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paper, to minute the dimensions c.f a huge
pumpkip, or write an advertisement l>>r a
dog lost—-to enter the name of anew suit-’
scriber,,r to take money from an old or.o
to receive a Ctnvliidrng for .something lie
has said, or a blowing up for something
which he has n>t said—and after all resume
“ the thread of his discourse,” and carry
out his idea in its original force and beauty,
is next tono editor at all. —JV. 11. Telegraph.
The’Difference. —Let a man of standing
and influence commit a fault, and how soon
it is overlooked. It he is wealthy, the im
proprieties of bis conduct are considered no
reproach, and he is as much honored and
caressed as ever. Let a poor man be halt
as guilty, and he is condemned and despised,
and it is next to an impossibility to retrieve
his character. Such is the course of the
world. Honors, property, and high stand
ing, make all the difference. We are for
calling villany by its right name, wherever
discovered, whether beneath a costly ex
terior, ir. the halls of Congress, or ii-a shan- i
ty,. The pretended righteous judgement
of the world is wrong. Worth, and worth
alone, should ho caressed and honored )
respected and imitated,while vice should be
detested and abhorred, in whomsoever dss- j
covered. If this shouldbe ourcrituiion of
judgment, in selecting men for our various
officers, thousands of the humble and the ;
unobtrusive would be elevated to posts j
where their virtues would shine and their
examples be salutary upon the whole nation,
while those who now disgrace their stations
would sink in the mire where they have de- j
lighted to wallow, and cease to exert their j
pernicious and Masting influence. In our
choice of men to fill our seats of honor and
trust, let us have an eye to the virtue of tlie
heart, and if strict integrity he lacking, vve
should nevei lift a finger to put such men
into office. — Exchaege.
Novel Circumstance — Resuscitation. —The j
St. Louis Republican of the 7th instant re- j
lotos the following singular occurrence :
“ A young lady belonging to a Jewish
family in this city died on Tuesday of a nerv
ous disease, and yesterday her friends start
ed with her remains for interment. Ac
cording to a Jewish custom, the body is ta
keu to the graveyard in a square box in the
same covering in which the person lias ex
pired, and there in a house appropriated fir
that purpose, the female friends of the fami
ly unrobe the body, wash it in cold water,
and anoint it for its last resting place. While
performing this ancient custom upon the
body of this supposed inanimate corpse, a
healthful warmth evaporated from it. and
evident signs of life became manifest; the
fact was announced by the ladies, physicians
were sent for, and the sorr.-vvful certainty
of death which nveishadowed the counte
nances of friends gave place to a gleam of
hope. On the arrival of the physicians the
certainty of her being alive was established,
and means taken to fan the spark into
health, in which we earnestly hope they
may succeed.”
A Midnight Appeal. —We were waken
ed from our sleep on Sunday night about
11 o'clock, by the rapping of a little
boy of about ten years ; we arose and went
to the window and asked him what he want
ed. Can you tell me where l can find a
watchman, sir ? What do you want of a
watchman 1 asked vve. There is a man at
our house, he leplied, who is drunk, and
mother is afraid of him. Who is the man,
and what is lie doing to your mother? vve
asked. After a good deal of hesitation,
mingled with half-suppressed sobs, the little
fellow finally burst into tears when he re
luctantly felt himself forced to tell the sor
rowful truth. “ Father is drunk, ami is
heating mother,and has driven us out of doors;
and mother is shivering out on the porch,
awl he leant let her in, and she is afraid of
him.” We gave the little follow directions
where he could procure prompt aid, and on
our sleepless pillow deeply pitied that wife
and mother and son forced by a father’s bru
tality—by the curse of drunkenness; to
seek to have him, their husband and father,
dragged Jfrom them to a felon’s cell ?
Bitter were those reflections, and a sad and
sleepless pillow during that hour, was ours.
Poor mother ! we thought of the bridal
hour when she gave heisclf and her happi
ness into the keeping of that husband, who
in the presence of* his God, vowed eternal
love and affection unto her!— Memphis Eagle.
Mississippi Ladies and Repudiation. —
Not long since a proposition was made by
some ladies in Pennsylvania to pay the debt
of the Stale by throwing their plate and
jewelry into a common stock for this pui
pose. It will be seen, by the following por
tion of an address published by some ladies
in Mississippi, that they too emulate this
noble example:
“ But if the men will not do this duty,
the women will. Yes—regard it not as an
idle vision for it will he done. As sure us
in the coming election repudiation triumphs,
the women of Mississippi are prepared to
form societies, to work to contribute, till
enough shall be raised, with the help which
every God-serving man would give them,
to pay the bonds, which else would rest like
a burthen upon the fame and prosperity of
the country. They are sincere ; and let no
one jest at this, for it can and will be done,
eveu if they have to sacrifice their wedding
rings, as did the woman of Poland, for the <
benefit of their country. The first eight
verses of chapter twenty-nine of Eclesiastes 1
are apposite to this subject.”
Sun Rise “ Come Simon, get up my
good boy; it’s after sunrise.”
** What ob dat massa 1 what if it he after
•un yise? ’Spose if sun )ise two hours
tore day, poor Simon must git up cause sun
yise, eh; don’t come dat game ober dis
nigger, no how!”
* ——^
Man often acquires just so much knowl
edge as to discover his ignorance ;
attains so much experience as to regret his
follies and then dies.
As no man can tell where a shoe pinches
better than he that wears it—so no man can
tell a woman’s disposition, belter than he
that weddeth her.
Marriage. —l never knew n marriage ex- “
pressly for money, that did not end unhap
pily. Yet managing motheis and heartless
daughters are continually playing the same 1
unlucky game. I believe that men more
frequently marry for love than women, be
cause they have a free choice. lam afraid
to conjecture how large a portion of women j
marry, because they think they will riot ;
have a better chance, and dicud being de- j
pendent. Such marriages, no doubt, some
times prove tolerably comfortable, but a i
greater number would have been far happi
er single. If 1 may judge by my obseiva- j
lion of such matters, marrying fora home is j
a most tiresome way of getting a living.
A Good Toast. —At a Tea Party given
hythe young Men’s Temperance Associa
tion, of the city of Philadelphia, on the eve
ning of the Cth instant, in honor of the Tri
umphs ot Temperance, the following Toast,
by Mr. William A Duff, was handed in j
among others:
A Dish of T. — Our Fatheis with une- 1
quailed mugnanimiT and liberaliT, pledged |
their propetT for the perpetuiT of our lib- j
eiT, and refused with diguiT to drink our
enemy’s hyson T. Lotus, therefore, show
ourselves migliT to carry out with unifor
miT, and understanding in all its realiT the
sublimiT of their generosiT, and here in the
midst of their temperance festiviT, sur
rounded by the beauT of our fair ciT, and j
crowned with plenT, pledge ourselves, in a j
cup of good TANARUS, to exercise chariT towards j
all humaniT, that we may with propiieT
hope to spend a happy eteruiT.
Yankee Courtship. —Jonathan Bumbetter
saw Prudence Feastall at meeting. Jona- j
than sidled up to Prudence alter meeting,
and she kind a sidled off. He went closer,
and axed her if she would accept the crook
of his elbow. She resolved she would, and
plumped her arm round liis’n. Jonathan
felt all over-ish, and said he liked the text:
“ seek and ye shall find,” was purty good
readin. Prudence hinted that “ ask and ye
shall receive,” wasbetter. Jonathan thought
so to, but this axin was a puzzler. A fel
-1 ler was apt too get into a snarl, which vvaru’t
;no fun. Prudence guessed strawberries
j and cream were slick. Jonathan thought
j they vvatn’t so slick as Pru’s lips. Now
don’t said Pru, and she guv Jonathan’s arm
an involuntary hug. He was a Icctle star
tled, but tho’t his farm wanted some female
help to look arter the house. l’ru knew
howto make real good bread. “ Now don’t,”
s id Pru. “If 1 should,” said Jonathan.—
|** Now don’t,” said Pru. “ May he you
J wouldn’t,” and Jonathan shook all o', er, and
Prudence replied, “ if you he coming that
; game, you’d better tell feyther.” “ That’s
j jist what I want,” said Jonathan ; and in
! tinee weeks Jonathan and Prudence were
I “ my old man” and “ my old woman.”
The United States iton steam Frigate
which was lately constructed at Pittsburg,
and transported from thence to the pint of
Erie, (on Lake Erie,) was launched on the
•sth inst.- She is the first iron vessel launch
; ed upon the Lake, and is represented as a
| handsome affair, of perfect symmetry, and
j promising to be a fast sailer. Without her
I timbers, machinery or equipments she draws
I three feet ten inches of water, which is eight
j inches short of her anticipated draught.—
j When ready for service it is expected she
j will draw eight feet. Her lengtl on deck
J is 1(37A feet, breadth of beam 27 feet, and
I depth of hold 12 feet. The hull is entirely
i of iron, except the gun-deck, as are the
wheel-houses and guards. She will he
schooner rigged, and have three masts, and
can carry sixteen guns, although her present
armament will comprise but two 64 I’aixhan
guns and four 32 pound carronudes. She
will probably be teady for service on the
opening of navigation next spring.—Motion
al Intelligencer.
Good Sentiments. —Agriculture is the nur
sery of patriotism.
A wise government will not he slow in
fostering the agricultural interests.
Let every farmer who has a son to edu
cate, believe and remember, that science
lays the foundation of every thing valuable
in agriculture.
Science must combine with practice to
make a good farmer.
The opposition against book farming
rests on the shoulders of two monsters, ig
norance and prejudice.
If you separate science from agriculture,
you rob a nation of its principal jewel.
Agriculture, aided by science, will make
a little nation a great one.
All the energy of the hero, and all the
science of the philosopher, may find scope
in the cultivation of one farm.
A skilful agriculturalist will constitute
one of the mightiest bulwarks of which civ
il liberty can boast.— Maine Farmer.
Not Slow. —A fellow in New Hampshire,
after having been drawn into the meshes of
love with one fair Nabby, afterwards “ took
a shine” to another. Thinking to cast off
the “ flaine,” he indited anew epistle, of
which tile following is a copy ;
“Dear Nabby, these are to inform you as
I nrn fast coming to my latter end with the
yallar ganders—from your dying Esek.—
P. S. 1 open this to let you know as I am
departed this life about two hours ago, in
grate ageny. Your gone Esek.”
An Important Discovery. —A means of in
stantly stopping a horse when he runs away
has been discovered in France. It is sim
ple. A sudden transition from light to to
tal darkness, is the principle. It is contrived
by means of a spring connected with the
reins, to cover the horses’eyes.. Tii was
done in an instant when the animal was at j
the top of their speed, and the result was
their instantaneous stoppage; for the I'mlit 1
being suddenly excluded, horses no more
rush forward, says the discoverer, without
seeing their way, than would a man afflict
ed with blindness.
A young lady astonished a party the oth
er day, by asking for “the loan of a diminu
tive argenteous truncated cone, convex on
its summit, and semi-perforated with sym
metrical indentations,” or, in other words,
a thimble.
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Important British naval Movement. —The
Halifax Post of the 2Sth November slates
that Vice Admiral Sit Charles Adams de
parted from that poit with a fleet on the
26th for Central America, and remarks that
ti.e business the fleet is concerned iri is of
deep importance.
Some difficulties are alluded to, as well
as the more recent contempt shown to the
British flag at a party where the British
Minister was present, and what is probably
more grievous than all the rest, the rest no
tion tariff ot Santa Anna, injurious to British
trade. Sir Charles thinks to do something
by way oftemetly.
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The first National Bank—i Historical j
Sketch. — Iht Cliarli ttesvillc H’u.) Advocate I
brings fotwaid the followirg historical
sketch of the list fan's < f the United States -
and its happy etfl ct- u, on the untrv, from
the pen of David Ramsey, the contempo
rary historian, whose .mpurtiality and can- ‘
dor have never been questioned. ‘j he |
whig party seeks to affect a like wonderful
and immediate change in the hap{ iness and
prosperity c.f the country and by a similar
agency, as that which followed the creating
of the first National Bank. As long as
tried (10 years) the Bank worked admira
ble—when vve resulted to theii agencies,
trouble came upon us. We seek now to j
return to the path Washington so success
fully trod and pointed out to us. Our op
ponents desire to experiment yet a little
further—to try a hard money panacea for
our woes, derived from the despot-rid
den communiliesof Europe and Asia, where
the currency is not only hard hut the con
dition of the people larder, ‘1 he people
are to choose between the two systems. —
Here is the Washington system arid its re
sults ; — Southern Advocate.
“Asa mean, conducive to the easy and
prosperous administration of the financial
system, the Secretary of the Treasury
strongly recommended the establishment of
a national bank. This was strobuously op
posed. Some objected to the Utility of all
banking establishments : others to the plan
proposed ; 1 u - mostly to the right of Con
gress to pass an act lor incorporating a nation
al bank. It was conceded on all sidti, that
a power for this purpose was not expressly
given l>y the Constitution. The argument
turned on its being implied, by a fair con
struction of the general clause, subjoined to
the enumerated powers of Congress in these
words : “To make all laws necessary and
proper, for catrying into execution, the
foregoing powers.” One party contended,
that a national hank is necessary and proper,
to the acknowledged power of Congress,
“to ‘uy and collect taxes, duties, imposts
and excises.” The other acknowledged its
convenience, hut dented its necessity. A
profusion of verbal and metaphysical criti
j eism was displayed, in distinguishing be
tween the highest grade of convenience, and
the lowest grade of necessity ; and between
what was necessary, in the populursense of
that word, and what, in strictness of speech,
was indispensably so. On this subject,
Congress and the cabinet were divided.—
After the law had passed both branches of
the. Legislature, W ashington, who was ex
tremely cautious of infringing the constitu
tion requited, from the heads of departments,
their opinions on the subject ; with their
reasons for the same. After receiving
their opinions, weighing their reasons, and
examining the subject in all its relations, lie
deliberate!y made up his mind, under the
) guidance of that common sense, for w hich he
was remarkable, in favor of the constitution
ality of the law ; and accordingly, gave it
the sanction of his name. i
The oapiial of the bank, thus established,
was ten millions of dollars, in shares of S4OO
each, to he paid by successive instalments.
In two hours after the of subscription
were opened, hythe commissioners appoint
ed to teceive them, the whole number of
shares were t*ken up; and.* 4,000 more
| were offered, than could he received, by
: the terms of the charter. The lights ac-
I quired by the subscribers to the national
bank, were in such demand, that they arose,
in a short time, to S2OO advance on the
trifling sum of $26 ; w hich was the whole
of the first payment. Branches of this in
stitution were established in most of tho
principal sea ports of the boiled Stales, un
der the namo of Offices of Discount and Do
posite ; in which all the revenues of the
United States, were deposited. These ffP
cilitated the payments of duties; and as
they all communicated with the parent
bank, in Philadelphia, then the seat of Gov
ernment, very much expedited the finan
cial operations of the treasury department
Such were tho effects of the new order of
things, that the measures recommended by
Hamilton, and adopted by Congress ; par
ticularly the funding system, had a decided
influence, in favor of the U idled States.
By it, the debtsof the Revolutionary war,
were converted into a species of wealth.
Public pa pet*, which had previously sunk
to eight for one, rapidly rose to par. The
funded stock answered the purposes of
money, so that agriculture and commerce
were invigorated liy it, to u degree equal to
what would have resulted from the intro
duction, and free circulation, of an equiva
lent sum of Mexican Dollars. A great j
amelioration in the circumstances of the
citizens, became immediately visible. The (
money in c rculation antecedently, was so
far short of sufficiency to represent the val
ue of commodities, daily bought and sold, j
that a ruinous depreciation of property had j
taken place, This was increased by the |
want of confidence, which generally pre- !
vailed. Both evils were remedied by the j
funding system. Mortfey,’ credit, confidence j
and an increased value ofpropeity were its !
immediate consequences. From the ter- j
initiation of the revolutionary war to this ]
period, the U. S. had gone backward, in
national character. The high reputation
which the citizens had acquired fiotn their
successful stiuggles in their country’s cause,
was tarnished. So rapid a transition from
a state of depression to that of exaltation,
hud seldom before taken place. The dif
ference between an efficient and inefficient
government, was never more apparent.” I
Hon. J. M. Berrien.— The following res- i
ohitious liave been laid on the table in Sen- j
ate bv Mr. Bartow of Chatham. 1 hey no
doubt s|teak the sentiments of tho Whigs in
relation to our aide Senator, not only in this
State, but throughout tho country generally.
—Southern Recorder.
The last General Assembly of the State
of Georgia having adopted a series of Res- j
olutions,appioved the 28th December, 1842, |
censuring in terms of great asperity the >
course ot the Hon. John M. Berrien, one of j
our Senators in Congress, declaring him
“ unfit to represent the Slate in the Senate j
of the United States,” withdrawing their ,
confidence fiom him, and declaring that !
they would neither receive from him, nor ]
address to him, any communication to fur
ther the interests or defend the rights of ihe
people of Georgia —we, the latest, expo
nents of their sovereign will, not designing
to draw within the purview of nnr action
the appropriate and peculiar subjects of
Fcdcial legislation, feel nevertheless con
stiained to pluce our constituents again in
commtmiculiun will) their faithful and fa
vorite Senator, and in their name to redress,
as far as may he, the multiplied and wan
ton injuries sought to be done him by party
malevolence.
Therefore, Resolved by the Senate and
House if Representatives of the St.de of
Georgia in Gene red Assembly met, That vve
and our constituents apptove the course of
the Hon. John Macpherson Berrien in the
Senate of the United States, and cherish an
honest pride in his enlightened patriotism
and distinguished ability.
Resolved further. That vve specially com
mend his uncompromising resistance to the
disorganizing doctrine of Legislative In
struction.
Resolvedfurther, That this General As
sembly hereby express their unqualfied
confidence in their lien. Senator—that it
will always he their pride and pleasure to
communicate with him; and that in any
and every emergency, they will address
themselves to him as the willing champion
anil able defender of the rights and inter
ests of the people of Georgia.
Resolved, That the Governor be request
ed to send a copy or these resolutions to
our Senators in Congress, with the request
that they Ire laid before the Senate of the
Utti’.cd States,
i m
Mr. Clay at Home. —A distinguished
I Whig, writing from Lexington to the Edi
| tor of the Philadelphia Inquirer says:
j “I am happy to inform you that Mr. Clay
i is in excellent health, and is looking re
j markably well. Time has dealt most ger.t
----j ly with him; it may have deprived him of
! some of the fire and vigor of youth, hut it
j has conferred upon him in return the ma
tured dignity of age. His eye is blight—
! his form erect and unbowed—fits step buoy
-1 ant and elastic, and his constitution appa
| rently unimpaired by the laborious eflints
! of an arduous public life. Indeed, since
| his retirement from the Senatejie seems to
i have recuperated, and he now has the ap
pearance of one over w hose head scarce
fifty winters had sprinkled their snows.
** I rejoiced to see him in the enjoyment
j of such excellent health. If his life he
’ spared, he is destined to he called in 1544
by the American People fiom his calm and
I classic retreat to the highest office of the
j country.”
The PeopleMoring. —The Oswego Adver
tiser ofthe 11 ill instant contains a call, sign
ed by from three to four hundred of the
young men of Tioga county for a meeting
to form a Clay Club and to adopt a plan of
organization for the approaching Presiden
tial election. This is a movement which
ought to he promptly imitated in every coun
ty of the State. The work of preparation
1 cannot he commenced too soon. Tire win
ter is the proper season for these initial
| steps in the thorough arid general organiza
tion of the State. —Albany Journal.
I 05 s * An unthinking man is like a vessel
cast upon the waves without a rudder.—
t Stolen.
LIE^OSLATO^ISo
BY LAST NIGHT’S MAIL.
Correspondence of the “Southern Miscellany.”
Mim.edgevili.e, Dec. 20tlr, 1843.
On Monday “the Senate were engaged
most of the day upon the bill of the Com
mittee on Internal Improvements, in rela
tion to the Western and Atlantic Kail Road.
Mr. Iverson offered a substitute to the oii
ginal bill, which, however, was not acted
upon till the friends of the measure had
made it as perfect as they could by amend
ments. The vote was then taken upon re
ceiving the substitute, and lost, and the ori
ginal bill passed. It provides for the grad
ual finishing of the Road to Borough’s in
Cass county, where the Home Branch will
intersect ; and in the mean time, the Gov
ernor is to sell the Road if one million of
dollars can be gotten for it, upon such con
ditions as the Governor may think most to !
the interest of the Strte. It also gives the
Governor leave to work such of the con- :
victs, as he* legally may, upon the Road, till
such sale can be effected. I think it very \
important, whether we wish to sell or not, to
progress to the point where the Rome
Branch will inlet sect—upon which l utr- !
derstand theie is now a company at work. :
By this connexion, we get to tile Coosa Riv
er, w hich is navigable for some 100 miles
below Rome, und I discover from an article
in a paper from Tennessee, that theteis like- i
ly to boa short Road constiucted, so as to !
connect .the Tennessee and Coosa livers be- i
low the impediments in the former. Ifthcse J
Roads should be built, (arid there is every |
prospect that they will—one beir.g thirty !
and theothermnyseventeen miles in length,) j
we have a connected route from the Eas- \
tern terminus of the State Road, to the
navigable waters of the Tennessee river—
giving us command of a vast fertile conn- I
try. I begin to think that the State will
find a purchaser at the price affixed.
On Tuesday, the Senate took up the Re
volt ou the Penitentiary from the Joint I
Committee. Mr. Staly, from the minority, i
offered the Report of the minority as a sub
stitute for that of the majority, which was
lost. Mr. Cone offered the hill of the Sen
ate, abolishing Penitentiary imprisonment,
as a substitute fin the Report, which was
also lost, and the Report adopted. ’1 he
Senate then took up and passed its hills,
mostly of local character. They also took
up the messages from the House, agreed to
some of the amendments of that body, re
ceded Irom some of their own amendments
to House hills, and refused to recede from
others. Amongst the amendments from
which they refused ,o recedewas one to
grant arms to your Volunteer Company. —
To-day has been spent, partly with the Ap
propriation Bill, and a hill to authorize the
Governor to make arrangements to pay
Reed, Irwin & Cos. fifty thousand dollars
annually of the principal of the debt.
This evening a spirited debate sprang up
between Mr. Powers of Bibb, and Mr. Iver
son of Muscogee upon a bill making pro
vision for suits to be entered in the name of
the assignee of the broken Hanks in Colum
bus, to collect debts due those Banks. Mi.
Powers opposed the hill, and said it was
intended to defraud the honest creditors of
those banks. He was glad he had it in his
power to retort upon the Senator from Mus
cogee, who had taken occasion throughout
the whole session, to speak of the Monroe
Rail Road as that rotten concern. Mr.
Iverson replied with much warmth, and
gave Macon a thorough tubbing down.—
Mr. Powers came again, and Columbus suf
fered in the flesh. From that, the fight grew
hot, and the galleries were amused for some
hour and a Half with the brilliant account of
the rascalities and rogueries of those rival ci
ties. I thought of a story I once heard, hut I
can’t tell it, and “that’s sufficient.” The
Whigs cried “ bear fight,” and were “hands
’ off.”
There has been nothing of much conse
quence transacted in the House since my
last. I have lost my memorandum of the
proceedings of that branch, and have no
time to redeem the blunder.
We have most inclement weather here
just now. Night sessions, with gaiter pants
that don’t button,jliuve caused many a male
diction upon the poor tailor, who, no doubt,
thought he was doing for the best. The
whFs of both houses are wo;!,;;,- c:;d
j main to get off by Saturday night next, the
I accomplishment of which I can see nothing
j now to prevent. Both Houses sit till oor
j 10 o’clock at night.
j We had a rich treat from Mr. Russel, the
vocalist, on Saturday night last. The Ethe
i opians are here at present, but they are per
fect humbugs. I wish 1 had time and room
to say a few things upon thissuhject. 1 can
demonstrate that, upon the subject of music,
j four-fifths of our people ar e yet uncivilized.
The Etheopinn band don’t even sustain
j their pretensions. If their’s is nigger, it is
; such degraded nigger, that you cannot re
cognize the native animal. More anon.
G.
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Fortlie “Southern Miscellany.”
LETTER FROM MAJOR JONES.
NO. xxvn.
Pineville, Dec. 19, 1543.
To Mr. T hompson :
Dear Sir —We're all bisv as the mischief
down here killin hogs, and is in the greas
clear up to our eyes—hut when 1 got your
j last paper with the Captain’s message in it
J 1 thought it must be something important,
! or else you wouldn’t put it in the Miscella
ny, so I red it over two or three times jest
I to find out what the old filler was driven at;
i hut after all I’ve come to the conclusion
j that it aint no gtate scratches. As soon as
| supper was over we had one of tlie biggest
sort o’ lighlwood chunks put on the fire to
make a blaze, and after old Miss Stallions
and the galls all got settled down to ther
work, I took out the Miscellany to read the
message to ’em. Well, I begun :
“ If any people ever had cause to render
up thanks for parental cate and protection
extended to ’em in all ther trials and diffikil
tys, we certainly is that people.”
Whew ! ses 1, rite out.
“ Why, what’s the matter V’ ses Miss
Culline. “ What’s tuck your ewe so now ?”
ses she.
“ Did you ever hearsich insurance,” ses
I, “ for old Tyler ? the worst cub that ever
was put on the country, to say the like o’
j that. Drat his ugly pieter,” ses 1, “I
should think he’d have more decency about
him than that!” and I was gwine on to ex
] plain, hut they all sed, “ go on and read it.”
1 “ Yes” ses old Miss Stallions, “go on,
j Joseph, and see what he says about that
! bominable grip he’s been flictin every body
with.”
Well, I went on readrn ’thout payin much
attention, til I come upon whar he talks
about Mexico and Texas, and the galls all
went on with their nittin. When I come to
whar he ses the Mexicans is betr talkin
about lickin Congress if it tuck up with
Texas, my blood begun to whiz like biiin
water, and my hair stood rite upon eend.
“Do you hear that V’ ses I, and 1 brung
my fist down on tire table so hard the galls
all liked to jump off ther seats, anil old
Miss Stallions, who was sound a sleep,
fetched a sort of a half snore, and ses she,
“ I know’ll it! I know’d it! them sticks aim
strong enough to hang no hog in the world.”
** Tiler’s gwine to Ire war !” ses I.
“Oh lordy !” ses all the galls—“ who’s
gwine to fight, Joseph V ses they.
“ We,” ses I—“ Cato, go into tother
room anil bring me my uniformity.”
Cato ris up off the heath, with his eyes
as big as sassers.
“ Oh, my lord,” ses Mary—“oh dear, oh
I shall oh ” and away she went
into a swoun rite in her sister Callino’s
arms.
” Oh my darter !” ses old Miss Stallions,
jest beginnin to git awake—“ oh, lairs ‘a
massy,” ses she—“ Cato run for the doc
tor!”
Cato turned round three or four times,
like he didn't know which eend he stood on
—Sister Kesialr brung tire Colone water,
atid I got the watergourd and guv her a
few sprinklins, afore Bhe guv any signs of
comill too. But that fetch'd her to—and in a
few minus 1 had her silt in up in tny arms
crytn for life, and her pore little hart bealin
like a scared patridge.
“ Why, what ails you, Mary 1” ses I
“ what upon yeatlr scared you so,”
“ I thought you was gwine to leave me
and nn to fight in the war,” ses she.
“ Why lord love you, dear,” ses I, “ you
didn’t think I was gwine rite off did you !”
“ Oh, no child,” ses old Miss Stallions,
“ Joseph aint gwine t> !e i\e you now.” ’
“ 1 didn’nt know when he was gwine ”
ses Mary, “but I know I would dy if l’, e
was to goto fight”—and she hid her face in
my busum and ciied worse and worse.
I didn’t know hardly what to say ; I nev
er felt so chicken-hearted in my life, and I
thought Id turn it off the best way I could.
So, ses 1, “ ther ain’t no war, no how, am) if
ther was. I wouldn’t desert you, not to be
Br igadier General.”
That kind of consoled her and the galls
tuck her tnour room, and old Miss Stallions
went to lied and left me to read the mes
sage by myself.
Well, 1 went on, and after all it was a
real flash in the pan. When the Captain
come to the annexation part, lie never savs
turkey on tire subject, arm after all, 1 expect
: its only a plan between him and Mr. de
| Buckanigger, nr some sich a name, to git
up a sort of a s! ine, to see if they can’t git
| a little consequence by it. Ther aint no
I mistake about it—the Captain proves clear
j as moonshine that wev’e got a right to negi -
j tiate with Texas jest as much as we please,
! without cxin no odds of Mexico nor En
gland, nor nobody else. But by don’t lie
1 say whether he’s in favor of jiiiin Texas to
this country or net 1 1 don’t think he’s kep
hack by any feir about his infliieiicin Con
gress/ for he han’t got no more influence
that- llutn his son Haserus has—but he’s
afraid the thing won’t take. But who cares
for old Tyler and the Mexicans? I red on,
but. 1 didn't find any thing that amounted to
much, til I come to the old lokvfi ky setmon
about the Constitutional Currency” whar
j he recommends his ’dicker hills again, at
I the same time aludin to the principles of
; “ some of the eminent men who had per
j ceedetl him in the Executive office,” ike
: cussed old traitor. It makes my blood file
1 when I think how he got thar by the help of
i the wliigs, and then to talk about his “ il
lustrious end “footsteps,”
unil sich; the very things he prcici.iM id
j g r * agin before he got thar. But one of his
. financial ides, in this part of his speech
, struck me as monstrous quare, and 1 can’t
sifer the thing out to my satisfaction to save
me. lie ses the issue of 15,000,000 of
Treasury notes would relieve the country
. in one year, while the piittin out of lire same
amount of United Slates Bank money
j wouldn’t do it in fifteen years. Now, I’d
like to know how any body can make that
; out ? If the country was suffer in fur mo
ney, I don’t see why good United States
bills that pass all through it would not oper
ate. and give relief, as the doctor’s say, as
soon us Treasury notes. But tlier’s no ac
coiintin for lokyfoky ides or lokyfoky pruc
tis on this subject. The great cry in the
first place was “ divorce of Bank and State”
—they didn’t want the goverment to have
nothing to do with the Bank, it was too
dangerous a institution to trust in the hands
of the gover ment. Well, old Hi* kory put
down the independent incorporated “bank
of the people, and now they’re issuin Trea
sury money, signed, not by the President of
a Bank,‘but by the Goverment officers
therselves. That’s lykyfoky divorce.—
Here’s a copy of a lokyfoky, subtreasury,
hard money constitutional currency hill,
w hich I seen tother day, and which tbe
newspaper s say is beginnin to go rite flush
in the North. Its a monstrous pretty pic
tered thing, all fixed off’ with eagles anil
i women and ships and lokymotives, anil a
heap o’ things. I want yon to print it in
the Miscellany jest so the people can see
wliat kind of a thing a lokyfoky bill of di
vorce is.
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There, now, is lokyfoky money, which is
a dean gain on United States Bank money
of HALF A MILL a year. That is, if any
poor mar. can git hold of n fifty dollar hill
(which is monstrous doubtful) and keep it 3
whole year he will make half a mill hy tl )e
operation. Surprisin chance for furtuns,
this new money, ain’t it 1
I cnn’t help but feel sort o’ wolfish ever)
time 1 think how the lokyfokys have ba m ’
fooseled the people about this currency his
ness. The fact is jest this. Gien. Jackson
Note. —Wc have endeavored to perfect the Major*
idea, from a sac simile of the Exohequer Bills, which * f
find in the “Wall Street Register.” We cannot, how
ever, supply the names of theComptroHerand'frcasur<[’
os they do not appear in the print, and we have ol ‘
since censed our endeavors to keep up with die chanC 1 -
in tbc Departments at Washington.