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VOLUME I.
LINES,
On seeing an Infant sleeping on its Mother's breast
BY AMELIA.
It lay upon its mother’s breast,—a thing
Bright as a dew-drop when it first descends,
Or as the plumage of an angel's wing,
Where ev’ry tint of rainbow beauty blends;
It had soft violet eyes, that 'neath each lid,
Half closed upon them, like bright waters
shone, ~
Whileits small, dimpled hands were slyly hid
In the warm bosom that it nestled on.
There was a beam in that young mother’s eye,
Lit by the feelings that she could not speak,
As from her lips a piantive lullaby
Stirred the bright tresses on herinfant’solicek;
While, now and then, with melting heart site
press’d
Soft kisses o'er its red and smiling lips—
Lips sweet as rose-buds in fresh beauty dress'd,
Ere the young murmuring bee their honey sips.
It was a fl agrant eve ; —the sky was full
Os burning stars, that, tremulously clear.
Shone on those lovely ones ; while the low lull
Os falling waters fell upon the ear,
And the new moon, like a pure shell of peal
Encircled by the blue waves of the deep,
Lay 'mid the fleecy clouds that love to curl
Around the stars when they their vigils keep.
My heart grew softer as I gazed upon
That youthful mother, as she soothed to rest,
With a I ovv song, her lov’d and cherished one—
The bud of promise on her gentle breast;
For 'tis a sight that angel ones above
May stoop to gaze on from tlieirbow’rs ofbliss,
When Innocence upon the breast of Love
Is cradled, in a sinful world like this.
Barking: up the Wrong Tree.
Major Bunkum, in the N. Y. Spirit of
the Times, tells a pretty good yarn of a
fellow he tried to “ bluff off” by an out
rageous Munchausen. The chap, howev
er, had “ cut his eyeteeth,” and was “ some
pumpkins” himself, as will be seen from
the narrative.
“ 1 here was a chap that I tried to run a
saw on a while ago in Texas, I won’t for
get in a hurry. I was travellia’ from the
Braz s to the Trinity, and when I got to
the Atascaseto crossiu’ 1 found the San
Jacinto aroariu’; hit was cornin’it ‘hark
from the tombs.’ Free Soil movements
was agoin’ on, and trees tumblin’ in, all
along the banks. I see thar was no kind
o’ help for it, and so took my feet off the
stirrups, threw my saddle-bags over my
shoulder, and in me and the mar went.
We were in an awful tight place for a
time, but finally landed safe. I’d jest got
my critter tied out and a fil e started to dry
myself, when I see a chap come ridin’ up
the billon a chunk of a poney, and sich a
lockin’chap to lie sure.—His little red eye
was stuck in his head like a pig’s; his
whiskers was powerful, and no wonder;
'ef there hadn’t been sile enuf in his fat
chops to have raised the crop, there was a
plenty < ufside ; a real top dressin’ as they
call it in the North. A little red nose was
jest visin' out of ’em, like a bit of the sun
in a fog, or a red bird in a huckleberry
patch. He belonged to the no-comb so
ciety, and was a member ofthe anti-razor
'Sedation; and es hs’d swam the liver
with his head in the water, ’stead of his
feet, it would have effected an amazin’ im
provement in his personal appearance.
There was no doubt about it, he was one
of ’em.
“ Hoopee, stranger!” sings out my
beauty, “how’do? Kept your fireworks
dry, eh? How the thunder did yer get
over ?"
“ Oh,” says I, “ mighty easy, you see,
stranger, I’m powerful on a perogue, and
sol waited till 1 seed a big log drifieu’ near
the shore, when I fastened it; sot my ct;it
ter a straddle on it, got in the saddle, pad
pled over with the saddle-bags, and steer
ed with the mar’s tail!”
Yer didn't tho’ by Ned !” says he,
‘‘ did yer ?”
“ Mighty apt to,” says I, “ but arter
you’ve sucked in all that, and got yer
breath again,let’s know how you crossed?”
“ Oh,” says he, settin’ his pig’s eyes on
me, “ I’ve been ridin’ all day with a con
sarned ager on, awful dry; and afeard to
drink at the perara water holes, so when
I got to the river, I went in for a big
drink, swallowed half a mile of water and
come over dry-shod!”
“ Stranger,” says I, “ you’re jest one
huckleberry over my persimmon : light,
and take some red-eye; I thought yer
looked green, but I was barkin’ up the
wrong tree!”
Short and Sweet. —The following are
amusing specimens of the laconic style of
correspondence:
Dennis Mararty —You owe me ten
shillings. If you c!< n’t pay me
PATRICK SULLIVAN.
To which Dennis replied:
Pat Stdlitan— 1 don’t owe ye ten shil
lings. And if 1 did
DENNIS MACARTY.
Foote sent the following letter to his
mother:
Dtctr Mother —l am in jail.
To which the old lady replied :•
Dear Son —So am I.
WACOM, (GA.) SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 24, 1849.
Practical Jokers.
The following story of Neil McKinnon,
a New York wag, told by a correspondent
of the Philadelphia Saturday Post, sur
passes in coolness and impudence any
thing within our recollection. Read and
speak for yourself, good reader:
When the celebrated Copenhagen Jack
son was British Minister in this country,
he resided in this city, and occupied a
house on Broadway. Neil one night, at a
late hour, in company with a bevy of his
rough riders, while passing the house no
ticed it was brilliantly illuminated, and
that several carriages were in waiting at
the door,
‘ Hallo !’ said our wag, ‘ what’s going on
at Jackson’s V
One of the company remarked that
Jackson had a party that evening.
* VV hat!’exclaimed Neil, ‘Jackson have
a party, and 1 not invited ! I must go
and see to that.’
So stepping up to the hall, he gave such
a ring, as soon brought a servaut to the
door.
‘ l want to see the British Minister,’
said Neil.
‘You will have to come some other
time,’ said the servant, ‘ for he is now en
gaged at a game of whist,’ and must not
be disturbed.’
Don’t talk to me that way,’ said Mc-
Kinnon, ‘ but go directly and tell the
British Minister I must see him on special
business.’
The servant obeyed, and delivered the
Message in so impressive a style as to
bring Mr. Jackson to the door forthwith.
‘Well, sir,’ said Mr. Jackson, ‘what
can be your business with me this time of
night, which is so very urgent ?’
‘Are you Mr. Jackson V
* Yes sir, i am M r. Jackson.’
* The British Minister]’
‘ Yes sir, the British Minister.’
‘ You have a party here to night, I per
ceive, Mr. Jackson ]’
4 Yes sir, I have a party.’
‘ A large party, I presume ?’
* Yes sir, a laige party.’
* Playing cards, 1 understand V
‘ Yes sir, playing cards.’
‘O, well,’said Neil, ‘as I was passing,
I merely called to inquire what's (rumps!'
A Plain Argument. —Not many years
since, in a handsome mansion not a thou
sand miles from Cincinnatti, a young lady,
who has “ high notions” of what consti
tutes respectability, expressed astonish
ment to her mother that a youug lady of
their acquaintance,of considerable wealth,
should receive the attentions of a young
carpenter and joiner.
“ He is an upright and intelligent young
man. I can see no objection,” replied the
mother.
“ I don’t care,” returned the daughter.
“I would not be seen on the street with
him.”
“ Would you be ashamed to be seen
with your father on the sreet?” inquired
the mother.
“ Why do you ask that, mother ?”
“ Because, 1 can well remember when
he pushed a plane,” was the mother’s re
ply.
A Cone-River Man’s Baggage. —“Cap-
'in oh Cap’in, where’s my baggage?” ex
claimed a tall, red-faced Virginian to the
Clerk of tho steamer Oseola, as that boat,
a few’ days since, approached her regular
landing-place on Cone river.
“ Cant’t say exactly, sir,” replied the
Clerk, “ but 111 bunt it up. Is this it ?”
(pointing to a large, brass-nailed travelling
trunk.)
“ No, sir.”
" Well, is this it, sir ?” ( pointing to a
capacious and well-filled carpet-bag.)
“ No, that ain’t it either.”
“ Then, I presume, this must be if, sir?”
said the Clerk, giving an old horse-hide
trunk a slight knock with his foot.
“ No, sir ee. I totes no such trumpery
as that. Ah ! here it is—ali right— two
jugs o' whiskey and a dimmijohn o' bran
dy r
Coleridge tells a story of meeting a
s ranger, whose silence, during dinner
time, and his attention to what others said,
without interrupting them, gaVe him a fa
vorable impression of his understanding;
till, unfortunately, on the appearance of
some apple-dumplings towards to the close
of the repast, the delusion was dissipated
by the stranger suddenly exclaiming—
“ Them’s the jockies for me!”
OCT" The New York papers tell a good
story of a man, who being taken ill Was
told that nothing would save him but to
drink a quart of catnip tea.
“ Then I must die,” said the poor man,
for I dont hold hut a pint!”
Probably that was the same man who
declared there was not room in him for
the fever to turn.
Pretty Paragraph. —The river that
runs slow and creeps by the banks, and
begs leave of every tnrf to let it pass, is
drawn into little hollownes-es, and spends
itself in smaller portions, aßd dies with
diversion; but when it runs with vigor
ousness and a full stream, and breaks down
every obstacle, making it even as its own
brow’, it stays not to be tempted with fittle
avocations, and to creep info holes, but
runs into the sea through full and useful
channels. So is a m3n.
The Bright Boy. —Master—well my
boy you slipped up didn’t you.
Boy.—No, I slipped down.
Master. Well stand up by the stove
and dry yourself.
Roy.—How can I stand, unless I stand
up.
Master.—Take your seat you block
head.
Boy.— I can’t take my seat it’s nailed
down.
Master.—You can set down can’t you ?
(giving him a wipe over the head.)
Roy.—( Going to his seat.) No I’m not
a hen I warn’t made to set.
Master.—Now sit up there and attend
to your books.
Roy.— Sit up? I should like to see a
fellow sit up.
Master.—Hold your longue.
( Boy runs out his tongue and grabs it
with his fingers.) Mas'er calls out “first
class,” to read and the scene closes.
Looking Yellow.—A landlord recent
ly called out to a temperance man at
Blackburn:
‘ Why, you are looking yellow with
your abstinence.’
‘ Yes,’ said the man, putting his hand
into his pocket and pulling out some ea
gles, “ and my pocket is looking yollow,
too.’
Post Oefice Scene.—‘ Have you got a
letter for my boss ]’
* Who’s your boss V
* The one I works for.’
‘ What’s his name you idiot?’
‘ Robert Brown, sure.’
‘ There’s none here for him.’
‘lt aint for him I wants it. It’s a letter
for myself; but I asks for him bekase his
name is better known than mine.’
tO 01 There is such a thing as a practi
cal conundrum, which is not amiss.
‘ Look-a-hear, Sam,’ said a Western ne
gro one day to a field hand over the fence,
in an adjoining lot, ‘look-a-hear, d'you see
dat tree down darl’
‘ Yes, Jim, I does.’
‘Wall, I got up dat tree day ’fore to
morrow.’
‘ What was you after, Jim ?’
‘ 1 was arter a coon ; and when I’d
chased him clear out to tudder end ob dat
longest lim, I beam somfin drop. What
you guess ’twas, Sam V
‘ De coon, ob course.’
‘No you don’t; ’twas dis here nigga!’
A gentleman who has a warm side fora
young lady was making fun of a sack
which she wore.
‘ You had bettei keep quiet or I’ll give
you the sack, replied the lady archly.
‘I should he most happy,’ was the gal
lant's tesponse, ‘if you would give it to
me as it is, with yourself inside of it!'
Further deponeth saitli not.
A Smart Bad.—Grocer: Well, Augus
tus, you have been apprenticed now three
months, and have seen the several depart
ments of our trade. I wish to give you a
choice of occupation. Apprentice: Thank
you, sir. Grocer: Well, now what part
of ihe business do you like best? Augus
tus— (with a sharpness beyond his years)—
Shultin’ up ; sir!
Not Guilty. —A lawyer in a neighbor
ing parish, celebrated for bis talent and
shrewdness, was applied to by a criminal
to defend him for the commission of a fla
grant offence, punishable with imprison
ment for life. The lawyer told his client
that he feared his ingenuity could not save
him ; that the facts were too plain. “But
said he ‘‘as a last resort, get your friends
to have a horse ready near the court house
door—and if the jury find you guilty, you
must break for it.”
The trial came on, the case was argued,
and the prisoner, getting as far from the
seat of justice as he could,anxiously await
ed his fate. The jury came in, and the
prisoner prepared to hear his doom. The
verdict w as “not guilty,” but the foreman
of the jury pronouncing the word not al
most in a whisper, the Word guilty only
reached the prisoner’s ear. With one
bound he cleared the bar, rushed out of the
court-house mounted the horse which he
put to the best of his speed, and has never
since been heard of—leaving the lawyer
to whistle for his fee, and "doing” his
friends out of a first rate saddle-nag.
Anecdote of Judge Parsons. —The
bar of Essex county (Mass.) had made it a
rule that no lawyer should take into his
office more than three students. But it so
happened that the celebrity of Parsons,
then a practising lawyer in Essex, had
gained him more than his due share, and
he was accused, before the bar, of having
five students. He denied the charge ; but
it being clearly proven that there were in
his office five young gentlemen aiming at
the law, it was a matter of curious specula
tion among his legal brethren how he
would get himself off the accusation.
‘•Why gentlemen,” said he, “I have posi
tively but three students, and 1 can prove
it to your entire satisfation. It is true, I
have five young men in my office.—but
then one of them is a dandy, and the other a
fiddler r
o^7““You, are more than half blue,” as
the bumming bird observed to the violets
“l frequently have a drop in my eye,*'
the violet modesty replied to the humming
bird.
NUMBER 32.
A Love Scene. —lsn’t it lovely ! The
mild east winds fan the purple curtains
which flutter about the day king’s couch,
and that respected gentleman rolls out of
his bed into his big bathing tub filled with
the mighty waters of the west! Hallo,
who the duce is that poking about among
(he hushes ? It is our love-sick pair
smacking their rosy lips over two very full
glasses of ice cream. Hush, now don’t
laugh or make a noise, and we will hear
what they are talking about.
‘Ah, Miss Julia,’ says the stricken deer
ofthe masculine gender, ‘how seldom one
finds a kindred spirit in this world of care
and sorrow.’
‘"V ery seldom, Mr. Amour,’ replied Miss
Julia, in atone ala Browne, the comedi
an in Humphrey Grizzle, when he called
after his Em—na !
‘So you recollect, Miss Julia, Claude
Mnlnott’s beautiful description of the Lake
of Como, beginning:
Mr. Amour repeats Melnott’s part of
the dialogue, until he comes to—
Miss Julia is observed to take a large
spoonful of cream, and in carrying it to
her mouth she drops it on her lap. Mr.
Amour takes out a white handkerchief and
gallantly wipes it off—looks into Julia’s
eyes for a quarter of a minute,he trembles,
drops on his knees, takes her handbooks at
her appealingly, and turning up his eyelids
like a duck in rapture, murmurs :
‘Julia !’ Her bosom heaves convulsive
ly. ‘Oh, Juli-a!’
In a subdued falter, Miss Julia whis
pers :
‘Edward !’
‘Dearest Julia !’
‘Dearest Edward !’
‘Ah, don’t call me Edward, call me
Neddy.’
‘Neddy, d-e-a-r Neddy,’ said Julia in a
tone resembling Mrs. Fitzwilliam’s ‘Bea
ter.’
Mr. Amour rises, he puts his arms a
round Julia’s waist, her heart heats like a
wounded dove. Neddy looks round to see
that nobody is near, and then, gentle rea
der, Ned kisses her, numerously.
Come, gentle reader, we must take
another drink, those lovers are coming it
too strong,—Oh, Gemini! if Miss Julia
aint feeding Neddy with the same spoon
that she uses herself?
Anecdote of Fr anklin. —Doctor Fran
klin and I (said Jefferson) were some time
together in Paris and we dined one day in
a mixed company of distinguished French
and American characters. The Abbe
Itaynal and Franklin had much conversa
tion ; amongst things, the French Philoso
pher observed that in America all things
degenerated, and be made many learned
and profound observations to show this
effect of (he climate on people although
recently from an European stock. Fran
klin listened with his usual patience and
attention ; after the Abbe had finished,
he pleasantly remarked, that where a dif
ference of opinion existed, it was the cus
tom of deliberative assemblies to divide
the house ; he therefore proposed that the
Europeans should go to one side of the
room, arid the Americans to the other, that
the question might he fairly taken. It so
happened that the Americans present were
stout men, full of life, health and vigor,
while the Europeans were small, meagre
and dwarfish. The Doctor, with a smile,
cast his eye along the lines, and Raynal
candidly acknowledged the refutation of
his theory.
CP 3 A lady residing in New England,
who had a number of female servants in
her family, and to whom she, on one occa
sion, gave each of a pair of her cast-off,
half-worn shoes, found the following im
promptu on her chamber mantle, the suc
ceeding morning—
•• How earful should our Mistress he,
The narrow path to choose,
When all the maids within the house,
Are walking in her shoes."
ICT* Is Mr a roan of means 7 asked
a gentleman of old Mrs. Frizzletop, re
ferring to one of her neighbors. Wall, I
reckon he out to be, drawled out the an
cient beldame, ‘for he's the meanest man
in town.
every one cries out he’s a fool, and some
times he’s a rogue. If he succeeds, they
besiege his door, and demand his daugh
ter in marriage.
Worth trying — l resolve, says Bishop
Beveridge, never to speak of a man’s vir
tues before his face, nor of his faults be
hind his back; a golden rule! the obser
vation of which would at one stroke ban
ish flattery and defamation from the earth.
Women are Rarely Confused. —A
young gentleman who was in the act of
popping the question to a young lady, was
interrupted by the father entering the
room enquiring what they were about.
Oh, replied the fair one, Mr. was ex
plaining the question of annexation tome,
and he is for immediate annexation. Well,
said papa, if you can agree on a treaty,
I’ll ratify it.
Polite Hint. —l do not wish to say any
thing against the individual in question,
said a very polite gentleman “but I would
merely remark, in the language of the poet,
that to him truth is strange, ‘stranger than
fiction.'
BOOK AND JOB PRINTING,
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SCTrTEEB.IT I£TTSETTM,
-BY—
WM. B. HARRISON.
The Rear and the Sailor. —A sailor
who belonged to the crew of a ship em
ployed in the whale fishery, once under
took to attack a large Polar hear which he
saw on the ice at a distance. It was in
vain his companions tried to persuade him
to give up his design. He laid hold of a
whale-lance, and approached the bear.
Ihe bear was, however, as brave as the
sailor, and stood waiting for the attack.
The sailor, seeing him so bold and power
ful an animal, grew fainthearted, and, af
ter standing for some time motionless,
took to his heels. The bear pursued him
with monstrous strides, when the sailor
dropped the whale-lance, his cap, and then
his gloves, one after another, to prevent
the bear from following him. Bruin ex
amined the lance, foffe the cap in pieces,
and tossed the gloves over and over ; but
not being satisfied with bis spoil, he still
purstied the sailor, whom he would, with
out doubt, have torn In pieces, had not the
rest of the crew, seeing the danger of
their companion, sallied forth to rescue
him. The affrighted sailor ran towards
his comrades, who opened to him a pas
sage, and then prepared to attack the bear,
i he bear was, however, as prudent as he
had proved himself to be brave; for, after
surveying the force of his enemies, he ef
fected an honoiahle retreat. The valiant
sailor, who had fled before his courageous
enemy, never stopped for a moment iu bis
flight, until he had reached the boat, pre
ferring to he latighed at for a coward,
rather than remain (6 encounter a bear.
Let the young remember that fOol-hardi*
ness is not real courage.
Modesty.— Lfttia bnysaUd gitls should
never speak of themselves, or of what
they have accomplished, unless they are
asked to do so by their superiors, or rather
unless it is necessary to do so in order to
answer questions which are asked by their
superiors. The good Bishop White, who
was often in Company with Washington—
frequently dining at his table, said—l
knew no man who so carefully guarded
against the discoursing of himself, or of
his acts, or anything that pertained to him)
and it has occasionally occurred to me
when in his company, that if a stranger to
his person were present, he would never
have known from anything said by the
President, that he was conscious of having
distinguished himself in the eyes of the
world. Os Chief Justice Jay, the next
greatest man after Washington, that our
country has overproduced, who for ttven
ty-seven years Was Constantly engaged in
public life, it is said :— A stranger might
have resided with him for two months to
gether, without discovering froiil his con
versation that he had ever been employed
in the service of his country. Whenever
the important seenesin which he had been
engaged, were alluded to, he changed the
conversation as soon as politeness would
permit. Here are examples worthy of im
itation. Imitate George Washington and
John Jay, by never speaking of your
selves or your own exploits.
Quite Cool.— A countryman took his
seat at a hotel table opposite a eentleman
who was indulging in a bottle of wine.
Supposing the wine to be common prop
erty, our unsophisticated country friend
helped himself to it, with the other gentle
man’s glass. That's cool ! exclaimed the
owner of the wine indignantly. Yes, re
plied the other, I should think there was
ice in it.
IC7* A London paper tells a terrible
story of a lion and a lady iii a manageiie.
The latter happening to stand a little too
near the den, the royal beast, most caf
niverously disposed, reached forward un
perceived and obtained an immense mouth
full from the lady’s person. Her conse
quent shrieks were allayed when it was
discovered that the ferocious and enraged
animal had near choked himself to dealh
with a bag of bran.
A Wise Landlord.—One night a judge,
a military officer and a preist, all applied
for lodgings a an inn where there was but
one spare bed, and the landlord was called
on to decide which'had the better claim of
the three.
I have lain fifteen years iii the garrison
at B.,said the officer.
I have sit as jndge twenty years in R ,
said the judge.
With your leave, gentleman, I have
stood in the ministry twenty-five years at
N.,said the priest.
That settles the dispute, said the land
lord.
You, Mr. Captain, have lain fifteen
years; you, Mr. Judge, have 6it twenty
years ; but the aged pastor has stood five
and-twenty years ; so lie certainly has the
best right to the bed.
Who’s your Father.—An inquisitive
country gentlemen once accosted a boy,
who was feeding pigs, thus—
Boy whose pigs are those 1
The sow’s, sir ! replied the boy.
Well, then, whose sow is it ?
Father's.
Well, wel!—who is your father ?
If you will mind the pigs, l will run
home and ask my mother.
Give the Devil his Due. —Certainly ;
but it is better to have no dealings with
the devil, and then there will be nothing
due him.