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1. presents to the Public more dura on which
they can safely base their calculations relative
to the respective merits of the depleting system
of the disciples of Esculapius, and of that invig
orating and phlogestic one of which he is proud
to bo the advocate.
Leaving the stilts of egotism and shnf sos rid
icule f r tlie use of those who have nothing hel
ler to stand ott, and ttt> »ttrrr capons f-Tattnrt;
•or defence, he selects his standing on truth, and
uses such support only as merit gives him ; and
for weapons, he chooses simply to assail the
ranks of the enemy occasionally with “a little
more grape,” in the form of facts,which are evi
dently the hardest kind of arguments since they
often administer to his quiet amusement by the
terrible destruction they cause among the stilts
and the ludicrous effect they produce in causing
certain individuals to laugh, as it is expressed in
homely phrase, “on t’other side the mouth.”
'rite Mexicans arc not the only people, these
days, whom vanity has blinded to their own de
fects ; neither can they claim much superiority
in the way of fancied eminence and blustering
bravado over many that live a great deal nearer
home. A salutary lesson has latterly been giv
en the former by the Americans, and the latter
may ere long take “ another of the same"’ a In
mode dt Tin,lor.
After the following there will still he “a few
more left.”
Georgia, lones County, 1848.
This certifies that for more than four or five
years my wife was a filleted with a disease pecu
liar to her sex, and notwithstanding all that we
could do, she still continued to get worse. The
Pnvsiciaus in attendance had e Jiausted their
•skill without rendering her anv assistance till,
in 18-14, when she was confined to her bed in a
very low condition, ( got her last attendant to go
with me to Macon and lay her case before Dr.
M. S. Thomson, who, without having seen her,
prescribed and sent her medicine that soon re
lieved her, and in the course of a short time re
stored her to permanent health She luis now
been well about four years and rejoices in the
recovery of her long lost health
FRANCIS 15. IIASCAL.
Macon. June 22d, 1848.
Dk. M. S. Thomson Dear Sir: —D< -'emmg it
a duty I owe to yourself as well as to the afflicted
generally, 1 have conc'uded to give you a short
statement of my case, which you are tit liberty to
-publish if you think that the best mode of thereby
subserving the interests of suffering humanity
In May 1841, after considerable exposure to
■cold, I was attacked with Asthma, which pros
trated mo very much, and notwithstanding all
that could ho done to prevent it, it continued to
return about every two weeks till in l»4(i, I ap
plied to you. Between those attacks I had a vcr\
severe cough, which led some, of the physicians
to whom I applied to believe that I had consump
tion. 1 applied to physicians of both the Min
eral and Botanic schools, of eminent g< neral
•q >alideations, but nil to no benefit, for 1 contin
ued to get worse,so much so that I had reduced
f om being a strong, fleshy man, down to a mere
skeleton and could hardly creep about.—When
I applied to you, I had hut little faith in being
cured, though 1 had witnessed some wonderful
results following your treatment, espeeiallv the
cure of that crazy woman you bought of Aquil
bt Phelps, in Jasper, yet they gave nrie confi
dence and by persevering in the use of your
remedies,and as it were hoping against hope,
am niuclt gratified in being able to announce
that I have got entirely well, for I have had but
cue light attack in twenty months, and that was
eight months ago. I have now regained about
lay former weight, and feel as strong as almost
any man ofafly-one, which is my age. Without
isparagement to the cltaraoterofthe otherctires
tat have so frequently resulted from your prac
ice, I do not think that any of them can beat
ns, for confirmed Jisthma combined with a
cough, especially where the flesh
has long been classed among the in
n-itbles. Most respectfully,yours,
11. LIGHT FOOT.
"adorsignnd still continues to treat Cliro
the , tSes t r,,m a distance at his office,or either of
p. ''Y boarding houses, and i,t a distance
W l 'Y" lc "»aii or hv private hand. Those
atfi M j ,t .. r<,, l' , i r c person il attention, are treated
„ s | ,llais per month, those who do, at the
p a ‘ '"'.derate rates. Those who are able to
"Ur n!t ! ,o, 't t° do so, without variation from
those' r 'i' S ’ " nl,! ' is 11 bargain is made,
in are not, will he treated gratuitously
ers must be pust-paiil, and odd
n M. 8. THOMSON, M. I)
Macon, Ga.
THE SOUTHERN MUSEUM.
VOLUME I.
sor 1 r g \
From the Saturday Etenmg Post.
Tlie Widowed Home.
by henry morford.
The old church bell bad ceased to toll,
And the holy words of prayer
For the long repose of the parted soul
Were dying on the air ;
The coffin lid was moved aside
And friends with sottened tread,
Who bad known the sleeper in bis pride
Dressed up to see -him deqj. v
Most culm, most beautiful lie lay
In bis narrow dwelling now,
But the first faint traces of decay
Already spanned bis brow ;
And ns we looked fell many a tear,
And many a red lip paled
To see the eyes, once bright and clear,
In death’s cold shadow veiled.
But with pitying awe the crowd fell hack,
And colder grew the blood,
As the weeping wife in her weeds of black
Beside the c.dfin stood ;
And in our hearts this many a year
Shall sound her saddening moan,
“How can I lesvo thee buried hero
And go back to live alone !”
Tl icy shut the coffin o’er bis clay—
I heard, I saw them not,
For my heart on the word was borne away
To a fur and desolate spot ;
Is ood in the house whence the spirit gone
Had past beyond tlie tomb,
I saw the weary days roll on
Afar in the Widowed Home.
I saw her in her daily toil,
Forgetting this adieu.
Turn round to meet him with a smile
And burst in tears anew ;
I saw Iter veil his picture round
Where his image still was warm,
I saw her take the garments down
That mocked Iter with bis form.
I saw her on her couch of sleep,
That ever lonlicst seems,
Forget her sorrow long and deep
And clasp bis form in dreams ;
1 beard her, at the morning hour,
Her sense o’ertasked and dim
Pray God for death's oblivious power
To join her again to him.
An hour bad past, and sadly tolled
Again the old church hell,
And I heard the sound of the crumbling
mould
That on the coffin fell, >
15ut gadder far upon the ear
, Came again the widow’s moan, —
“How can I leave thee buried here,
And live my life alone !”
For all of life 'tis a hitter thing
To speak of parting breath,
And touched wi It a sad and solemn wing
Is every thing of death ;
Dot saddest of all is the empty place
In the weary years to come :
Great God ! who watchest the human race,
Save us from n Widowed Home !
ICislcy ia a Balloon.
We find tit the London Sunday Times
of the sth ult., says the Model Courier,
our countryman, Professor liisley’s own
account oFhis ascent with Mr. Green in
the great Nassau Balloon. The Profes
sor is very graphic in his description, and
although somewhat peculiar and Ameri
can in his expressions, will be found most
amusing :
Until Wednesday last I never went up
in a balloon. I have been sky-high on
the top of the Catskili Mountains, and
have lunched in the snows of Chimborazo;
but I never before made a gas-ascent into
a/r-shire. We on the other side of (he
Atlantic have so much to do with sublu
naiy affairs that we have no time for cas
tle-building in the clouds. The milky
way yields no butter ; the moon don’t
furnish us with cheese ; the dog star don’t
fol’ow game ; Charles’ wain tills no
ground ; Venus is not half so bright as the
dazzling eyes of Kentucky ; the shooting
stars never bring down anything worth
having ; the comets are not come-at-able ;
the silvery lustre of Luna is all moonshine,
the golden rays of Sol aint worth a clod of
California earth ; the fleecy clouds pro
duce no hosiery ; ‘‘the blanket of the night”
is not a marketable commodity—don’t
keep one warm ; while sheets of light
ning are too hot for any climate. A rail
way from one planet to another w; uld l*e
in practicable, seeing that they are al
ways on the move themselves ; and. in
short, the s arry hosts : esemble some hosts
in our own planet—nothing is to be got
out < f ’em.
Yet 1 have always nourished a desire
to go “a-ballooning.” “Mount 1 must,”
has ever been my motto. 1 have braved
MACON, (GA.) SATURDAY MORItIUG, SEPTEMBER 2J, I*l9.
the dangers of earth and water, having es
caped the earthquake of Guadalupe, and
stemmed in safety the rapids of the Mis
sissippi ; but I have never gone ahead
skyward. I have travelled by means of
fire and steam, but t’other element is an
unexplored region. “I am not Green, yet
go in a balloon T must, if l make my way
into the car at the tail of a sky-rocket.”
Such have often been my reflections. It
true that the fate of Icarus, has often
recurred to memory during their indul
gence ; but then I remembered that Dae
da’us managed his flight withot tm ulting
a feather, and why not I ? H, vitig once
i “screwed my courage tothe sticking-place”
I began to revolve in my mind the proba
ble advantages. Might 1 not learn to nav
igate the air, and prove the Columbus of
the skies ? What was to prevent me from
hereafter attaching a few dozen Nassaus
tothe Isle of Wight, and carrying Cowes
itself to Taunts, the hull 1 Anew name
would of course be necessary, and bor
rowing Gulliver, Laputa would an-wer
thepurpise. Then the results! Com
mercial relations might he established
throughout the zodiac ! At Ariis the sol.
diery of the world might furnish a depot
for rum -rods ; the Bui might be turned
into on office of record fir all the blunders
o' mankind ; in Gemini might be reared a
few monstrosities, in tlie shape of Siam
ese twins, for exhibition at the American
Hall; to Leo we might send the intended
lions of he day for education ; in Virgo it
might be advisable to rear a few virgin ab
igails, to supersede the “horrid creatures”
who now hold place in our domestic es
tablishments ; in Libra young lawyers
might learn how to hold the balance of
justice, and the butchers of oar markets
to adjust their scales ; in <S, orpi > I hoped
to effect little, save by converting it into a
vast receptacle for the scorpions of society;
in Sagitarius I proposed in my own mind
to erect, an asylum for the reception of
those archers who are fond of drawing the
long how ; in Capricornus I thought of
founding an academy for teaching swim
ming in all its branches ; in Aquarius 1
resolved to construct a reservoir for the
supply of pure water to persons residing
on the banks of the '1 hames; and in Pise s
l lelt I should confer a boon upon society
by permitting all anglers to exercise “the
gentle art,” unimpeded by those legal en
actments which prove scourges tothe rods
•<f the earth.
Thoughts more serious now entered my
mind ; 1 began to calculate the probability
of establishing a system of aerial naviga
ti n, and of man sharing the territory of
the eagle, as he has long since the domin
ions of the whale. “We swim,” thought
I, “and we have taken the conceit out of
the Salamander. Why not fly ? Shall
we he outdone by a schoolboy’s khe ?
Forbid it human progress ! As fur dan
ger!—with the veteran Green there is
none. He is as old as Widdicombe, and
as proof against the darts of death. Now
that punishment by aid of the tight rope
is being abolished, there is no telling
what death he can die. Water don’t
drown him ; air don’t suffocate him ; so
mersets from the clouds don’t break his
neck ; gas don’t burn him up ; and so cap
ital is his constitution, that capital pun
ishment only can shorten his life. That’s
the man toffy with. He’s as good as an
insurance office.”
Thus med'tating, I hastened to the ad
miral of the air, and soon struck my bar
gain for a flight. There were a couple of
cars attached to the balloon ; eight passen
gers, occupying the first, and two the low
er one. Amidst my companions was my
protege, the young Hernandez, and a cou
ple of ladies. No sooner had I vaulted
into the car than 1 felt as if already in some
new element, and unable to keep my po
si ion, I squatted, like a sailor on a cross
tree, upon the hoop that unites the lash
ings of the car, and in that elevated posi
tion had an opportunity of telegraphing
tokens of good will with all my friends.—
I can only liken my feelings at the mo
ment to those I used to experience in my
hobbledehoyish days, when I left the uni
versity at vacation for home, and I have a
smut i lculaii n that the machine mu*t
have been infl<v. •! f r the occasion wills
oxygen that had effervesced ft am a tun of j
champagne. Af dr com pug non. de voyage
asked me what l would take f< r supper in
tny elevated lodging, and 1 answered, "a
broiled squab and a brandy smash !”
“Boom !” wen the signal gun fir s art
ing as 1 spoke, and the stays were cast
off. 1 leaped to my feet upon tny perch j
and saw every hat in the gardens waviug
Off went my own beaver, and I ascended
with the lightest heart 1 ever felt in my
life. Mr. Ferrars, the worshipful secre
tary of the gardens, was asmuchexcied
as myself, and leaped to the opposite side
of the hoop. His enthusiasm kept pace
w th my own, and each of us rigged out
roarers as if we were abaut to join a jubi
lee of the gods.
W e wenl ahead as if impa ient to singe
our pates against the sun, or as if old mo
ther Ear.h was playing at foot-hall, and
wished to try her strength on the Nassau
b&lfcgn. Up we went, walking into the
upper regions like an opossum up a gum
!*£e, while the. dice sos our friends, and
the clash of the hand benea h, produced
a volume of sounds not unlike the thun
ders of Niagara. Talk of sensations ! I
felt as if my soul had sloped sick away
from its clay, and was going a holiday ma
king with my heart in its hand.
A young gentleman in the car thought
it as nice as a swing at a country fair.
“.More like a jaunt to Paradise,” said
one of ibe ladie a
cry likely,” quoth the gentleman,
“fqi we are hovering over one of its riv
ers.”
“How can that he I” said I. “Yonder
stream is the Thames.”
“Very well,” said my young friend;
“and aint that identical with the river
*Pisan V"
I should have gone down speechless hut
for a glass of the immortal sherry of my
friend Green. It was a drop out of the
same bottle he broached for the ladies on
his last ascent after tilting their protectors
on the parapet of a house that hadn’t the
manners to step aside when it found itself
in the way of the balloon.
We now began to clear the gardens
flying above the birds, who piped a fare
well, like so many Jenny Linds. It wa;
Up—uji —soar —soar—till the pleasure
grounds we had quitted appeared like the
garden plot in front of a Camberwell cot
tage. The Thames twined over its shal
lows like a silver cel in a sand basket.—
Houses became bird-cages, oaks dwindled
into cabbages, men became specks, wo
men dew drops, and I began to lliink that
ti e genus homo was in the habit of think
ing a little 100 much of itself. To be se
rous, when I saw the great globe swing
ing at my feet, and the mightiest metrop
olis 1 oking like a village down east at the
foot of a ranger of hills, it struck me as a
thorough going eternal truth that it mat
tered little whether the Andes or the
Grampian Hills were the chief scenic sea
turesufa nation, as it was only necessaiy
to fly a little higher than a kite, to reduce
the mightiest mountain in the world to a
mere mole-hill.
We now neared a bank of clouds, and
I saw what 1 never thought of seeing as
long as 1 lived—the moon beneath my
feet. She was just topping the horizon,
and we were at least a mile above the
highest point of the surface. A bank of
clouds surged beneath us, and catching
sunlight on one side of us and moonlight
on the other, gave a notion of a sea with
waves washing silver from the east and
gold from the west. I thought what a
panorama the scene would make, and, as
we floated past a vista of clouds, I thought
what an extensive bowling alley the di
vinities of heathen mythology might have
constructed there, plating with thunder
bolts for halls, and using lightning instead
of gas to illuminate the place. But, as
we coutinued to mount, iny terrestrial
imaginings gave way to ideas of another
i kind. I was moving through that which
] forms the principles of both life and death
I —of that which nourishes and which de
cays—that which wafts the pleasure boat
to its destination, while nurturing an elec
tric force sufficient to shatter our entire
planet into fragments. Here we were
piercing the elements of destruction, with
no oilier intimation of their presence than
the zephyrs that fanned our foreheads.
Little Hernandez was as delighted as I
was, and made us all smile by exclaiming
“lfthisbethe pleasure of riding in tl e
air, I don’t wonder at Phaeton borrowing
his fathet’s horses to take a gallop in the
clouds.”
A merrier, happier party never congre
gated at the banquets of royalty. We
were many of us str angers to each the
and yet we fraternised without high ti a
son or revolution, in the most amiable spi
rit imaginable. Wby was this? On
lives hung on the chance •fa moment, and
the best thing vve could do while in the
NUMBER 13.
enjoyment of vitality was to
gild the pill of existence as brightly as
possible ; had I read the Bible from Gen
esis to the Revelations, I could not have
learnt a better lesson ; national animosi
ties and human prejudices subsided before
it. I felt that if the great family of man
would but fancy itself in the cars of a bal
loon, and make the best of mattets as we
did, all would go slick and straight, and
the moment I arrived at that conclusion, 1
resolved to preach the doctrine, and said,
“Now, Mr. Green, I want to go mission
arizing ; put me down if you please.”
We landed at Sydenham—landed in
;-afety; and having made our acknowledge
ments to those who crowded to our assist
ance on reaching terrafirma, we returned
to the gardens, where a spirit of the
kindest welcome displayed itself in an nut.
burst of those huzzas which Britishers
turn to the two-fold purpose of welcoming
their best friends and dismaying their foes.
CuatosiTv.— One of my friends, before
we left Boston, as if determined that no.
thing should surprise me, related many
diverting anecdotes to illustrate the inqui
sitive turn of his countrymen. Among
other stories, he gave a lively description
of a New Englander who was seated by
a reserved companion in a railway car,
and who, by way of beginning a conver
sation, said :
“Are pnu a bachelor ?”
To which the other replied, drily, “No,
I’m not.”
\ou are a married man V’ continued
he.
“No, I’m not.”
“Then you must be a widower 1”
“No, I’m not.”
Here there was a short pause ; but the
undaunted querist returned to the charge,
observing, “If you are neither a bachelor
nor a married man, nor a widower, what
in tlie world can you be 1”
“If you must know,” said the other
“I’m a divorced man !”
Another story, told me by the same
friend, was that a gentleman being asked
in » stage coach, how he bad lost his leg,
made his fellow travellers promise I hat if
he told them they would put no more
questions on the subject. He then said,
•‘lt was bitten off.” To have thus preclu
ded them for the rest of a long journey
rom asking how it was bitten off, was a
truly ingenious method of putting imperti
nent curiosity on the rack.
A Great Man’s Patronage.— The
Prince of Conti was embarrassed for want
of money—would to Heaven that the want
were confined to the Prince of Conti!
People refused any longer to trust him.—
His coachman came to him one morning
and said :
“ The horses, my lord, want hay and
corn !”
“Give them hay and corn then !” said
the Prince.
“But, my lord, the farmers and corn
chandlers refuse to supply me any more
till their accounts are discharged.”
“All, that alters the matter,” quoth the
Piince, very gravely.
“But, your highness, what shall the hor
ses have I”
"Have !—call my steward.”
J he steward appears.
1 -5o the corn chandler and the farmers
refuse us credit—the rascals—do they ?”
said the Piince.
“Yes, my lord ”
“Humph ! who does give us credit 1”
“No one, your Highness.”
“No one ?”
“Yes, now I think of it, my lord, the
pastry cook does.”
"Honest fellow, we must encourage
him!” cries the Prince. “Coachman,
your affair is settled —give the horses cheese
cake and custard /”
Caleb Cushing. —Cist’s Advertiser
tells the following anecdote of our late
Ambassador to China, Caleb Cushing.—
He had taken dinner with Commissioner
Keying, and discovering something on the
table he judged to be duck, ate of it with
•esnarkab e appeti e. Not speaking Chi
le;,e, and wishing to know what it was,
ho pointed to it, after he had finished,
aying to his host interrogatively—
“ Quack, quack, quack?”
The Mandarin, with equal brevity, re
plied, with a shake of his head—
* Bow, wow, wow!”
Mr. Cushing’s feelings can be imagined.
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SC*JTHE?.IT XOTSE’JM,
-BY—
WM. B. HARRISON.
The Mother’s Lesson.
A mother sitting in her parlor, over
heard her child, whom her sister was
dressing, say repeatedly, “ No, I don’t
want to say my prayers.”
“Mother,” said the child, appearing at
the parlor door.
‘Trood morning, my child!”
“I am going to get my breakfast.”
“Stop a minute, I want you to coma
and see me first.”
i lie mother had laid down her work
upon the next chair, as the boy run to her.
She took him up. He kneeled in her lap
and !aid his face down on her shoulder,
his cheek against her oar. The mother
rocked her chair slowly backward and for
ward. • —.
“Are you pretty well this morning V’
said she, in a kind and gentle tone.
‘A es, mother, lam very well. I am
well, too, and when I waked up this
morning, and found that I was well, I
ihaiiKcd God for taking care of me.”
Did you 1” said the boy, in a low
tone half a whisper. He paused after
it—conscience was at its vvotk.
“Did you ever feel my pulse ?” asked
his mother, after a minute of silence, at
the same time taking the boy down arid
sitting him on her lap, and placing his fin]
gers on her wrist.
“No, but I have felt mine.”
“Well, don’t you feel mine, now—how
it goes beating ?”
“\es,” said the child.
“If it should stop beating, I should die.”
“Should you I”
“Yes, 1 can’t keep it bealing.”
“Who can 1”
A silence. “You have a
pulse, too, which beats here in your bo
som, in your arm, and all over you, anti
1 cannot keep it beating, nor can you—no,
body but God. If He should not take
care of you, who could V’
“I don’t know,” said the child with a
look of anxiety, and another pause en
sued.
•So, when I walked out this morninsr,
I thought I’d ask God to take care of me
and all of us.”
“Did you ask Him to take care cu met
“No.”
“Why not V
“Because I thought you would ask him
yourself.”
A long pause ensued—the deep and
thoiightful expression of his countenance
showed that his heart was reached.
“Don’t you think you had better ask
him yourself!”
“Yes,” said the hoy, readily.
He kneeled again in bis mother’s lap
nnd uttered in his simple and broken lan
guage, a prayer for the protection of
Heaven.
Washington. —The reserve and taci
turnity of Washington were proverbial;
but as the one was the result of diffidence
and not of austerity or pride, so the other
proceeded from his habitual prudence ra
ther than coldness, or want of the sensibil
ity that inspires eloquence. In proof of
this, it is related of him that when the fa
mous meeting of officers was held at New
burgh, to consult upon measures to be ta
ken in consequence of the disbandment of
the army by Congress, without securing
the reward due to its services, Washing
ton, who was known to disapprove of the
proceedings, though he sympathized with
the feelings which gave rise to it, resolved,
nevertheless, to be present.
Unwilling to trust to his powers of ex
tempore speaking, he reduced what ho
meant to say to writing, and commenced
reading it, without his spectacles, which,
at that period, he used only occasionally.
He found, however, that he could not pro
ceed without them. He stopped, and.
took them out, and ashe was preparing to
place them, he exclaimed, “I have grown
blind, as well as gray, in tlie service of
my country.” This sudden burst of nat
ural eloquence produced, as may be sup*
posed, more effect than anything in his
premeditated address.
CtCrA lawyer, not very young nor hand
some, examining a young lady witness in
court, determined to perplex her, and said
‘.Mias, upon my word, you are very pretty.*
The young lady very promptly replied,
“I would return the compliment, sir, if
were not on oath.”
L^ = ‘“I wonder what makes my eyes so
weak ?” said a 1 afer to a gentleman.
“Why they are in a weak place,” repli
ed the latter.