts of kindness. They use no beer, !
: which is not essential to his health as it is
I to yours ; and then he buys no cigars, or j
ice creams, or apples at one hundred per
cent on market price, or oranges at twelve
I cents a piece, or candy ; or new novels, or
| rare works still more rarely used; in short,
I my dear Mr. Slackwater, he has no hole
in his pocket.”
It was the first word of suspicion my wife
had uttered on the subject, and it cut me lo
the quick ! Cut me ? I should rather say
it sewed me up, me and my pockets, too ;
they never have been in holes since that j
! evening.
PREMATURE BURIALS.
The ‘ Philadelphia Newspapers’ of last |
j week contains a thrilling article from the !
| pen of Edgar A. Poe. Esq., on ‘premature 1
Burials.’—J’obo buried while alive, he j
remarks, is beyond question, the most ter
rific of the extremes which has ever fallen
to the lot of mere humanity. That it has
I frequently, very frequently, so fallen, will
! not be denied by those who think. The
boundaries which divide Life from Death,
are at best shadowy and vague. Whoj
shall say where the one ends, and where
the other begins ? We know that there
are diseases in which occur total cessations
of all the apparent functions of vitality,
and yet in which these cessations arc mere
ly suspensions, properly so called. They
are only temporary pauses in the incompre
hensible mechanism. A certain period c
lapses, and some unseen mysterious princi
i again sets in motion the magic pinions and
j wizzard wheels. The silver cord was not
■ forever loosed, nor the golden bowl irrepar
! ably broken. But where, meantime, was
| I he soul )
I Mr. Poe records several remarkable cases ‘
;of life burials. From them we select the
following, the reading of which people of
tender nerves may omit:
of very remarkable character, and
i of which the circumstances may be fresh I
! in the memory of some of my readers, oe
| curred, not very long ay-, in the citv of
Baltimore, where it occasioned a painful,
1 intense and widely extended excitement. |
i The wife of one of the most respectable cit- i
izens—a lawyer of eminence and a mcm
| her of Congress, was seized with a sudden
| and unaccountable illness, which complete
!ly baffled the skill of her physicians. Af
| ter much suffering she died, or was sup
j posed to die. No one suspected, indeed.
i nor had reason to suspect, she was not ac
tually dead. The face assumed the usu- !
j ally pinched and sunken outline. The!
j lips were of the usual marble pallor. The
i eyes were lustreless. There was no
j warmth. Pulsation had ceased. For three
days the body was preserved unburied, du
ring which it had acquired a strong rigidi
ty. The funeral, in short, was hastened
on account of the rapid advance of what
was supposed to be decomposition.
The lady was deposited in the family
vault, which for three subsequent years
was undisturbed. At the expiration of this
term, it was opened for the reception of a
sarcophagus ; but alas ! how fearful a shock
awaited the husband who personally threw
open the door. As its portals swung out
wardly back, some white appareled object
! fell rattling within his arms. It was the
j skeleton of his wife in her yet unmouldered
i shroud.
A careful investigation rendered it evi
; dent that she had revived within a few days
after her entombment; that her struggles
within the coffin had caused it to fall from
a ledge or a shelf to the floor, where it was
so broken as to permit her to escape. A
lamp which had been accidentally left full
of oil within the tomb was found empty ; it
might have been exhausted, however, by
evaporation. On the uppermost part of
the steps which led down into the dread
chamber, was a large fragment of the coffin,
with which it seemed she had endeavored
to arrest attention by striking the iron door.
While thus occupied, she probably swooned
or possibly died, through sheer terror; and
in falling, her shroud became entangled in
some iron work which projected intcriorily.
Thus she remained, and thus decayed e
rect.
MORMON ANECDOTE.
It is very common for Mormons, in work
ing miracles to practice in the following
manner.
“One goes out alone in the garb and
with the appearance of a poor traveller ;
calls at the house of some country farmer
at night, leaving some token by which
those who are confederates may detect his
whereabouts. Another one or more fol
lows on and stops near by, so that in the
morning he may soon reach the abode of
the first traveller, to which place he pro
ceeds about breakfast time, coming there
just as his predecesor needs him. The
first traveller, about day break makes a pi- j
teous noise as of one in deep distress, alarm- i
ing the inmates, and calling them around j
his bed-side. For a while the sick man
struggles with disease, and apparently dies
in a fit. Just at that moment the second
traveller enters—announces himself a dis
ciple of the Mormons, and declares it in
his power to raise the dead man to life,
and putting all aside from the couch of
death, commences his necromancy, and
soon succeeds in raising the dead to life.
A couple of these impostors went out on
excursion of this kind about two years or ■
more since, and in the course of their tra- ;
vels called at a farm house near Gcnessee.
The forerunner called on the plain look- ;
ing farmer and represented himself as a 1
i traveller who was poor but on a merciful I
eriand. The farmer was an honest heart
ed Methodist, making less show than some,
| but no less intelligent Christian, or shrewd- j
er than most men. The traveller joined j
with the family in their devotions, and
talked of God and heaven as a Christian. ;
No one suspected his hypocrisy.
About 4 o’clock in the morning the fani- !
ily were awakened by groans proceeding \
from the lodging room of the stranger.— |
The farmer went into the room and was
quite shocked to find his guest apparently
in the most intense degree of pain. Many ;
I remedies were applied, but of no effect; ;
j the sufferer grew worse every hour, until j
j about seven o’clock he appeared to show
; signs of death. Just at that moment a
knock was heard at the door, and another
! stranger entered on its being opened.
The family were much frightened and i
| consequently much gratified with the arri
'al of any person, although it should be a j
stranger. lie was immediately informed j
of the case and intioduced into the room, I
upon entering which he announced himself I
a Mormon priest, and assured the astonish- j
cd family he could raise the dying man to !
j life even should he die—and, indeed, to |
convince them of his power, lie hoped he j
would die, which was soon the fact to all j
appearance. The new corner then order- i
ed all present to stand aside, and not touch j
the corpse or the bed, but to send for neigh- i
bors if they pleased, in order to give full I
proof of his wonderful work.
Just at that moment it crept into the head j
of the farmer that a trick was about being I
played upon them of a blasphemous char
acter, and lie quickly resolved to test the i
same. “Hold,” said he, “a moment, and j
do not the miracle until I return.” He !
went out, took an axe from the wood pile, j
1 and came in without saying a word, walk-*!
ed up to the bedside and addressed the man
| of miracles as follows :
“ You think him really dead ?”
“ 0, yes.”
| “ Well then, I will just cut off his head, j
to make it sure, for if you can raise to life
from deatli at all, you can do it as well j
with his head off as on !” and suiting the I
i action to the word, raised the axe as if lie, j
| would strike, when lo! with a loud shriek, j
up jumped the dead man, crying, “Mur- ;
der, Murder!” at the top of his voice.
Before the proper authorities could be
reached the mew prophet and the ;v
baulked, put out and tied as if from de
vouring plague, much to the amusement of •
the sensible man who detected his imposi- ]
j tions. Since which time no Mormon finds
his way into that region to remain long.—
j Syracuse Freeman.
ALPACA.
Probably few ladies who wear and ad- i
! mire the beautiful fabric called Alpaca, ,
| are aware'of the source of its production. J
i The Alpaca, is a wool bearing animal, in- :
Higenous to South America, and is one of!
! four varieties which bear general points of
resemblance to each other. The Lama,
one of the varieties, has been long known
and often described, but it is only within a
few years that the Alpaca has been consul- |
ered of sufficient importance to merit par
ticular notice.
Nine-tenths of the Alpaca is black, the
remainder being partly white, red and
grizzled. It is ot a very long staple, often >
reaching twelve inches, and resembles soft i
glossy hair ; which character is not lost in [
dyeing. The Indians in the South Ameri- j
can mountains, manufacture nearly all j
their clothing from tiiis wool, arc enabled j
to appear in black dresses, without the aid ‘
of a dyer. Both the Lama and Alpaca ;
arc perhaps even of more value to the na- ;
lives as beasts of burden than wool bearing
animals, and their obstinacy when irritated
is well known. The importance of this
animal has already been considered by the
English, in their hat,woolen and stuff trade,
and an essay on the subject lias been pub
lished by Dr. Hamilton, of London, from
which some of these details are collected.
The wool is so remarkable%being a jet
black,glossy, silk like hair, that it is fitted
for the production of texile fabrics differing
all others, occupying a medium position
between wool and silk.
It is now mingled with other materials in
sucli a singular manner, that while a par
ticular dye will effect those, it will leave
the Alpaca wool with its original black co
lour, and thus giving |ise to great diversi
ty. — Iris.
Neither llhymc nor Reason. —One of the
favorite couplets now in vogue with the lo
cos is the following:
“I’olk, the young Hickory,
Dallas and Victory.”
Here says the Rochester Democrat, is
neither rhyme nor reason. Ist. Because
there is no record that “Old Hickory”
ever had any children ; and 2dly, because
“ Hickory” does not rhyme with il victory.”
but it does rhyme with “ trickery"— thus :
Polk, the young Hickory,
Dallas and trickery.”
A Change of Tune. —For three years
past our opponents have charged those who
voted for General Harrison in 1840 with
having been “ bribed,” “ bought,” and led
to the polls while “drunk.” They have
now changed their tune, and are coaxing
those whom they thus slandered back to
their ranks. Their honeyed words come
too late, especially as they have not yet ,
retracted the charge that 145,000 Ameri j
can freemen were purchased like sheep in
the shambles, and were made beastly drunk j
1 with hard cider.— U. S. Gazette.
ill. .1. Kli l 11) L, r r t liter.
THE HIGH GERMAN DOCTOR.
A high Get man Doctor, on leaving a pa
tient lie had been visiting, gave orders to the
nurse to give the sick man some poppif
1 and hole ammoniac, stewed in milk ; which
the old dame, from the manner of the Doc
tor’s pronunciation, mistook for puppies and
old almanac , and accordingly, without de
lay, she procured a whole litter of little an
: imals ; stewed them down as directed, and
in spite of all his remonstrances, made the
poor patient take them. On the next visit
; of the celebrated quack, he exclaimed with
| an air of the most profound importance,
“Well nurse how was mine patient by this
time?” “ Much better, sir,” replied the
nurse; “the medicine had great effect.”
J “Ah ! dat is goot ; and pray did you give
! de poppies, and do hole ammoniac, as I tell
■ you ?” “ Oh ‘ yes. sir, the puppies! he hasV
j eaten six this morning, and 1 stewed four
i more: which he has taken now; as for the
I old almanac, I could not get one in all the
i parish ; but I found some old newspapers
| and stewed them down in milk, which an
i swered very well.”
“O, Tamnation, woman!” exclaimed the
: sickened Doctor, as he mizzled:
HE WILL NEVER MAKE A MER
CHANT.
The morality of a distinguished divine
I of the present day, that the making the
i best of one’s knowledge in buving and
| selling, or in other words, the seller’s tak
ing the advantage of the purchaser's igno-,
i ranee, is quite questionable ; or, more
plainly, to use the language of the authoi
I of the only standard of morality in Chris
itendom.it is not ‘doing to olhers as we
! would should do to us. ’ If, however,
’ the Ministersof Christianity inculcate such
! a standard, is it surprising that there are
occasionally to be found p-rs ns ngaged
in trade, who like the dry.goods merchant
mentioned in the following recita’ of an
j actual occurrence, boldly admit that an ,
honest boy “ will never make a merchant.”
A gentleman from the country placed
i his son with a merchant in street.
j Fora lime alt went on well. At length a
lady ca> : to the store to purchase a silk
I driy/ and the young man waited on her.
i Tint price demanded was agreed to and he
1 proceeded to fold the goods. He discover- ,
/before he had finished, a (law in ts
i and pointing it out to the lady, sai
y /.ladam. [ deem it my duty to tell yt
’ gre is a fracture in file silk.’ Os court
! she oi I not take it. The merchant ove jt
’ heal'd the remark, and
to the father of the young ma. jj
come and take him home; ‘ for,’ s
1 he, I he will never make a merchant.
The father, who had ever reposed
; dence in his son, was much grieved,
hastened to the city to be informed of his
deficiencies, ‘Why will he not make a
1 merchant ?’ asked he. ‘ Because lie has
!no tact,’ was the answer. ‘ Only a day l31 ’
! two ago be told a lady volum . ‘</. who ‘ vas
buying silk of him ‘ at tit. g't.nis were
damaged, and 110 • ;i lt La r .:i Purehas
. ers must lc 1, a* ■,, . ves. If thev
i cannot t *>'.< \ei Hava , i: would be foolish
in.” ■ .t; ell tk, mos their existence.’
, ‘ And ■’ a: a.I his fault ?” asked tha pa
\ us,” answered the merchar
,s very well in other respects.” —^
I lien l love my son bi tter than ever, and
I thank you for telling me of the matter.
| I would not have him another day in your
i store for the world.”— Hunt's Merchant's
! Magazine.
: THE COON vs. THE ROOSTER. ‘
A Capital Joke. —The Locofocos oi
| Cleaveland, Ohio, recently erected a pole,
! and tied a live rooster in a basket fastened
at its end, that their Chapman might crow
over the Whigs. The Whigs, not to
outdone, got a live Coon and fastened hit
on a board, at the end of another po.
which was Hnated in like manner as t. and
Cock After remaining tip for some tin
the Cooney's appetite began to make h. A
feel exceeding uncomfortable, and so he-se<Ej
to work and freed himself ov gnawing thtw
cord which confined hint, and came down®
from his elevation in scan h of something ]
ito eat But it appears he was watched by !
*the Locofocos, for no soon* r t-ad he s> t his
foot upon terra firrna. ‘fat: ..s pursued
by the Locos viv> in .-?• s'ruc
tion So pen C’ r Itis .
life, and litre -i
pole, up vi “m ... -q ’’ ••• until 1
he an r- I
work, and . i . . the 9
chichi e *'•••• i- ■ >’ Itts enemies.—
While it- ‘. ■; htiit- df, the Lonos j
were so v.snerated ::iat they started off J
for a gun w ■” i>v to rcvi nye th ‘mselves : J
but the Com • smelt a rat'ai dby tlietime|
thev return'd v. ith the implements of death, *
he was oph. — Clay Bugle.
What is the American System? —Wh| |
George M. Dallas < cut for the country, 1
gave the foEcivu admirable
til's q.i :ii, u a speech in the U S.-SenJ|
ate in February, 1832. And the answefl
is just as good now since Dallas has abanig]
doped the coiinfxy to go for Texas antMjg
Polk, Hero is the answer:
“Its foundation,. Mr. President, is lhS
broad art ‘ impregnable principle, of na’ion-9
al independence and its object gycl ten-jg
deucy are to give to the American\ r *Jpnm
the entire people, as a mass, and in deta
; employment of their own, resources why*
j cannot be injuriously affected in war SKA
! peace,through stratagem or design, by at Jna
! other people. Such are its cardinal chaw
’ acteri.siics.” That is worth rememberiutH
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