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Dee 27 1819. *stf
VOL. I.
I SEE THEE STILL.
BY WILLIS GAYLORD CLARKE.
I see thee still!
R mombrancc, faithful to her trust,
Calls thee in beauty from the dust;
Thou eome-t in the morning light—
Thou’rt with me through the gloomy night;
In dreams I meet thee as of old.
When thy soft amis my neck enfold,
And thy sweet voice is in my ear ;
In every scene to memory dear—
I see thee still!
I see thee- still!
In ever}- hallowed token round ;
This little ring thy finger bound—
This lock of hair thy forehead shaded,
This silken chain by thee- was braided ;
The flowers, all withered now like thee,
Beloved, thou didst cull for me !
This hook was thine—here didst thou read—
This picture, ah ! yes here, indeed,
I see thee Till!
I see thee still!
Herr was thy summer-noon’s retreat,
This was thy favorite fire-side seat,
Thy was thy chamber, where each day,
I sat and watched thy sad decay ;
Here, on this bed, thou last didst lie,
lice, on this pillow, thou didst die !
I lark hour! once more its woe? unfold—
As then I saw thee, pale and cold,
I see thee still!
I see thee still!
Thou art not in tire tomb confined ;
Death cannot claim the immortal mind ;
Ist earth clo-e o’er its sacred trust,
Yet goodness dies not in the dust ;
Thee, oh ! beloved, ‘tis not tl;e,
Beneath the coffin’s lid I see ;
Thou to a fairer land art gor.c—
There, let me hojie, my journey done,
To sec thee still.’
THE BATTLES OF LEXINGTON
AND CONCORD.
“'Hie people of Lexington received on the
morning of April 18, 1775, two messages,
relative to the British troops. The lirst. was
verbal, and of course less regarded; the se
cond in writing, was sent by express from the
Committee of Safety, then sitting in Cam
bridge. This written message was directed
to ‘Hon. John Hancock, Esq./ who, with the
lion. Samuel Adams, was spending the night
at the house of the Rev. Thomas Clark, in
Lexington. The message contained these
warning words—‘Eight or nine of the offi
cers of the king’s troops were seen just before
night, passing the road towards Lexington, in
a musing, contemplative posture; and it was
suspected that they w ere out upon some evil
design.’ Whether this message contained
any other cautions or information, 1 have not
been able to ascertain.
As the lion. Samuel Adams had been long
obnoxious to the British administration, and
as the Hon. John Hancock ‘had been more
than once’ personally insulted by some offi
cers of the troops ‘in Boston,’ it was feared
that an expedition was preparing to arrest
! and execute these leaders of the ‘rebels,’ as
our patriots were then branded.
To prevent any tiling of this kind, ten or
twelve men armed themselves, and guarded
Rev. Mr. Clark’s house through the night.
In the evening the officers referred to in the
message, passed through Lexington towards
Concord. At ten o’clock three men on horse
hack, were dispatched from Lexington as a
corps of observation, to follow them. In the
borders of Lincoln, these three men were
made prisoners by the officers, and kept sev
eral hours, examined, and inhumanly abused.
This apparent discovery seemed to discon
i cert the plans of the officers, who then efl’ee
; ted a hasty retreat, and left the prisoner? in
Lexington, on their return. What the real
object of these officers was, has never been
ascertained; but the opinion was then, and
still is, that they were proceeding to Con
cord, where Hancock and Adams were sup
i posed to he attending the Provincial Con
i gross, to arrest and convey them to Boston
in the night. Their purpose, however, would
have been defeated, even if they had not been
detected. For Hancock and Adams had
providentially retired to spend the night in
Lexington, with their fellow patriot and friend,
the Rev. Mr. Clark.
On the morning of April 10th, between
the hours of twelve and one o’clock, a third
message reached Lexington. It was by ex
press from the lion. Joseph Warren, of Bos
ton ; it stated that a large body of the King’s
troops (supposed to be a brigade about 12
or 1500) were embarked in boats from Bos
ton, and gone over to land on Lechmcre’s
Point, (so called,) in Cambridge ; and it was ;
shrewdly suspected, that they were ordered
to seize and destroy the stores, belonging to j
the colony, then deposited at Concord. [lt •
should be noted that the colonial government j
deposited these stores in Concord, because
General Gage had seized the provincial mag
azine of powder at Medford, and other col
ony stores in several other places.]
The message spread alarm through the
town, and the militia were ordered to assem
ble forthwith at the usual place of parade, by.
the meeting house. They did assemble im
mediately, and were ready to act as duty and
prudence might require. Messengers were
sent to explore the route of the troops, and,
if possible, gain a knowledge of their purpose.
Before four o’clock, one messenger returned,
and said there was no appearance of troops
on the road either from Charlestown or Cam
bridge; and the common opinion was, that
the movements mentioned by the Hon. Jo
seph Warren, were only a feint to alarm the
people. Upon this intelligence, the militia
company was dismissed, but ordered to re
main within call of the drum. The object
was to await the return of the other messen
ger, who was expected in an hour. But the
troops were too wary for him, and reached
the place where he was, and seized him,
which was the first intimation he had of their
approach. By this accident, the people of
Lexington had no notice of their approach
till the ‘brigade was actually in the town up
on a quick march, and not more than a mile
and a quarter from the meeting house and the
place of parade.*
At half-past four o’clock, ‘alarm guns
were tired, and the drums beat to arms,’ and
the militia, to the number of fifty or sixty,
promptly assembled on the parade ground.
; Almost at the same moment, the British
troops arrived, halted about twenty rods be
fore they -reached the meeting house, and
were there ordered to ‘prime and load,’
which they did. The troops then marched
up to the east end of the meeting house, and
saw our men about a dozen rods distant to the
north. Capt. Parker, who commanded the
Lexington company, then ordered his men
immediately ‘to disperse and take care of
themselves’—but commanded them ‘not to
fire.’ The inen obeyed instantly, and began
§%e Soutljcni ScwtincL
to disperse, though many of them loitered,
perhaps desirous to see the end.
When the British troops came in sight,
one, supposed to be an officer of rank, was
heard to exclaim to the troops, ‘Damn them,
we will have them,’ which was followed by a
huzza of the British, who rushed on towards
our men, who were dispersing. Then three
officers, thought to be Col. Smith, Maj. Pit
cairn, and another, rode in front of the Brit
ish troops, and advanced within five or six
rods of our men ; and one of them cried out,
‘you villains, you rebels, disperse; damn
you, disperse,’ or such like words; and the
same, or another officer, exclaimed, ‘lay
down your arms, damn you, why don’t you
lay down your arms ?’
Maj. Pitcairn then fired a pistol towards
our militia; and the officer who was now
nearest our men and within a few yards of
them, brandished his sword, and pointing to
our men, commanded in a loud voice, “Fire!
by God, fire!” The command was instantly
obeyed by a discharge of arms, and was suc
ceeded by a heavy fire upon our dispersing
men, which continued as long as any of out
men w-ore within musket shot. By this on
set eight of our men were left dead on the
field, to wit: Robert Munro, Jonas Parker,
Samuel Hadley, Jonathan Harrington, Jr.,
Isaac Muzzey, Caleb Harrington, and John
Brown, of Lexington, and Mr. Porter, of
Woburn. And ten were wounded, to wit:
Jedediah Munro, Thomas Winship, Nathan
iel Farmer, John Robbins, Solomon Pierce,
John Field, Joseph Comee, Ebenezer Munro,
Jr., and Prince, (negro) of Lexington, and
Jacob Bacon, of Woburn.
General Gage stated to his government
and the world, that the British troops were
tired upon from the meeting house by the “re
bels,” before the British made the attack.
This statement was not true. The fact was,
that four of our men were in the meeting
house at the time, providing themselves with
ammunition from the town stock. But they
had not even loaded their guns, except one
man, who never discharged it at all, till the
firing commenced.
After this disgraceful action, the British
troops formed in a body on the common,
back of the meeting house, fired a volley in
token of their triumph, and gave three huzzas.
These troops then left Lexington, and pro
ceeded to Concord. They reached Lexing
ton on their retreat about the middle of the af
ternoon, or a little later, but they were so
worn down by the rough usage received from
the patriots in Concord, and by their other
fatigues and loss of men, that it was thought
that they were preparing to surrender at dis
cretion.
They were spared this humiliation, howev
er, by the arrival of Lord Percy with a brig
ade of 1000 men and two field pieces, who
joined them about a mile from Lexington
meeting house, on the Cambridge road. The
reinforcement put a stop for a time to the fir
ing on both sides. Yet, no sooner did the
King’s troops begin their retreating march,
than our men renewed, with additional intre
pidity, their attacks. The skirmishing con
tinued without intermission ti’l the close of
the day, when our patriots had pursued them
into Charlestown.
On their retreat through Lexington, the
British killed Jedediah Munro, who was
wounded in the morning; John Raymonds,
and Nathaniel Wyman, and wounded Fran
cis Brown, all of Lexington. The humbled
British troops took their revenge for the mor
tification of being beaten, by committing all
manner of outrage during the retreat. In
Lexington, they reduced three dwelling hou
ses, two shops, and one barn, to ashes.
These were the house and barn ot Deacon
Loring ; the house of Mrs. Lydia Mulliken,
her son’s shop, and the house and shop of Mr.
Joshua Bond.
Thus ended the celebrated battle of Lex
ington—an action which led to consequences
of the deepest interest and impportance to
the freedom and happiness of the civilized
world.
From Lexington, the British, after their
work of death, pushed on (as is well known)
to Concord, where another bloody strife en
sued. The intelligence of their approach had
been communicated to the citizens ot the
town by Dr. Lemuel Prescott, who, on his
way from Lexington, was seized by a com
pany of British officers, but who, although
the reins of his horse had been cut in the
struggle with them, succeeded, hy leaping a
stone wall, in making his escape and reach
ing Concord.* The interval was employed in
removing a* portion ot the public stores to
the neighboring towns, while the aged and
infirm —the women and children, sought ref
uge in the surrounding woods.
“in an oration delivered at Concord, April
10, 1825, Hon. Edward Everett thus de
scribes the strife at Concord, the retreat of
the British, and the gallant bearing of the
Americans who engaged in the pursuit. Air.
Everett says:
“About seven o’clock in the morning, the
glittering arms of the British column were
seen advancing on the Lincoln road. A body
of militia, from one hundred and fifty to two
hundred men, who had taken post for obser
vation on the heights above the entrance to
the town, retire at the approach ot the army
of the enemy, first to the hill a little farther
north, and then beyond the bridge. The
British troops press forward into the town,
and are drawn up in front ot the court-house.
Parties are then ordered out to the various
spots where the public stores and arms were
supposed to be deposited. Much had been
removed to places of safety, and something
was saved by the prompt and innocent artifi
ces of individuals. The destruction ol prop
erty and of arms was hasty and incomplete,
and considered as the object ot an enterprise
of such fatal consequences, it stands in shock
ing contrast with the waste of blood by which
it was efi’eeted.
It was the first care of the British com
mander to cut off the approach of the Amer
icans from the neighboring towns, by de
stroying or occupying the bridges. A party
was immediately sent to the south bridge and
tore it up. A foree of six companies, under
Captains Parsons and Lowrie. was sent to
the north bridge. Three companies under
i Captain Lowrie were left to guard it, and
three under Captain Parsons proceeded to
Col. Barrett’s house, in search of provincial
stores. While they were engaged on that er
rand, the militia of Concord, joiued by their
brave brethren from the neighboring towns,
; gathered on the hill opposite the north bridge,
under the command of Colonel Robinson and
Major Buttrick. The British companies at
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 16, 1850.
the bridge were now apparently bewildered j
with the perils of their situation, and began j
to tear up the planks of the bridge; not re- |
membering that this would expose their own
party, then at Col. Barrett’s, to certain and
entire destruction. The Americans, on the
other hand, resolved to keep open the com
munication with the town, and perceiving the
attempt which was made to destroy the !
bridge, were immediately put in motion, with
orders not to give the first fire. They drew
near to the bridge, the Acton company in
front, led on by the gallant Davis. Three
alarm guns were fired into the water, bv the
British, without arresting the march of our
citizens. The signal for a general discharge
is then made; a British soldier steps from the
ranks, and fires at Major Buttrick. The ball
passed between his arm and his side, and
slightly wounded Mr Luther Blanchard, who j
stood near him. A volley instantly followed, j
and Captain Davis was shot through the
heart, gallantly marching at the head of the
Acton militia against the choice troops of the
British line. A private of his company, Mr.
Hosmer, of Acton, also fell at his side. A
genera 1 action now ensued, which termina
ted in the retreat of the British party, after
the loss of several killed and wounded, to
ward the centre of the town, followed by the
brave band who had driven them from their
post The advance party of British at Col.
Barrett’s was thus left to its fate; and noth
ing would have been more easy than to effect
its entire destruction. But the idea of a de
clared war had yet scarcely forced itself, with
all its consequences, into the minds of our
countrymen ; and these advanced companies
were allowed to return unmolested to the
main band.
It was now twelve hours since tho first
alarm had been given the evening before, of
the meditated expedition. The swift watch
es of that eventful night had scattered the ti
dings far and wide; and w ildly as they
spread, the people rose in their strength.
The genius of America, on this the morning
of her emancipation, had sounded her horn
over the plains and upon the mountains; and
the indignant yeomanry of the land, armed j
with the weapons which had done service in
their fathers’ hands, poured to the spot where
this new and strange tragedy was acting.
The old New England drums, that had beat
at Louisburgh, at Quebec, at Martinique, at
the Havana, were now sounding on all the
roads to Concord. There were officers in
the British line, that knew the sound; they
had heard it, in the deadly breach, beneath
the black, deep-throated engines of the
French and Spanish castles, and they knew
what followed, where that sound went before.
With the British it was a question no longer
of protracted contest, nor even of halting long
enough to rest their exhausted troops, after a
weary night’s march, and all the labor, con
fusion, and distress of the day’s efforts.
Their dead were hastily buried in the public
square; their wounded placed in the vehicles
which the town afforded ; and a flight com
menced to which the annals of warfare will
hardly afford a parallel. On all the neighbor
ing hills were multitudes from the surround
ing country, of the unarmed and infirm, of
women and children, who had fled from the
terrors and the perils of the plunder and con
flagration of their homes; or were collected,
with fearful curiosity, to mark the progress
of this storm of war. The panic fears of a
calamitous flight on the part of the British,
transformed this inoffensive, timid throng into
a threatening array of armed men ; and there
was too much reason for the misconception.
Every height of ground, within reach of the
line of march, was covered with the indig
nant avengers of their slaughtered brethren.
The British light companies were sent out to
great distances as flanking parties ; but who
was to flank the flankers t Every patch of
trees, every rock, every stream of water, eve
ry building, every stone wall was lined, (I
use the words of a British officer in the bat
tle.) with an unintermitted fire. Every cross
road opened anew avenue to the assailants.
Through one of these the gallant Brooks led
up the minute men of Reading. At another
defile, they were encountered by the Lexing
ton militia, under Captain Parker, who, un
dismayed at the loss of more than a tenth
their number in killed and wounded in the
morning, had returned to the conflict. At
first the contest was kept up by the British,
with all the skill and valor'of veteran troops.
To a military eye it was not an unequal con
test. The commander was not, or ought not
to have been taken by surprise. Eight, hun
dred picked men, grenadiers and light infan
try, from the English army, were no doubt
considered by General Gage a very ample
detachment to march eighteen or twenty
miles through an open country ; and a very
fair match for all the resistance which could
be made by unprepared husbandmen, with
out concert, discipline or leaders. With
about ten times their number, the Grecian
commander had forced a march out of the
wrecks of a field of battle and defeat, through
the barbarous nations of Asia, for thirteen
long months, from the plains of Babylon to
the Black Sea, through forests, defiles, and
deserts, which the foot of civilized man had
never trod. It was the American cause—its
holy foundation in truth and right, its strength
and life in the hearts of the people, that con
verted what would naturally have been the
undisturbed march of a strong, well provided
army, into a rabble rout of terror and death.
It was this, which sowed the fields of our pa
cific villages with dragon’s teeth; which
nerved the arm of age; called the ministers
and servants of the church into the hot fire;
and even filled with strange passion and man
ly strength the arm of the stripling. A Brit
ish historian, to paint the terrific aspect of
things that presented itself to his country
men, declares that the rebels swarmed upon
the hills, as if they dropped from the clouds.
Before the flying troops had reached Lexing
! ton, their rout was entire. Some of the offi
! cers had been made prisoners, some had been
killed, and several wounded, and among
them the commander-in-chief, Col. Smith.
| The ordinary means of preserving discipline
! failed; the wounded, in chaises and wagons,
pressed to the front and obstructed the road ;
wherever the flanking parties, from the na
ture of the ground, were forced to come in,
the line of march was crowded and broken,
j the ammunition began to fail; and at length
the entire body was on a full run. ‘We at
tempted,’ says a British officer already quo
ted, ‘to stop the men and form them two
deep, but to no purpose; the confusion rath
; er increased than lessened.’
An English historian says, the British sol
-1 diers were driven before the Americans like
sheep ; till, by a last desperate effort, the offi
cers succeeded in forcing their way to the
front, ‘when they presented their swords and
bayonets against the breasts of their own
men, and told them, if they advanced they
should die.’ Upon this they began to form,
under what the same British officer pronoun
ces ‘a very heavy fire,’ which must soon have
led to the destruction or capture of the whole
corps. At this critical moment a reinforce
ment arrived. Col. Smith had sent back a
messenger from Lexington to apprize Gener
al Gage of the check he had there received,
and of the alarm which was running through
the country. Three regiments of infantry
and two divisions of marines with two field
pieces, under the command of Brigadier
General Lord Percy, were accordingly de
tached. They marched out of Boston,
through Roxbury and Cambridge, and came
up with the flying party, in the hour of their
extreme peril. While their field pieces kept
the Americans at bay, the reinforcement
drew up in a hollow square, into which, says
the British historian, they received the ex
hausted fugitives, ‘who lay down on the
ground, with their tongues hanging from their
mouths, like dogs after a chase.’
A half hour was given to rest; the march
was then resumed; and under cover of the
field pieces, every house in Lexington, and
on the road downwards, was plundered and
and set on fire. Though the flames in most
cases were speedily extinguished, several
houses were destroyed. Notwithstanding
the attention of a great part of the Ameri
cans was thus drawn off, and although the
British force was now more than ‘doubled;
their retreat still wore the aspect of a flighli
The Americans filled the heights that over
hung the road, and at every defile the strug
gle was sharp and bloody. At West Cam
bridge, the gallant Warren, never distant
when danger was to he braved, appeared in
the field, and a musket ball soon cut oil’ a lock
of hair from his temple. General Heath
was with him, nor does there appear till this
moment, to have been any effective command
among the American forces.
Below West Cambridge, the militia from
Dorchester, Roxbury, and Brookline came
up. The British field-pieces began to lose
their terror. A sharp skirmish followed, and
many fell on both sides. Indignation and
outraged humanity struggled on the one hand,
veteran discipline and desperation on the oth
er ; and the contest in more than one instance,
was man to man, and bayonet to bayonet.
‘Fhe British officers had been compelled to
descend from their horses to escape the cer
tain destruction, which attended their expos
ed situation. The wounded, to the number
of two hundred, now presented the most dis
tressing and constantly increasing obstruc
tion to the progress of the march. Near one
hundred brave men had fallen in this disas
trous flight; a considerable number had been
made prisoners, a round or two of ammuni
tion only remained; and it was not till late
in the evening, nearly twenty-four hours from
the time when the first detachment was put
in motion, that the exhausted remnant reach
ed the heights of Charlestown. The boats
of the vessels of war were immediately em
ployed to transport the wounded; the re
maining British troops in Boston came over
to Charlestown to protect their weary coun
trymen during the night; and before the
close of the next day the royal army was for
mally besieged in Boston.”
THE PHILADELPHIA DUN.
One day, no matter when, a stranger was
seen riding slowly through the streets of a
flourishing town in Tennessee. He was a
well dressed, good lookingyoungman, mount
ed upon what in this country would he called
“the best kind of a nag.” His appearance,
altogether, was respectable enough; it was
even, as respects exteriors, a touch above what
is common ; and he would have passed along
unnoticed, had it not been for one thing, which
excited universal attention. Although the
streets were crowded with people, and the
fronts of the stores adorned with fine goods
and such fancy articles as usually attract the
eye—the stranger’s gaze was fixed on vacan
cy ; he turned his head neither to the right
nor to the left; he moved not lip nor eye-lid,
but rode forward, as ifapparently unconscious,
as well of his own existence, as of the pres
ence of his fellow creatures.
It was court week, and an unusual con
course of people was collected. Here was
the judge, with a long train of lawyers. The
candidates for office were here distributing
smiles and kindness, and practicing all those
popular arts, which are so well understood in
every republican country. Here was the thr
iller, clad in his neatest homespun, and mount
ed on his best horse. Here was the hunter with
his rifle. Here, in short, were the people;
collected, some for pleasure, and some for
business, exhibiting that excitement of feeling
which crowds always produce, with a good
humor which is only found in countries where
all are free and equal. The public square
exhibited a scene which would have been
amusing to one unaccustomed to such displays
of character. At one spot were two neigh
bors driving a bargain. Unlike the people of
other countries, who transact such business
in private, they were surrounded by a host of
people, who, occasionally threw in their com
ments. A stranger, judging from the sly
jokes, the loud bantering, and the vociferous
laughter which passed round the circle, would
not have supposed that any serious business
was in hand; a resident only, would infer, that
before this little circle parte, a horse would
be swapped, a crop of tobacco sold, or a tract
of land conveyed. Not far oft’ was a set of
politicians, settling the affairs of the nation.
But the most amusing individuals were some
two or three who were cavorting. Now, if
any lady or gentleman is so ignorant of the
American language as not to know what ca
vorting is, and if Webster’s celebrated quarto
does not furnish the definition, it is necessary
that we explain, that it expresses the conduct
of an individual who fancies himself the smar
test and best man in the world. On the pres
ent occasion a fellow might be seen, dressed
in a hunting shirt with a rifle on his shoulder,
mounted, half tipsy, upon a spirited horse,
and dashing through the crowd. Now he
would force his spurs into his horse’s sides,
and put him at full speed, or reign him up un
til he reared on his hinder feet; and now he
would command him to stop, and the obedi
ent animal would stand and tremble. All the
time he was ranting and roaring in praise of
himself, his horse, and the United States of
America. He boasted that he was bom in
the woods; that he could tote a steamboat
and outrun a streak of lightning; that his wife
was as handsome as a pet fawn, and his chil
dren real roarers. He bestowed similar en
comiums on his horse ; and finally avowed
himself to be a friend to the United Suites of
America —and then he commenced again and
went over the same round, nourishing his ritle
all the time, and exerting his lungs to the ut
most. Although he often declared that he
could whip any man in the world, except
Col. C. that he JU under at New Orleans, no
body accepted the challenge, or took offence;
the whole being considered as a matter of
course, and as thiMiatural effect of stimulat
ing potations upon an illiterate man of ardent
temperament, who, when duly sober, was an
honest, quiet and inoffensive citizen.
While the people were amused at the va
garies of this wild hunter, or engaged in con
versation, the sun had gone down, and it was
nearly dusk when the moving automation, de
scribed in the commencement of this story,
rode solemnly into town. It is customary in
this country for persons who meet, although
unacquainted, to salute each other, and this
courtesy is especially practiced towards stran
gers ; and although the new comer on this
occasion, would not have been expected to
address each individual in a crowded street,
yet, when those who were nearest nodded or
spoke as they civilly opened the way, they
were surprised to see the horseman’s gaze
fixed on vacancy, and his body remaining as
erect as if tied to a stake.
.‘‘Tliat man’s asleep,” sai l one.
“He’s as blind as a bat,” said another.
he’s sort o’doad,” exclaimed a
* “He rides an elegant nag,” remarked a
fourth; and all were surprised that a man,
who was apparently so good a judge of a
horse, had not wit enough to see where he
was going, or to know who were around
him.
In the mean while our traveler moved proud
ly on, until he reached the best inn; a fine
brick building, presenting every indication of
neatness, comfort, and even luxury. As he
rode up, two well-fed, athletic negroes, with
visages like polished ebony, and teeth as white
as snow, rushed forth, and while one seized
his bridle the other held his stirrup as he dis
mounted. Still the automaton relaxed not a
muscle; but drawing up his body, moved ma
jestically towards the house. At the door he
was met by the landlord, a portly, well dress
ed man, with a fine open countenance, who
had been honored by his fellow citizens with
several civil appointments, and had even com
manded some of them in the field, in times of
peril. He touched his hat as he welcomed
the stranger, and invited him into his house
with an air of dignity and hospitality. A ser
vant took his surtout, and several gentlemen
who were seated round the fire, pushed back
their chairs to make room for the stranger.
But all these things moved not the automaton;
the glazed eye and compressed lip were still
fixed, and the chin remained in the cushion of
an immense cravat After a momentary
pause the gentlemen in the room resumed
their conversation, the landlord applied him
self to the business of his house, and the si
lent traveler was consigned to the oblivion
which he seemed to covet; and excited no
more attention except from an honest back
woodsman, who strolled in to take a peep,
and after gazing at him fora quarter of an
hour, suddenly clapped his hands, and exclaim
ed, “it moves, Bill! if it an’t alive, I’ll agree
to go afoot as long as I live.”
By this time candles were lighted, and the
silent gentleman seemed to grow weary of
silence. He now rose and strutted across
the apartment, with a very important stride.
He was a young man of about two and twen
ty ; of ordinary height, and less than ordinary
thickness. Ilis person seemed to he com
pressed with corsets, and his head was sup
ported by the cars upon a semicircle of stiff
ened linen, which occupied the place of shirt
collar; and all his habiliments announced
him to the eyes of the curious, as a genuine
specimen of that genus, the dandy.
After taking several turns through the
apartment, he drew forth his gold repeater, and
opening his mouth for the first time, exclaim
ed in a peremptory tone, “landlord ! 1 want
supper!”
“You shall have it, sir,” said the landlord,
with a bow, and winking at the same time at
the other guests, “we had supped when you
arrived, but will not detain vou many min
utes.”
In a short time, supper was announced, and
the stranger was shown into a back room,
handsomely furnished, where a neat, elderly
matron presided at the head of a table spread
with tea, coffee, bread, cakes, beef, pork, ba
con, venison, fowls and all that profusion of
eatables with which western ladies delight to
entertain their guests. Near her sat a young
lady, modestly attired, in the bloom of youth
and beauty, whose easy manners and engag
ing appearance, might have warmed any heart
not callous to the charms of native elegance.
Now indeed, our dandy opened both month
and eyes to some purpose. Scarcely deign
ing to return the salutation of his hostess, he
commenced the work of havoc—fish, flesh,
and fowl vanished from before him; his eyes
roved from dish to dish, and then wandered
ofl’ to the young lady; now lie gazed at a
broiled chicken, and at the fair niece of the
landlord—but which he liked best, I am una
ble to say; the chicken seemed to go off very
well, but on the subject of the damsel, he nev
er opened his mouth.
Returning again to the sitting apartment,
he found the same set of gentlemen whom he
had left there, still engaged in conversation.
They were the judge, the lawyers, and other
intelligent men of the country, who were not
a little amused'at the airsofonrdandy. Again
they opened their circle to receive him, but
his eyes, his mouth, and his heart, if he had
one, were closed against everything but the
contemplation ofhis own important self. Af
ter drawing his boots, picking his teeth, and
puffing a cigar, he again opened his mouth,
with, “Landlord! I want to go to bed!”
“Whenever you please, sir.”
“I w’ant a room to myself, sir!”
“I do not know how that will be,” replied
the landlord, “my house is full, and.l shall be
compelled to put you in the room ith some
of these gentlemen.”
“I can’t go it sir!” replied the dandy strut
ting up and down: “never slept in the room
with any body in nay life, sir! and never will,
must have a room sir!”
The landlord laughed outright at the airs
of the coxcomb, and then §aid, very good hu
moredly, “well, I’ll go and talk with my wife,
and see *vhat we can do.”
“My dear,” said the landlord as he entered
the supper-room, “here’s a man who says h 1 *
must hatfc a room to himself.”
“What, that greedy little man in corsets ?■’*
“The same.”
“Sethim up with a room,” exclaimed tho
landlady.
“He is a trifling felsn\v,” said the landlord,
“but rs wo can accommodate the pool - little
man, we had better do’sov’
The lady professed her readiness to dis
charge the rites cf hospitality, but declared
that there was not a vacant apartment in tho
house.
“Give him my room, aunt,” said the pretty
niece, “1 will sleep with the children, or
any where you please.” The young lady
was a visitor, and a great favorite, and the ei
der lady was altogether opposed to putting
her to any discomfort, particularly on ac
count of such a rude man. But the niece
carried the point, and arrangements were made
accordingly.
In a lew minutes, the silent man was conduc
t'd by the landlord to a very handsomely
furnished apartment in the back part of tho
house. Uvery thing here was of the best and
neatest kind. A suit of curtains hung around
the bed, the counterpane was white as snow,
and the bed-linen was fresh and fragrant.
The dandy walked around the room, examin
ing every thing with the air of a man who
fancied his life in danger from some contagi
ous disease, or venomous reptile. He then
threw open the bed clothes, and after inspect
ing them exclaimed, “I can’t sleep in that
bed!”
“Why not, sir?” inquired the - astonished
landlord.
“It’s not clean! I can’t sleep in it!” re
peated the dandy,-strutting up and down with
the most amusing air of self importance, “I
wouldn’t sleep in that bed for a thousand dol
lars!”
! “Take esre what you say,” said tho land
| lord; “you are not aware that I keep the best
| house in the country, and that my wife is
j famed for the cleanliness of her house and
I beds!”
i “Can’t help it,” replied the dandy, very de
! liberately surveying himself in a mirror, “very
sorry, sir,—awkward business to be sure —
but to be plain with yow, l won’t steep in a
dirty bed to please any man.”
“You wont, wont you ?”
“No sir, I will not!”
“Then I shall make you !” said the land
lord, and seizing the astonished dandy by tho
back of the neck, he led him to the bed, and
foreed his face down upon it—“look at it,”
continued the enraged Tennessean, examine
it—smell it—do you call that bed dirty, you
puppy ?” Then going to the door, he called
to a servant to bring a horsewhip; and in
formed the terrified dandy, that unless lie un
dressed and went to bed instantly, he should
order his negro to horsewhip him. In vain
the mortified* youngster promised to do all
that was required of him; the landlord would
trust nothing to his word, but remained until
his guest was disrobed, corsets and all, and
snugly nestled under the snow-white coun
terpane.
It was nearly breakfast time when the crest
fallen stranger made his appearance in the
morning. To his surprise, his steed, who had
evidently fared as well as himself, stood ready
saddled at the door. “Pray, sir,” said he to
his host, in a very humble tone, and in a man
ner which showed him at a loss how to begin
a conversation, “pray, sir, at what hour do
you breakfast ?”
“We breakfast at eight,” was the reply.—
“but the question is one in which you can
have little interest: for you must seek a meal
elsewhere.”
“Surely, m3’ dear sir, you would not treat
a gentleman with such indignity'—”
“March!” said the landlord.
“My bill ”
“You owe me nothing; I should think my
self degraded by receiving your inqpey.”
In another moment, the self important mor
tal, who had the evening before ridden through
the town with such a consciousness of his
own dignity, was galloping away, degraded
vexed and humbled.
As he passed along, the same backwoods
man, who had gone to ascertain the fact bf
his vitality, on his first arrival, met him, and
putting off his hat, said, very civilly', “stran
ger, your girth is under your horse!” The
dandy reigned up his steed, jumped off, and
found that his girth was indeed under his
horse—where it ought to be.
“Do you mean to insult me?” exclaimed ho
turning fiercely upon the backwoodsman;
but the latter, instead of replying, coolly re
marked to his companions, “if it ain’t alivo
; I’ll agree to he shot,” and walked on.
“Who is that young man?” inquired the
judge of the circuit court, as the stranger rode
ofi’.
“He is a Philadelphia Dun,” replied tho
ilandlord.
“I am no wiser than before,” said his hon
or.
“Have you lived in this country so long,
and not know this race of men? They are
j collectors, sent out by eastern merchants to
1 collect their debts. Although they coinc from
different cities, they all go under the general
j denomination; some of them are fine young
men ; but too many are like yonder chap.
“But how do y'ou know this to be one
| of them?
“Oh, bless you, I know them well. I read
| the history of that youth in his motions, be
fore he was in my house five minutes. One
! year ago he could bow and smilelike a French
dancing master, skip overa counter, and plav
|as many tricks as a pet monkey. He is just
i out of his apprenticeship, promoted to the
! dignity of a dun, and mounted on a fine horse
| and j'ou know the old proverb, ‘set a beg
| gar on horseback— * ”
| “I understand the whole matter,” replied
S the judge, and very gravely walked into tho
! house, while the other members of the bar
were roaring with laughter at this adventure
of the Philadelphia Dun.
Didn’t want to Quarrel. —There is a
noted mail contractor in Romney-, N. H.,
who can tell as big a story as most of ’em,
and who possesses one of the best natured,
most accommodating dispositions in the
world.
‘I was passing through New Jersey,’ said
he, ‘a few 3-ears since, and there came by us,
in the air a flight of crows, nine miles long ,
and so thick was the flock you couldn’t see
the sun for ’em !’
The contractor told this in a tavern, where
several persons were standing about, one of
whom—a coarse limbed, heavy- featured son
of the Granite State—ventured to querry the
correctness of the assertion. •
‘Hoic long did you say, nabor ?’
‘Nine miles, sir.’
‘Don’t b’lieve it,’ was the reply.
‘M al, look ere—you,’ said the contractor—
‘your a stranger, and I don’t want ter quar
rel with yer. So, to please you —l’ll take off
a quarter of a mile from the thinest part!’
The stranger was perfectly satisfied.
Died. —On the 3d instant, Mr. W. P. Hale’s
left whisker, to a deep black. It has left be
hind it a red whisker, inconsolable for its
loss.
NO. 20.