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compared with a scene of this kind—about
an hour before sunset —in the depth of a
great North American solitude, a vast am
phitheatre of wilderness, rock and moun
tain; after the trees are changed by the
frost. People may talk of their (iue Italian
skies; of the deep midnight blue of the
Sonth American skies. We have seen
them all; slept under them all; slept tin
ders sky like one great moon ; worship
ped them all; seen them through all the
changes of storm ar.d sunshine, darkness
and light; and we say. that in reality, they
are dim, heavy—unclouded, uninteresting
compared with your North American skies,
a little before or after sunset.
“ And so, too, of the garniture of a North
American wilderness, after two or three
clear, frosty nights. There is nothing to
compate with it under heaven. The moun
tains, vallies, woods ; all burst into flowers;
all at once. Other countries are in a better
atate of cultivation. Their trees are less
numerous ; their wild shrubbery less like a
vegetable inundation over the laud—cover
ing every foot of the earth ; or the changes
of their color from season to season, aie
slow and gradual.
“ It is not so, in America ; North Amer
ica. There, the transformation is universal;
instantaneous. A single night will do it.—
In the evening of a fine day, perhaps, all
the great woods will he green ; with hardly
a red or a brown, or yellow leaf. A sharp
froat will set in, at night. Before the sun
rises again, the boundless verdure of the
whole province ; a whole empire, in truth,
will he changed. In the morning, there
will be hardly a green leaf to be found. Be
fore the w'eek is over, go where you may,
through the superb wilderness, you will
meet with nothing but gay, brilliant scarlet,
purple, orange ; with evety possible variety
of brown, light blue, vivid crimson or hluod
color.”
Musical Blow-up. —Tlie Rev. Mr.B. .
when residing at Canterbury, was reckoned
a good violinccllo player; but he was not
more distinguished for his expression on
the instrument, than for the appearance of
his features whilst playing it. In fact, when
lost in the midst of the adagios of Corelli
or Avison, the muscles of his face sympa
thised with the fiddle stick, and kept up a
reciprocal movement. His sight being dim,
obliged him very often to snuff the candle,
and when he came to a bar's rest, in lieu of
snuffers he generally employed his pingers
in that office ; and least he should offend the
good housewife in this dirty trick of his, he
used to thrust the spoils into the sound holes
of tijp ‘ A waggish friend, who
ha3 observed B ’s’ wlrrn, resolved to
enjoy himself “at the parson’s expense,”
as he termed it; and for that purpose he
popped aquantityofgunpowderinto B “s
instrument. The rest were informed of the
trick, and of course kept at a respectful
distance, The tea equipages being remov
ed, music became the order of the evening,
and after B had tuned his instrument,
and drawn bis stand near enough to snuff
his candle with ease, feeling himself in the
meridian of his glory, he dashed away tit
Yanhall’s 47th. B came to a bar’s
rest, the candles were snuffed, and lie tin ust
the ignited wick into the usual place; lit
fragor, and bang went the fiddle to pieces.
—Dramatic and Musical Review.
Peacock’s Pickle for Meat. —Admiral
Peacock’s pickle for meat is preferable to
most others when applied to family beef,
pork or mutton. It is thus made—water, 4
gallons; sugar, or (molasses), pounds;
saltpetre, 2ounces; salt, (the bay or largest
sort,) 6 pounds. Boil all together and skim,
See. Then let it cool. The meat being
placed in a vessel intended to hold it. pour
the cold pickle on the meat til it is covered.
In that state keep it for family use. The
beef, after lying in the pickle for ten weeks,
has been found as good as if it had been salted
threedayß,an<ltenderasachickcn. Ifthemeat
is to be preserved for a considerable time,
the pickle must be boiled and skimmed once
in two months, throwing in during the boil
ing two ounces of sugar and a half pound
of salt. Thus the same pickle will hold
good for many months. This pickle is in
comparable for curing bams, t mgues and
hung beef. When tongues and hung beef
are taken out of the pickle, cleanse and diy
the pieces, then pul them in paper hags,
and hang them in a dry warm place. Some
who have tried the method choose their
meat salter, and instead of 6, use 8 or 9
pounds of salt. In very hot weather it is
necessary before the meat is put to the
pickle, to rub it well over witli salt and let
it lie one, two, or three hours, till the bloody
juices run off. If the meat, in this case,
is the least tainted before it is pul to the
pickle, it will be entirely spoilt in a day’s
time, in hot weather. Peacock’s pickle is
found so valuable that no family ought to he
without it.— Fanner's Gazette.
Henry Clay’s Wife. — A lady of Noi th
em Pennsylvania now residing in Virginia,
has written to a ftiend in Montrose, Penn.,
from which the Editor of the Susquehanna
Register has published several exrtacts.—
Among them we find the following which
will inteiest the ladies at least, and shows
Mrs. Clay to be the true Amciican matron,
as her husband is the true Ameiican citi
zen and patriot.
“1 happened to get in company with Clay
men and ladies too. I met with Mrs.
H —of Lexington, Kentucky, who had
visited at Mr. Clay’s during the last sum
mer; and she gave a pleasant account of
the domestic habits of the family. Mrs.
Clay gets up at 4 o’clock in the morning—
superintends her dairy, does much of the
labor with tier own hands, sometimes chums
the cream ami always salts and prepares it
for the market, &c. She said it was a well
arranged house, and she dcsciibcd the place
as beautiful in the extreme. I enquired
whether Mrs. Clay was genteel and lady
like in her manners. She said yes, exceed
ingly so—that it was rare to meet one so
intelligent and accomplished. Mrs. H.
would almost have made a Clay matt of you,
if you bad heard her talk.”
A man will lay hold of nny pretence to
lay his fault upon another.
The World. —“ Sir, bring me a good, |
plain dinner,"’ said a melancholy-looking in- ;
dividual to a waiter atone of our principal
hotels.
“ Yes, sir.”
The dinner was brought and devoured,
and the eater called the landlord aside, and
thus addressed him—
“ You are the landlord ?”
“ Yes.”
“ You do a good business here 1”
“ Yes,” (in astonishment.)
“ You make—probably ten dollars a day,
clear ?”
■Yes.”
“ Then I am safe. I cannot pay for
what I have consumed; I have been out of
employment seven months; but have en
gaged to go to work to-morrow. I had
been without food four and-twenty hours
when I entered your place. I will pay you
in a week.”
“ 1 cannot pay my hills with such prom
ises,” blustered the landlord, “ and 1 do not
keep a poor-house. You should address
the proper authorities. Leave me some
thing for security.”
“ 1 have nothing.”
“1 will take your coat.”
“If I go into the streets without that, I
will get my death, such weather as it is.”
“1 on should have thought of that before!
you came here.”
“You are serious? Well, I solemnly
aver that one week from now I will pay
you.”
“ I will take the coat.”
The coat was left and a week afterwards
redeemed.
Seven yeais after that, a wealthy man
entered the political arena and was present
ed at caucus as an applicant for a Congres
sional nomination. The principal of the
caucus held his peacp —he heard tlie name
and the history of the applicant, who was
one of the most respectable citizeus. He
was chairman. The vote was a tie and lie
cast a negaiive—thereby def ating the
wealthy applicant, whom he met an hour
afterwards, and to whom he said—
“ You don’t remember me?”
“ No.”
“I once ate a dinner in your hotel, and
although I told you I was famishing and
pledged my word and honor to pay you in
a week, you took my coat and saw me go
out into the inclement air, at the risk of my
life, without it.”
*• Well, sir, what then ?”
“ Not much. To night you were a can
didate for nomination, and but for me you
would have been elected to Congress.”
Three years after, the hotel-keeper be
came bankrupt and sought a home at Belle
vieu. I ll” poor ditinerless wretch that was,
is now a high functionary in Albany. We
know him well. The ways of Providence
are indeed wonderful, and the world’s mu
tations almost beyond conception or belief.
New York Paper.
Fashion. —Fashion rules the world ; and
a most tyrannical mistress she is. compelling
people to submit to the most inconvenient
things imaginable, for fashion’s sake.
She pinches our feet witli tight shoes, or
chokes us with a neck handkerchief, or
squeezes tire breath out of the body by tight
lacing; she makes people sit up by night
when they ought to be in bed, and keeps
them in bed in the morning when they
ought to be up and a doing She makes it
vulgar to wait upon one’s self, and genteel
to live idle and useless.
She makes people visit when they would
rather stay at home, eat when they ate not
hungry, and drink when they are not thirsty.
She invades our pleasure, and interrupts
out business;
She compels the people to dress gaily,
whether upon their own property or that of
others; whether agreeable to the wold of
God. or the dictates of pride.
She ruins the health and pn>duces sick
ness, destroys life, and occasions premature
death.
She makes foolish parents, invalids of
children, and servants of all.
She is a tormentor of conscience, despoil
er of mortality, and an enemy of religion,
and no one can be her companion and en
joy either.
She is a despot of the highest crude, fiill
of intrigue and cminiiisr, and yet husbands,
fathers, wives, and mothers, sons, daughters,
and servants, black and white, voluntarily
have become her obedient servants and
slaves, and vie with one another to see who
shall he most obsequious.
Fence Corners. —Some writer hints the
propriety of digging up fence corners, &c.,
and planting them with winter squashes,
beans mid bush peas. We doubt whether
there could he any more judicious advice
given. Much land by this means, which
is now neglected, might he made to yield
abundantly, and would doubly pay for the
little trouble necessary to place it in a state
of cultivation. Picture to yourself the
contrast exhibited by the comers that sur
round a field in this improved condition, and
those that are filled with briers and weeds,
and consider if the former is not more in
accordance with both fancy and judgment.
If a farmer has an abundance of land with
out his fence corners, and Its other isolated
out of the way pieces of eaith, vve can’t see
to what better use ho could appropriate
these, than by planting them with ornamen
tal trees, for the purpose of sheltering Ids
cattle, keeping down the weeds and shield
ing the jaded traveller from the scorching
lays of the sun.
Appearances. —lt is a remarkable fact that
every animal when dressed in human ap
parel, resembles man rind very strikinclv in
features.
Put a frock, bonnet, and spectacles, on a
pig and it looks like an old woman of fifty.
A hull dressed in an overcoat resembles a
lawyer. Tie a few ribbons round a cat, put
a fan in its paw, and a boat ding school
Miss is represented. A cockerel in uni
form is a general to the life. The features
of a tiger call to rnind those of a sailor. A
hedgehog looks like a miser. Dress a
monkey in a frock-coat, cut of his tail, trim
his whiskers, and you have a Broadway
dandy. Jackasses resemble u gteat many
people.
3DWWmLB Ji it mu .
Mexico. —The attention of our reading
world has been drawn very much, for the
last three or four years, to Mexico. Since
the appearance of Stephens’s first work,
every few months bring to light some new
discovery or adds to our stock of informa
tion. From “ Brantz Mayor’s Mexico as it
Was and Is,” (published by Winchester,)
we derive some statistical information we
do not remember to have seen in other
works. We seem, also to get a better in
sight from it into the structure of soeiety as
represented by the’ Middling Classes. The
Republic now contains about 7,000,000 in
habitants. Os these, only 1,000,000 are
whites—4,ooo,ooo are Indians—the rest
Negroes, Mestizos. &c. Out of these 7,-
000,000, only 687,7-18 of all classes can
read and write. When we consider that
out of this small number of those who can
read anil write,.only a portion of them ate
men, the rest being Women and children, we
cease to wonder at the unsettled condition of
the Republic. Liberty, in such a country,
must have a queer definition, and the prac
tical operation of Republican principles be
any tiling but right.
In the City of Mexico alone, 8,861 were
imprisoned during the year 1842 foretime.
So long as such a state of society exists, we
can expect nothing but changes and it regu
larities. The administration of the Gov
ernment must be weak, and the vast re
sources of the count!y untouched or misap
plied. So we find it—with mines yielding
twenty millions annually, to say nothing of
its other greater resources, its debt internal
and external, including loans, See. was at the
close of last year upwards of 684,000,000.
And yet till 1841 —the entire revenue tothe
Government, with the exception of 11 J per
cent, was applied simply to the liquidation
of the internal debt, amounting to $18,550,-
000. Did the Government merely manage
the mines of the country as they ought to
be managed, her revenue would amount to
vastly more than it now is from all her re
sou rcetoget her. VY’e would not have it
inferred, because we speak of the valuable
statistics in Mr. Mayer’s work, that it has
nothing else. It abounds in thrilling inci
dent, and most exciting tales of danger and
death, related in an uncommonly graphic
manner.
1 he description of a bull fight is full of
life and reality.
I he vices and faults arid misery of the
Mexican population, are related in an im
partial manner, while their virtues are seen
and appreciated. Much of the misery is
attributed to the clergy, who have for cen
turies contrived to attract the wealth of the
multitude to themselves, whiletlie poor have
been kept in ignorance and debasement. —
As our traveler wanders over the rich plains,
and among the rivers of that magnificent
country, his descriptions of scenery’, and cli
mate, fill one with regret that it should be
the home of faction, and the prey of unprin
cipled men. He says, “ I give Mexico as
she was and Mexico as she is, and leave it to
herself to say what she will be in future.—
Education of the masses must take place, or
the republican principles she professes will
only aggravate her troubles and precipitate
again and again those crises which exhaust
her resources and weaken her government.”
—New York Tribune.
Lynn —Professor Ingraham, in his last
new work, “ The young genius,” thus char
acterizes this town as the vast cordwaineiy
of the Union.”
The very pleasant and thriving town of
Lynn is the paradise of shoemakers! Its
young men early transferred from the cradle
to the last, cut teeth and leather at the same
time; and its pretty maidens learn to bind
shoes with the inductions of their a , b, abs.
Lovets exchange hearts over a kid-slipper,
anil swear fidelity upon a lap stone. If
they would get married they ask old Dr.
Waxend, the parson, if lie will stitch them
together, and they will pay him in hides and
shoemending. Whipping their children
they call tanning , and the rod they use is a
cowhide. The little boys swear “by hides
and leather;” and play at games which they
call “high and low quarter” and “heel and
toe.” A child new born is a lap- stone, and
the ages of children arc known by the num
ber of the shoe they wear. Boys are called
rights and girls lefts —an old maiden an
“odd slipper,” ami a bachelor an “odd
hoot.” The stieet doors in their dwellings
are “insteps.” and a man in an over coal is
“ foxed.” ‘1 lie fields about the town are
“ patches” and a fellow half seas-over is
“ half soled.” They never see an oak tree
but they directly calculate the number of
pes it will make, and when they behold
bees at work they reflect that the only end
of wax is a waxend. They look on all cat
tle and sheep as only leather growing, and
believe hogs were only made to produce
bristles. Its lap-stones would pave Broad
way, anil its lasts, if piled together, would
make a monument higher than that on Bun
ker Hill.”
Who does not abhor parodies ? They
verify the remark of Napoeou that “there
if hut a stej) between the sublime and the
ridiculous.” The most beautiful sentiments
are thus made to excite laughter; and the
more beautiful the more ludicrous—fust as
the sweetest cider makes the sourest vine
gar, Bryant has this noble line sumewhere,
so often quoted—
“ Truih crushed ‘o the earth will rise again.”
Some scnpe-gtace adds—
“So will a toad. \V have seen a toler
ably well killed toad hop away in less than
fifteen minutes.”
The fellow means to say, we suppose,
parodizing Bryant's fine stanzas, arid allud
ing to the physiological fact that these rep
tiles have been known to live for centuries
imbedded in the heaits of rocks:
Toads crushed to the earth will rise again,
The eternal years of time are theirs;
But adders wounded, writhe in pain,
And die before their murderers.
Methodist Episcopal Church. —The in
crease of this body within a few yeais has
been without parallel. In their last official
documents they published their numbers in
each conference in the IJuion and Texas, of
which the summary is :
Whites. Colored. Indians. Total.
Total this yr. 936,736 128,410 3,379 1,168,526
Total last yr 803,296 107,296 2,817 913,908
A Noble Deed. —During the last earth
quake at Point a Petre, a gentleman was
rescued from death by the heroic efforts of
a slave. He W’as immediately offered a
handsome re watd for his humanity. “No,
no,” said the generous fellow—“ nothing
for money to-day—all for the love of God!”
Histoiy scarcely records a nobler sentiment.
The Colonial Council voted him 2,000
francs, 1,500 to purchase his freedom, iOO
for an outfit in his new career.
Advertisements. —The following advertise
ment, drawn up by an alderman of the
town of Cambridge (England) some years
ago, is a curious specimen of expression :
“ Whereas a multiplicity of damages are
frequently occurred by damages of outra
geous accidents by fire, we whose names
are underwritten, have thought proper that
the necessity of an engine ought by us for
the better preventing of which by the acci
dents of Almighty God may unto us happen
to make a rate to gather benevolence propa
gating such good instiuments.” The same
alderman was fond of writing, and accom
panied every present with a note. The
following accompanied a gift of a hare to a
gentleman of Calus College: Sir: I have
sent you a small present, who humbly hope
you may prove worthy acceptance, which
is a hare who is your humble servant.”
IP©LDT 0 © A L □
From the Richmond Whig.
THE TARIFF.
Presidents and. Precedents. —While the
Enquirer is engaged in the talk of present
ing the tariff as an unheard-of enormity, it
may not be amiss to refresh the memory of
our readers by a few short extiacts from
the messages of finmer Presidents to whom
that paper successively professed the most
unlimited devotion.
Frist ot all comes the Father of his
Country. In his message of Bth July,
1790. he uses the following language:
“ The safety and interest of the People
require that they shall promote such manu
factories as tend to render them independ
ent for essentials,” See.
The Enquirer nay | lead non-age to
that; so we give him next an extract from
the message of Mr. Jefferson, dated De
cember, ISO 2 :
“To cultivate peace and maintain com
merce and navigation in all their lawful en
terprises; to favor our fisheries as nurseries
of navigation ; and to protect the manufacto
ries adapted to our circumstances.” Again:
“ When a nation imposes high duties on
our productions nr prohibits them altogeth
er, it may he proper for us to do the same
by theirs; first burdening oi excluding their
productions, which they bring here in com
petition with their own of the same kind.”
Mr. Madison was (literally) the father of
our Constitution. In his message of May,
1809, he recommends to Congress :
•* To make such further alterations in the
laws as will more especially protect and fos
ter the several blanches of manufacture.”
Six years after, viz. 1815, he goes still
further into the subject. Hear him :
“ There is no subject which can enter
with greater force into the delibeiations of
Congress than a consideiation of the means
to preserve and promote manufactures,
which have sprung into existence and at
tained an unparalleled maturity through
out the United States during the period of
the European war. This source of nation
al independence and wealth I anxiously re
commend, therefore, to the prompt and con
stat.t guardianship of Congress.”
Mr. Monroe, another Virginia President,
in his Inaugural Address, held the following
language :
“ Our manufactures will likewise require
the systematic and fostering cate of Gov
ernment. Possessing, os we do, all the
raw materials, the fruit of our own skill and
inilustiy, we ought not to depend, in the
degree we have done, on the supplies from
other countries,” &c.
In allusion to the same subject, he after
wards says:
“ It is important that the capital which
nourishes our manufactures should be do
mestic, and its influence, in thatcase, instead
of exhausting, as it may do in foreign lands,
would he felt advantageously on agriculture
and every other branch of industry; equal
ly important is it to provide a home market
for our taw materials, as by extending the
competition it will enhance the price and
protect the cultivator against the casualties
incident to foreign maikets.”
We pass over what Mr. Adams said on
the subject, as being of no weight with the
editor of the Enquirer. But we make up
for the omission by inserting at full length
the following letter, from a man the hare
mention of whose name is wont to enrap
ture the old gentleman :
Washington City , April 26, 1824.
Heaven smiled upon and gnve us liberty
and itii’e|)eiidence. That same Providence
has blessed us with the means of national
independence and national defence. If we
omit or refuse to use the gifts which he has
extended to us, we deserve not the continu
ance of his blessing. He has filled our
mountains and plains with minerals—with
lead, iron and copper,and given us a climate
and soil for the growing of hemp and wool.
These being the great materials of our na
tional defence, they ought to have extended
to them adequate and fair protection, that
cur manufacturers and laborers may be
placed in a fair competition with those in
Europe, anil that we have within our coun
try a supply of those leading and important
articles so essential in war.
I will ask what is the real situation of the
agriculturist? Where has the American
furme. a market for his surplus produce ?
Except for cotton he has neither a foreign
nor a home market. Does not this clearly
prove, then, when there is no market either
at home or abroad, that there is too much
labor employed in agriculture. Common
sense at once points out the remedy. Take
from agriculture in the United States six
hundred thousand men, women and chil
dren, cud you will at once give a market for
more bread-stuffs than all Eurojre now fur
nishes us. In short, sir, we have been too
long subject to the policy of British mer
chants. It is time wc should become a little
more Americanized, ami instead of feeding
paupers and laborers of England feed our
own ; or else, in a short time by continuingour
present policy, we shall be tendered pau
pers ourselves. It is therefore my opinion
that a careful and judicious tariff is much
wanted to pay our national debt, and to af
ford us the means of that defence within
ourselves on vvhieh the safety of our coun
try depends ; and, last though not least, to
give a proper distribution to our labor, which
must prove beneficial to the happiness, in
dependence, and wealth of the community.
I am, sir, very respectfully.
Your most obedient servant,
ANDREW JACKSON.
Our readers here have authority which
the Enquirer cannot object to, for the pres
ent tariff, and more especially for the pro
tective features.
Organization. —Burke utters these truths
in reference to organization, which it may
be well for those persons to reflect upon
who either object or are indifferent to this
means of making their own principles op
erative among masses of men :
“ Whilst men ate linked together, they j
easily and speedily communicate the alarm J
of any evil design. They are enabled to |
fathom it with common counsel and to op- j
pose it with united strength. Whereas, j
when they lie dispersed, without concert, 1
order, or discipline, communication is uti- I
ceitain, counsel difficult, and resistance is j
impracticable. When men ate not ac- !
qnainted with each other’s principles and
expel ienced in each other’s talents, not at
all practised in their mutual habitudes and
dispositions by joint effort of business, no
personal confidence, no fiiendship, no com
mon interest,substituting among them, it is
evidently impossible they can act a public
part with uniformity, perseverance, or effi
ciency. In a connexion, the most inconsid
erable man, by adding to the weight of the
whole, has his value and his use ; out of all
the greatest talents are wholly unservice
able to the public. No man, who is not in
flamed by vain glory into enthusiasm, can
flatter himself that his single, unsupported,
desultory, unsystematic endeavors, aie of
power to defeat the subtle designs and unit
ed cabals of ambitious citizens. When bad
men combine, the good must associate;
else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied
sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”—Na
tional Intelligencer.
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For the “Southern IVliscpllany.”
LETTER FROM MAJOR JONES.
NO. XXV 111 .
Pinerille, January sth, 1544.
Mr. Thompson:
Dear Sir —Well, Crismus and New
Years is gone, and a heap of fun has gone
with ’em. Down here in Pineville we had
real times, you may he sure. Every body
tuck Ciismus, specially the niggers, and
sich other carryins on—sich dancin and
singin, and shootin poppers and skyrackets
—you never d:d see. But the best joke
was the way cousin Pete got tuck in ’bout
gettin in sister Ktziha’s Crismus bag. Pete
had a kind of sneakin notion of her for
some time, but ‘.he dratted fool don’t know
no more about couitin nor a hown pup does
about ’stronomy. He was over to our lious
Crismus eve, gwine on with his nonsense,
and bothetin sister Kiz til she got rite
tiled of him—telliri hpr how he wanted to
git marryed so bad he didn’t know what
would come of him, and how he wished
somebody would hang up a hag for him,
like Mary did for me.
“Oh, yes’” ses she,‘‘you want to fool
somebody now don’t you —hut you’r mighty
mistaken.”
“ No, Miss Keziah,” ses he, “ if 1 ain’t in
good yearnest, I never was in my life.”
“ But, now, Docter, would you give
yourself away to any young lady for a Cris
mus gift like brother Joseph did ?”
. “That I would,” aes he, “ and glad of the
chance.”
“ Ah,” ses she, “Pm fraid you want to
play some trick—you young dorters is so
monstrous hard to please.” And ihen she
looked round at me and kind o’ w inked her
pretty black eyes and smiled.
Pete looked in the glass, and sort o’ slick
ed down his whiskers, and then ses he,
“All the galls ses that, but the fact is, Miss
Keziah, we’s ’ sceptible to female charms
jest like common men, I can asshore you,
And the fact is, Pm teimined to marry the
first gal that will have me for a Ciismus
present.”
“ Now , you all hear that,” ses Keziah.
“ Yes,” we all said.
“ Now mind,” ses she to cousin Pete,
“ you ain’t foolin.”
I never seed Pete look so quaie—he
looked sort o’ skeered and sort o’ pleased,
and he trembled all over and his voice was
[ so husky he couldn’t hardly speak.
“ No, t IS iu down fight yearnest—you
see if 1 aint”
•• Wett,’* <ef 4he, we’ll see.”
Pete 1 mohsftous fidgety, and
bimhHv i'e *lowe‘d if Vas time to go, and
after bidirl'ui all good night, swifte,/* pJow
remember, Miss Keziah,” and away he
went with rfwM WHfcjHf a* handful! of
chicken fealtuM* ‘ -i
He badrif Kem mote’n no time
afoie Sister Ke2Uh;Hovitrfle'out a laughir..
“Now,” sea sins, “if L-diAtHfix Dr. Pom
posity good, then'l Bihtf 1 Kt'tiah Stallions,
that’s all. He’s alWays lieen cavortin about
and makin so much of himself, as who hut
he! and now Pll take him down a peg.”
“ Why, aint you gwine to hang up no bag ?”
ses sistei Calline.
” That L aint,” ses she.
“ Oh, now, sis, that’s too bad to disap
pint him so.”
“ But the docter shant be disappinted,
for Pll make aunt Prissy hang up one for
i him to take an airin in til mornin if he’s a
mind to, and then we’ll see if lie’ll he as
good as his word.”
And shore enough, she called aunt Pris
sy and made her go up in the loft and emp
ty the feather bag, and fix a rope in it, and
go and hang It on the porch for cousin Pete.
tThen she told Piiss all how she must do in
ihe mornin, and we all went to bed.
1 couldn’t sleep for thinkin what abomi
nable fool they was gwine to make out o’
poor Pete. Mary sed it was a great shame
to serve any body so, but she didn’t blieve
Keziah ever would quit being wild and mis
chievous.
It wasn’t no great time fore I heard the
gate squeak, and the next minit there was
a monstrous racket among the dogs, and I
know’d Pete was come. I could here the
gals titterin and laughin in ther room, and
the next thing hang went something agin
the fence, and then one of the dogs set up a
ki eye! like something had hurt him, and
all was still for a few’ minits. Then I heard
Pete steppir. about very cautious on the
porch, and movin the table and chairs, and
then the jice shuck with his weight, as he
dropped into the bag. All was still a in
for a little while, cept the galls sriickerin in
ther room, and then I heard Pete sneeze,
and the dogs barkec’, and I thought the galls
would laugh so loud he’d hear ’em, but he
kep a sneezin in spite of all he could do.
” Now ” ses Muiy.g” aint that too had, to
fool anybody that way—jest think how you
would feel in that old bag what’s been full
of stinkin old chicken feathers for so lnn<r,”
“ ‘I hat’s a fact” ses 1, hut I couldn’t help
laughin all the time.
Pete cleared his throte a time or two, and
every now arid then he fetched a kind of a
smothered up sneeze, and then the dogs
would hark. You better keep your mouth
shut, old feller, thinks 1, if you don’t wanf*
to git your wind pipe lined with chicken
feathers. Every now and then the jice
would shake as Pete kep turniri and twistin
round, try in to git fixed comfortable, but I
knew ther was no comfort in that bag, even
if it had nofethers in it ; and then when I
thought what a terrible disappintment was
wait in for him in tiie mornin, I couldn’t help
pit yin him from the bottom of my hart.
It was a long time before we could goto
sleep, but 1 diapt off after a while, and
didn’t wake til mornin. I was mighty anx
i< us to see how the thing was gwine to turn
out, and got reddy long before aunt Prissy
come to see what was in her hag—the galls
was up by day light too, to see the fun. No
body went out till all the niggers front the
kitchen had got round the bag.
*• Whoop e e-e ! ’ ses little nigger Ned,
“Mammy! see what’s dat hangin on de
porch.”
“ Kilt! ses old ant Hetty, dat mus he ole
Santaclaus heself, fell in dar when he was
puttin lasses candy for Pi is, and cant get
out.”
Pete never said nothin, vvaitin for the
galls to come.
“Oh! Miss Calline and MissKeziah.come
see what 1 got in my bag,” ses Pris. “ 1
spec its something w'hat uncle Friday
fotch from Gust a, he sed he was gwine to
give me a Crismus.”
By this time the galls was on the porch,
and the niggers unswuug the hag, and out
tumbled Pete,all kivered with feathers from
head to foot, so you couldn’t see his eyes,
mouih, whiskers nor nothin else.
“ Whew! ” ses he, as soon as he got his
bed out, and the fethers flew all o\er the
floor, which skeered the little niggers so
they split to the kitchen squalliu like the
very old devil was after ’em.
” Good Lord, ntassa Pete!” ses ant Pris
sy, “ dat you in my bag l 1 thought ’em was
something good.”
“Your bag!” ses Pete, drat your infer
nal picter, who told you to hang up a bag,
for white folks to go and git into 1 Never
mind. Miss Keziah, 1 was only in fun anv
way,” ses he, while they was all laughin fit
to die, and lie was tryin to brush off’ the
feathers. “ Never mind, I was only jokin
with you, but I had a better opinion of you
than to think you would serve a body so,
and ding my feathers if I aint glad I’ve found
you out. Never mind, Miss,” ses he, and
lie gin her a look like he could- hit her hed
off, and then he blowed his nose a time or
two and put out.
” But aint you gwine to lie as good as your
word, docter I” ses she.
“ You, jest go to grass,” ses he, and that’s
the last we’ve seed of cousin Pete sense
Crismus mornin. v
Mary gave the galls a rite good settin
down for servin him so. But for my part I
think it aint no great matter, for he is such a
bominablefool.tliat afevV pretty hard lessons
wont do him no ha^nm^L
Well, the ’lection is over, and the way old
Withlamacoochy has laid out the Hero of
Leather’s Ford is mazin to the Lnkyfokys.
1 should think by this time they ought to be
satisfied that a pretty considerable majority
of the people of Georgia is Bank-Federal-
Clay-British-Whigs, and posed to their own
interests and agin free goverment, and all
that. But if they want any more “lights”
before ’em to convince ’em that they aint the
biggest half of Georgia, after the two last
’lections, all they’ve got to do is to w'ait til
next fall, when old Harry ’ll row ’em up Salt
Rivet jest so fur that they cant paddle back
in se\ eral ger.eiations to come. The fact is,
lokyfoky principles is very much like lokyfo
ky matches; them kind of matches ’ll do
wry well to make a light as long as you
keep ’em close, but you mustn’t expose ’em
to the weather—so will lokyfoky principles
do very well to enlighten the dear people
jest before ’lections, but they’ve been expos
ed too much to the searching atmospheie of
Whig argyment and reason in Georgia, and
‘.he consequence is, you may rub ’em and rub
’em agin the hard horse sense of our people
til you’r tired and you can’t raise a single
spark of confidence in ’em.
I cant help but laugh sometimes when I
see w'hat monstrous cfliuts the lokyfokys in
Congress is makin to swing themselves onto
the coat tail of old General Jackson’s popi
larity. Its a grate pity his military fame
couldn't be bottled up like the essence of
roses —then they could keep it and sprinkle
its odors over the mortifyin corruptions of
ther party, jest whenever it was necessary.
They seem very anxious to perserve it in
some shape, and nothin seems to please
’em so well as to be spendin the people’s
money in whitevvashin the old Hero's
character. They spent about a million of
dollars, and disgraced the records of | bo
Senate, to git the Expungin Resolution
passed—that was to operate on Mr. Van
Boren’s first ’lection—and now all to once
they are kickin up a terrible rumpus about
the fine that Judge Hall put on him for