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poetry.
“\\ ith a noi't's iiami.and a proplirt’s fir«\
ll* l struck, the wild of his lyre"
A OIG VR.
VvT.cn * ur visn£**s grow r-.Uirr vapory.
Ami furrows are srathir ; tlie brow,
l ate shudiovs ■ s o’er witb its drapery.
Our w ine ami our \» e iltli’s ebliing low :
Then w hat shall an amulet be for ns—
Or where sh ill we borrow the spell;
To sever the ehaing of ennui for us ?
The clouds w reathing o'er us dispel?
The witch hazel wand we w ill ask not,
That’s wielded in eountries afar;
Superstition, for spells, we will task not :
Our talisman shall be a Cigar 1
If misfortunes should gather around u* ;
Our joys and otirjeux d'esprit fail;
If an earthquake e’er should astound us—
And ileauties and beer become pale ;
Ah ! for all such distresses, hell we me,
A cure 1 can boast of with truth—
From passion and pain ’twill relieve mo,
And call up the pastime of youth.
Should care his ministers send ever—
Our happiness daring to mar:
’Gainst the intruders we'd do our endeavor;
Our sword and our shield —a Cigar!
If a ringlet or rose we are nourishing;
A smile from our mistress to win ;
A quill or a tandem-whip nourishing ;
Whichever the humor we’re in :
And the night-dew our curl be untwisting ;
The rose in sere leaves be arrayed :
And from racing and rhyming desisting;
We feel that life’s pleasures can fade :
When sable youth’s blue sky is covering;
Unlit by a single bright star ;
We’ll flash through the gloom o'er us hovering,
The glory that crowns a Cigar!
When life in its gaiety shines o'er us,
Love and lotteries luckily speed ;
" The laurel, Fame's finger entwines o’er us ;
In wooing and war we succeed,
When Time’s leaden footsteps are hurrying—
We’ re ready for dinner at four.
No children our tempers are worrying ;
W e’re rid of each terrible bore :
When Champaignea relish is lacking;
A Bagdad the best is by far;
When almonds and jokes we are cracking ;
Bring a taper— we’ll light a Cigar !
yi iscella a rors.
44 Collected news.
Os these most brisk, and giddy-paced times.'
Tom and Bolt, or a plot discovered,
BY THOMAS HOOD.
lam a saddler by trade, but I am of a sentimen
tal and contemplative turn of mind, and often saun
ter by myself into iSt, James’s Park, and along the
Bird Cage Walk. One evening lately, wrapped in
my mediations, I remained till it was very dark,
and the Park was nearly empty. I had taken my
station under a large tree, near which was a bench,
on which two wcllish-drcssed men were seated, and
apparently in earnest conversation. Coming out of
my reverie, l began to speculate on the causes which
were most likely to have drawn my new neighbors
to this quiet spot. “ Are they,” thought I, “ mem
bers of parliament, come here to study what they
are to say on some important question ? Are they
lovers, seeking retirement to descant to each other
on the charms of their mistresses ? Are they hus
bands, afraid to face their wives ? Are they”—but
all my conjectures were put to Might by the first sen
tence which reached my ear.
“ Well, Tom,” said one, “ your plot is well laid ;
but l think you will have some difficulty in dispos
ing of Berkeley.”
“Oh, not at all,” replied Tom ; “ I propose send
ing him to one of the West Indian Islands, and there
are too many ways there of stopping a man’s breath,
for me to ho at any loss.”
“ Is his death absolutely necessary ?’’ asked the
other.
“ Undoubtedly,” answered Tom, “ for you know
the duke has sworn that Julia shall never marry
Villiers, so long as Berkeley is alive.”
“ Heaven and earth,” thought TANARUS, “ what atrocious
villains are here ! What duke are they speaking
o' ■ Wn ’erke’.oydo they allude to !” 1 had no
lime for far:on reflection.
True, true,” said the other, ‘‘he must certainly
be put out of the way ; hut 1 think* your sending
him to the West Indies is a clumsy mode of getting
rid of him. Could you not kill him in a duel.”
- “ Nothing could be more easy, my dear Boh,” re
plied Tom ; “ hut as I dismissed Spenser io the other
world, with a bullet for his passport, 1 would rather
try another mode. I think 1 shall have him murder
ed by a slave-driver.”
“ I cannot consent to that,” answered Bob ; “ I
don’t like the expedient.
“ Like it or not,” said Tom, angrily, “ I am not
aware that it is necessai v to ask your consent in the
matter.”
** Did wo not agree to do the thing between us,
and to divide the cash ?” asked his companion
44 You are inexperienced in these matters, but I
have put a good many suclyobs through my hands
already.” .
Imagine the dismay with which I listened to this
horrid dialogue ! My head swam ; my blood ran
cold ; I crept close to the tree, afraid even to draw
my breath.
44 Well, well,” said Tom, 44 don’t let us fall out
about it; Berkeley shall die some way or other. I
am glad you think well of the plot. Our employer
will surely be satisfied, seeing there are three dukes,
seven marquesses, and nineteen earls, engaged in it.
The deuce is in it, if that won’t content him !”
44 Thunder and Lightning!” said Ito myself, it is
plain that some awful conspiracy is hatching. Is the
town to be burnt ? Is the house of commons to be
blown up ?”
“When Berkeley is done for,” continued Boh,
44 Villiers will marry Julia. They will be presented
at court, and then comes the catastrophe. We there
assassinate William.”
My brain whirled ; I could seareely credit my
senses ; and it was only after pinching my arm that
I could believe I was awake. “Is it possible,” tho't
1, 44 that these ruffians could cr*>lly plot the death of
our gracious sovereign under the very nose of his
palace T Desperadoes that they art! But the king
shall live, and Berkeley shall not be murdered by a
slave-driver, if 1 can help it!” They had by this
time left the bench, and were walking towards tow n.
Fired with indignation, I hastened after them, guided
!>v the sound of their footsteps. As there was no
creature near to assist me in securing them, I resolv
ed not to attempt it til! help was at hand. Step In
step I followed them, till they readied Charing-cross,
when suddenly springing forward I seized Boh by
the collar, and called out 44 Help, help ! they are
murderers!” A crowd immediately gathered round
and Tom, instead of running away, stood stock-still.
“ I charge you all, in the king’s name,” said I, “to
secure these two desperate ruffians !” Bob, who
had at first remained motionless, now knocked me
down. The police interfered, however, and set me
on my legs. 1 was still as bold as could be. “ I
charge these t%vo men,” said 1, 44 Torn and Bob, other
names unknown, with conspiring the death of sundry
individuals; and I command you,” I continued,
turning to the police-men, 44 to carry them before a
magistrate, when I sha.il substantiate the charge.”
At this Boh and Torn, affected the most perfect
amazement, and treated the accusation with'the
greatest scorn. The mob, however, took part with
me, the uproar increased, and the police-men carried
us all before Sir llichard Birnie.
The appearance of Boh and Tom at Bow-street
seemed to occasion some surprise, and Sir Richard,
who appeared to know them, looked confounded on
hearing the report of the police-men. “ Gentlemen,”
said he, “ this is a most extraordinary affair. I
scarcely expected to see you before me on such an
occasion.” 44 You could not expect it less than we
did,” answered Bob. 44 It is not to be borne, that
gentlemen are to be pelted by a mob, and dragged
here like felons, on the hare assertion of a seurvv,
half-drunk tailor.” 44 1 am not a tailor, Master Bob,”
I replied ; “lam an honest maker of saddles.” 44 1
wish you had learned to put them on the right horse,”
answered Bob, as bold as brass. 44 Sir Richard, 1
presume we may retire !” “If you let them go, it
will he at your own peril,” said 1. “ Gentlemen,”
said .Sir Richard, 44 have a moment’s patience, and
we shall soon settle this business. You, fellow, state
your charge.” 44 By your leave, Sir Richard, 1 will
first say a few words, which will make their con
sciences fly in their face. Hark ye, Master Bob
and Master Tom, other names unknown, look at
me.” 44 Well!” answered Bob, “we do look at you
and see nothing hut a half-starved wretch, in a suit
of clothes not worth eighteen-pence.” “11l took in
hand certain jobs, and shared the cash like some
people,” replied I, staring them full in the face, “ I
might have had a better coat on my hack. You
take me, Master Bob ?” 44 I take you for an inso
lent scoundrel!” said Bob, in a rage. “No more of
this,” sa*il Sir Richard ; 44 but state distintly your
charge.” 44 1 charge them with conspiringOhe death
of a gentleman of the name of Berkeley, and of his
most gracious majesty, William the fourth.” At
this Bob and Tom stared at each other, and Sir
Richard looked confounded. “ Yes,” I continued,
turning to the culprits, 44 I overheard your murder
ous schemes; and you, monster of iniquity ! you
swore to assassinate the king! And what harm
has Berkeley done you, that he should he murdered
by a slave-driver ! You boasted that your plot
was well laid; but confess, ruffians, who are the
three dukes, the seven marquesses, and the nineteen
earls, who are engaged in it ?”
At this, the hardened wretches burst into such a
shout of laughter as made the roof ring. Peal fol
lowed peal; though I saw plainly that this was done
to gain time to concert some story to palm upon Sir
Richard. At length, Master Bob owned that he
and his companions had certainly been in St. James’s
Park that night, and that they had sat for sometime
under a tree ; hut that the conversation I had oVer
heat l related entirely, to the personages in a novel
which he and his companion were writing jointly,
and th it this was the plot they alluded to ! Master
Tom, taking this hint, chimed in with the story;
and they so bamboozled Sir Richard, that the good
simple man dismissed the charge, adding a few re
marks, so little complimentary to me, that I must
stand excused for not setting them down. 44 Sir
Richard,” said I, solemnly, “ you are imposed upon ;
these rogues are too much for you ; hut since you
are pleased to let loose Master Bob and Master
Tom, other names unknown, I wash my hands.”.
44 When your hand is in, you had better wash your
face,” remarked Master Bob ; and this was the last
I saw of Master Bob .and Master Tom, other names
unknown.
Its tract from a LortiiiT on AValking.
The tip-toes: so called from the pretty artifice
of mincing on the toes, with a stop indicative of this
earth being too impure to rccieve the impress of
their feet. It eminently distinguishes a great swell,
a boarding school miss in her teens, or a stiff starch
ed old maid.
The swingers: a most unpleasant breed to walk
with arm in arm. Their manner is to advance first
one shoulder and then the other, with two long arms
pendulous, and keeping time to the strides ofa coup
le ot still legs, moving as gracefully as the legs of a
mathematician's compass, or the timber understand
ings of a Chelsea pensioner.
The bobbers: one might suppose them desirous
of aiding digestion by shaking and churning them
selves m their rambles. Their heads ’can be com
pared only to a fisher’s boat bobbing up and down
in the water, whence they have, doubtless, taken
their name.
The handlers walk as though they were purely
out of conceit with themselves; now all on one side,
then all on the other; crooked, straight, long steps,
short steps, toes sometimes in, sometimes out. .Ex
cept out on a bad road, on a hot day, in a tight pair
of shoes, and with a hungry belly, this style is quite
unpardonable.
The SKipriTY-MPPiTY-Hor step is usually met
with among half-bread, Sunday-dressed bucks. It
is a smirking, lipity-loppity motion. A merchant’s
apprentice, or a tailor’s clerk in his holy-day gear,
may not unfrequently he scon cutting this ridiculous
figure.
The stripers requires no minute description. It
is customary with them to race along, in seven
league hoots, so that it is, under all eircumstanees,
far more desirable to ride than to walk with these
gentry, the striders.
The jostle rs are quick, independent, heyday,
miscellaneous walkers despising all rule, all order.
They may be seen in crowded streets playing hide
and seek before every passenger they meet; even in
open ways they tread every street as if it were too
narrow, or had too many lamp-posts; nay, if the wel
fare of the nation were at there linger ends, they
could not affect more importance of carriage and
motion. It is amusing to see twojostlers dancing be
fore each other at cross purposes, right and left, beg
ging pardon each ’inie for the unfortunate interrup
tion they occasion each ether.
The step accidental is when you have been
walking, say ala wriggle, tip-toe. or hold up, and
suddenly meet a crony who tells you. with a shining
face, pinched eyes, and an affectionate twang of
speech, how “handsome your gold chain is,” or what
“a devilish good orator you proved yourself at the
club last night.” On the step accidental is
used to convey your person to its destination with a
winging of the body, nodding the head, humming
“lal lal lal lal,” and swaggering with the feet.
The step delicate, one would imagine, belonged
only to lovers and ladies. It is not so. There is
sucli a creature in the fashionable world as a dandy;
a thing of perfume and nonsene, which can step as
delicately as a tortoise shell tabby. A hall room
suit and pumps are the life and soul of this very pret
ty step.
The step pompous is that of a man who has writ
ten a noisy article in a paper or a magazine, who has
made a public speech, said some silly, good thing,
or struck a hard-driven bargain in business. You
are led to imagine their bodies have acquired ritual
ponderosity hv the transaction. Such a heaving up
of each side, such a parade with the legs, and such
action in the very placing of* stick or umbrella un
der the arm is highly diverting to every peripatetic
philosopher.
The dead march is a very unique species of walk
ing; the head, body, and arms are held deathly still,
the eyes stare straight forward, and the creature
advances his corpus by the action of the legs only.—
Liverpool Albion.
THE GATHERER.
“A snappir-up of unconsiclered trifles.”—Siiakspearf.
West Chester, (Penn.) January 15.
We publish the following as a literary curiosity. It
is tiie endorsement of a letter which passed one of
the Post Offices in this county a few days since:
To the States of Pennsilva Nia this letter i send
Unto Chester County where its Journey will End
Unto hope well village Dispatch it with Ceare
To friend Thomas who lives Hard by thare!
Among the incidents tried in the Berks'County
Court of Quarter Sessions, at the last term, was one
against a female charged with keeping a tippling
shop. The defence set up was, that the defendant
not having a licence, was persuaded by some of her
friends, as ignorant of law as herself, that she could
evade the penalty imposed by the law for retailing
liquor without a licence, by giving the liquor gratis,
and charging for the sugar put therein. The plea
not being available, she was found guilty of the
charge, hut in consequence of her poverty, she was
fined $1 and costs.— Piiilad. Sentinel.
At the late session of the New-llampshire Legis
lature, Mr. Wilson of Ilaverill, from the select com
mittee to ascertain the number of days each member
lias been absent during the session, reported that the
“committee didn’t know, and the members wouldn’t
tell.”
The Italian Opera —The Troop have at length
arrived in this city, and will make their first appear
ance before a Philadelphia audience on Mondy next
in the much admired Opera of Eliza and Claudio,
performed in New York 18 or 17 times, the last of
which produced a receipt of *SI 935.
PoiLsox’s Auv.
London Political Caricatures. —ln one, Tal
leyrand is enacting the part of Guy Fawkes; with
a dark lantern, lighted by Holland, he is about to set
fire to the protocol-faggots and gunpowder arma
ments .heaped up by the Allies; while Palmerston is
sneaking oil', or keeping watch. Another, repre
sents Talleyrand as a spider starting from his hole,
to seize upon the silly buzzing fly Palmerston, who
is caught in his web. This is the true spirit of Gilli
vray; the idea is capital, & the execution worthy of
it. Talleyrand is the personification of a hoary old
spider; and Palmerston looks, as helpless and imbe
cile as a blundering blue-bottle. “The Cat’s Paw”
is better still. Talleyrand, as the cunning monkey,
grasps the fine-grown puss Palmerston, and, in spite
of his struggles, stretches out his fearful paw to take
those hot chesnuts, Belgium and Antwerp, from the
fiery stove of Holland. The faces of botli monkey
and cat are admirable for expression and aha It-hr etc
character.
Gas.— “ Let there be light,” was commanded be
fore we were ushered into this breathing world and
light there Was. So it was at a certain ball given
lately by “gas light,” at a certain fashionable Hotel.
“Miss said a gentleman, “allow me to intro
duce to yom acquaintance, Mr. but sudden
darkness came over the hall. The music stopped .
all but one solitary fiddler, who, by the particular
request of a fair lady, struck up, “Where is my lov
er, O ! where lias he gone.” No one dared to move.
The manager bid someone 44 strike upon the bell;”
but who could tell v.iierc the bell was to be found ?
Silence was commanded, and the master of the
Dance exclaimed in a stentorian voice, “Give me hut
light, and Ajax asks no more!” It had the desired
efiect-Ajax had light, and the ball went on.
Poetry.— We subjoin a specimen of his article,
left at Congress Hall by a visiter, who according to
his etlusion, must have been amazingly gratified at
his treatment by ail hands. It is simple, expressing
natural feelings, with much more of Wordsworth’s
manner than Shelly's:
it is Eight Days only since I Left Baltimore,
and Safely Landed on Philadelphias Pleasant Shore,
at Congress Hall my Lodgings I Did Take,
and Sure I am a Better Choice I Could not make;
A Charge and Spacious house, with Every thing
Combined,
the Landlord So very Obliging, accommodating and
kind;
the Clerks at the Bar, and the waiters too,
Strangers you will find them Obliging to you.
So good By to Congress Hall,
if Ere 1 return 1 shall give vou a Call.
N. T. T.
Discharging a load. —A bachelor in Essex coun
ty, who was somewhat stricken with years, had been
for some time enamored with one of the maiden sis
terhood, hut could not muster courage enough to
44 pop the question.” One day lie was resolved to
make the attempt, lie accordingly went to the
•house, knocked at the door, and his lovely Dulcinea
made her appearanec. After a mutual nod, the fol
lowing laconic dialogue ensued. “Do you want to
change your condition!” “No.” “Nor I neither.”
And, turning about, our bachelor concluded the con
versation with. “Thank heaven, I’ve got that load
off my stomach.”— Dedh am Adv.
Tnr. Halcyon's nest, or hydrostatic, bed, invent
ed by Dr. Arnott of London, is quite anew thine
under the sun. Guess hriw 'tis done? The bedstead
is a trough (single beds, mind!) Oft. long. Sift. oor j
nine inches wide, Iff. deep, drawing 7 inches of wa-1
ter. The sheet (india rubber, by guru!) is spread ok
the water, and a mattress on top.
N. B. In case the water is frozen, break the ice be
fore you turn in.— Boston Morning Post.
Not Bad! —Judge L ‘ of this state, travelling
in a stage, was somewhat annoyed by a saddle
which occupied the bottom of the coach. After con
siderable crowding on the part of the saddle afore
said, he summoned the stagcrnaii to the door, and
the following dialogue took place. “I say driver,
any one coming in here, on horseback? ' “No!” “Then
you may as well take out the saddle!” N. 11. Tel.
There is a story told of the late Lord Mansfield,
when Chief Justice of the King's Bench, that he
thus retorted upon a Counsel, who, in a very mark
ed and angry ton#, told him that lie entirely differed
from him in law" and opinion: his Lordship replied,
’To be sure you do, I know that very well: you are
paid to do so.’
A crier extraordinary A gentleman informs
us that while sojourning at one of the towns in Vir
ginia, he encountered in the street a stout doubled
lunged negro who was ringing a hand bell most
manfully ; after laboring at it some time, the fellow
made a dead halt and bellowed out something to the
follow ing effect—“ Sale dis night—frvin’ pans, grid
irons, books, oyster knives, and odder kind of medi
cines : Joe Williams will hab some fresh oysters at
his ’stablishrnent—bv ticlar desire Mr. llewlet will
gib limitations ober again—two or three dozen da
maged discussion gun locks, and—Rev. Mr. P. Q
will deliber a surmount on temperance, half past six
oclock precise ; dat’s not all ! widont price the great
the great bull Philip will be station at Squire S s
and dats not all neither ! dare will be a perlite and
select coloured ball at Mrs. John’s just arter all this
bin done.” —Hagerstown Mail.
A novel mode of celebrating a Wedding
The tenants and friends of a gentleman recently
married, who has a large estate in the principality
have, by printed handbill, announced that they shall
celebrate the happy event, on a day named, in the
following manner. The amusements of the day w ill
be, a pig to be tried for by persons paying Is. each,
which will be spent in ale. The pig to have his tail
shaved, and every person to dip his hands in soap
and oil every three minutes. All are to start at the
same time and he that catches the pig to be the own
er of the same; he must also draw the pig by the tail
backwards three yards. Three foot races for one
pound of tobacco each, to be run for by the persons
in bags; distance 200 yards. Two legs of mutton
to he given to any person that will make the most
foul or ugliest face by grinning through a horse col
lar. The materials for seven new shifts to be run
for hv the women; four to be given lor the first in,
two to the second, and one to the third. Two pony
races for anew bridle each, value £SO. subject to
articles. Also a race by asses, for anew bridle. No
person to ride his own, and the last in to win. The
canting pot will be put in circulation for the old wo
men, with various other amusements too numerous
to mention. —Salonin Journal.
A3 OLD FISHi:R3A3.
Some years since, there lived on the borders of
the Delaware, in New-Jersey, a fisherman named
Peter Bodine. He was a peaceald. unoffending
man, in his sober moments, but when somewhat ex
cited by tli e spirituous nectar; he seems to have
imbibed an inspiration that rendered him a being of
a superior order, and became in his own estimation,
a sort of divinity of the water, and claimed the ten
ants of the stream as his passive subjects, whom he
had a right to catch and kill and cat at pleasure.—
On the summer and autumnal evenings, he was uni
formly seen wending his way to the shore, and there
by an intoxicating berry, properly prepared with
paste, crazying as be called it, and catching those
small fishes in great numbers which he used for bait,
which he carefully preserved alive in a small float,
full of small aperatures and with which he tempted
the larger fish to their destruction, when he reached
the deep pool in the river, which he had ascertained
was the place of tlicir retreat and sojourn.
For years this indefatigable fisherman drew the
scaly treasure from the deep water, on which him
seli and family subsisted. No one had as uniformly
good success as himself, and many thousand of large
stripped Bass and yellow Perch have graced his
morning triumphs as he bore them proudly to his
sylvan home. This state of things continued long
with uninterrupted success. In the vernal months
also, he occupied his time in fishing with a net, with
others, for shad, and the presence of himself and his
jug of good old whiskey, seemed to operate like a
charm upon the fishes which were caught in his toils,
in profitable numbers. At length enfeebled some
what by age, his visits to his nightly house on the
waters became less frequent, though his success wa s
not less inevitably certain, though at times an air of
soriousnesss would steal over his countenance, and
his bright blue eyes would dim with anxious though t.
On one occasion while anchored witli his boat out
in the stream, about the meridan of night, intently
gazing on his long line as it Heated down the cur
rent, lie saw or thought he saw an image clothed in
white, present itself before his astonished eyes. It
appeared to assume the shape of a woman in her
winding sheet, slowly approached the boat, and hav
ing passed three tiqies around, it disappeared. lie
sat for some time petrified with horror at the sight,
and considered the supernatural appearance as lie
believed it was a harbinger of his death. This might
have been mere fancy, or the workings of supersti
tion in the mind; but it was sufficient to deter
him for some weeks from pursuing his nightly visits
to the water.
After abstaining for some time, und having been
ridiculed for his fears, by those to whom lie told his
story, he determined at’ length to try his fortune, or
brave his late once more, lie accordingly prepar
ed himself with his wliiskey and his boat, and set off
on his last fishing excursion, with his spirits altern
ating between hope and fear Previous to his goinc,
however, he declared he would take three fine lar^e
fish, lie went at nightfall, on the water; it was
the last of October, and Nature began to look drea
The yellow falling leaves thickened the water'
brought down by the killing frost. Night closed up
on the fisherman, as he sat solitary in his boat. Soon
the morning dawned, and the boat was seen, anchor
ed in the river, without a tenant on board. It was
soon visited, and there lay the three large fine bass,
as he had predicted, and" his jug of whiskey half
drunk out. Part of the stern of the boat was bro
ken otf, but the old fisherman, was gone beneath the
overwhelming water.
The neighbors soon assembled with boats and
dragged with hooks, and graplines, and nets, with
out success At length a piece of artillorv was
brought, embarked on board a flat-bottomed’ boat.
and repeated discharges was made upon the water
near the spot where he was drowned. Boats wer ’
stationed up and down the stream, and soon the bes
dy began to rise towards the surface; when a shout
rent the air, that he was found. He was taken 1
board, with his long line tied round his thumb and
conveyed to the shore, where inquest was summon
ed, which pronounced a verdict of death, by acci"
dental drowning. Poor Peter was soon after carri'
ed to his grave, followed by his neighbours—the
victim of his own prophetic fears. The fish had
they known it, would doubtless have held a jubilee
Sir Walter St ott.— The first piece of poetry
sent by the young Bard for publication, was return
ed him as being too defective, and the War Soi
tor the Mid Lothian Cavalry, which every one now
admires, was the constant theme of ridicule to the
consequential critics of that corps. It is much ea
sier to find fault with a composition than toequal it*
It is laughable to think #Hhe boobies of a company
of Scotch Cavalry rebuking the genius of Walter
Scott !
On an average.— “ How deep is the snow, M rs
Dumps?” “About 4 inches deep, in spots, on an
average. Ma'am.”
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A* ACT
fPO provide for the call of a Convention to reduce the nnm-
X her of the General Assembly of the Slate ofGeorgia, and
for other purposes therein named.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is
hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the first
Monday in April, eighteen hundred and thirty-tliree, be, and
the same is hereby designated and set apart as the day on
which the citizens of Georgia qualified to vote for members
of the Leg. shall at the several places prescribed bylaw for
holding such elections vote for delegates to represent them in
Convention, in number equal to their representation in both
branches of the Gqperal Assembly; such elections to be con
ducted, managed and certified under the sarue laws as are of
force in respect to elections of the General Assembly.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the du
ty of such managers to transmit to his Excellency the Go
vernor the result of said elections under the laws now of force
for conducting, managing and certifying elections for mem
bers of the General Assembly as aforesaid, within thirty days
after such elections—Whereupon it is made the duty of His
Excellency the Governor to issue his proclamation declaring
the result of said elections by namingthe individuals several
ly elected to represent the good people of Georgia in Conven
tion as contemplated by thisact.
Sec. 3. And he it further enacted, That every citizen of
the United States shall be eligible to a seat in said Conven
tion who has attained the age of twenty-five years,and been
an inhabitant of this State seven years immediately preceding
the day of his election, and who shall have resided one year
ill the county for which he shall have been elected.
Sec. 4. And be It further enacted, To at each member re
turned as duly elected, shall previous to taking his seat in said
Convention, take the following oath, or affirmation, viz : L
A. B. do solemnly swear, thatl will not attempt to add to, or
take from the constitution or attempt to change or alter any
other section, clause, or article of the constitution of the
State of Georgia, other than those touching the representa
tion in the General Assembly thereof; and that 1 have been
a citizen of this state for the lastseven years, so kelp rat %and.
And any person elected to a seat in said Convention, who
shall refuse to take the oath aforesaid, shall not be allowed
to take a seat in said Convention.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the members of
said Convention shall assemble on the first Monday in May
after tlicir election, at Milledgeville, in the Representative
Chamber of the State House, for the purpose of entering upon
and consummating the great objects of their convention, to
wit: a reduction & equalization of the General Assembly; snail
have power to prescribe their own rules and forms of busi
ness, and determiue on the qualifications of their own mem
bers; elect necessary officers, and make all orders which they
may deem conducive to the furtherance of the object for which
suel. Convention shall assemble. *
Sec. (>. And be it further enacted, That it shall bs the du
ty of His Excellency the Governor to give publicity to tire
alterations and amendments made in the Constitution in ref
erence to the direction [reduction] of the numbeTofthe mem
bers composing the General Assembly, and the first Monday
in October next, after the rising of said Convention, he shall
fix on for the ratification, by the people, of such amendments,
alterations, or new articles as they tnay make for the objects
of reduction and equalization of the General Assembly only •
and it ratified by a majority of the voters who vote on the i j u ]’ s ‘
tion of “Ratification” or “No Ratification,” then andintha
event, the alterations so by them made and ratified, shall •
binding on the people of this State and not otherwise.
Sec. 7. And lie it further enacted. That it shall be a fun
damental article in the formation orkunendmentoftba consti
tution, that each county o' the Slate now- organized or at
out, or which may hereafter he created by law, shall be en
tied toat least one representative in the representative branc
ol the General Assembly. , •
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That so soon as *
act shall have become a law. His Excellency theGoverno ,
he, and he. is hereby required t« cause it to be publisneo
the Gazettes of this State, once a week until the dayntt
by this act for the election of delegates to said Convent!- >
and that all laws and parts of laws militating against tins ’
he, and the same are hereby repealed. ...,
asbury HULL.
Speaker of the House of Represents!!™.
THOMAS STOCKS,
President of the Sew l *
Assented to, Dccctnhpr 21, 1832. .
WILSON LUMFKIN.
January 15—1