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NG Roldoutmy entire interest in the EX'
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xrept absent on. professional
•njaa
The Cuban Enterprise.—One of the
humbugs of the day is the attempt made by
Quitman and others to make the attempt on
Cuba, popular os a Southern.enterprise. The
humbug is too transparent to bear inspec
tion.
In the first place, the headquarters, of the
forces of the enterprise, was New York city
—too far North to originate a fire-eating en
terprise. In tho second place, Mr. John L.
O’Sullivan, one ofthe" heads of the enterprise
is and has been a strong anti-slavery man,
and a special frieim of Martin Van Buren.—
He is thus noticed^ the Boston Pest, of
April 30th :
“S. L. O’Sullivan, who is one of the
filibusters nrrested, is a strong friend of an
ex-president residing in New York and adop
ted his anti.siavery views, from which the
inference may be drawn that one object of
the suspected expedition is to put a stop to
the abominable African slave traffic in Cuba.”
In the third plnce, tho special organ and
champion of all enterprises against Cuba, is
the New York Sun, one of the most rabid
ar,d violent of Freesoil organs. In the fourth
place, the leaders of the movement in the
South are generally believed to belong to
that class who think (ho Union as it now
oxists n disgrace, reproach and nuisance.
We suspect there is more disunionistn in
this Cuba movement than anything else;
nnd we are glad Fillmore has vindicated
the laws ot the'.and and the faith of treaties
by suppressing 0.—N. O. Rut.
Mississippi State Union Convention.—
This highly respectable body of patriot gen
tlemen met at Jnckson, Miss., on the 5th inst.
The following permanent officers were repor
ted by a committee, and accepted by the Con
vention :
President—John Horn, of Wayne County.
Vice Presidents—J. D. Cobb, of Lowndes,
B. Pendleton, of Adams, Gen. Clarke, of
Hinds, Dr. Rowe, of Holmes, Gen. T. G.
Polk, of Marshall.
Secretaries—John C. Abbott, of Lafayette
Co, Gen. Greaves, of Hinds, J. Chiles, of
Hinds.
Thirty-three counties were represented by
over two hundred delegates.. A. committee
consisting of one from each county, to nom
inate a Union ticket for State officers, was
appointed, in the evening, Gen. Isaac N.
Davis addressed the Convention in nn able
and powerful speech.
Alabama Iron.—Two tlatboats, loaded
with about thirty tons of pig iron, from the
foundry of Ware& McLanaiian. Shelby
county, Ain, arrived at Selma on the 27th
ultimo, for the Selma manufacturing company.
The foundry turns out about 8,000 lbs of pig
iron per day.
A Silver Mine in Viroinia.—The
Charlestown (VaJ Spirit of Jefferson says
that there is every reason to believe that a
silver mine has been discovered on the farm
of Messrs. James nnd Dennis McSiierry, ol
that county, situated on the east bank of the
Shenandna river, and at the base ofthe Blue
Ridge mountain
The mine was discovered some months
since, and a small specimen obtained and for-
wardad to the Philadelphia mint to be assay
ed. The Superintendent of the mint has re
lumed the same, made into a ten cent pi ece
and pronounces the ore as exceedingly rich.
Missouri.—A tremendous June freshet is
expected from this river. The last U. S'
mail which came through to St. Louis, Utah,
encountered snow to the depth of 20 feet,
throughout the passage across the mountains
which is more by several feet than has ever
been known within the memory of the oldest
frontiermen.
A large nnd enthusiastic meeting has
been held at Yorktown. Va., at which lion
Daniel Webster was unanimously nominated
as their candidate for tho Presidency in 1852
and they call upon the friends of the Union
throughout theU. S. to rally around and sup
port him.
The meeting also expressed their deep
gratitude to President Fillmore for the patri
otic manner in which he had enforced the
compromise measures, particularly the fug!
tive slave law.
Scotish Highlands.—The Editor of the
Witness says: We understand that the evils
under which tho Highlanders labor are in.
creasing, and that some thousands of our
very best people are about to emigrate in
despair to other lands. Somp important in
formation, we understand, will bo communi
oated, at the meeting on Monday, by gentle
men from the distressed districts.
Washington’s Residence -—The depth of
affection entertained for the memory of
Washington is strongly spt forth in the fact,
that for two hundred acres of grqjjjid includ
ing thp Mo«nt Vernon residence, two hun
dred thousand dollars have been offered by
fiV|
WILL YOU L0YE ME WHEN I’M OLD ?
Will A flection still enfold mo,
As the day of life declines,.
When Oil Axe with ruthless rigor,
Ploughs my thee in ftarrowed lines;
Whsn tho eyo forgets its Beeing,
And tbs hand forgets its skill,
When the very words prove rebels,
To the Mind’s once kingly will I
When tho deaf ear, strained to listen,
Scarcely hears the opening word,'
And lh‘ unfathomed depths of Feeling,
Are by no swift currents stirred ;
Wli-n lond Memory, like a limner,
Mony n line perspective ensts,
Spreading out our by-gone pleasures,^
On the canvass of the Past!
Whsn the leaping blood grows sluggish,
And the fire of Youth lia-b fled i
When tho friends which now surround us,
Half are numbered with the dead;
When the years appear to shorten,
Soarcely leaving us a trace j
When old Time with bold approaches,
Marks the dials on my face!
When our present hopes, all gathered,
Lie like dead flowers on our traok ;
Whca tho wholo of our existence,
Is one fearful looking back j
When each wnsted hour of talent,
Scarcely measured now at ail,
Sends its witness book to haunt us.
Like the writing un the wall!
When the ready tongue is palsied.
And the form is bowed with care;
When our only hope is Hcavon,
And our only help is prayer;
When our idols, broken round us,
Foil amid the ranks of men—
Until Death uplifts the ourtnin,
Will thy Love endure till thonl
J*H0crU<uuou0,
From tire Temperance Banner.
Judge Lumpkin’s Letter.
Athens, April 14th 1851.
Dear Sir,—There are seasons when the
strongest faith seems to stagger. Look at
Abraham himself—the father of tho faithful.
At one time his hand is uplifted to offer in
sacrifice his Only son, not duubting that God
was able to raise him up, even from|thedead.
At another lime, in the country of Ablimc-
lech, he was so overpowered by fear, that ho
hesiia’ed not to havd recourse to falsehood,
in order to save himself, not from a real, but
an imaginary danger.
At one moment we beheld Peter exhibit
ing a courage that is truly heroic. At the
command of his Master, he desoends the side
of the tossed ship, in the midst of a tempes
tuous sea, and commits himself boldly to the
strong billows An instant after, the winds
becoming boisterous, he yields to the most
faithless fear, crying piteously, “Lord, save
me.”
But we need not go to patriarchs and
apostles for examples. Does not-the faith of
the friends of Temperance stand in need of
being strengthened just at this period ?—
Have not the soaring hopes of many been
changed into gloomy apprehensions; the
glowing joys of others into distressing cold
ness nnd chilling indifference ? and what
is better calculated to encourage those who
would despond, than a brief review of the
past ?
What a mighty revolution has been wrought
within a qunrter of a century ! Who doubt
ed, twenty-five years ago, that alcoholic
liquors were absolutely needful os a bever
age ! and that much of the business of the
world could not be conducted without them?
Who believes this delusion now ? Millions
in the United States, and multitudes in other
lands, hare proved by experience, the best
of teacher, that men are, in all respects, bet
ter without them than with them! Is not
this a great point gained ? Who can tell
how much the suc ; al, civil and religious in
terests of our country and the world have
been promoted by the establishment of this
single truth ?
Again, it has been demonstrated, and is
now universally admitted, that intemperance
destroys a vast amount of property, and that
it is the principal cause of pauperism and
crime, disease, insanity nnd death ; one
ot the greatest dangers of our free institutions,
one ot the mightiest obstructions to the effi
cacy of the gospel and all the means of grace,
and that by its removal one of the deepest
fountains of human sorrow would be dried
up, and light, and love, peace and purity be
increasingly spread throughout the earth.—
By the sixth report of the American Tem
perance Society, it was shown that the mon
ey expended in one year in this country for
liquor,‘would purchase 4,000,000 sheep 400,-
000 head of cattle, 200,000 cows, 40,000
horses, 500,000“ suits of men’s clothes,
1,000,000 boy’s, 500,000 woman’s, 1,000,-
000 girls, 1,200,000 barrels flour, 800,000
ditto beef, 800,000 ditto pork, 3,000,000
bushels corn, 2,000,000, ditto potntoes, 10,-
000.000 lbs. sugar, 400,000 lbs. vice, and 2,-
000,000 gallons molasses; and build besides,
1000 churches, support 2000 ministers, build
8,000 school houses, furnish 500,000 news
papers and establish 8,000 libraries at six
hundrod dollars each. These thrice, thrice
astounding facts never can be blotted out.'
And in view of them well may it be asked,
“who in our land need to bo poor or wretch
ed ? And what need to hinder this laud, as
soon as its population might wish, from be
coming, untier the Divine appointment, Im-
mnnuals land, its peace flowing as a river,
and its righteousness and blessings as the
waves of the sea ?”
Once more: the bottle is not only pretty
generally proscribed from the public tables of
our large and most respectable hotels nnd
steamboats, but it is almost universally ban
ished from our national festivities. And that
is not all. Who composes or sings n Song
now as “in the old rum days of yore,” in
honor of the jolly and rubicund god Bacchus ?
On the contrary, “Hail Columbia,” “The
Star Spangled Banner,” “Soot’s wha hae,”
Auld Lang Syne,” “Life lgt us cherish,”
“Home,sweet home,” and all af the most
beautiful, popular and patriotic airs, have
been admirably parodied, and are chanted.with
angelic svyeetness in praise, of cold water at
all of pur Temperance meetings and jubilees.
I Who has not seen a whole audience melte^
to tears'ailiateq i uig to;“ty[y Mojthsr’g Homa.’,
when sung by the Smiths and other min
strels ? I hsk is all this nothing? As well
attempt to arrest and roll back the Alpine
Avalanche, ns a moral reform which hasta-
ken such a deep hold upon the public judg
ment, cosncience find feeling.
Finally, suppose that when Beecher and
Ketiridge, Hewitt and Edwards, first buckled
oh their armor to do battle with the proud
Fhillistinos, they had found the church in
the main purified from the poison, the bar
and bench and' medical faculty bearing a
strong and united'testimony against its ha
bitual use ; the Press, that lever of Arche-
mcdeSj that is moving the modern world,
rendering itself the benefactor of mankind by
publishing from time to time the most im
portant information upon the subject, nnd
thus becoming a most valuable instrument
in forming a correot public sentiment, by
speaking to multitudes who can bo address
ed in no other way. 1 repeat, had these
Calebs and Joshuas stood upon the vantage
ground in the beginning, which we occupy,
would trembling and despair haveseized their
hands ?
I would not he understood as intimating
that the Temperance Reformation is already
completed, or that it lias advanced so far
that it will continue to go forward of itself.
No Son or member should relax his efforts
until tho last individual shall abstain entire
ly from the use of intoxicating liquor as a
drink-from the manufacture ofit,ortriffic in it,
and from furnishing it in any way as a be
verage to others. This is an arduous work,
aud demands great and persevering toil.—
But who will null or turn hack in rail veiw
of the prize set before him—a sober world ?
No, the work is not done—would to God
that it was. But enough has been accom
plished to demonstrate its practicability—
who doubts that it ought .to.bndnnn? Let
the whole reformed host do their duty and
it will be finished. Onward then be our
motto.
“The drunkard from the pit to raise—
To life restored—
To home, to wife to childreu.”
The Culiluriiits Bride—A Sketch -
(roui Lite.
Somo months past, an advocate’s clerk,
placed in one of the first offices of Paris, and
well esteemed by his employer, despairing of
raising means sufficient to purchase a study,
undertook the adventurous risk of tempting
fortune in the new El Dorado.
‘Now,’ quoth he, ‘1 have no longer need
to marry an heiress,’ and he addressed a
young milliner, upon whom he had cast
glances of affectiou for some time back.—
Now, you see me despoiled to all conjugal
ambition, 1 will marry you willingly, could
you prevail upon* yourself to venture upon
the1iazerdY)f the journoy ?
‘I accept,’ responded the milliner, with on
intrepidity belonging to her social institu
tion.
It was arranged that the young clerk, who
had already secured his passage on board
a vessel about to sail, should go forward, and
that she should follow him as soon as she
collected in her debts due and made a pack
age of her worldly wealth. She thus avoid
ed the embarrassment of a new establish
ment in an unknown country and on her ar
rival would be received by her futuie hus
band, and installed in a ready furnished lodg
ing.
The young clerk departed then in advance;
the . voyage was prosperous ; tho deserter
from the notary’s office, contracted in
resources, but filled with abundant expecta
tions, landed on the California shore.
The greater part of his illusions wore
quickly dispelled. He discovered the opu
lent country already cleaned nut; that all the
gold laying on the surface of the earth and
concealed beneath the crystal waters of the
streams had disappeared ; that the thousands
of adventurers who had enriched themselves
had left their successors a difficult means of
support. There still remained treasures in
California ; great fortunes could be made tit
course of time there, but like elsewhere, the
rich reaped the most and those possessing
silver reaped a harvest of gold.
One of the richest settlers, arrived among
tho first in California, discovered to the new
comer the condition ot the country.
‘It requires twelve years of hard labor to
acquire one quarter of what I have amassed
in the first six months from my arrival in
this country. Thanks to a lucky commence
ment, my business arrangements progress
royally, and nothing is lacking to complete
my happiness but a woman, a companion, a
wife I’
‘I daily expeut one to arrive,’replied the
ex-clerk, who started io affright at this new
subject of expense in a country where every
thing was already too dear,
‘You are indeed blessed !’ responded tho
California nabob.
A few days after the milliner arrived ;
the nobob, who was present at the disem-
barkatimdrew the ex-clerk aside, and said
to him—
‘What will you take to let me get married
in your place ?’
1 You are doubtless joking.
‘Not at all. First listen to me, nnd have
the goodness to answer me. Hovy much do
you calculate to earn in this country ?• At
what figure do you set down n fortune ?’
‘Ton thousar’d francs n year that’s the ex
tent of my imagination.’
■ ‘I’ll give it to you.’
‘What say you ?’ exclaimed the bewilder
ed student ? ‘I,’ resumed the nabob, ‘already
haresomo millions, nnd I still desire more.—-
Two hundred thousand ftancs are a mere
trifle and I am charmed to purohase a wife
at such a prioe,’
‘Yes, hut my bride?
She will accept,’ responded the California
nabob, with an air of superiority tho fact of his
being the .Croesus of the country
In fact the milliner acceded to the propo
sition. The ex-clerk returned to Paris i'^st
month ; he gqve a, sumptuous banquet to, H
ancient companiOns of the law, to celebrqie
his happy consumatior
;e to Califoi ‘
From the Knlcketbocker Msgnxlne.
A Dying Wife to her Husband.—The
following most touching fragment of a Letter
from a dying Wife to her Husband was found
by him, some months after hor death, be
tween the leaves of a religious volume,
whioh she was very fond of perusing. The
letter, which was literally aim with tear-
marks, was written long before the husband
was aware that the grasp of a fatal disease
had fastened upon the lovely form of his wife,
who died at the early age of nineteen :
“When this shall meet your eye, dear
G ,someday when you are turning
over the relics of the post, 1 shall have pass
ed away forever, and the old white s'.ono
will be keeping its lonely watch over the lips
you have so often pressed, and the sod will
be growing green that shall hide forever
from your sight the dust of one who has so
often nestled close' to your warm heart. For
many long and sleepless nights, when all my
thoughts were at rest, 1 liaye wrestled with
the consciousness of approaching death, un
til nt last it has forced itself upon my mind;
and although to you and to others it might
now seem but the nervous imaginations of a
girl, yet dear G , it is so ! Many
weary hours have I passed in the endeavor
to reconcile mysulf to leaving you, whom 1
love so well, and this bright world of sun
shine and beauty; and, hard, indeed, is it to
struggle on silently and alone, with the sure
conviction that I am about to leave all forev
er and go dowu alone into the dark valley 1
‘But 1 know in whom I have trusted,’ and,
leaning upon His arm, ‘I fear no evil.’ Don’t
blame mo for keeping even all this from you.
How could I subject you, of al! others, to
such sorrows as I feel at parting when time
will so soon make it apparent to you ? 1
could have wished to live, if only to be at
your side whan, ynur time shot) nnd
pillowing your head upon my breast, wipe
the death damps from your brow, and usher
your departing spirit into its Maker’s pres
ence, embalmed in woman’s holiest prayer.
But it is not to he so—and I submit.
Yours is the privilege of watching, through
long and dreary nights, for the spirit’s final
flight, and of transferring my sinking head
from your breast to my Saviour’s bosom!—
And you shall share iny last thought, the last
faint pressure of the hand, nnd tho last fee
ble kiss shall be yours, and even when flesh
and heart shall have failed me, my eyes shall
rest on yours until glazed by death—and our
spirits shall hold one last fond communion,
until gently fading from my view—-the last
of earth—you shall mingle with the first
bright glimpses of tho unfading glories of
that better world, where partings are un
known, Well do I know the spot, dear
G , where you will lay mo; often have
we stood by the place, and ns we watched
the mellow sunset os it glanced in quivering
flashes through the leaves and burnished the
grassy mounds around us with stripes of bur
nished gold, each perhaps has thought that
one of us would come alone; and whichever
it might be, your name would be on the
stone. But you loved the spot; and 1 know
you’ll love me nono'the less when you see
the same quiet sunlight linger and
among the grass that grows over your
ry’s grave.—I know you’ll go often alone
there, when I am laid there, and my spirit
will be with you then, and whisper among
tho wn<’ing branches. ‘I am not lost but
gone before I’
Bear Hiinlliss in Lonisiuiin
A correspondent of the New Orleans Con
ner, writing from the backwoods, concludes
his letter with the following graphic descrip
tion of the chime and capture of a brown
bear, a native and denizen of those “dig
gings
“The Brown bear is no stranger in tho par
ish of Livingston. The chase isfvery excit
ing. Though not easily overtaken by the
dogs, as he generally makes for the most im
penetrable thickets, cane brakes nnd stvnmps,
yet wlton brought to bay he makes n regular
“knock-down and drag-out” affair of it with
the dogs. He is n shy and timid animal, and
will never fight until fairly “driven to the
wall,” and then with his back against a tree
he will keep nt arm’s length half a dozen
dogs, flinging out his brawny nrms with elec
trical force and rapidity, striking right and
left, here breaking the back of one, there
tearing out the entrils of another, and often
destroying the whole pack. It is whon this
fight is going on—a tumult of fierce growl
ing, yelping and agonizing screnms—that the
hunter, often miles behind, makes prodigious
efforts to “como up.” A horse is out of the
question. He cuts his way with his “butch
er-knife” often lor miles through a dense for
est of cane, or plunges up to his middle-
through morass and lagoon, swimming riv
ers, and leaping from time to lime, with
wonderful activity, the huge trees that some
hurricane has stretched along his way. Of
all field sports this requires the greatest ex
penditure of'wind and muscle, nnd he who
is not sure of his capacity, had better never
undertake to be in at the death of a bear!
One night, wlion we were sleeping in the
cabin of a worthy settler, between the Tick-
law and Amitij, the sudden squealing of a
hog was heard! and the old man leaping out
of bed, seized his rifle and rushedjto the res
cue. There he found a monstrous hear tear
ing huge mouthfuls from the side of his fa
vorite grynter. Approaching within ten pa
ces he hltized asvay, when the infuriated ani
mal, slightly wounded, turned upon his as
sailant. Dropping his rifle, our Iriend made
for a tree, and just ns he had bent himself to
spring, the bear, with a desperate clutch,
seized him by the seat of his breeches.
Fortunately they gave way, and his life was
suved. The bear made oft - with his trophy,
and when we went out with torches to the
old man’s relief, it could not bo said that he
was “more honored in the breech than in the
observance,’’ for he was literally naked.”
It has been calculated that if those who
have gone before us to death, were all living,
nnd distributed equally over the surface of
icth, the United States would contain j a
ipulation of at least three thousand milUoi
Farmer* Beast This.
The American Agriculturist, in answer to
the inquiry, IVImt are birds good for?”
relates the following ;
In connection with this subject, wo will
give an anecdote related to us last winter by
Gov. Aiken, of South Carolina, of the rice
birds. These little creatures gather round
tho rice fields at harvest- time m. countless
myriads, and of course consunieconsiderahle
grain. Some years ago it was delermined'to.
mnke war upon them,.and drive them out of
the country, and the measure was in some
degree successful, as far as geltihg rid ot tho-
birds. ‘What are birds for ?’ The rice-
plant soon found out; for with tho decrease
of birds, the worms increased so rapidly
that, instead of a few scattering grains to feed
(ho birds, the whole crop was demanded to-
fill the insatiable maw of the army that came
ra consume every young shoot ns fast ns they
sprung from the ground. Most undoubtedly,
the birds were invited back again with a hear
ty welcome. A few years ago the blackbirds
in the northern part of Indiana were con
sidered a grievous nuisance to the farmer.
Wholo fields of oats were sometimes des
troyed, and the depredations upon late corn
tvero greater than can be believed, if told.
The farmer sowed nnd the birds reaped. He
scolded nnd they twittered. Occasionally a
charge of shot brought down a score, but
mado no more impression upon the great sea
of birds than tho removal ot n bucket of wa
ter from the great salt puddle. A few years
later every green thing on tho land seemed
destined to destruction by the army of worms.
Man was powerless—a worm among worms.
But his boat friend, the Imtchet blnck-hird,
came to his relief just in time to save when
nil seemed lost. No human aid could have
helped him. How thankful should man be
that. God has given Inm i'or. L*« oumpnntono -
and fellow laborers, in the cultivation of the
earth, those lovely birds. ‘The laborer is
worthy of his hire.’ Why should we grudge
the little share claimed by the busy little tel-
lows which follow the plow aud snatch the
worm away from the seed, that it might pro-*
duce grain for his and oqi sustenance ?—
Tho Horticulturist, for January, contains,
among other valuable and intersting articles,
a communication from William Hopkins, of
Buynswick, Rensselaer county, in relation
to the Curculio, which has proved so destruc
tive to fruit, particularly Plums, throughout
the couutry. He alludes to the great utility
of birds and fowls os follows:
1 have put the totlowing questions to the
oldest people in the neighborhood, and re
ceived, invariably, about tho same answers:
“Are your apples ns sound now os those
you raised thirty or forty yoars ago?”
“Oh, no ! they’re gnarly and wormy now
—the seasons ain’t as good ns they used to-
bo.”
“Are the birds as plentiful as formerly?”
“Oh, law, no ! they used to make noise
enough to deafen you, when I was, young.’’
“Do you raise ns much poultry ? ’
“Why no ! guess not, we get more butch
er’s meat now.”
It will be readily observed by the first re
ply , that those persons have not the least
idea of the present cause of failure. (I do
not insist that the Ourcu|io is the only trpu-
blesome thing.) 1 know of a solitary apple
tree, in a forty acre field, where every„futlen
fruit shows several crescent shaped punc
tures. Paving under the trees, or white
washing the fruit, may save the crop, but
both plans are expensive; and even when we
havo done it, the greatest vigilance is neces
sary, because they nre still surrounded by
tho enemy. Nothing short of total extermi
nation should he the aim of tho fruit grower;
let him explain the nature of this insect to
every one who owns n tree, to every man,
womau and child, on his premises; let him
be a grower of poultry, as well ns n grower
of fruit; let him give accomodation and en
couragement to the birds of the air, in every
possible way; lot him petition the proper au
thorities, that stringent laws may bo enacted
for their preservation ? that all disIWost per
sons may be prevented trom coming on our
land to shoot or injure them. The word
dishonest may appear loo severe for ibis
place—let it pass. Those who fed ’the
birds, (namely, the owners of iheroil,) have
a special claim to their services, and no
straggling sportmau should deprive them of
it.
Preserving Struwborrics.
Messrs. Editors: If you will not think it
presumption, in a poor forlorn old maid, to
presume to tell the Editors of The Soil of
the South, how to preserve Strawberries, I
will give you my method.
1 opened a bottle recently-, (hat had been
bottled eight years, and they wore as sound
as when first bottled. Take a pound of good
loaf sugar to a pound of Strawberries, dis
solve the sugar in os little water as possible,
cook the fruit about eight minutes; now
skim thorn out, nnd boil the syrup eight min
utes longer; now bottle them in strong bot
tles, drive in the corks tight, and seal them
well, and put them in a cool place. They
will keep for years.
LUCY..
Diplomatic Correspondence.—■ Mr. Bug-
gin’s compliments to Mr. Muggins, and re
quests that Mr. M.will take'measures to
prevent his pigps from trespassing any far
ther on the grounds of Mr. Buggins,
[reply.]
“Mr. Muggins respects to Mr, Buggins’
nnd requests that in the future, he will not
spell pigs with two gees.”
[no. 2.]
“Mr. Buggins’s acknowledgements to Mr.
Muggins, and requests that he will make the
addition of the letter e to the final word of
his communication, so as to represent Mr.
Muggins, wife and family.”
[reply.]
“Mr. Muggins declines further cor res p
dence, nnd returns Mr. Huggins’s last - r *
unopened. The impertinence which
tains is unequalled save by its vulg
Milk, so nutritious when t
