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FEDERAL UNION.
BT
Park * Rogers,
IS PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AT
THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
A!J ADVERTISEMENTS published at the usual rates.
All orders for Advertisements will be punctually attended to.
. • All Letters directed to this Office, or the Editors, must be
post-paid, to entitle them to attention.
PLANTER’S HOTEL.
SAVANNAH, GA.
THIS establishment is now open for
the reception of boarders. It has recent
ly been fitted up with new furniture of
the neatest style, and is now under the
!sijj!lir management of the subscriber, who
pledges himself that nothing on his part
shall he wanting. Ilis TABLE shall he served with the
best the market and country can afford, and his HOUSE
attended by the best and most trusty servants.
Gentlemen and their families can he accommodated
with front rooms of the neatest style, No Bar will he
kept open in the house to disturb those who may please
to favor him with their patronage.
Persons arriving on the Railroad, wishing to stop at
this House, will direct their baggage to he sent lo the
Planter’s Hotel. J. SLATER.
Savannah, Sept. 2D, 1840. 16—6m
Notice.
lyillF. subscriber will in future charge the customary
_I fee of ONE DOLLAR, for each note attended to
by him in the Central Bank; also for taking out and for
warding grunts, duplicates, testimonials, Ac., One Dol
lar each.
All communications, postage paid, will meet with
prompt attention. VVM. G. LITTLE.
Milledgeville, Oct. 1, 1840. 16
Valuable Mills amt Land for Sale.
THAT valuable Property, belonging to
the estate of Geu. Win. P. Ford, known as
his “31 ill Place,” in Randolph county, three
and a half miles from the Chattahoochee, is
now offered lor sale. The body of Lgod on
w inch lire Mills are erected,contains some fourteen or fif
teen hundred acres, some of which is “just its good as
dirt generally gets to be,” well adapted to the cultivation
of cotton and grain. The Mubhave superior fixings for
sawing and grinding, not surpassed by any in the country.
A further description is deemed unnecessary, as persons
desirous ol purchasing, will view the premises, and by
calling on the subscriber, he will take pleasure in shewing
the property. JAMES P. HOLMES,
For the Executrix.
Fort Gaines, Dec. 1, 1840. -6—tf
moit
YOL. XI.
Ml GEY1LLE, (Ql.) MAM CM ^ 1841.
Act to Abolish Imprisonment for Debt.
An act supplementary to an act to abolish imprison
ment for debt in certain cases:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa
tives of the United States of America in Congress assem
bled. that the act entitled “An Act to abolish imprison-
inen Irfor debt in certain cases,” approved February twen-
tv-eighi. eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, shall be so con
structed as to abolish imprisonment for debt on process
issuing out of any court of the Un ited States in all cases
whatever, where, bv the laws of the State in which the
said court shall be held, imprisonment for debt has been,
or shall hereafter he abolished.
R. M. T. HUNTER,
Speaker of the House of Repsesentatives.
RICHARD M. JOHNSON,
Vice President of the United States,
and President of the Senate.
Approved January 14, 1841.
37 M. VAN BUREN.
XO. 40.
FOR SALE.
Two 40 acre lots—one ill the 15th
district of the second section, being Num
ber 3SD; the other situate in the 4th district
of the first section, being No. 311. Per
son* wishing to purchase, will apply to the subscriber
at Mo II lit vide, Troup county, Ga. Nov. 30, 1840.
24—Kit NATHAN V. BODDIE.
WILLIAM D. MIMS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
W ILL practice LAW in the Courts of the Flint Cir
cuit, and in the counties of Jones, Twiggs and
Talbot.
References.—Col. E. Hamilton, Fort A Clopton, Ira
E. Fort & Co. \V. A. Ross, Solomon, Griffin & Land,
and J. J. Gresham, Esq., Macon; Farrer A Haves,
Charleston; Wimberly & Jones, Savannah; Barnard
Hill, Esq. Talhotton.
OFFICE over White & Carter’s store, Cotton Ave
nue.
Macon, Jan. 12, 1840. 62—52t.
ALFRED A. OVERTON,
slliorncy «< Unit',
MADISON, MORGAN COUNTY, GEORGIA.
January 26, 1841. Kit—32
P U B L 1C H O U S E.
CLINTON, GEORGIA.
THF. Subscriber, respectfully informs his
fricudsaud the public generally, that lie lias
opened PUBLIC HOUSE in this place, in
the house formerly occupied as a Tavern by
Messrs. Gray A Jones, fronting the public square, and
assures his friends, that no pains will he spared to render
those comfortable who may favar him with a call.
MICHAEL SULLIVAN.
January 1, 1841. 20—3t
WESTERN BANK OF GEORGIA, )
Rome, December 30, 1840. (
46/''XRL)ERED, That the Stockholders in this Bank
be required to pay TEN DOLLARS per share,
on the Stock held by them respectively, on or before the
fifteenth of March next ensuing.”
IK- order of the Board,
30-Dt R. A. GREENE, Cashier.
GENERAL AGENCY.
T 1IF. undersigned will attend to the renewal of all
NOTES that may be entrusted to his care in the
Central Bank, for the customary fee of one dollar for
each renewal, also to the taking out and forwarding of
Grants and Copy Grants for fifty cents each. All letters
post-paid will meet with prompt attention.
ALFRED M. HORTON.
Milledgeville, February 16, 1841. 35—tf
rg’lUE undersigned renews the offer of lus services to
0 his friends and the public, ill the transaction of a
GENERAL AGENCY in this place. He will attend
to the renewal ol’ all Notes, Ac. that may be entrusted to
his cure in the Central Bank, for the customary fee of One
Dollar fur earli renewal; also, to the taking out and for
warding Grants, for Fifty Cents each.
Mr Letters enclosing money and Notes (post paid) wilL
meet with prompt attention.
JOHN R. ANDERSON.
Milledgeville, April 13,1840. 43—if
Georgia, Baldwin county.
A N FLECTION will he held on Saturday, the 20th-
of hist, for a JUSTICE OF THE INFERIOR
COURT, to supply the vacancy occasioned by M. J-
Kexan’s declining to serve.
ALSO—for a CORONER, to supply the vacancy of
B. Furnev, resigned.
J. S. THOMAS, j. i. c.
S. T. BEECHER, j. i. c.
C. D. HAMMOND, j. i. c.
S. BIVINS, j. i. c.
March 1, 1841. 3t—37
N OTICE is hereby given, that four small notes for
§30 each made by George W. VV ardlow, principal,
and Oran B. Tucker, and James Dykes endorsers, have
been fully paid off and satisfied to me as holder of the
same. All are cautioned not to trade for or in any wise
meddle with the same, as the makers are not again re- ,
sponsible for their pavment.
GABRIEL B. ROBERTS. j
Hawkinsville, February 15, 1840. 36—3l
IFF Georgia Journal will copy 3 times, and charge
Hansell & Brandy, Hawkinsville. I
Lost or Mislaid,
O NE Note of hand given by John Moony for One j
hundred and fifty dollars, and made payable to Ann
P. Coffee, or hearer, dated some time in the spring of
1839, and became payable bv the 25th of December, the
same year. CHRISTOPHER C. COFFEE, ag’t.
Madison Co. Florida, Nov. 21,1840. 25
DEKALB SPUING RACES
A CARD—TO THE LADIES!
MRS. C. HOFFMAN,
AUGUSTA, GA.
R ESPECTFULLY informs the LADIES of Mil
ledgeville, and likewise her old friends in the Coun
try. that the .JJiliinery amt Dress making bu
siness iii all its branches will still be continued, and she
may uc ruuuu uei oiu suxuu, in uic new muiuings,
second story, opposite the late Planters’ Hotel, where
she will he ready at all times to furnish her customers
with die very latest style of French Millinery; latest style
of London and French Dress Making, Ac. &c. at very
short notice. Mrs. H. would respectfully inform her
friends, that in the selection of her Goods and articles for
Millinery, she has as heretofore exercised her best taste
and judgment.
O' All orders entrusted to her care shall receive
prompt attention, and all work executed in the latest
fashion with neatness and dispatch. Having received
the latest fall fashions and engaged superior hands, she
feels confident of giving satisfaction lo all who may pat
ronizeher. November 9, 1840. lot—tf
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC GOODS,
AY WJO©lLS§A!Lils
DICK A HOLMES,
Xo. 17, Vendue Range, Charleston, South Carolina.
H AVE now in store. 500 bales and cases, Brown and
Bleached GOODS of the most popular brands,
with an extensive supply of PRINTED and STRIPE
goods—also, a large and general assortment of all the
leading staple articles necessary to make up a complete
stock fortlie most extensive Country Store.
As Agents for several Manufacturers, we are constant
ly supplied by direct importation, with a general assort
ment of Woollens, Cottons, Linens, Hosiery, Silk and
Cotton L’mbrellas, &c.
0 = All of which we offer at our usual low prices for
Cash or Notes with Town acceptances.
DICK Sl HOLMES,
Commission Merchants Sf Auctioneers.
February 1, 1841. 32—3t
COVINGTON FEMALE SCHOOL.
W F. call the attention of all who feel an interest in
Educating their Daughters, to the following:
The FEMALE SCHOOL in Covington, Newton
comity, Georgia, will commence on the first Monday in
January next, uuderthe care of MISS KELLOG, whose
competence to discharge the duties of tutoress is unques
tioned by all who know her all the branches taught in
Female Schools, will he taught by her to perfection
Professor lladaman will give lessons in French, and
Mr. Gotenburger, will give lessons iu Music.
Covington is a very healthy place, and hoard can be
Jiadiu good private houses or Taverns at moderate prices.
JOHN N. WILLIAMSON, ) H
CARY WOOD, > 2
RICHARD KEN’NON, ) 5
December 30,1840. 6t—30 e
BROUGHT TO JAIL, in Mil-
f ledgeville, Baldwin county, on the
12th inst. a runaway Negro about 35
or 40 years of age, 5 feet 6 inches
high, light complexion, quick spoken,
tlMl ,. ■ . S.-1VS his name is JACK, and belongs
u> ,i hi. Henderson, near Tallahassee, la. The owner is
requested to come forward, prove proverty, pay charges
and take him away. February 15, 1S41.
35 LEWIS A. BOX, Jailor.
GANO.
this thorough bred Race Horse, having
proved lame since lie was transferred to the sta-
of Col. Hampton, it has been deemed advi
sable by his owners to let him make a Spring Season, at
his stable on the Lafayette Course. To afford breeders
an opportunity, therefore, of raising colts of the most ap
proved blood, he will be permitted lo visit a limited num
ber of Mares, not exceeding 30, at $75 the season, and
$1 to the Gloom.
Ample preparations will be made for the accommoda
tion of all Mares sentto him. and they will he taken care
of on the most approved plan, at 50 cents per day, aiid
no charges for negro beys attending them.
The performances of Gano on the Turf, are ton well
known to require repetition here. He is a beautiful ma
hogany hay, 16 hands 1 inch high, of great symmetry, and
possessing superior bone and muscle. lie was sired by
Eclipse, out of Betsey Richards, u full sister to John
Richards.
All expenses will he required lo he paid before the Mare
leaves the stable.
THOMAS J. WALTON,
AUGUSTUS LAMPION.
Augusta, February 2,1840. 34—5t
REINDEER.
efx THIS thorough-bred Race-horse (own bro-
r^Niher to Alice Gray.) will stand the next season
(. lAA at Hillsborough, Jasper county, under die care
of Mr. John WyneNs, and will he let to mares at the re
duced price of $25 tire season.
REINDEER was sired by the celebrated Henry, the
competitor of Eclipse; his dam Sportmistress by Hickory,
(the heat son of imported Whip) his grnndain, Miller’s
Damsel, the dam of American Eclipse; she was sired by
imported Messenger. Great grandani, the imported
mare by Potoxas, great great grandam by Girncrack—
Snap Dragoon, by Snap—Regulus—Bartlett's Childers
—Honey Woods Arabian, out of the Two True Blues.
REINDEER is achesnut sorrel, 16 hands high, of
large bone, strongly made, short back, fine eyes, and of
commanding appearance. He was bred by Thomas
Pearsall, of Long Island, New York, will be 9 years old
in May next. There is not a better blooded horse in the
United States, either native or imported.
JOHN T. LAMAR,
JOHN WYNENS,
December 1 st, 1840. 24—06t
W ILL commence on Tuesday the 4th of MAY,
1841. one Mile and a half from Decatur, and
continue for FOUR DAYS, free for any nag.
First day. mile heats for 3 year old colts, entrance $25
Second day, 2 mile heats, free for any age, “ $30
Third day, three mile heats, “ $35
Fourth day. Sweepstake for Saddle Horses, “ $15
One half the entrance money added to the purse of
each day, and the purses made as liberal as the circum
stances of a newly organized Club will allow. There
will also, be a sweepstake for three year old colts on the
first dav, entrance $50, three or more to make a race,
to name and close bv the 10th of February next.
ROBEiri^^^I^J,^^^^
January 1, 1841. 18t 29
Georgia, Cobh County.
TOLLED before me, Thaddetis H.
McLusky, a justice of the peace one black
MARE COLT, with a blaze in its face,
both hind feet white, about two years and
six months old; also—one BAY COLT,
with a blaze in its face and both hind feet
white, two years and a half old; also—one SORRF.L
COLT, about two years and a half old—appraised by
James Terrell and William Stancell, to sixty dollars.
Feb. 11, 1841. T. II. McLusky, j. p.
A true extract from the estray-book. Feb. 24, 1841.
37 DANIEL COLLINS, c. i. c
FIFTY DOLL4RSR EWARD.
L OST by the Subscriber on the Road from F.atonton
to Coleman’s Ferry, a large FulfsKin Pack
et RooK, containing Five hundred and eighteen dSul-
lars all but five dollars in hills of the Central Bank.:—
Also, sundry receipts and papers belonging to me.
Any person finding the same and delivering it to She-
subscriber, shall be entitled to the above reward, orane
hundred dollars for the money and any person who may
have concealed or attempted to conceal the same.
V/. W. CARLISLE;
Monticeli.o, Feb. 20, 1840. 37—3t
FIRE-PROOF
HJ.WARE HOUSE
And General Commission Business-
T HE subscribers intending to continue the Coinii* :
sion Business the ensuing year, at their old stand,.;
on Jackson street, offer their services to their friends a,al
the public, assuring those who may favor them with them
business, that they have storage sufficient to place all tl®
produce they may get, under houses, and will not have |
Cotton exposed to the weather, nor have it placed in a
spot where it cannot at all times he found for shipment; .
and thev sav the safetv of their warehouses, from floods,
or high rivers, have "been recently tested, as there was
not a hide of Cotton wet by the late high Hood. The ;
location of the warehouses, to men of business, are
particularly desirable, being in the immediate vicinity of |
the Rail Road Depot, Globe Hotel, Mansion House, and j
Banks. . !
They feel grateful for former patronage and solicit a
continuation, assuring those who may favor them with ;
their business, that no exertions shall be wanting to pro- j
mote their interest. Their charges will be as moderate j
as other commission houses in this place. j
S. KNEELAND & SON. i
Augusta, June 28, 1840. 3<*-3m !
AMERICAN 3IOTEE,
Madison, Morgan County, Ga.,
_ WILL be ready for the reception ofBoard-
Sx ers and Visitors early in January next. The
subscriber is now making arrangements to :
ap3,P'” an addition to his house, which will make
„ .1 feet long and 48 wide, all of which he intends fitting |
up in convenient and pleasant rooms. 1 ue building i
will he of brick entire, and is situated on the public
square, nearest the Railroad Depot, and within a very
short and pleasant walk. Hi* large new stable will soon
be completed, and will be well prepared for keeping hor
ses; his ostlers and servants will be of lus own family of
negroes, and such as are capable and trusty, and altnougli
the subscriber has had no personal experience in tavern
keeping, but from his long business habits anil general
observation, lie flatters himself with the belief that he can
satisfy the comminunitv, and keep a house worthy of pa- j
tronage. JOSEPH M. LVAN»-
October 17,1840. 21—2m j
Deratiir Superior Court—IXov’r. XcrtM, 1840. i
Felix G. Arnett, aurviving co-partner \
of R. Harrison &, Co., I . .
versus i Bill for D.scorcry t
Alonzo Bipalmv & Timothy Clough, j and Relief.
surviving co-partners of
R. Olmstead & Co. J i
I T appearing to the Court, that the defendants are not |
to lie found iu said county, and it also appearing by |
said hill, that defendants resides without the jurisdiction j
of said Court. . . ,
It is ordered therefore. On motion of complainants soli
citor. that service of the same be perfected on the said
Alonzo Bigalow and Timothy Clough, by a publica
tion of this rule once a month for lour months m some
public gazette published iu this State, previous to the
next term of this Court. ■_ .
A true extract from the nunutes of the Superior Court
of Decatur county, November Term 1840.
27 A. D. SMART, c. s. c.
Brought to Jally
ON the 5th of December, 1840, in
Emanuel county, one negro man,
about 40 or 45 years of age, about
5 feet 6 inches high, dark complex
ion. with a blemish in his right eye,
^other mark on him to be seen;
h^ays that his name is ELLEC, and that he belongs to
Richard Coal of Lowndes county, the owner is hereby
requested to come and prove property, pay charges, and
take him away, or he will be dealt with as the law do 'ects
3 HENRY DURDEN, Sheriff.
December 5,1840. 27—tf
Administrator's Sale.
W LL be sold, on the 17th day of April next, all the
Perishable Property belonging to the
estate of James Jones, late of Washington county, de
ceased, conuiating of horses, hogs, cattle, sheep, house
hold and kitchen furniture, plantation tools, and one four
wheel pleasure carriage. &c. &c.—Sold for the benefit
of the neirs and creditors. Terms made known on the
day of sale. ELIZABETH JONES, Adm’rx.
ALLEN SMITH, Adm’r.
N OTICE.—All persons indebted to the estate of
James Jones late of Washington county, deceased,
are requested to make immediate payment; and those
having demands agaiust the estate are requested to pre
sent item legally authenticated within the time prescribed
by law. March 6, 1841.
ELIZABETH JONES, adrnr’x.
38 ALLEN SMITH, adm’or.
Administrators Sale.
A GREEABLE to an order of the Inferior Court of
-l\. Cobb county, when sitting for ordinary purposes,
will he sold, on the first Tuesday in September next, be
fore the Court house door in the town of Marietta, Cobb
county, between thensual housof sale, the following pro
perty to wit: One Fraction, known as.No. 898,
in the 17th District of the 2d section of orignally Chero
kee, but now the county of Cohb. lying on the Chatta
hoochee river. THOMAS HOPKINS, Adm’r.
March I, 1841 38
Adcninistrator’s Sale.
GREEABLE to an order of the Inferior Court of
A
Morgan county, when sitting for ordinary purposes,
i!d. on the first Tuesday in May next, iu the town
will be so!
Madison, Morgan county, between the usual hours of
sale, One negro boy by the name of Ehis, belong
ing to tlie estate of Drury Davis, late of Morgan county,
dec’d.—sold for the benefit of the heirs and creditors.
WINGFIELD DAVIS, ) , , ,
ETHAN BREWER, jAUrnrs.
March 3,1841 38
F OUR MONTHS after date, application will be
made to the honorable the inferior court of DeKalb
county, when sitting for ordinary purposes, for leave to
sell all the real estate of William Martin, late of said coun
ty. deceased; sold for the benefit of the heirs and creditors
of said deceased. March 1, 1841.
38 C. MURPHY, adm’or.
25 DOLLARS REWARD.
* TRA ED or Stolen from the subscrib
‘ er’s plantation, seven miles above Mil-
i ledgeville, on the Eatonton road, a Diirfe
: brown Filly, with a star on the fore
head. with a long fail, three years old this
Spring, five feet two or three inches high.
I en dollars will be paid to anv person for the delivery of
the fiily to me, or five doilais for information of the said
filly so that I get her, or if stolen twenty five dollars will
he paid for the delivery of the filly and the thief, with
proof sufficient to convict him.
„ RICHARD ROWELL.
March 5, 1841—2t 38
STONE MASONS,
TAKE NOTICE!!
B y order of the justices of the
INFERIOR COURT, Sealed Proposals
will he received until die first Monday in MA V next, for
building a Stone Jail in Clinton, Jonescounty, Ga.
for plan and specification, apply to
CHARLES MACARTHY, c. i. c.
March 1. 1841. 8f-38
NOTICE.
F OR the purpose ol bringing our business to a close,
we arc now Sclliug off CilCUp for cash,
and for cash only.
j . BREEDLOVE & DERRY.
Milledgeville, March 8,1841 4t 38
FOR SAEE.
4 FIRST RATE Northern made Barouche,
A with a set of silver plated double Harness to match
entirely new. OTIS CHILDS. ’
Milledgeville, March 8, 1841 tf 38
The Ym.n^e^^afp^ffly.fijVi^ eu to the
? ally, are requested to meet at the Court
House in Monticello, on the first Tuesday in April next,
for the purpose of appointing Delegates to the Young
Men’s Convention, to be held in Milledgeville, on the
first Monday in May next.
March 9th, 1841.
LAW NOTICE.
M R. AUGUSTIN S. WINGFIELD having taken
the place of Judge Taylor, in the late firm of Tay
lor ifc King, the business in future will be conducted un
der the style of King A Wingfield, their ad
dress being Fort Gaines, Early county, Ga.
King &. Wingfield will practice in the followingcoun-
ties, viz:
COUNNTY. PRINCIPLE TOWNS.
Randolph, Cuthbert,
Decatur, Bainbridge,
Baker, Albany & Newton,
Lee, Palmy ra & Starksville,
Dooly, Drayton,
Macon, Laneir,
Sumter, A mericus,
Stewart, Lumpkin,
Early, Fort Gaines & Blakely.
ALABAMA.
TOWNS.
Abbeville & Columbia,
Irxvinton &. Clayton,
leave to refer to tile following gentlemen,
COUNTY.
Henry,
Barbour,
They beg
viz
His Excellency, Charles J. McDonald, j
Iverson L. Harris, $ *
lion. Marshal J. Wellborn, > r ,
Franklin A. Nisbet. ] Columbus,
Messrs. Poe & Nisbet, J
“ Nisbet, Hines it Blake, sMacon.
Col. H. G. Lamar, )
Hon. William Taylor—Fort Gaines.
Hon. Lott Warreu—Palmyra, Lee county.
Hon. William C. Dawson, I Gnenesboro , Gu .
T. it J. Cunningham, j
John Gill Shorter, Esq.—lncinton, Ala.
Wiley Mason, Esq.—St. Joseph, Fa.
Messrs. Lockhart it Young—Apalachicola, Fa.
March 2, 1841 38—"it
DOCTOR FALL,
F ORMERLY of Morgan, but now permanently set
tled in Decatur, DeKalb county, Georgia, has prac
ticed twenty-five years with unusual success in all forms of
Dropsy, and for the last fourteen years has given his un
divided attention to the treatment of that disease only.—
His treatment is entirely on a new plan, & much more suc
cessful than the treatment recommended by the best practi
cal writers. This improvement he claims as made by him
self. He invites all dropsical persons, and persons afflict
ed with liver disease, and persons laboring under asthma,
toe ill on him. He lias practiced mediciniu Georgia more
than thirty years, and although now unable to hear the
fatigue of general practice, he is yvilling to do all that he
can, to relieve suffering humanity. If preferred he will
undertake cases on the principle of “ no cure no pay.”
-U1 38—3t&i ‘
March 8,1841 38—3t & mtf
Georgia, Jasper county,
W HEREAS, Hiram G. Johnston appliesforletters of
administration on the estate of Elizabeth Jack-
son late of said county, deceased.
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and sin
gular the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be
and appear at mv office within the time prescribed by
law. to show cause, if any exist, why said letters should
not he granted.
Given under my hand at office, March 2d. 1841.
C. W. C. WRIGHT, c. c. o.
Georgia, Jasper county.
W HEREAS, John Horton, Executor of James Hor
ton deceased, applies forlettersof dismission from
said estate.
These are. therefore, to cite and admonish all and sin
gular tire kindred and creditors of said deceased, to he
and appear at mv office within the lime prescribed by
law, to show cause if any exist, why said letters should
not be granted.
Given under mv hand at office, in Monticello, this 4th
day of March, ltill.
38 C. W. C. WRIGHT, c. c.o.
Grorsria. Twiggs county,
W HEREAS, Thomas S.'Chappell, Administrator
of Seth Honeycut of said county, deceased, ap
plies for letters of dismission from said estate.
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and sin
gular the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be
and appear at my office within the time prescribed by
law, to show cause, if any exist, why said letters should
not be granted.
Given under my hand at office, this 4th March, 1841.
3g U. LANE, Dep’ty. c. c. o.
NOTICE.
A LL persons are forwanied from trading for a note
given by me to Drs. Meals it Casey, of Albany, Ba
ker county, Ga.,for $81 and 25 cents, as 1 am determined
not to pay Raid note till compelled by law, given 26th of
Februarv, 1841, due one day after date and signed.
WILLIAM J. GLEATON.
Pindertown, Feb. 28,1841. 38—It
MISCELLANY.
Thought. “Thoughts that the tongue takes
hours to°tell, glance quick as lightning through
the soul.”
“A MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.
A FRAGMENT.
She loved him—an mosUmodem Misses love,
Admired his figure on a rainv day,
Yet fretted not did he truant prove,
She liked him present, if he stayed away
She did not miss him. “ Men will ever rove,”
A\ as still her theme. “ honor, aud obey,”
She had no thought of, but regarded marriage,
As something requisite to keep a carriage.
And he loved her as much as creatures can,
ho live at balls, and vegetate by night,
Their only use, to hold a woman’s fan,
\\ ith heads so heavy, and with heels so light,
For lack of other titles, nick-named man.
Young ladies praised him; he was “so polite”’
But greatest favor from mammas he woa,
Since he was silly, aud—an Eldest Son !
He met her first at some prodigious rout,
Ai here all ike icorld was “ votiug it a bore!”
She was a beanty. having just come out.—
(Id cst,) she laid rehearsed her part before,
And now performed it.—with eclat, no doubt;
Her eyes were brilliant, and the dress she wore,
Set off her figure, thanks to Gallic art,
Carson supplies the tcant of every part.
Ball followed ball; they often waltzed together;
And, tho’ they merely looked at one another,
Or sometimes gave opinions on the weather.
Moved by Cliampaigne, (somesay ananxiousmother)
He made an offer,—all were in high feather
At his success; and so, sans further pother,
They were betrothed, whilst envious chap’rones sighed
O’er their lost hopes, and satirised his bride.
Then full of joy, she sought thy street, Long Acre,
To choose the shape aud color of the carriage:
1 know not why, hut, somehow, a coach-maker
Appears to me in my loose view of marriage,
A sort of matrimonial undertaker.
By this I’ve no intention to disparage
That blessed state, in which young folks agree
To certain forms, from law’s necessity i
The day was fixed, the dejeunc spread,
\Y hilstbridesmaid* simpered thro’ their Brussels lace;
The bride shed tears at first, then hung her head,
And tho’t how great achange would soon take place,
Fromasmall French, to a large four-post bed;
Tho’ none could read her mind upon her face,
Indeed her feelings were not quite intelligible,
One thing she felt, the bridegroom was an “eligible.”
The marriage service soon was blundered o’er,
Congratulations iu the aisle were pealing,
The travelling chariot waiting at the door;
But first the bride must show a little feeling,
Straightway she gently sinks upon the floor,
In a position such as players deal iu,
A graceful attitude for loveliness,
And so got up as not to spoil the dress !
At last salts-holding dowagers contrived
To bring her around; the bridegroom looked alarmed,
And awkwardly to aid the dame he strived,
But finding himself useless, he was calmed ;
Thinking, forsooth, that as he now was wived
His toil was o’er; and yet the dolt was charmed
While he was seated by the weeping fair,
Rolling along, quite happy, G od kuows where!
’Tis sad to mark how soon affection dies :
The sober garb of stern reality.
Makes fools seem hideous in each other’s eyes;
She tired of him. then quarrelled with morality,
Until she cast aside a loose disguise,
And ran away, like other folks of quality,
Leaving her omicr, one fine summer’s lqorning,
Surprised to lose his wife at such short warning.
A Kentucky Fiddler and a French Violinist.
—A correspondent of the New York Spirit
of the Times, who writes under the signature
“Old Virginnytells the following good sto
ry:
Old Bob Walker! did you never hear of
him] He was the greatest fiddler (he hated
the name of violiol that «vc-r dro,,, o
x*icny. He was known by every man.
woman and child in the State. It was just as
impossible to have a frolic without old Bob,
as it was to eat dinner without hog and homi
ny. The fiddle was his only companion; his
pillow at night and his breakfast in the morn
ing;—he lived and slept by it—he was in
Old Kentucky what Paganini was in Europe.
Some twelve years since, the dramatic com
pany at Louisville were astonishing the natives
of Frankfort, and the Big Guns of the Legis
lature. Their orchestra consisted of nothing
more than one poor little Frenchman; he
scratched away for two or three nights, much
to his own satisfaction, but little to the amuse
ment or sport of the audience. However, in
the meantime who should arrive in town but
old Bob. The manager was immediately no
tified that he must employ him, as he was a
host within himself. Night came, and old
Bob was seated alongside the little French
man. The old fiddler did not much relish the
little Frenchman. an<l bo Jo»pisod book music;
lie would rather have been at a corn-shucking
frolic than in a Theatre. The play was “Vir-
ginius,” and every thing went on well until the
close—Virginius dies—the ladies are seen
with white handkerchiefs to their eyes—the
big tear is seen to course down the cheek of
manly youth—bell rings f.r the curtain to de
scend slowly—the little Frenchman strikes
up a melancholy air and said, “pianissimo.”
Old Bob looked at him, and said, “Piana h—ll”
and strikes up with all his might,—“Oh! Judy
put the kettle on.” It was like magic—the
sublime to the ridiculous. The curtain came-
down with a double shuffle—the audience
yelled—the little Frenchman scratched his
head—and tha indignant Virginius swore ven
geance against all Kentucky fiddlers.
Q5^The Planet says the following toast
was recently given at Ogdensburg, N. York:
“ Woman—A mother, ahecheirshes and cor
rects us; a sister, she consults and counsels us;
a sweetheart, she coquets and conquers us; a
wife, she comforts and confides in us; without
her, what would become of us]”
The Buffalo Republican gives the follow
ing emediation, by an old bachelor;
A mother, she scolds and spanks us; a sis
ter she tells oF and pinches us; a sweetheart,
she coquets and jilts us; a wife, she frowns,
pouts, frets, cries, and torments us; without
her, what wuuld there be to trouble us]
Emblematic properties of Flowers.—The fair
lily is an image of holy innocence ; the pur
pled rose a figure of heartfelt love; faith is re
presented to us in the blue passionflower;
hope heafns forth from the immortelle; the
caresses of life are represented by rosemary ;
the victory of the spirit by the blue, fragrant
violet; compassion by the peony; friendship
by the ivy, tenderness by the myrtle; affec
tionate reminiscence by the fbrget-me-not;
German honesty and fidelity by the oak-leaf;
unassumingness by the corn-flower (the cay-
ene) and the auriculas, ‘ how friendly they
looked upon us with their child-like eyes.’—
Even the dispositions of the human soul are
expressed by flowers. Thus, silent grief is
portraited by the weeping willow ; sadness by
tlie angelica’; shuddering by the aspen, me
lancholy by the cypress ; desirous of meeting
again by the starwort: the night swelling
recket is a figure of life, as it stauds on the
frontiers between light and darkness. Thus,
nature by these flowers, seems to betoken her
sympathy with us ; and whom hath she not
often more consoled than heartless and voice
less men were able to do I
“ What is the difference between the rich
and the poor 1 B takes a whirlwind to move
one,—a breath may uproot the other!” Bul-
war never penned a greator truism.
“ ’Tis a very good world we live in
To lend, to spend, or to give in ;
But to beg, or to borrow, or to get a man’s own,
Tis the very worst world that ever was known.”
A Visit to the Insanc.—The subjoined ac
count of a “Visit to the Insane,” at the magni
ficent hospital, built by the city corporation’ on
Blackwell’s Island, is copied from the New
York Observer, and will be read with inte
rest.
“The gloomiest wilderness on earth is the
howling waste of ruined minds.”
Such was the melancholy and oppressive re
flection that weighed on the heart as we turn
ed away from the Insane Hospital on Black
well’s Island near this city. It is an institution
where the lunatic poor of the city are support
ed, and in the midst of all the painful sensa
tions awakened by a visit among them, it is
grateful to the benevolent to know that they
are made comfortable here, and far more so
than they have been at home or among their
friends. Dr. McClelland, the assistant phys
ician, is constantly with them, devoting the
energies of mind and body to the relief of their
suffering, the arrangement and furniture of
rooms; the conveniences for bathing, the sup
ply of suitable food, the attention of nurses,
&c., combine to surround the unhappy beings
lieie assembled with the few sources of comfort
which a disordered intellect can enjoy.
But what enjoyment can there be in a shat
tered mind] One of the first cases that pre<
sented itself and excited the sympathies of the
pious heart, was a man who with fettered
hands was preaching to his companions as
crazed as himself. He was an ignorant creat
ure who had conceived the idea of being a
“minister,” and studying his Bible night and
day, and denying himself almost entirely of
sleep, and food, and drink, had soon made
wreck of the little intellect God had given
him, and found himself in a mad house instead
of a pulpit.
Another was a female of fine figure and
manners who fancied herself the lady of Gen.
Washington. She demanded great respect
from those who addressed her, and spoke of
the sweet communion she had enjoyed with
the spirit of her departed husband, as he had
appeared to her just before we entered her
room.
The next was Queen Victoria. A girl of
eighteen, having something of the face that
the Queen is pictured with, had gone wild
with idea that she was entitled to the throne,
and spoke of her carriage and horses that
would soon be at the door to convey her to the
palace.
One bad been suddenly driven to madness
by tlie loss of property, and with solemn as
surances that she was not deranged, she
besought us to effect her deliverance from her
present confinement. Another fancied her
self in hell, and repeated constantly “devils—
damned.”
But all these, and many more in this depart
ment, were comparatively quiet in their mad
ness. There was another building where the
more violent are caged. We looked into a
room where there were a dozen frantic fe
males, apparently at peace with each other, (is
there sympathy among the mad]) but ready
to seize and tear a stranger the moment he
presented himself. One of them approached
with a smiling face, as if glad to greet a friend,
but it was only a pretence to get a victim
within her grasp. Another room contained
as many men, in the same stage of mental
malady.
In one cell was a little girl who had proba-
blv Lfifin lirniiebt to this horrible condition bv
tho J> — — ^ — ”£■
she drew her head instantly under the clothes
of the bed, on which she lay, but we could
see that terror was written on every feature.—
She was haunted perpetually by the thought
that some one was coming to kill her, and
every sound that broke on her ear was the
presage of coming death.
Another recoiled from the touch of a hand
even offered in kindness, and, with awful pro
fanity, bid us begone. A female through the
grating of a cell door, spoke of love and when
her words did not meet a favorable response,
she flew into a rage, and heaped curse on
curse, upon those who sought to soothe her
ravings.
Hut the last case we stall mcntloll, tfiOUgh
there were more than two hundred patients
in the hospital, was the most horrible. The
wailing of the damned in hell, as they gnaw
their tongues with pain, can scarcely be worse.
She was coiled up in a heap of straw in a corn
er of her cell, naked and shrieking. If cloth
ing was given her, she would tear it into rags,
and all that kindness could do was to keep her
warm and give her food. There she lay, and
every breath was a piercing scream of agony
in prayer! It was scarcely possible to distin
guish words, but the tones were those of a de
vil lashed with scorpions and crying for mercy.
“Oh Lord, Oh Lord,” would now and then
rise with terrific power, above the prolonged
howl, and pierce the heart of the hearer as
‘iron entering the soul!’ What was the cause
of her madness] every one asks. We know
not—Conjecture in such a case is useless. We
left her, satisfied only with knowing that she is
the most wretched being that we had ever
seen.
It was gratifying to learn that the gospel had
been recently brought directly to bear upon
these unfortunate beings. As many ofthem as
it is prudent to assemble, are gathered in the
hall on the Sabbath, and the soothing and pre
cious truths of the religion of Jesus are famili
arly presented. The madman from the tombs,
who had just before been cutting himself with
stones, and whom no man could tame, soon
was seen sitting, clothed, and in his right mind,
at the feet of the Saviour God. And in these
institutions where religious exercises have
been for a length of time employed, results
happy and encouraging have followed.—Phil
osophy would teach us to expect good from
such means.
The treatment of the insane is a subject still
in the infancy of its investigation—The moral
ist, the mental philosopher, the man of medi
cal and physical sicence, may find in this sub
ject a field for anxious research. Humanity
encourages such a*study, and he who erects
one beacon by which a lost intellect may re
turn from its wandering; he who ponrs one
drop of oil on the raging waves of a disor
dered mind, or one drop of water on the par
ched tongue of a maniac's spirit, has in his
own bosom a rich reward.
A touch of tJic Sublime.—A fellow giving
an account of being chased by a mad bull,
.Said : , . .'.j
“ The bull roared like thunder, and I ran
like lightning—and on jumping over the fence
as quick as the stars fall from the galaxy, tore
my breeches as though heaven and earth Were
coming together.
When Sir William Jones was yoiing, hav
ing a simgular thirst for knowledge, he often
asked questions of his mother—her answer
was “ Read my sow and you will -find out.”—*
He followed her advice.
How beautiful, bow sublime the. precept,
“ forgive us ourtrespasses as we forgive those
who trespass agausst us.” Pj* who will wil
lingly be thus adjudged ? Who is there *at
does not hope for more mercy at the hand of
his Maker, than he has shown to his fellow
man ?
Prosperity is not a just scale; adversity is
the only balance to weigh friends. Religion
is the best armor, but the worst cloak. Liber
ality is, not giving largely, but giving wisely.
He who makes an idol of his interest, will
make a martyr of his own integrity.
MY AUNT BETSY.
“What great effects arise from little things.”
It is wonderful how little the mother, father,
and kindest relative of a child understand of
his sentisibilities and character, mid bow often
they do violence to his feelings by a disregard
of that public opinion, which of its kind, pre
vails among children as much as it does among
men. The boy is as sensitive to ridicule as
the man—more so: and be suffers just as much
from being laughed at among bis companions
as the man does among his. How often a
child has been compelled to wear a hat, cap,
trowsers, or shoes of some ungainly cut, when
they might just as well have been made after
the fashion of his fellows—which has not only
subjected him to ridicule, but given him a nick
name, which made him alaughing stock through
life; and which was, perhaps, the first thing
that led him to undervalue his own capacity
and character, and consort with those below
him, who are the gradation to a still lower
grade, when he should have directed his pride
to the emulation of these who, as the world
goes, are held above him.
A recollection of my Aunt Betsy, draws
from me these remarks. Each and every
Sunday it was her custom to repair, with a
precise housekeeper of a gentleman with whom
we boarded, to Baltimore, to church. We
were spending the summer months in the coun
try. She was a rigid Presbyterian, and was
fond of doctrinal points—and to the ministry
of tbe Rev. William Duncan, who then was
of the old side, she delighted to devote her
self. I know not whether that minister’s more
liberal opinion which he teaches men, would
be subscribed to by her, but I think not.—
The only place of worship in our country
neighborhood was a methodist meeting, the
latitudinarian principles of that sect she could
not sanction—for latitudinarians she was pleas
ed to call them.
Our host, Mr. Stetson, was the owner of an
old shabby shackling gig, which $et low be
tween the shafts, on wooden springs, with an
old cloth top, and rattling wheels. To this ve
hicle, an old family horse, named Sampson,
halt and nearly blind, was harnessed, and thus
conveyed my Aunt Betsy and Miss Dalrymple
rode to church. They might have ridden to
Jericho if they had left me behind them: but
no! a stool was duly placed for me each Sab
bath in the bottom of the gig, and on this no
lens volens, supported between the knees of
my veteran aunt, to prevent my tumbling out,
was I seated, iu front, with the bandbox be
side me. My shoulders seemed to support the
reins, which my aunt held far apart beside me,
qne in each haud. Whenever Sampson lag-
ed in his gait, no whip was used, but the reins
were flapped up and down on his back and
consequently on my shoulders.
Meanwhile my respectable relation with her
spectacles on her nose, kept a sharp look out
for the stones and ruts, cautioning Miss Dal
rymple to do likewise, and finding most un
christian fault with her wlieuevei we acceiveu
“Miss Betsy, there’s a stone,” exclaimed
Miss Dalrymple.
“Where, where!” exclaimed my aunt.
And before she received the intelligence as
to what side it was, up went the wheel—my
aunt screamed—but we righted again, though
with a bounce that nearly caused the dissolu
tion of the vehicle.
“Bless my soul! why could you not tell me
on what side at once, Miss Dalrymple!” ex
claimed my aunt, adjusting her spectacles.
“I couldn’t think quick enough,” was the
reply.
“Think quick enough,—Madam you can see
beyond your nose, can’t you? Old «a I am, I
can—but I can’t see on both sides at once- -do
look sharp on your side, and I’ll look sharp on
mine—Willy, you look ahead, for mercy’B
sake!”
The mortification I then experienced of
being seen by my playmates in this condition,
brings a blush to my cheek now.
My aunt Betsy had a house in town which
she rented out during our summer sojourn in
the country, but she reserved the privilege of
putting the gig under tlie shed in tbe back
yard, while we weut to church—a narrow,
steep alley, (I forget the name of,) led to the
back-gate.
Arrived there, my aunt and Miss Dalrymple
together, the latter holding open tbe gate, and
the former driving in—with Sampson safely
hitched under the shed—unless ray aunt’s
tenant, who had an eye to tlie quarter’s day,
and the indulgence he thensometimes required,
bustled out, opened tbe gate and let us in full
dignity through. Then he would officiously
conduct us into the house, leading me with one
hand and carrying the bandbox in the other—
for my aunt held also another privilege, by
tacit consent: that of preparing the extras of
her toilet in Mrs. Titlum’s back-parlor, tbe
wife of Mr. Titlum, her tenant.
Then the band-box was opened, tbe best
wig and cap fixed trimly oil and with care, al
though tbe church bells had ceased ringings—
All ready at last, these worthies sallied out,
stately as Juno’s bird, between them leading
your humble servant to the tabernacle.
This day, my aunt had been more than
gratified by Mr. Duncan’s exposition. She
came forth leading me by the hand, as if she
thought that she herself was entitled lo some
credit for the sermon, because it expressed
her opinions so fully, and she had such firm
faith in it. Miss Dalrymple, who in some res
pect, was inclined to doubt certain of the di
vine’s views on previous occasions, was glan
ced at triumphantly; she looked meek - and
mad accordingly. , In this Christian frame of
mind we reached Titlum’s.
The quarter’s day was near, and while my
aunt changed her cap and wig, Xidum got
the gig in readiness. , We were soon seated
in it under the shed—Miss Dalrymple and my
aunt, the bandbox and myself. Titlum led
Sampson through the gate, headed him right,
and so we started fairly.
It was an alley, just back pf Q a, ^ rt ^ tree *
—I forget, as I have said, the name of it,though
I think it was “EovelyL^ne.” we
emerged, taking our way along- Market to
Baltimore street, with tlie intention pf passing
through Calvert street, by Barnum’s into Mon
ument square. j , ; , 4 . ... -
That day, with masonic and military honors
one of the riigiwnt, who bad fought
bravely at North Point,,to be buried, and
the military were paradpg in the i^harp.^ Ely
aunt had scarcely, tjirned Safqpsgn j tntoW^r-
ket street, when the buroL upon her ear,;
and ejaculating, “Heaven I
tried to turn Sampson round,, but,bampson
would pot be turned round. , ,, . •
" “I should not be .aurprixed,” exclaimad my
aunt, “if this abominable violation of the bab-
bath, should, cert US «n our,liv,ea. To toe
trumpets sounding and see colors flying oft the
Lord’s day, and we the innocent to suffer, my
gracious.”
My aunt seemed like Othello h, bi s a£romr
"perplexed in the extreme." g ^’
“Boy, boy,” she called out to a black boy on
the pavement, “come and turn my horse’s head
round.”
“What will you give me, old ’oman!”
. “Old woman, why dou’t he say lady I’ll
give you a fippenny bit.” My aunt was eco
nomical.
“I axes a quarter,” replied he dictatoriaJly.
“A quarter—bless me this was not collec-*
tion day and I didn’t bring any money Mias
Dalrymple did you!”
Miss Dalrymple replied in the negative.
My aunt said to the black fellow, after this
short colloquy,
“Well, my good boy, you shall have a quar
ter of a dollar—when—”
“Shell out,” exclaimed the black fellow.
I suspect that Sampson, and the gig. and the
old bandbox—for my aunt could not have a
new bandbox knocked about in a gig—I sus
pect they penetrated the negro with no respect
for either the purse or person of either my
auut or her company.
“Shell out, old one,” he repeated.
“I have not any change now, my boy I’ll
pay you tho next time we meet,” replied my
aunt.
“Do you see any thing green here!” said
the negro, shutting his right eye, and pulling
down the lower lid of the left one, until the
whole of the white of it was exhibited. He
stood a moment, as if to give my respectable
relation a chance to look and then coolly walk
ed off, saying,
“There aint nothing green about this child,
old one.”
“I protest,” exclaimed my aunt, “ifthat boy
belonged to me he should have a severe lashing
to-morrow morning early. I should almost be
tempted to give it to him to-day, though it is
Sunday.”
But the boy did’nt belong to my aunt, so be
walked off ha-bawtog with contempt, like one
who has detected an imposter in the act of de
frauding him.
“Sir,” said my aunt to a gentleman who was
passing, “couldn’t you turn my horse round, if
you please?”
But no, the gentleman seemed to think with
the negro, that my aunt was not respectable
enough to receive that attention. If she had
been a damsel fair, wbo had been left for a
needful moment by her jehu, the gentleman
would have complied, with most courteous
alacrity, but an old woman who had come out
to take the responsibility of her own safe con
veyance, let ber take it, and the gentleman
walked on. My aunt now applied her own ex
hausted energies to Sampson. She succeeded
in turning him nearly round, when she heard
the noise of fife and drum, and looking
'Hortb, discovered another company coming to
join those in tbe square. Her only chance
now was to go straight out Market street, or
turn down Calvert street. Sampson obeyed
the rein quickly, which put him on his regular
routine, but he made an obstinate stop at tbe
corner of Calvert street, determined to turn
into Monument Square. How my aunt flap
ped the reigns declaring that hereafter she
would drive with a whip,, and that Miss Dal
rymple could carry it.
The company behind us had now got close
on to Sampson and it was evident that the un
usual proceedings of the day on the part of
my aunt, with the-uoise and bustle, had done
much to ruffle his temper. In depositing coal
in the cellar of the corner house, as you turn
down Calvert street, the proprietor had ht?di a.
board laid over the curb-stone on the pave
ment, to prevent filling tbe gutter when it
was discharged from the cart,—against this
Sampson backed, as if desirous of witnessing
the display as the soldiers passed into Monu
ment Square. Thinking himself perhaps still
in the way, he backed a little, and finding his
progress facilitated by tbe plank, he politely
OlGl appreciated nor approved. Greatly a-
larmed, sbe waved her hand over the ragmuf-
fin train who surrounded the band, and called
to the musicians in earnest expostulation,
“Good people, do stop that noise, don’t you
see what a condition we are in, and you are
breaking the Sabbath.”’
What soldier was ever known to regard,
when on duty the remonstrances of an old wo
man in a gig with another of her sex and a
child,—no, though only on parade, they never
play soldiers, and if all the old women and
children in the world were to be killed by
frightened horses, that would not abate their
martial sounds.
The crowd of boys, when they behold Samp
son and the gig, and all the etceteras, and saw
my aunt’s gesture of expostulation, though
many of them could not hear what she said,
burst into a yell of derision. One stoat fellow,
wSo was on the side-walk, following tbe band
close in the press, feeling valiant from the mar
tial strains which be carried in his hand by way
of soldiership, and smote Sampson’s hips and
thigh. This Sampson could not brook; the
music had made him martial too, and it was ev
ident that like his great namesake among the
Philistines, he was determined bn revenge; for -
no sooner did the boy strike him than be char
ged at once into the very midst of the band of
music. The sound the soldier loves, died .up
on their ears instantly—and well it might.—
The fifer started back in such haste, from the
advancing Sampson, and before be could re
cover himself Sampson’s left leg was knee-deep
through his drum-head, whereby he held the
musician prostrate as one antagonist would
hold another by his neckcloth. The slide of
the trombone seemed to have the power of en-
gulphing the whole of it, for Sampson’s head
struck the trombone and it disappeared in the
player’s mouth. The man who played the
serpent was nearly made a victim by it, as were
our first parents,—
In Adam’s tall
We sinned all.
He was a short, ducklegged individual, and
wore the serpent, not exactly folded round him
but buckled on. It caught in the wheel and
held him there as the boa constrictor twines
part of its body round the tree and part round
its victim. The drum, however, saved the
musicians, though it nearly ruined us. As
Sainpson raised his drum-incumbered foot to
advance, be stumbled fiat to earth, thereby
ejecting my aunt upon tbe drummer, Miss Dal
rymple into the embrace «»f the serpent, or
rather tbe serpentine man, and myself and the
violated bandbox and its contents full into tbe
street. The last thing that I remember was
the iufernal yell of the ragmuffins, which rent
tbe.air at this catastrophe.
I do not know what my aunt would have
done, if Mr. Titlum had not rushed to her as
sistance. He was fond of martial sounds, and
after helping us into the gig be had scarcely
.entered his house, when the “stirring music of
the drum” .reached bis ear. Desirous of wit
nessing the display, he passed out of his front
door into Calvert street, and then to tbe cor
ner. He was just in time to witness Samp
son's charge, and was the first to raise my
aunt, On finding she was not hurt, with much
delicacy, he handed to her, her cap, wig and
bonnet, which had escaped from ber respecta
ble person in the fiml grasp of the drummer,
who caught in his terror at he knew not what.
Miss Dalrymple, unhurt,, indignantly disenga-
f td herself from the embraces of the serpent.
unto do my aunt tbe justice to say, that I
behove, before sbe ever thought of me pre
dicament in: which sbe stood, she looked, round,
after me-—a glance showed ber that. 1 was nn«
hurt, for I was od my foet, endeavoring to se
cure her new wig and cap from a black follow
Who bad seized theta. I was, however, un
successful, for he made his escape in tbe melee.
All this while the soldiers were at a ; daad
bait, stamping their feet with impatience, while
those behind pressed front, to leant the cause