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their departments both in the city and country. oct9
THE POET’S COBHER.~
Advance !
In the volume in which we extract this poem, there
are many others which equal it in worth; composi
tions of exceeding vigor, and of gentle and touching
beauty. The writer, Denis Florence McCarthy, is
one of those young Irishmen, to the proverbially rich
fancy inherent in his countrymen, adds the scholastic
learning which circumstances have placed so abundant
ly within the reach of his countrymen. His book is
full of ‘ line things,’ marred, it may be, occasionally,
by that misdirected judgment which imagines or cre
ates a wrong, in order that poetry may protest against
it. This is neither the place nor the occasion either
to maintain or to question Irish grievances; be they |
real or not, now-a-days, that they have been many i
and terrible in old times, is beyond question ; and the !
bard may be excused for perpetrating themes too apt
for sorrow, Mr. McCarthy may be ranked foremost !
among the great poets of whom his country lias been j
so productive in ail ages of her history.
God bade the Suu with golden step sublime
Advance!
He whisper’d ip the listening ear of Time,
Advance!
lie bade the guiding Spirit of the Stars,
With lightning speed, in silver cars,
Along the bright door of li;s ayurg lialli
Advance!
Sun, Stars, and Time obey the voice, and all
Advance !
The river at its bubbling fountain cries,
Advance J
Tbe clouds proclaim, like heralds, through the skies,
Advance!
Throughout the world, the mighty Master’s laws
Allow not one brief moment’s idle pause,
The earth is full of life, the swelling seeds
Advance!
And summer hours, like flowery harness'd steeds,
Advance!
To man's most wondrous hand, the same voice cried,
Advance !
Go clear the woods, and o’er the bounding tide
Advance!
Go draw the marble from its secret bed,
Aud make the cedar bend its giant head ;
Let domes and columns through the wandering air
Advance !
The world, O man !is thine. But wouldst thou
share,
Advance!
Unto the sonl of man the same voice spoke,
Advance !
From the chaos, thunderlike, it broke,
Advance!
Go track the corpet ip its wheeling race,
And drag the Ijghtping from ‘l s hiding place ;
From out the night of ignorance and fears,
Advance!
For love and hope, borne by the coming years,
Advance!
All heard, ami some obeyed the great command,
Advance!
It passed along from listening land to land,
Advance!
The strong grew stronger, and the weak grew
strong,
As passed the war cry of the world along—
Awake ye nations, know your powers and rights,
Advance !
Through Hope and Work, to Freedom’s pew de
lights,
Advanpe!
Knowledge came down, apd waved hep steady torch,
Advance!
Sages proclaim’d Will many a marble porch,
Advance !
As rapid lightning leaps from peak to peak,
The Gaul, the Goth, the Roman, and the Greek,
The painted Briton, caught the wjnged word,
Advance !
And earth grew young, and enroll'd as a bird,
Advance!
Oh! Ireland—oh ! my country, wilt tbou not
Advance ?
M ill thou not share the world’s progressive lot?
Advance!
Mpst seasons change, and countless years roll on,
And thou remain a darksome Ajalon ?
And never see the crescent moon of Hope
Advance!
’Tis time thine heart and eye had wider scope
Advance!
Dear brothers, wake! look up ! be firm, be strong !
Advance !
The chains have fall’n from off wasted hands,
And every man a seeming freedman stands,
But ah ! ‘tis in the soul that freedom dwells, —
Advance !
Proclaim that then thou wear'st no manacles,
Advance!
Advance | thou must advance or perish now, —
Advance!
Advance! Why live with wasted heart aud bfow ?
Advance!
Advance ! Or sink at once into the grave ;
Be bravely free, or arllijlly a slave !
Why fret thy master, if thou must have one ?
Advance J
‘•‘Advance three sleps, the glorious work is done,
Advance!
The first is Courage—'tis a giant stride !
Advance !
With boundless steps up Freedom’s rugged side
Advance!
Knowledge will leap ye to the dazzling heights,
Tolerance will teach and guard your brother’s
rights,
Faint not! for thee a pitying Future waits—
Advance!
Be wise; be just; with will as fix’d as l ate s,
Advance!
MACON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 5, 1853.
From the Hartford Times,
Wife and Home.
Air—“ A mans a man for ’
I.
Let rakes extol a roving life,
Os freedom prate, and all that,
Os noisy brats and scolding wife,
And doctor’s bills, and all that,
Though fools may rail, and jest, and scoff,
A wife’s the thing, for all that;
The time, they’ll find, is not far off,
MTien so they’ll think, for all that.
ii.
’Tis true, when youth and fortune smile,
And health is firm, and all that ;
M'hen wine, and song, and dance beguile,—
Variety, and all that;
M’hen every place where’er you roam
Has jolly friends, and all that:
You want for neither wife nor home,
Nor sympathy, nor all that.
HI.
But age comeson, with stealthy pace,
And sober thoughts, and all that;
Trouble will show her frowning face,
Sickness, and pain, and all that;
The feast, the bowl, will lose their powers,
And revelry, and all that;
Then shall we need, to cheer the hours,
A wife, and home, and all that.
IV.
Oh ! u when misfortune clouds the brow,’’
Disease and death, and all that,
Then “ woman, then an angel thou,”
To 6oothe, and cheer, and all that;
Thy gentle cares beguile our pains,
Our sleepless nights, and all that;
Thy voice the sighing soul su-tains,
With hope and trust, and all that.
A. Benedict.
am m
KISSING.
Kissing is a science in itself, and just in proportion
as it is more delicious and tpiriluelle than any other
earthly bliss, it requires to be delicately managed.
Here is a racy description of a touching little kissing
scene:
THE KIS^.
Oh no—oh no—for shame! pray not so fast:
Why, you begin, I see, to grow unruly^
What though 1 suffered you my hand to clasp,
I did not give you leave to kiss me, surely }
Why, sir, I really am quite shock’d, I vow,
To see of late how very rude you grow,
What w< uM my mother say ? I dare not think ’
Oh dear, if she had caught us ! how I tremble!
I'm afraid, to night, I shall not sleep a wink—
Ah, think how you'll oblige me to dissemble !
Haw I shall blush, if I but meet your eye !
Indeed, ‘twas very wrong, you can't deny.
Pray, pray remove ygur arm from round niy waist,
I must not suffer you to sit so near me ;
I’m ’fraid ’twasr wrong to be so close embrac'd.
You mean no good by doing so, l fear me.
My mother warn’d me of you to take heed —-
I did not think poll'd be so bold ‘; indeed.
Fray don’t approach your lips so close to mine.
As you do now—you now there’s no one listening;
Why you should whisper, then, I can’t divine.
And see, your eyes are now with mischief glistening.
Oh, if you dare again attempt another—-
Why, really sir, l shall inform my mother.
But if you must do such a naughty tiling,
And what so oft you’ve said is true —you love me,
Perhaps, dear youth, a simple golden ring,
To grant such favors might have power to move me ;
M’ere I your wife, of course ’twould not be wrong,
And then you’d, if you pleased, kiss all day long.
SC ELLA WV
A View of Our Country.
The world offers no parallel bv which to mea
sure our progress, whether we wish to compare
in its rapid growth, political power, population,
or in the acquisition of adjoining territory.—
VVe stand a nation unexampled in all these re
spects ; we have at present thirty-one indepen
dent States, and four organized Territories.—
Since the adoption of the Federal Constitution,
seventeen new States have been admitted in
to the Union.
Vermont was the first of these new States.
Tt originally’ formed part of the territory of
New York, and was admitted into the family
of States March 4th, 1701-
Kentucky came next. She originally formed
part of the territory of Virginia, and was ad
mitted into the Union June Ist, 1792.
Tennessee followed. She was ceded to the
United States by the State of North Carolina,
and was admitted into the Union June Ist,
1796.
Ohio was formed out of a part of the terri
tory northwest of of the Ohio River, which ter
ritory was ceded to the United States by Vir
ginia. She became an independent State on
Nov. 20th, 180 g.
Louisiana formed part of the territory peded
to the United Stales by France, by a treaty
made in 1803- She bepame an independent
State on the Bkh of April, 18 J 2.
Indiana was formed out of a pa ,- t of the
Northwestern Territory, ceded to the United
States by Virginia; aud she became an inde
pendent State on December 11, 1816.
Mississippi was formed out of territory ceded
to the United States by Soufh Carolina, and
she was admitted into the Union December
10, 1817.
Illinois was formed out of a part of the
Northwestern Territory, ceded to the United
States by Virginia, and became one of the
States of the Union on December 3d, }BIB.
Alabama was formed out of part of the terri
tory ceded to the United States by South Car
olina and Georgia. She became an independ
ent State on December 14th, 1819.
Maine was formed out of a part of the terri
tory of Massachusetts, and she was admitted
into the Union as an independent State op tbe
loth of March, 1820.
Missouri was formed out of the territory,
acquired from France in 1803, by treaty. She
formed a part of the Louisiana territory, and
became an independent State on August 10th,
1821.
Arkansas was ajso formed out of the territo
ry ceded by France by the treaty of 1803, and
she was admitted into tbe Union on June the
15th 1836,
Michigan was formed out of territory ceded
to the United States by Virginia, and was ad
mitted into the Union Jan. 20, 1837-
Florida was formed out of the territory ce
ded to the United States by Spain, by the trea
ty of 1819, and was admitted into the Union,
March 3, 1845.
Texas was an independent Republic, and was
admitted into the Union as an independent
State by Joint resolution of Congress, which
resolution was approved by the President, Dec.
18, 1845.
lowa was formed out of the Wisconsin terri
tory, and was admitted into the Union, Doc.
28, 1846.
Wisconsin was formed out of territory of
Michigan, and became an independent State,
Dec. 21, 1847.
California was acquired by treaty from Mexi
co, and was admitted into the Union, July 16,
1850.
These, together with the 13 Colonial States,
make the 31. Besides we have at present four
organized territorial governments—the Terri
tories of Oregon, Minnesota, Utah and New
Mexico.
The following will show who are the pres
ent Governors of these States and Territories,
their annual salaries, length of time for which
they are elected, and when their terms will ex
pire.
Maine— John Hubbard, Governor; salary,
SI.500: term of office, 1 year; expires Jan.
1853.
New Hampshire —Noah Martin, Governor ;
salary, SI,OOO ; term of office, 1 year; expires
June, 1853.
Vermont —Erast us Fairbanks, Governor; sal
ary, $750; term of office, 1 year; expires Oct.
1853.
Massachusetts— John H. Clifford, Governor;
salary, 2,500 ; term of office, I year; expires,
Jan. 1254.
Rhode Island —Philip Allen, Governor; sal
ary, 400; term office, 1 year; expires May,
1853.
Connecticut —Thomas H. Seymour, Gover
nor; salary, $1,100; term of office, 1 year;
expires, May, 1853.
New York —Horatio Seymour, Governor ;
salary, $4,000; term of office, 2 years; ex
pires, Jan. 1855.
New Jersey —George F. Fort, Governor; sal
ary, SI,BOO and fees; term of office, 3 years;
expires, Jan. 1854.
Pennsylvania —William Bigler, Governor;
salary, $3,000; term of office, 3 years; expires,
Jan. 1855.
Delaware —William IL Ross, Governor; sal
ary, $1,333 1-3; term of office, 4 years; expires,
Jan. 1853.
Maryland —Enoch L. Lowe, Governor; sala
ry, $3,600 and fees; term of office, 4 years; ex
pires, Jan. 1853.
Virginia —Joseph Johnson, Governor , sala
ry, $5,000; term of office, 3 years; expires,
Jan. 1856.
North Carolina —David S. Reid, Governor;
salary, $2,000 and fees; term of office, 2 years;
expires, Jau. 1855.
South Carolina —Wtn.fi. Aitken, Governor;
salary, $3,500 ; term of office, 2 years ; expires,
Dec. 1854.
Georgia —Howell Cobb, Governor; salary,
$3,000; term of office, 2 years; expires, Nov.
1853,
Florida —Thomas Brown, Governor; salary,
$1,500; term of office, 4 years; expires, Oct.
1853.
Alabama —Henry W . Collier, Governor; sal
ary, $2,500 ; term of office, 2 years; expires, |
Jan, 1853.
Mississippi Henry S. Foote, Governor; sal
ary, $3,000; term of office, 2 years; expires,
Jan. 1854.
Louisiana —Jienry Bugler, Governor; salary,
$6,000; term of office, 4 years; expires, Jan.
1854.
Texas —r. Hansborough Bell, Governor;
salat y, $2,000; term of office, 2 years ; expires,
Dec. 1856.
Arkansas —Elias X. Conway. Governor; sala
ry, $1,800; term of office, 4 years; expires,
Nov. 1856.
Tennessee —Wm. B. Campbell, Governor ;
salary, $2,000; term of office, 2 years ; expires,
Oct. 1853.
Kentucky— L. W, Powell, Governor; salary,
$2,500 ; term of office, 4 years ; expires, Aug.
1855.
Ohio —Reuben W T ood, Governor; salary,
$1,800; term of office, 2 years; expires, Dec.
1854.
Michigan —Rob'L McClelland, Governor ;
salary, $1,500 ; term of office, 2 years ; expires,
Jan. 1855.
Indiana —Joseph A Wright, Governor; sal
ary, $1,300; term of office, 3 years; expires,
Jan. 1856.
Illinois— Joel A. Matteson, Governor; sala
ry, $1,500; term of office, 4 years; expires,
Jan. 1857.
Missouri —Austin A. King, Governor; sala
ry, $2,000, with use of a furnished house ; term
of office, 4 years ; expires Dec. 1856.
lowa —Stephen ljempstead, Governor; sal
ary, $1,000; term of office, 4 years; expires,
Dec. 1854-
Wisconsin —Eeonard J. Farewell, Governor;
salary, $1,250; term ol'office, 2 years ; expires,
Dec. 1853.
California —John Bigler, Governor; salary,
$10,000; term of office, % years; expires Dec.
1853.
Oregon Territory —John P. Gaines, Gover
nor ; salary $3,000, including $1,500 as Su
perintendent of Indian Affairs ; term of office,
4 years; expires Aug. 1853.
Minnesota Territory— Alexander Ramsey,
Governor; salary, $2,500, including SI,OOO
as Superintendent of Indian Affairs; term of
office, 4years; expires March 1853.
Territory qf New M e sico —William Carr
Lane, Governor; salary, $2,500, including
SI,OOO as Superintendent of Indian Affairs;
term of office, 4 years; expires, March 1855.
Utah Territory— Brigham Young, Gover
nor; salary, 2.500, including SI,OOO as Super
intendent of Indian Affairs; term of office, 4
years; expires Sept- 1854.
In every State except South Carolina, the
people elect their Governor. In South Caroli
na the Legislature elects the Governor. Ihe
people of that State will soon lollow the exam
ple set by their sister States jn the election of
Governor. The system that now governs them
in this respect is now becoming very unpopular.
The Governors of tbe Territories are nomi
nated by the President to the Senate, and have
to be ratified by that body.
Curious Expf.hi.mewt on a Rattlesnake.
The following cuiious facts respecting the
rattlesnake, are from a letter of Judge Samuel
Woodruff, to Professor Siliman, in a number of
the American Journal of Science; —
During the summer months of 18J0, l resided
in the northwestern part of the State of Ohio.
Rattlesnakes were then very numerous in that
region. I found the opjniqn qniversa}ly preva
lent the inhabitants there that the leaves
of the white ash are highly offensive lo the
rattlesnake. Several persons of respectability
assured me that the rattjesnaks was never found
on land where the white ash grows j that it yra*
the uniform practice among hunters, as well as
others, whose business led them to traverse the
woods in the summer months, to stufftheir shoes
Ac boots, and frequently pockets also, with white
ash leaves, as a preventive of the bite of the
rattlesnake, and that they had never known or
heard of any poison being bitten who had used
this precaution.
From the New York Mirror.
Mock Auctions.
Those bold auctioneers, who so impudently flnuut
their flags piratical in Broadway, and other public thor
oughfares, and whose roguery has so long gone ‘un
whipt of justice,’ and laughed at the law, hare not
the laugh always with them, and when by chance it is
against them, we think all honest men should share
in the fun.
‘Going, going, going! —only twenty-five dollars,
this splendid gold, double cased, patent lever watch !
sixteen jewels, warranted ! ’ cried a stentorian voice
from a store in Broadway, over the door of which was
vaunted the red flag ; and in the windows of which
various conspicuous placards announced the sale of
‘splendid jewelry,’ 4 valuable watches ,’ &0., &C.
‘Going ! going! only twenty-five dollars ! dirt cheap,
gentlemen—worth a hundred dollars at the importer’s!’
This last sentence was pointed at a long-legged,
gawky-looking genius, appeared in at the door just at
that moment. He was evidently a green ’uu, a suck
er, and the baits were at once set for him, as by his
externals he was judged to have a 6mall pile about
him. A single glance of the auctioneer conveyed this
information to four or five very business-looking men,
his confederates, who immediately began to take a very
deep interest in the sale.
‘A bargain a dead bargain ! I’ll give thirty,’ said
one of the Peters , handling the watch know ingly.
‘l’d give fifty if I could 6pare it,’said another.
‘Thirty-five !’ said a third gleefully, as jf sure of the
bargain.
All this time the stranger, who had gradually work
ed his way into the crowd, seemed to have been un
noticed by them, so intent were they on the sale.
The new comer, who looked green enough for a Ver
monter, was gaping wiili greedy eyes at the 4splen
did bargains ,’ when the auctioneer appeared to be all
at once aware of his presence.
‘Going, going ! —only thirty-five dollars ! this splen
did, gold, double-cased patent lever! ’
j ‘Weil neow, I don’t care it I dew, drawled the Yan
kee, who had been permitted, through the politeness
of the bystanders, to get a slight view of the watch.’
‘How much, sir? shall I say forty, forty is it?’
‘Well, I guess it’s no use of sich a high figure ;
thirty-six’ll dew 5 you Yorkers are tarnation cute,
any heow. ’
’Thirty-six, going ! going! dirt cheap, gentlemen ! ’
said the auctioneer.
‘Thirty-eight,’ said a bystander.
‘Thirty-nine,’ said another.
‘Well, 1 don't kear, no heow ; forty, and knock er
off,’ said the Yankee.
‘Going ! going ! forty dollars ! who says forty-one ?
cried the auctioneer.
‘Not me, by jingo,’ exclaimed the Vermonter, with
a suspicious movement towards the door.
‘Going, going, gone ! Here sir, your watch.’
‘Well, 1 don't kear, no heow ; real stuff—gene
wjne, ha ?’
‘Warranted, sir, money if you please.’
Taking thewatch from a bystander, and putting it
carefully in l.is fob, the Yankee drew forth an old
wallet, seemingly but thinly lined, from which he took
a hank note, carefully folded, with a fifty spot conspic
uous, which he held towards the man of the hammer,
saying;
‘Come, neow give us an X spot, and let me he go
ing, ’
‘All right, in a minute,* said the auctioneer, taking
the note.
‘Stop! stop! you didn’t cry my bid,’ cried one of
the Peters, ‘I bid forty-five.’
The auctioneer demanded of the crowd if he was in
time, of course was unanimously auswered in the af
firmative.
‘Forty-five! going! going! Sorry for you, sir;
perhaps you’ll get it yet; say fifty ! Fifty ! fifty ! go
ing, gone ! Your watch sir ; just the money.’
‘Stop, no yeou don’t, cried the Yankee ; ‘that's my
whole pile, and heow am I to get hum, any heow ! ’
‘Ha! ha! plenty left, I’ve no doubt, sir.—Never
take any goods back, sjr. Splendid bargain.’ And
he handed the stranger's note to a clerk behind him.
The Yankee took a sudden notion to inspect his
pocket-book, as if he really expected to find another
stray silty, when suddenly cried out —
‘1 say, mjster, stop ! it’s a mistake, you’ve got the
wrong note —it’s a broken bank,’
‘No difference, sir-—gqod enough for us,’ sajd the
auctioneer—too old to be caught by quite so apparent
a trick.
‘Good enough for yeou, ha ?’ said the Yankee, with
apparent mortification at his failure. ‘Well, a bar
gain’s a bargain, I s’pose. You Yorkers tarnation
cute, any heow, and with rather a long countenance,
he left the store and turned down Fulton street.
‘Come, Sol,’ said one, ‘that ten belongs to the com
pany. Let’s shut the door and divide.’
‘Hand the money here Moses. ‘Ha, what’s this?
A Plainfield note! After him, quick ! Some of you
call a police officer ! The watch is a galvanized silver,
worth twelve dollars.’
And away went two or three of the confederates
after the yaukee. When they catch him we ll let the
public know.
The Green Mountain Mai<L
’Tvvas :t beautiful spot, where the vine-cover
eff pot, of the mountaineer stood at the edge of
the wood- There the forest bird’s song, echoed
all the day long, and the mountain stream
played in the close of the shade; while the
graceful yqung fawn propped the herbage at
dawn from the wide spreading 4wn. ’Twas a
beautiful spot —’twas a beautiful cot; and
surely there ne’er was a maid more fair, nor a
maiden jpore rare, than the jnaid that dwelt
there. BliaJl I pipfltre fhis ipa'd of the green
wood and glade, as she was in that day when
pjd tAllen’ held sway, while his iron-nerved men
were the pride of flie glen ? She was neither
too tall, too short, nor too srpall; nor so light,
por so airy as the form of the fairy. But the
pride of the glade was this rosy-cheeked ntaid,
with eyes quite as blue, as the siumper sky’s
hue, and the tresses of brown floating grace
fully down, aud nestling below on a bosom of
snovv. She could warble aud sing, like the
songsters of spring, she could spin and could
sweep, pould mow and reap—could ride the
gray steed at tlje top of his speed, and had
sported a trifle wiili her fyther’s rifle. And
tiiis bouncing young maid of the evergreen
shade was chaste aud refined, and had such a
mind as you seldom can find among the gay
maids of haughtier grades,
A {oyer she bad who would have been glad
to capture her heart by his scheming and art.
O’Handy his name, a dandy by fame, who,
though wrinkled and parched, whiskered
anff starphed, 4' s pl4}' et l ffuite a rare and piti-
Jied air.
Well, he knelt at her feet, and began to en
treat, while his great bosom beat with unmer
ciful heat; and he told such a tale as he (Jeemed
would not fail to make bet befieye, thift he
conlff not deceive.
While thus he knelt pleading, while thus
interceding he thought by her smiling that his
words were beguiling. But be found the con
clusion a hopeless delusion; for that maid was
ynlikipg his scheming—was thinking; and she
thought in a twinkling, she’d give him a
sprinkling of the wgff peppered ointment of
black disappointment. Ere he drew to a close
6he turned up her nose, as you may suppose,
just as as she chose; and scorning his
prose, through hist pleadings she broke, and
’twas thus he spoke ;
‘Oh ! great is your fame-, O’Handv your
name—from the city you came wilt* -;our heart
all a flame ; and you thought in the of
mountain or glade, to capture a maid by pomp
and parade. Oh! save all your tears, your
hopes and your fears, your ‘ducks’ and your
‘dears’ far some other ears. All men are a
greed you're a nice bird indeed; but you’re
figure’s too lean, you're too gaunt and too
green; and that’s not all, you’re excessively
tall; your nose is too big, you've a voice like a
pig, and you wear a huge wig, while your up
per lip seems just the shade of your dreams.
Now my answer you know—there's the door—
you may go.’
Still he lingered to plead his love and his
need—and he boasted and told of bis titles and
gold, of her station in life whom he chose for his
wife. But he lound ’twas no part of a moun
tain maid's heart to bear insult and wrong
from an eye or a tongue. That maid could not
brook such a word and such a look; and she
caught down a broom that hung in the room,
and Lit him a blow, that made the blood flow
not gracefully slow. He lit on all four, just
out at the door, all covered with gore. Then
he sprang on his feet, and considered it sweet
and exceedingly meet to beat a retreat to cover
defeat, and fled from the place in shame and
disgrace ; disappeared over the green and was
nevermore seen; and ever since then city dan
dified men have learned to beware of the Green
Mountain Fair.
Ten Years’ Work. —Let us sum up in a
few words the effects of intemperance for the
last ten years in the United States. Ar.d we
shall not write at random, nor make statements
which cannot be amply supported, for the re- |
cords and statistics are before us, aud instead of
exaggerating the picture, we firmly believe
from the investigation of the subject that it
will fall short of the full view.
It has cost the nation a direct expense of six
hundred millions of dollars, and an indirect ex
pense of six hundred millions more. It has de
stroyed three hundred thousand lives. It has
sent one hundred and fifty thousand children
to the poor house. It has consigned one hun
dred and seventy-five thousand persons to the
jails and penitentiaries. It has made one thou
sand five hundred maniacs. It has caused
one thousand five hundred murders. It has ■
caused two thousand persons to commit sui
cide. It has burnt or otherwise destroyed
properly to the amount of five millions of dol
lars. It lias made two hundred thousand wid
ows. It has made one million of orphan chil
dren. It has endangered the liberties of our
country, and fixed a foul blot upon our fair
fame.
And this work is still going on, and we are
adding in this city a fearful list to the black
and bloody catalogue.
The Printer.— ‘l pay the printer,’ said
my uncle Toby.
4 He’s a poor creature,’ rejoined Trim.
‘ How so ?’ said my uncle.
‘Because, in the first place,’ continued the
corporal looking full upon my uncle, ‘ because
he must endeavor to please everybody. In the
negligence of a moment, perhaps a small par-1
agraph pops upon him ; he hastily throws it to
the compositor, it is inserted, and he is ruin
ed,’
‘Too much the case, Trim,’ said my uncle
with a deep sigh,
‘ And please your honor,’ continued Trim,
‘this is Dot the whole.’
‘Go on, Trim,’ said my uncle, feelingly.
‘The printer, sometimes,’ pursued the cor
poral,‘hits upon a piece that pleases him
mightily; he thinks it cannot hut go down
with his subscribers. But alas! sir, who can
calculate the human mind ? He inserts it, and
all is over with him. They forgive others, but i
they cannot forgive the printer. He has a ,
host to print for, and every one sits up for a
critic. The pretty Miss exclaims, ‘ Why don't
you give us more poetry, marriages, and bon
mats l —away with these stale pieces.’ The
politician clasps his specks over his nose, and
reads it over in search of a violent invective;
he finds none, takes his specks off. folds them, j
sticks them into his pocket, and declares the pa
per good for nothing but to burn. So it goes, j
Every one thinks it ought to be printed ex
pressly for himself, as he is a subscriber ; and
yet, after all this complaining would you be-’
lieve it, sir,’ said the corporal, clasping his
hands beseechiugly, ‘ would you believe, sir,
there are some subscribers who do not hesitate
to cheat the printer out of his pay !—rOnr army
swore terribly in Flanders, but they never did
anything so bad as that.’
\ Merited Rebuke,
A correspondent of tjje New York Times,
writing from Boston, gives the following inci
dent, in {tis travels to that place;
Ainong the piQ\yd jn the cars, as we came up
from Fa|l River, wns an old man, an original.
1 must tell you something of him, for he is a
type wl)iph you would find nowhere except in
America. A Lynn shoemaker once, with a
most simple air and stupid Yankee drawl, but
tfie sharpest wit under it. As Hawthorne
says— ‘ there are no rustics now in England,’
they are all cynics and philosophers, Some
young gentlemen in the car thought they would
have fun out of the old Yankee —they com
menced by asking him impudent questions, aud
he answered in bis simple, drawling way, and
they were led on, until at length it began to ap
pear they had got bold of a Tartar. They
tried to slip put of it, but the old man stuck to
them, turned the laugh of the whole car on
them; and before tve reached Boston, the green
Yankee had given such a lecture and sermon
to the yoqng men, as they have not had for a
twelve-month. It really solemnized them. I
cannot give tfip whole conversation. \ few
of his sharp things will show the style.
One of the young men said s.Qn.eth jpg in the
conversation against women. ‘ Young m an >’
said he, ‘ I Lave lived a good while in ibis
world, and have seen a good rpany things at
one time or t’other. Anq I have pbsarvedfthis
here fact—give me a family, with a fayther as
bad as Hell wants him—and that’s pretty bad;
a cussin', drinkin’, fightin’ chap—and a mother,
wliq’§ one of yer out-and-out God-fearin’ wim
mieq. Let the ,q!d woman bring up her chil
dren lo pray —let her teach ’em to say as soon
as they kin talk, ‘Our Fayther in Heayep,’ and
let her be a genooine one every day in this here
way, and 1 have alway kind a’noticed that them
children didn’t take arter the fayther. They
are very apt to tuyn out well! Don’t you think
so? And I’ll tell ye what I told a feller wunce,
that was a blackguardin’ a woman—says I,
‘ Jabe!%—and I affers spoke kind o’freely to
Jabe —-says I,‘Jabe! I've allers noticed that
the man who speaks disrispectfully ©fa woman,
is very apt to be an— in-far nal scoundrelV
If you want to sell anything,—if you want to euo
-eed in everything—if you want to do any thing—if
you w„.. an y thing done,—-advertise !!!
Never ask a nn for a favor, until he has eaten his
| dinner. Nothing so elands the heart, as weli as the
waistcoat, as a good piece of rove* beef. Hungry men,
like steel trapps, are always snappish.
A Boston paper says that the Coroner has iuat
found the modest lady who sprang out of her berth
and jumped overboard, on bearing the Captain, dur
ing a recent storm, order the crew to haul down the
sheets.
A little girl and her mother were froien to death
last week, in an alley iu Troy, N. Y. The girl, aged
about ten, was standing erect, with a basket on her
arm,
Alas! for the rarity
Os Christian charity,
Under the sun.
A shoemaker, who thought himself a poet, became
enamoured of a fair damsel who lived opposite his shop.
Wishing to gain her favor, he sent her a pair of shoes
as a present, accompanied by the following distich:
‘Dear .Visa
‘Myself the favorite of the muses.
Begs your acceptance of a pair of shoesos.’
Hafpt Folks— A child with a rattle, —a small
chap drumming on a tin pan,—a schoolboy on a holi
day,—two lovers walking by moonlight,—a gent im
bibing a sherry coblcr, —a boy sucking new cider
through a straw, —and two country misses over an
ice cream.
‘l’m writing for the press,* ns a yonng lady said
when she wrote a letter to her yovng printer lover,
accepting his offer of marriage.
A wist man, says Seneca, is provided for occur
rences of any kind ; the good ho manages, the bad ha
vanquishes ; in prosperity be betrays no presumption,
in adversity be feels no despondency.
A young man in Dover, N. H., a day or two sinee,
paid a young lady SSOO to ‘let him iff.’
Happiness consists in a soft couch by a good fire,
a now book, a pretty wife, a loose gown, easy slippers,
and a good conscience.
A man by the name of Sehwaschenbayenkptruslist
crjiaalapslevxoeqrvasterin, has announced his inten
tion of becoming a citizen of Durville.
v A Teacher Almost ‘Sacked !*—Tom.—‘Sir, can
me w hy that clergyman wears bis coat tail so
much longer than others V
Teacher.—‘Hem, hem, —welt, Tom, indeed I can
hardly—but, I suppose, ‘There is a divinity which
shapes its ends ! ’ ’
Tom is an intelligent boy, an 1 did not press hia
question,
A Scotchman in new Hampshire being sick, was
called upon by a clergyman, who conversed with him
upon bis religious concerns. Said the minister, ‘Do
you repent of all your sins? Do you repent of Ad
am’s first sin ?”
‘Adorn ‘. Adorn !’ said the sick Scotchman, ‘I never
knew the mon V
‘ Where’s the fire T asked Mrs. Partington of a fire
man, from an upper window, as the bells were w aking
the night with their clamor. ‘ln ,’ was the un
gallant response, naming the hottest place of perpetual
warmth, ‘Dear me,’ said the old lady, not compre
hending himt ‘is it so far off? I wish it was nearer,
for your sake. But he’ll get there soon,’ she mut
tered to herself, ‘if he goes on as he does now and
she went to sleep again, invoking blessings on the
guardians of public safety.
‘Dang me, if I don’t believe the world’s a wheel
barrow,’ said a jolly inebriate, as he rolled along the
pavement, ‘and I’m the wheel revolving cm a kaxis.’
‘Now I’m in tho mud,’ said he, as he fell headlong
into the gutter, ‘and now I’m on dry land,’ as he
fetched up on the curb-stone. His concluding re
mark, as his boots followed his head down an opou
cellar-way, was, ‘now the wheel is broken, and the
wehiekle is out of repair.’
Takisg the Responsibility.—Miss Lucy H. Sim
mons writes to Mr. Amelia Bloomer touching matter*
and things connected with ‘woman’s rights,’ and says j
Some almost doubt the propriety of woman’s tak
ing the responsibility. They must be queer creatures
indeed who doubt the propriety of woman’s perform
ing that great duty ! If a woman has a ‘responsibili
ty,’ who should ‘take’ it if she should not? Is it no|
her peculiar province not only to ‘take’ it, but hold it,
tend it, wash it, dress it, nurse it, rock it, trot it on
her knees, <fcc. It is the duty of Miss Simmons to
expose the unnatural mortals she alludes to, and we
trust she will do so.
Jo undertake to reason a girl out of love, is as b.
surd as would be the attempt to extinguish Vesuvius
with a two ounce syringe, The only thing that will
break a love fit, is hard WGrk and ‘tailed pork.’ — Good
advice and indolence only makes things Hyas*.’
Asftxq Too Mcpn-r-A little boy, ‘well in his
boots’ for the first time, apd very proud of them, said
to his mother, after reading the customary chapter in
Scott's Family Bible in the morning. ‘Mother, why
did’nt Moses wear boots?’ ‘Why my son, what
makes you ask that; perhaps he did rear boots, my
dear; we don’t know.’ ‘No, mother, lie did’nt,
because the Bible says (hat the voice that came out of
the burning bush told him to take pff hie shoes} *
There was no reply to this ‘clincher.’
Isms, —Several clergy men descanting on the abuses
which had crept into the Church, one of them took
occasion to remark that a large portion of his flock
were touched with Dsism ; a second complained that
his were affected with Socinianism; while a third la
mented that in his congregation Atheism bad been
making rapid strides. ‘And lam sure,’added a by
stander, ‘that nearly half of our parish are, at thig
moment, down with the rheumatism .’
The glory r.f a good man is the testimony of a good
conscience—have that and thoq wilt have peace *-
midst all tby troubles.
The only part of a bog not now used by our pork
men, is the grunt and the sqaeal, No use for theiq
has yet been (jiswered.
Our ladies generally, we are pleased to notice, are
adopting high topped-boots for wintry and muddy wea
ther.—Buffalo Republic.
We would not be impertineut, but we should liks
to know how our friepd ascertained this fact.—Alba
ny Journal.
Dobbs, in speaking of Down East clergymen, say*
that their words are in such a burry to reach the con
gregation, that they all take the north-west passage
through the pose.
Mr. Careful being told by his physician that he
mast take gentle exercise, replied that he had for some
weeks back prac'ised in catting bis toe-paiis twice a
week.
All a German wants tor dinner is three sausages
and a flute. To a gentleman born in the vicinity of
the Rhine, music is a* necessary to existence as breath
or long-tail pipes.
‘I wish to introduce a bill for the total destruction
of worm*’ said a wooJ-peckcr member in a stump
speech.
Dr. Washburn, who resides at Vernon, Vermont,
tbo Gretna Green for Massachusetts, performed the
marriage ceremony for the seven hundred A sixt eeatif
couple last year.
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