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Kissing no Bobbery.
“Oh! quit—get out—now don't you—
I really wish you wouldn’t!
Oil ! quit—will you ! Oil, get out —
You kuow you ought to shouldn t.
“There now, you’ve got it—oil, be still!
You shan’t have any more !
You've got —oh, take your f.icc away—
What no man lias got before.
“One more—there that will do—oh, doll ft
You’ve rumpled up my hair ;
If you'll but quit, I’ll give you one—
take it—there —there —theic !
Like. This life, is one of those sad scenes,
which when thoroughly comtemplated makes
meu doubt. To weigh the good mid ill that wo
enjoy in reason’s scale, adds melancholy to des
pair. It shews that all our pleasing enjoyments
are so transient and scarcely perceivable, that we
just have time to taste, and they are gone
as if they never were.
Misfortune is unpleasant in her turn, and pre
sents many an ugly picture to our view; and
even prosperity, so desirable, with all her
charms, so smiling and alluring, is so brief and
uncertain, that we may consider it but a phan
tom to amuse the mind.
To consider things ns they are, to throw off
the veil, and to behold the primitive realitires,
makes me sensible, that the much striven for
palm, riches, arc fleeting ; that grandeur and the
world's applause, is hut merely fancy’s bubble,
useful but a short time at best; for all must find
a grave.
What is the solemn dirge of death, to the car
of clay ! Or the plaudits of the world, to the
"tunes of the dead? They serve for naught.
Why then, continual striving? ’Tis God's be.
best, and must be obeyed, but is none the less
unreal; for seen if nature continues immutable,
*o all shall quit fancy's scenery, for a more
solemn one. The the wise and the foolish, the
•Nonarch and the slave, the rich and the poor,
Will in fame, power and wealth, be equal. Ah !
Vo ambitious few. Leaders of the world
though your enjoyments be ere so great, you
must soon fall oil', giving your posferity the
token, and they theirs in return, all to be in
volved in one common mass.
Tux Selfish Mam.—A few days since, says
| B'c City item, wo read an account of a man who,
[ bavin, accumulated a property, said to
himself, “soul thou hast much goods laid up for
many years—take thine ease—eat, drink and be
merry,” and, it is added, that notwithstanding
his great wealth and fancied security lie was cut
efT that very night.
Ihis little story made us very sad, and yet the
originals of the picture so vividly drawn, may
he found in every walk of life. Thousands
upon thousands, like this poor fellow, centre all
dieir hopes on the accumulation of wealth—they
turn a deaf car to the piteous talo of honest
j poverty—they think of nothing but self, self,
I Sr -H i and when they have amassed a great pro-
P er 'y, death stares them out of countenance —
I 'heir souls are required of them, and they die
I "murning an ill-spent life.
I We arc very tar from sneering at those who
I " lre to lay up something for the support of de
| h "' ln ß years, but we would have every one re-
I 1 mber lug accountability to his Maker, and
I Ull > tolellmv man. As lifuisshortandun
""i let us do good while uc may ; and let
’’ list drive selfishness from our hearts
THE SOUTHERN TRIBUNE.
NEW SERIES —VOLUME 11.
solft C c a l.
From the Augusta Constitutionalist.
The Right of Secession.
It is to be hoped that the time will nev
er arrive in the South when it shall be
come necessary to demonstrate, by argu
ment, the right of a State to secede from the
Union. On this subject, hitherto, the opin
ion of the whole South has been unani
mous, or so nearly unanimous as to cre
ate no serious division among our people.
No political party at the South has yet
dared to proclaim as a tenet of its creed,
that a State has not the right to secede
from the Union whenever she may, in her
sovereign will, choose to do so.
We had supposed that this was the doc
trine held by the Washington Union,
which claims to be a firm advocate of State
rights and State sovereignty. It has ever
since its establishment, been distinguish
ed for its vehement appeals to the people
to resist the march of federal enchroach
meut, and the insidious steps by which
power is liable to become consolidated in
the General Government at the expense
of the rights of the sovereign States of
the Confederacy. When General Jackson,
under the impulse of great emergency, and
by the momentary influence of counsels
too deeply imbned with federalism, put
forth his proclamation against South Car
oliriia, the Richmond Enquirer, then under
the editorial charge of the senior editor of
the Union, protested against its latitudina
rian doctrines, and its fedetal heresies.—
No feature in that proclamation was more
bitterly assailed by the whole State Rights
press of Virginia and the South, than that
which denied the right ofa State to secede
from the Union. General Jackson him
self afterwards manfully ad mited that he
lmd gone too far and qualified some of the
most offensive of the positions assumed in
that proclamation—among them this very
position. Had he not done so, his popu
larity in the South would have been forev
er prostrated.
We recall these facts because we fancy
taht the Washington Union is now despos
ed to shrink from indentifyiug itself with
this doctrine of the right of secession. In
its issue of the 21st inst., in defining its
position to its Southern supporters, the
following passage occurs, one sentence of
which we iutalicise :
“On the other hand, some of our friends
from the South take exception to our
course, because we avow unqualifiedly our
attachment to tbe Union. They allege
that such unqualified declarations are uu
wise and unpatriotic, Inasmuch as they
deny to the people that right which all
people, under all forms of government,
claim, viz: the right of revolution—the
right to resist oppression, when the duties
and the relations which exist between the
government and the citizens have been
i ulhlessly broken and trampled upon by
the former. In reply to this, we have
supposed that we were always addressing
intelligent men, and that there was no need
of our always qualifying a declaration in
favor of the preservation of the Union,
with an additional declaration that the
light of resislence and revolution existed,
when the government of the Union had
transcended its legitimate powers pre
scribed in the constitution, and had be
come so oppressive upon the people and
the States as to render such a measure
justifiable in the judgment of the civilized
world. That right (to say nothing of the
right of secession in a confederacy of States,
which many citizens, faithful and loyal to
the Union, believe the States possess) exists
in all nations, and under all forms of gov
ernment. It is an inalienable right of ihe
people—an insuperable condition of their
existence. It is given to them by God
himself, of which the most potent despot
who has ever yet cursed and afflicted man
kind cannot divest them. It exists in the
firm] purposes, the unconquerable will,
and the physical power of the people. It
is above and beyond all governments, and
must be exercised in defiance of them.—
We suppose that these self-evident truths
were understood by all, and that this U
nion, as well as all other forms of govern
ment, existed subject to the condiiion that
if it violated its powers, and became so
oppressive to the people and the States as
to justify, in the judgment of the world, a
resort to tli eultima ratio of nations, it
must submit to the fate which befalls gov
ernments, thus derelict to the paramount
and transceudant obligation which they
owe to the people. Therefore, we did
not suppose that whenever we express our
unqualified attachment to the Union, any
body could be found who would persuade
himself into the beliel that we denied
thesefundmental conditions upon which all
governments rest, and which every ration
al and intelligent man concedes.
Now this l ight of secession is here bare
ly alluded to in a parenthesis, is a doctrine
held by a comparative handful of citizens.
“Call ye this backing your friends,” The
allusion, despite its respectful words, lias
a cavanier and disparaging air about it.—
Those citizens, the Union says, who ven
ture to hold this opinion, thus parenlhi
cally alluded to, are nevertheless very
faithful and loyal citizens. It is a mere
harmless speculative opinion. It could,
under no circumstances, disturb tlieUnion.
It would never he invoked to practicle
use, for the handful of citizens who hold
the opiuoin, aio very faithful and loyal t»
the. Union — very. It is a mere iilletheory
of theirs. If this is not “damning with faint
MACON, (GA„) SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, ISSO.
praise,” by a quondam advocate of it, a
dcctrinc which lies attlie foundation ofState
Rights and State Sovereignty, then the
manner of saying a thing has no longer
any significance.
Whenever the people of the South yield
the right of secession—the right of a
State to withdraw from the federal com
pact, whenever in the opinion of the sov
ereign people constituting that State, it is
expedient for her to do so, then State sov
! ereignty is an unsubstantial thing—a mock
ery and a delusion. Then the people
must realize that the government is not a
league—a confederacy of sovereign States,
but a consolidated empire, calling itself a
Republic.
The very term sovereignty implies the
idea of power in a State to act as a unit,
and with an independent regard for its
own rights and interests. The very term
confederacy implies that the panics to it
are not a consolidated mass of people, act
ing as such in forming it, but distinct and
independent communities, each acting for
itself. The history of the formation of the
confederacy is in consonance with this ob
vious view. Each State came into the
confederacy as a State separately, each
acting for itself. Rhode Island and N.
Carolina did not come in until some
months after the other eleven had done so.
When the States go ont of the confedera
cy, if they ever do, they will go out, each
as a State acting for itself.
That this event should ever take place
is to be deprecated. It is sincerely to be
hoped that no such dire necessity should
ever be forced upon any one or more of
the sovereign members of this confedera
cy. But it is not the less the duty of ev
ery sincere advocate of the sovereignty of
the States to insist upon this right of seces
sion, and on all proper occasions, to give
it a prominent position. It scarcely less
than an insult to “many citizens,” “faith
ful and loyal to the Union ” withal, to poke
this right into a parenthesis, as something
little worth, and dilate at the same time in
senorous paragraphs upon the inalienable
right of revolution.
The serfs of Russia—the poor, misera
ble, starling peasantry of Ireland, have
that light. It is the gift of God in com
mon to all, the mostwietched of his crea
tures. But the people of the sovereign
States, at the South, claim the right of
secession by States—as a clear and un
qualified right. There was no earthly
power authorized to force them into the
Union. None has been created,orintend
ed to he created, to force them to stay in.
It id a matter of free choice in the first in
stance. It must remain a matter of free
choice. More especially is it true, that
no State is under any obligation, politic
al or moral, to remain in the Union a sin
gle day after the terms of that Union are
deliberately violated, and her reserved
rights invaded by the Government which
is the common agent of all the parties to
the federal compact.
This doctrine is essential to the slave
holding South—the weaker portion of the
confederacy in the Union, hut abundantly
able to take care of herslf oul of it. Let
heryieid it, and it is impossible fur the
imagination to place a limit on the amount
of oppression and wrong that will be per
petrated upon her by the free States.
The Slavery Agitation. —There is a
homely maxim that “it is ati ill wind that
blows nobody good.” When the slavery
agitation began to assume a threalning as
pect, that is, within two or three years,
we regarded it as a Pandora’s box tilled
with unmittigated evils. But we have
had time to look around us, and pregnant
with mischief as we supposed, ands ill
believe it to be, it recalls to mind the max
im we have quoted. The taunts and le
velings of the North have engendered bit
ter prejudices among us, and these are
becoming deeper seated astlie provocation
continues. This is to be lamented, and
we would that it were otherwise. But we
are not to blame because it is not so.—
The North has provoked it by a series of
outrages and wrongs that are as familiar to
every Southron as household words. The
consequnces are becoming apparent. —
The South is seeking to become indepen
dent of the North by encouraging manu
factures of every sort at home. We
scarcely open one of our Southern Ex
changes without seening an account of
some new manufactory, of cotton, iron or
wood, springing up in our midst. And
what is an encouragement to still greater
advances turning our labor into these chan
els is found to be profitable. It must
therefore go on, till Northern pockets w ill
surely feel the loss of Southern custom.
But this is not all. Since the North has
become expert at kidnapping ournegioes,
our people have learned to stay at home.
Not one in ten of those among us, who
spent their summers at the North ten
years ago, now show their faces there.—
Mineral waters in many localities have
been discovered. Bathing and other pla
ces of recreation have sprung up among
us, w here, with the luxuries of life in pro
fusion. our people cf leisure and of means,
spend their summers, secure from the in
solent sneers of the fanatic and with their
property safe from the kidnapper. These
results are gratifying, though the causes of
estrangement that have produced them,
are every way to be deplored. It might
have been far otherwise, il the consetva
tjve spirit of the North had not suffered it
self to be beatded by fanaticism, till it
shrunk back into passive submission to
her fiercedictates. And we have no doubt
the same spirit would have been prompt
enough to stand up for the simple rights
of her best customer had she seen to what
results tbe agitation tended. But it is
now discovered when it is too late. We
learn that letters have been pouring into
Washington, from Northern busiuess hous
es, during this session, entreating their
members to compromise the proviso ques
tion and allay the agitation. We shall
soon see whether their entreaties will be
heeded. But whether they are or not,
the deep seated determination of the South
to become independent,Vannot be arrested.
Mobile Register.
From the Madison Family Visitor.
The Old Jlan and the Snow Flake :
A Fable.
BY MISS C. W. BARBER.
’Tis Nature's law.
That none—the meanest of created things —
Offorms created the most vile and british,
The dullest or most noxious, shall exist,
Divorced from good.— Wordsworth.
Near the close of a rough autumn day, a
weary man sat down beneath the naked
branches of an aged oak. His garments
were worn threadbare, and his teeth chat
tered in the wind which swept in fitful
gusts around him.
“Oh,” said he, “this is a wicked world !
The smiles of Fortune are as changeful as
an April day—one moment sunshine, the
next shade. I never thought thatlshould
he as poor as I am now, that 1 should ever
come to this. There was a time when I
was blithe as a lark and gay as the mor
ning. My pockets were well filled with
gold and silver—friends bowed and smi
led around me—a happy wife and rosy
cheeked children were mine. But my
riches ‘took to themselves wings,’ and my
friends deserted me—my wife is dead and
my children cry for a crust of bread. A
las ! alas ! how sad is my condition !”
A snow-flake which had listened to the
poor man’s moans, looked out from beneath
a withered leaf, ami thus addressed him :
“Ah! my good friend, l am sorry to
hear such complaints from you. It will do
no good for you to wear that settled look
of despair. The best thing we can do in
adversity is to ‘hope on—hope ever !’ as
sweet Mary Howitt hath said. My life
has, in some respects, resembled yours.
1 was a brilliant rain-drop once, and floa
ted in the bosom of the blue cloud, or slept
in the bell of the lily or at the heart of the
rose. The summer birds waved their
wings and sung their sweetest soties above
me. Sometimes the beautiful belle, who
was bound for the ball-room, took me upon
hei'jewelled linger to bathe her brow and
lips, and when 1 returned to earth again 1
joined the noisy stream and dashed onward
to the green waters of the ecean. My
life seemed one long sunny day of delight.
But this blighting, freezing weather came,
and I was congealed into a flake of snow,
now I am blown about by every saucy
wind, lfl presume to kiss the cheek of
the gay damsel, she brushes me oft’ with
her fur-covered finger and shivers to let
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not admitted into the halls of the rich, and
even the beggar seeks to expel me from
his hovel.
“But 1 am far from despairing; 1 am |
going to observe everything that trauspi- j
res around me and note down all my wants j
so that 1 may kuow, if I ever again be-1
come a rain-drop, how to pity the flake ofj
snow.”
Just then a sudden guest of wind turn
ed the leaf over beneath which the snow
flake was hidden, and a yellow sunbeam :
came and melted it. Its feathery form \
assumed that of a brilliant crystal. A
smile of delight came to the lips of the
way-faring man.
“ Oh,” said he, “what a foolish fellow
I was to think that the wheel of Fortune
would always keep me down. I shall yet
rise above all want; I sec my fate mir
ored in that rain drop. 1 will arise and
go my way with a cheerful heart, while 1
keep a sharp look-out for the sunbeams
of fortune."
Vegetable Ivory. —This extraordin
ary nut from the solidity it acquires at a
certain age, is rendered an object of pecu
liar interest and astonishment to those who
contemplates the economy of the vegata
bie world. The shell or outer covering
of the nut is barley as thick as that ol the
common hazel, and is so extremely hard
that no instrument will make an impres
sion on it. It is only removed from the
kernel by pressure. Bears and other ani
mals are said to eat tbe nut with avidity,
ere it has acquired its solid state, and de
rive considerable nourishment theiefrom.
The learned Dr. Ludley classes the tree
among the family of the palms, and it is
common in the Mascaren Islands, where
it is called the Tagua Plant. Persons
describe the nut and its shell as being en
closed in a prickly head or drupe, ihe
kernel, in an early state, includes a limpid
liquor which become milkey and sweet,
and at length acquircres the solidity of
ivory.
The Indians cover their cottages with
the largest leaves, and the English manu
facture all kinds of fancy articles in the
nut, which, in color, surpasses the elephant
ivory. The shavings of this plant, when
boiled, afford a milkey liquor, and are not
at. all gelatinous, as the shavings or dust of
the ivory are known to be when boiled
down. — New Haven (Conn-) Reg-
Thoughts for a l'euiig HI au.
Were a young man to write down a list
of his duties, Health should be among the
first items in the catalogue. This is no
exaggeration of its value ; for health is in
dispensable to almost every form of human
enjoyment; it is the grand auxiliary of
usefulness; and .should a man love the
Lord his God, with all his heart and soul
and mind and strength, he would have ten
times more heart and soul and mind and
strentgth to love Him with, in the vigor of
health, than under the palsy of disease.
Not only the amout, but the quality of the
labor which a man can perform, depends
upon his health. The work savors of the
workman. It the poet sicknes, his verse
sickens; if black, venous blood flowers to
an author's brain, it beclouds his pages;
and the devotions of a consumptive man
scent of his disease as Lord Byron’s
obscenities smell of gin. Not only "lying
lips,” but a dyspeptic stomach, is an
abomination to the Lord. At least in this
life, so dependent is mind upon ma
terial organization,—the functions and
manifestations of the soul upon the body
it inhabits, —that the meteiialist hardly
states practical results too strongly, when
he affirms that thought and passion, wit,
imagination, and love, ate only emanations
from exquisitely organized matter, just as
perfume is the effluence of flowers, or I
mustic the ethereal product of an .Eolian
harp.
In regard to the indulgence of uppetite,
and the management of the vital organs,
society is still in a state of barbarism, and
the young man who is true to his highest
interests must create a civilization for him
self. The brutish part of our nasure
governs the spiritual. Appetite is Nicho
las the 1‘ iist, and the noble faculties of
mind and heart are Hungarian captives.—
Were we to see a rich banker exchanging
eagles for coppers by tale, or a rich mer
chant bartering silk for serge by the pound,
we should deem them worthy of any epi
thet in the vocabulary of folly. Yet the
same men buy pains whose prime cost is
greater than the amplest fund of natural
enjoyments. Then purveyor and mar
ket man bring them home head aches, and
indigestion, and neuralgia, by hamperfuls.
Their butler bottles up stone, and gout,
and the liver-complaint, falsely labelling
them sherry, madeira, oi port, and the
stultified masters have not sense enough
to detect the cheat. The mass of society
look with envy upon the epicuie, who, day
by day, for four hours of luxurious eatiug,
sutt'ers twenty hours of sharp aching; who
pays a lull prire £»r n K«.t. suoner. aiul is
so pleased with the bargain, that he throws
in a sleepless and tempestuous night, as a
gratuity. English factory children have
received the commiseration of the world,
because they were scourged to work
eighteen hours out of tweny-four ; but
there is many a theoretic republican who
is a harsher Pharaoh to his stomach than
this ; who allows it no more resting-time
than he does his watch ; who gives it no
Sunday, no holiday, no vacation in any
sense. Our attces.ors enacted a law that
suicides should be buried where four
roads meet, aod that a cart-ioad of stones
should be thrown upon the body. Yet,
when gentlemen or ladies commit suicide,
not by cord or steel, but by turtle-soup or
lobster salad, they may be buried in con
secrated ground, and under the auspices
of the church, and the public are not
ashamed to read an epitaph upon their
tombstones, false enough to make the mar
ble blush. Were the barbarous law now
in force that punished the body of the
suicide for the offence which his soui had
committed, we should find many a Mount
Auburn at the cross-roads. Is it not hu
miliating and amazing, that men, invited
by the exalted pleasures of the intellect,
and the sacred affections of the heart, to
cornc to a banquet worthy of the gods,
should stop by the way-side to feed on
garbage, or to drink of the Circean cup
that transforms them to swine!
If a young man, incited by selfish prin
ciples alone, inquires how he shall make
his appetite yield him the greatest amount
of gratification, the answer is by Temper
ance. The true epicurean art consists in
the adaptation of our organs not only to
the highest, but to the longest enjoyment.
Vastly less depends upon the table to
which tve sit down, than upon the appetite
which we carry to it. The palled epicure,
who spends five dollars for his dinner, ex
tracts less pleasure from his meal than
many a hardy laborer who dines for a
shilling. The desideratum is, not greater
luxuries, but livelier pupil Ice ; and if the
devotee of appetite would propiate his
divinity aright, he would not send to the
Yellowstone for buffaloes’ tongues, nor to
France for pate tie fuis gras, but would
climb a mountain, ot swing an axe. With
health, there is no end to the quantity or
the variety from which the palate can ex
tract its pleasures. Without health, no
delicacy that nature or art produces can
provoke a zest. Hence, when a man de
stroys his health, he destroys, 60 far as he
is concerned, whatever of flavor, and of
savor the teeming earth can produce. lo
him who has poisoned his appetite by ex
cesses, the luscious pulp of grape or peach,
the nectareous juices of orange or pine
apple, are but a loathing and a nausea.
He has turned gardens and groves of deli
cious fruit into gaulens and groves of
ipecac, and aloes. The same vicious in
dulgeucca that blasted bis health, blasted
all old:aids and catie fields also. Verily,
BOOK AND JOB PRINTING,
Will be executed in the most approved stile
and on the best terms,at the Office of the
SCTJTHEP.IT TPwlßtriTPl,
—BY—
WM. B. HARRISON.
the man who is physiologically “ wicked”
does not live out half his duys; nor is this
the worst of his punishment, for he is
more than half dead while he appears to
live.
Let the young man then remember,
that, for every offence which he commits
against tbe laws of health, nature will
bring him into judgment. However gra
ciously God may deal with the heart, all
experience proves that he never pardons
stomach, muscles, lungs, or brain. These
must expiate their offences j/n-vicariously.
What wreck so shocking to behold as the
wreck of a dissolute man; the vigor of
life exhausted, and yet the first step in an
honorable career not taken; in himself a
lazar-liouse of disease ; dead, but by a
heathenish custom of society; not buried !
Hogues have had the initial letter of their
title burnt into the palms of their hands ;
even for murder, Cain was only branded
on the forehad ; but over the whole per
son of the debauchee or the inebriate, the
signatures of infamy are written. How
nature brands him with stigma and oppro
brium ! How she hangs labels all over
him, to testify her disgust at his existence,
and to admonish others to beware of his
example ! How she looses all his joints,
sends tremors along his muscles, and bends
forward his frame, as if to bring him upon
all-fours with kindred brutes, or to de
grade him to the reptile's crawling \~—
How she disfigures his countenance, as if
intent upon obliterating all traces of litr
own image, so that she may swear she nev
er made him ! How she pours rheum o
ver his eyes, sends foul spirits to inhabit
his breath, and shrieks, as with a trumpet,
from every pore of his body, “Behold a
Beast !” Such a man may be seen in
the streets of our cities every day . if rich
enough, he may be found in the saloons,
and at the tables of the “Upper Ten
hut surely, to every man of purity and
honor, to every man whose wisdom as
well as whose heart is unblemished, the
wretch who comes cropped and bleeding
from the pillory, and redolent with its ap
propriate perfumes, would be u guest or u
companion far less offensive and disgust
ing.
Now let the young ma.i, rejoicing in
his manly proportions, and in his c< meli
ness, look on this picture, and on this, and
then say, after the likeness of which model
he intends his own erect stature and su
blime countenance shall be configured.—
Hon. Horace Mann.
Farmers should take Newspapers. —
A friend of ours, whose business has
occasional travel « anrwl —«*
cently in the counties west of this, expres
ses much astonishment at the fact that
many, even rich farmers, do not take a
newspaper. He told us of one or two in
stances of the sale of hogs, of the finest
and fattest kind, at I<V cents per pound
nett, when two cents might have been got
just as readily, in the markets. He
said he had no doubt, and we have as lit
tle, that hundreds of farmers will this
season lose enough in this way to pay for
a good newspaper us long as they live.—
W e can’t help feeling sorry that men are
so short-sighted, even in regard to their
pockets, as well as the improvement of
their minds ; but we don’t know but it is
wrong to be sorry, for it is their own fault,
and they hardly deserve pi y fur losses
which they make no effort to avert. News
papers have done more for the people of
this country than can be estimated ; and
yet there are thousands of full grown men
who do notseethematall except by chance.
If a large majority were as indifferent and
solid as these, we would not be above the
level of Mexicans—and become subject to
political and other rogues, who prey upon
ignorance and credulity. —Palmetto State
Banner.
A Frenchman in Trouble. —“ Vat a
ver comical language de Anglais is!” said
a Franch gentleman the other evening, at
table.
“Do you think so 1”
“Oui, very droll; I tell you. I arriv
ed atDovers. I very much htinigeye, I look
ed in my dictionaire for‘pottage,’potage
soup—sopc. ‘Madame,’said I, *1 will take
some sope, if you please.’ In a minute de
lady beckoned me. 1 went vid her to de
chamber. ‘Dis is soap,, said she, ‘and de
water,’ ‘Pardon Madame, not savon, but
sope.’ Dis is soap.’ said she. ‘No, no,
madame, not dat potage sope.’ ‘Well
sare dis is soap.’ ‘Parbleau, Madame !de
sope —sope comprenez vons 7” ‘This is
soup.’ ‘Dal sope ! dat potage ! Madame
I am notone imbecile, one fool ! 1 want
de sope —not one lump savon soap raad
ame. But she wouldn’t understand, and
so, sare I vashed my hands vid the savon
and vent to bed. De hands ver clean—
but for want of ue sope de stomach was
very empty !”
Examining a Witness. enquir
ed the Attorney of a hurley Dutchman,
“What color was this hog when you first
knew him 1”
“Vel, ven I first became acquainted wid
de hog he was a very eetle pig, and he
wasdena'ite hog. but ven he got to be
older, he got to be kind of sandy like, and
I should den call him on de whole, a san
dy hog.”
«■ What ear marks had he.”
“ Veil, ven l first became acquainted
wid de hog, he had ne very particular car
marks, except a very short tail.”
“ Take your seat, sir,” said the Attor
ney ; “ we’ll tall the next witnecs.”
NUMBER 9.