Newspaper Page Text
BY GARDNER & BARROW.
T $1 1: CJ EORil I \ TANARUS! Bi? ISO St,
Is published every Saturday, in Florence
ewart county. Ga.. at THREE DODLARSa
year, if paid in advance, or FOUR DOLLARS,
if not paid until the end of the year.
Advertisements will be conspicuously inserted
at One Dollar per square, (15 lines) the first, and
50 cents for each subsequent insertion. Nothing
under 15 lines will be considered lass thau a
square. A deduction will be made for yearly ad
\ertisenients.
All advertisements handed in for publication
without t limitation, will be published till forbid,
and charged accordingly.
Sales of Land and Negroes by Executors, Ad
ministrators and Guardians, are required by law
10 be advertised in a public Gazette, sixty days
previous to the day of sale.
The sale of Personal property must be adver
tised in like manner forty days.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an estate
rast be published forty days.
Notice that application will be made to the
Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land and Ne
groes, must be published weekly for four months.
£7'® All Letters on business must be post
i* aid to insure attention.
STATE CONVENTION.
A N ACT to provide for the call of a Convea-
A. tion to reduce the number of the General
Assembly of the State of Georgia, and for the
other purposes therein named.
Sec. 1. ldr it marled by the Senate and House
•/ Representatives of the Stale if Georgia in Gen
eral Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted l.y the
authority of the same. That the first Monday in
April, eighteen hundred ami thirty-nine, be, and
the same is hereby designated and set apart as
the day on which the citizens ot Georgia, quali
fied to vote for members of the Legislature, shall,
at the several places prescribed by law for holding
such elections, vote lor delegates to represent
them in Convention, in number equal to their
representation in both branches of the Genera!
Assembly, according to the last census, such
election to be couductdd, managed and certified
under the same laws as ..re of force in respect to
elections of members of the General Assembly.
Pec. 2. And be it further enacted. That it shall
he the duty of such managers to transmit to his
Excellency the Governor, the result of said elec
Tears under the laws notv of force conducting,
•JiiatMgiug and certifying elections of members of
the General Assembly, as aforesaid, within ten
days after such election; whereupon it is made
tile duty of his Excellency the Governor, to issu°
his Proclamation discharging the result of such
election, by notifying the individuals severally
elected to represent the good people of Georgia
in Convention, as contemplated by the act.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That every
citizen of the United .States shall be eligible to a
seat in said Convention, who has attained the age
of twenty-five years, and been an inhabitant of tins
State three years, immediately preceding the >1 u
of election, and who shall have resided one v ,r
in the county for which he shall be elected.
Sec. 4. And be it farther enacted. That
member returned as duly elected, sbajl pi
to taking Ids tea! in said Convent on, t.d.
Id owing oath or affirmation, viz: “1 do so iv
swear i'.a; 1 will not attempt to add or to t >i,«* from
’be CoTuitutiort, or attempt to change < r a.ier
a"v othet section, cSaus--, or article o! fne Cos
stitu.ion of tin State of Georgia, other tha;- those
touching the representation in the Gpnera! As
sembly thereof, and that I have been a citize of
ti is State for the la a three j ears, so help me God.”
Ami anv person elected to a seat in said Conven
tion, who shall refuse to take oath aforesaid, shall
no? be allowed to take his seat in said Cor.ventio- .
Sec 5. And be i' further enacted, That th
members of said Convention shall assemble on
the first Monday in May. ;fCr their electhm, at
Milled- tvi'D, in the Representative Chamber ol
the State Mouse, for the purpose of entering
upon and consumuting the "rent objects of their
< invention, to wit: a reduction and equalization
of the General Assembly; shall have power to
prescribe their own rules and forms of business ;
ml to determine on the qualifications of their
° u n members; elect necessary officers, and make
: ' orders which they may deem conclusive to the
Utrtheranoe of the object for which such Conven
tion shall assemble.
Sec. 6. And br.itfurther enacted, That it shall
i,s the duty of his Exc: 11.-nev the Governor, to
give .publicity to the alterations and amendments
ln ade in the Constitution m reference to the re
duction of the number of members composing
the. General Assembly; and the first Monday in
Detober next, after the raising of said Convention,
he shall fix on for tlie ratification, by the people,
of such amendments, alterations, or new articles,
as they may make for the objects of reduction and
equalization of the General Assembly only, and if
ratified by a majority of the voters who. vote on
the question of “Ratification” or “No Ratifica
tion,” then and in that event, the alterations so
by them made and ratified, shall be binding on
toe people of this State, and not otherwise.
Sec. 7. And he it further enacted, That it shall
be a fundamental article in the formation or a
inemlments of the Convention, that each County
( f the State now organized or laid out, or which
may hereafter be < reated by Jaw. shall be entitled
,f > at least one Representative in th” Represents
f ive branch of the General Ass embly. The Sen
ate shall he composed of forty-six members only,
from fort'- Senatorial Districts, composed of two
contiguous Comities : snd in the event of the
creation of any new county, it shall be added to
roine contiguous Senatorial District: aid. that
the said Convention shall not disturb the Federal
basis, in apportioning the representation in tha
General Assembly of the State of Georgia.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That so soon
ns this Act shall have passed, his Excellency the
Governor be, and he is hereby required to i ause
it to be published in the gazettes ot tbisStite,
once a week until the day fixed ou by this act for
the election of Delegate, to said Convention; as
well as the number to which each County shall be
entitled in said Convention, according to the ap
portionment of members of the General Assem
bly, to be made under the late Census, taken and
returned during the present year.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the
Delegates to said Convention be paid at and after
the same rates that the members of the General
Assembly now receive ; and that his Excellency
the Governor be requested to draw his warrant on
the 1 reasurerlor the same, out of any money not
otherwise appropriated ; and all laws and parts of
laws militating against this act, be, aud the same
are hereby repealed.
JOSEPH DAY,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY,
President of the Senate.
Assented to 26th December, 1838.
GEORGE 11. GILMER, Governor.
TABLE,
Showing the Representation af the several Counties
oj the State by the late Act of Apportionment.
Appling, l Laurens, 2
Laker, j Lee, 1
Baldwin, 2 Liberty, 2
Bibb, 3 Lincoln, 2
iluliocb, 1 Lowndes, 2
Units, 2 iUmpkin, 2
Burke, 3 Macon, 2
Bryan, 1 Madison, 2
Campbell, 2 Marion, 2
Carroll, 2 Mclntosh, 2
Cobb, 2 Meriwether, 3
Cass, 2 Monroe, 4
Columbia, 3 Montgomery, 1
Crawford, 2 Murray, 2
Coweta, 3 Morgan, . 3
Chatham, 4 Muscogee, 4
Clark. ' 3 Newton, 3
Cherokee, 2 Oglethorpe, 3
Camden, 2 Paulding, 1
Dade, 1 Pike, 3
Decatur, 2 Pulaski, 2
DcKalb, 3 Putnam, 3
Dooly, 2 Rabun, 1
Early, 2 Randolph, 2
Effingham, 1 Richmond, 3
Elbert, 3 Striven, 2
Emmanuel, 1 Stewart, 3
Fayette, 2 Sumter, 2
Floyd, 2 Talbot, 3
Forsyth, 2 Taliaferro; 2
Franklin, 3 Tattnall, 1
Gilmer, 1 Telfair, 1
Glynn, 1 I’hoinas, 2
Greene, 3 Troup, 4
Gwinnett, 3 Twiggs, 2
Habersham, 3 Union, 1
Hancock, 3 Upson, 3
Heard, 2 Walton, 3
Henry. 3 Walker, 2
Houston, 3 Ware, 1
Hall, 3 Washington, 3
Harris, 3 Wayne, 1
L'Vin, 1 Wilkinson, 2
■h : esx 3 Wilkes, 3
3 Warren, 3
';u a son 3 Total, 205
4 V J »<2 4-, frb »
\ GEN . .. > > -same ot ALI.EN
A CAKE: I !•.. hep 10 my store ou the 12th
inst inf< rm and n th >•- liv tg 11 tb set
tlement with a j• . ' > bv hr 1, •, of Joel
ilorn. Bein racquaint! . 1 . . i relied
011 his word, ..ml while .« vei .••.«£ w.iii him. lie
offered me a live unbar bill and. the Commercial
Bank of Florida, width 1 refused. He stated
th u Mrs. Horn hud mm t it by him to pawn tor
some change thm she needed until her husband
returned fr m Maeon. As I took him to be a
gentleman, fie offered to make a bill, which I con
sented to. and traded to the amount of S3 3?£
cents. In a few minutes, i found out that he was
a Loafer, strolling through the country, and pur
sued him, but never -vertooU the villain. The
said Carlisle, as well as 1 can learn from Mr. Horn,
came from Crawford county, Georgia. In a row
witli a gentleman there, lie bit his ear oft", and was
running away. I will pay TEN DOLLARS far
his delivery in Sumter county, Ga. or FIVE for
information so that I can get him. The said Car
lisle is common statute, dark complexion, 25 or
30 years of age, riding a bright sorrel gilding,
black tipped hat, dark over coat, nothing more
particular recollected.
JAMES EVANS. 1
Friendship, Sumter co. Ga. Feb.'6. 3t 45
oj/® The Southern Recorder, Georgia Minor,
Federal'Union, and Georgia Journal, will please
insert the above three time, and forward their ac
counts to Friendship, Sumter county for settle
ment. J. E.
NOTICE.
VLL merchants, shop keepers and other tra
ders of Florence, are hereby requested not
to trade with ary of my slaves for any article
whatever w itliout they have a written permit from
their Mistress or Overseer, during my absence.
THOMAS j. STELL.
Florence Feb. 18 1839. 45 3t
CAUTION
A LL persons are cautioned against trading for
IIL a promissory note given bv the subscriber
and made payable to J. I*. Cock or bearer, for one
hundred and seventy odd dollars, given sometime
in December last, and written payable twenty-fifth
December next, as 1 have never received value for
the same and am determined not to pay it unless
compelled bv law.
john McClendon, jr.
Liccco.i'ebl 45 fit
FLORENCE, GA. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1539.
% V "•%
... . -v ■ux-'grt*
b
LINES,
Penned by Major Thomas J. Stkll, ou leav
ing his home in Stewart county Georgia, for
Texas.
Farewell, my dear friends the time is at liatid,
That 1 must be parted from yout social Laud,
i leave you at home in peace apd at rest,
Wlille I’m seeking a home in the far west.
Farewell, my dear country, with all of your
charms,
In the days of tliy troubles I stood to my arms,
Many conflicts and Buttles Pve fought in thy
cause,
To sustain untarnished your honor and laws.
But now I must leave you, an exile to roam,
Like a poor wandering pilgrim, without house or
home,
I’ll travel and seek, nor never will rest,
Till 1 find me a home in the far west.
My Brothers and Sisters, I bill you farewell,
Li '-wise my dear Mother whom Ideally love
well,
!; I never more see you till this body’s at rest,
Pray, cl a thou, lit after me to the far west.
■i . b i.-vi Companion, and Children so dear,
I it‘Hv you a while iny our country’s kind care,
Lei not our p itin ; t iuse grief or distress,
it is lor your good J go to the ivpst.
When many miles from you, in a foreign land,
I’ll often think of you, and write if 1 can,
Some tidings of joy, how we will be blest,
When we’re safely settled in tiie far west.
So farewell, dear friends, wherever you are,
The prospect before me, looks bright and clear,
I'll boldly go forwnr 1 and at duty’s reqeust,
I'll shoulder mv guner, and defend the far west.
T. J.S.
From the Philadelphia Visiter.
Ats Autobiography,
Or Memoris and Reminiscences of a young Man.
CHAPTER 111.
The nurse and the doctor—the tom-cat — Mrs.
Crosby—-my recovery—dinner at Crosby's-—be
come a member of the “ Philo”—a laughable scene
in "Hamlet"—expulsion from membership, hyr. fyc.
When next 1 opened my eyes there was a light
burning in the room. I tie window shutters were
closed, and it appeared to be some time in the
night, Mrs. F'eatherstoues was in a kind of a
doze rocking herself to and fro in a large arm
chair, with a gray cat purring in her lap. Feel
ing a slight pain in my head, 1 cone,lulled it best
not to worry myselt with conversation, aud con
s- queutiy remained quiet as if still asleep. The
ohi aoman's face seemed to me to be won
derfully »ed, and i fancied 1 could detect upon
her features a smile ot singular good humor—
indeed, take her altogether, she appeared as if
she was quite happy aud { Cased with herself.
I had thus lam awake about live minutes perhaps,
when I heard a blight tap outssde of the chamber
door. Mrs. I'eathcrstones perked up her ears,
turned her lai e towards the door, and ; a suasory
voice, and cm red the applicant for admisson, whoever
it might be, to ‘walk in.’
< in olden tunes, our forefathers, when they
open <! a door for the purpose of ingress or egress
were accustomed to lift a latch; —in these days
of improvement w<- do the thing more genteel—
we turn a knob. On the present occasion the
knob was turned, the door was opened and Doc
tor It undrum walked into the room.
Mrs. Featiierstones, howd’ye do this evening ?’
‘All, doctor, it’s you, is it V
‘Yes, ma’am. One moment 1 am here, the
next lam there, and sometimes no w here. For
the sake of mv patients 1 should like to be every
where,’said lie, putting his broad brimmed hat
on the bureau, ‘iiow is our patient ?’
‘lie is mending lust.'
•Net too fast, i hope. Is be asleep?’
‘He is’ replied the nurse, with an arch look at
the doctor that was to mem explicable, b imper
fectly intelligible to him 1 suppose. ‘He has
slept for the last six iiouis,’ she added.
•All’s right then,’chuckled the doctor, rubbing
his hands w ith satisfaction, winking slyly at her,
aud silting inmseil down uj>on the chair which
sl»e handed to him.
‘Don't stop,’ said he, ‘but give him more of the
pills—keep him asleep. These arc hard times,
Mrs. F'eathersiouts, and while we have a lucra
tive matter like this on hand, we are truly culpa
ble if w e do not contrive to make the most of it.
Remember, mu* in, 1 hov f| wife and ten children
to maintain; two of them at ihe breast.’
•Twins/’
•Yes; the last pledge of our affection was a
double one.'
■How proud of them you must be, doctor?’
‘Very!’ he ironically ejaculated. Then chang
ing the subject,—-are you sure the young man
is asleep?’ ho asked.
‘Ves—sure,’ was the reply.
‘When he next awakens be careful to give him
another pill, and’—lowering his voice to a whis
per almost-be particularly careful to allow him
but verv little sustenance.’
‘I shall do as you advise,’ was the deferential
answer. ‘lt was hut this morning that he ex
pressed a wish for an apple dumpling.’
‘Beware of him, then, Mrs Featberstoocs.— ,
If yon permit him to hare food, he will most as- •
’ surely be well in a day or two. Don’t let him ,
eat—by no means, ma’am. What! did he talk
j of an apple-duuij ling, do you say ?’
1 ‘lie did. 1 told him 'twould choak him.’
•That was right. You have au eye to business,
I perceive.’ .Saying which, lie seized liis broau
: brimmed hat. and intimated liis iutention to
j leave.
j ‘Why in such a hurry, doctor? It’s not very
; pleasant ovt doors such a night as this. It’s
I quite disagreeable.’
‘Suppose you take a little of something to
keep the cold out, doctor ?’
•I thank you, Mrs. Featiierstones, but I never
drink.’
•Do, doctor.’
‘No, I thank you.
‘Do, doctor—do; it’s_such a damp night —you
will be liable to take cold, and who knows what
might be the consequence—inflammation ( of the
lungs perhaps, or consumption of the kidneys’
‘True, Mrs. F’eatherstoues, I might take cold ;
physicians are but mortal like the rest of man
kind.’
Then, do, doctor, take something.’
‘Well, to please you, Mrs, Featiierstones, J
will.
T‘hat's a kind soul. A drop will do no one
any harm. I have used it for the last five and
twenty years.’
Five and twenty years, ma’am V
‘Yes—brandy.’
‘Used brandy five and twenty years, do you
say ?'
‘As a medicine merely.’
‘Ah—l comprehend yon now. You use it
to keep the cold out. Very correct in you, Mrs.
Featiierstones. A stimulant in certain instances
is undeniably very essential.*
•Just so, doctor; I agree with you ; I always
considered it so.’
.So saying she went to a closet at the side of the
mantle-piece, took a bunch of keys from her
pocket, inserted one of the keys into the key
hole. and unlocked the closet-door. She then
produced a long-necked, black bottle, which she
placed upon the table, with a couple ol glasses
ami a pitcher of water, requesting the doctor to
help himself.
‘Shall I have llie pleasure,’ said he, ‘of pour
ing out (or you, Mrs. Feathcrstones?’
‘lf you please, doctor.’
The doctor accordingly grasped the long-neck
ed, black, bottle around the waist, and poured a
portion of the exhihrating liquid into each of the
glasses.
‘Here is your very good health, ma’am,’ said
he, placing the glass to his lips.
‘Thank you, doctor ; the same to you.
•Thank you, ma’am.’
Down went the aqua vitae; and both smacked
their lips with that peculiar twang which is so
comprehensively indicative of a gratified palate.
The dector then took up bis hat. and, subse
quent to some further directions in regard to ‘lie
pills, departed. After he had gone, the nurse
helped herself from the bottle, re-corked it and
replaced in the closet under lock and key. Her
face was now as red as the rising sun. .She again
sat down in the arm-chair, and Tommy jumped
up in her lap. Tommy, as 1 have said, was a
gray cat; he was enormously large for one ot his
species, very sleek and very sluggish.
No sooner did the echoes of the doctor's foot
steps on the stairs cease to be heard than 1 began
to stir; 1 gaped, rubbed my eyes, aud pretented
to have just wakened. The nurse came to my
side, and inquired if I felt better? 1 answered
affirmatively, but stated that 1 was very hungry.
“Hungry !’ said she.
‘Yes, ma'am—very!! I replied.
‘Hungry!’ she repeated-’—‘it can’t be.’
‘AVhy so, ma’am ?’ 1 asked.
‘You are too sick to he hungry,’ she replied.
‘I am not sick,’ said I decide!)’; and 1 could
perceive that the emphatic tone in which 1 spoke
startled her. It was entirely unexpected, and
she knew not what construction to put upon it.
Her next question, hy the manner in which she
uttered it, was intended, I suppose, to be very
conciliatory.
In a quiet voice, and with a tone that was ridi
culously bland, ‘What does your appetite crave.?*
said she.
‘Corned beef and cabbage,’ said 1, solemnly.
At this the old hypocrite affected to almost
shriek. ‘No !’ she exclaimed, accompaning her
denial with a negative head-shake. ‘I cant let
you have it; Doctor Hundrum expressly ordered
that I should let you have nothing of the kind.’
‘Well,’ I continued, ‘if l am not to eat any
thing, will yon allow me to quench my thirst?’
‘Thirst sir?’ she echoed, as if such a thing
was improbable.
‘Yes,’said 1, lam extremely thirsty,'
‘What would you like?’ she interrogated.—
‘Some water ?’
‘No,’ said l—‘brandy,*
‘Brandy ?’ she exclaimed. ‘Bless me, child
how you talk !—brandy ?’
‘Yos, ma’am,—brandy if you please said I.
‘There isn’t, said she, ‘such a thing in the house
that 1 know of.’
‘That's a lie,’—l had like to have retorted; but
at that instant the door opened, and the agile,
fairy-like form of Nancy Sykes glided into the
apartment. Without the slightest hesitancy she j
flung her arms around my lieck and suffused me •
with kisses. I was wonder-struck. An, expla- j
nation ensued—an explanation by which 1 was
made acquainted with the unexpected fact that
Nancy was no longer Miss Sykes but veritably
Mrs. Crosby.
‘What!’‘l ejaculated, ‘are you indeed mar
ried ?’
‘1 am,' she replied.
She then went on to stato, that upon the night
of my fracas with Crosby, inasmuch as I dissented
from* being taken home,*they concluded to call a
carriage and have me conveyed to the house in ;
which I now found myself. The house it ap
peared had been furnished hy Crosby in anticipa
tion of his marriage with Nancy Svdies.
V<jl. I.—No. 46.
‘We rented the house,’ said she. ‘and had our
furniture in it two ot three days before that ac
cident between you arid Crosby occurred. It was
ready lor us to go into as soon as the uuptial cer
emony should be solemniz'd, which important
event in my existence,’ comlred she, -was to have
taken place upon the very day subsequent to the
accident. You were brought here, put to bed,
and fora day or two your recovery was deemed
beyond hope. My feelings at that time I cannot
attempt to describe, and Crosby's were more in
tense than mine. He was wiid, a* it were, vith
remorse. lie did little else but wander to and
fro, with gesticulations, invoking upon himself
the bitterest of imprecations. A friend of ours
wrote a letter from us to your parents on ihe day
following,stating the case and icquesting them to
hasten to your bedside. While your recovery
was doiitful their grief was intense, and, in ad
dition to our own sorrows, we were the witnesses
of theirs. In about a week, however, you were
pronounced out of danger, and at the suggestion
of your parents, Crosby and 1 began to take into
considara ion the propriety of consummating our
nuptials; which we effected one evening, shortly
after,in (lie presence of the clergyman who offi
ciated and a few intimate acquaintances. A our
parents have visited you daily, Lutyou have not,
until to-day, recognized any person. This will
be indeed glad tiiiingsio them, and 1 will comuri
cateitto them without delay.’ Cos saying she
pulled a bell, and desired the servant who en
swered it to bring her pen, ink, and paper. ‘We
have, 1 hope,’ she resumed,‘done every thing re
quisite for you ; and, although your recovery has
been slow, lam happy to think that it is sure. It
is mniuly to the assiduous kindness of the nurse,
and lo the skill of the eccrentric but erudite j oe
tcr Hundrum, that weave indebted lor you con
valescence.’
•Hem IVthought I, ‘I should have been well much
sooner if her kindness and his skill had been dis
pensed with.’ But I did not say so; 1 was con
vinced that all had been done in kindness on the
part of Nancy and her husband, and 1 concluded
it best not to throw a clamp over the warmth of
lirr prsent joy, as T unque uotiab'.y should do
if 1 exposed the conduct of the doc or and ins
female in complice.
The sen :.r.t returned with the writing materials,
and Nancy sat down to a table and addressed a
no'e to my parents. In half an hour they were at
my bedside, and their joy to see that 1 recognized
them was at once evident.
This subject, however, growing rather prolix,
and to be brief, 1 will here state that 1 took no
more of Doctor Hundripn’s pills, that Mrs. Cros
by supplied mo from her own hands with piopc-r
nourishment, that I was soon so far recovered as
to be capable of being removed home; and it: a
comparatively very short space of time I was
perfectly restored to health. Crosby and 1 were
better friends than ever; and ns for his pretty wife
(although 1 was but a boy at ti e lime) 1 really be
lieve tint I loved her as fervently as he did ! In
fact she w as a being that no one could look upon
without experiencing one or the otin r feeling, ad
miration or envy. Os thetwosentations, how. ver,
she was more calculated to excite the first Her
face was pretty, her figure so neat, and she had
such elegant style of doing up her hair! Hot
manners too, were captivating; and n> gentle
man had need to beat a loss for conversation v\ bile
in her company, for il he didn’t talk she would.
Talk ! she could talk incessantly.
Crosby at this time was just twenty one years of
age; he had been, an efficient clerk since his boy
hood in a large commercial house, and was now
admitted into the concern. Consequently br
and his v. "fe had every necessary ol comfort about
them and a fair prospect < f happiness before
them. Anew range ot duties henceforth occu
pied their attention, and prudence dictated to
them the propriety of handing in their resigna
tions to the TMatoni-m, which they did.
Nancy still cherished the predilection for the
drama though, and displayed it in many ways, one
of which was her penchant for theatrical portraits,
pictures, dee. with which the walls of her resi
dence were profusely decorated.
Dining at their table one day, about a month
after my restoration to health, I took oc
casion to divulge the rogue y of Mrs. F eather
stones and Doctor Humdrum. r lhcir astonish
ment was great.
“Is it possible!”exclaimed Crosby.
‘‘Who would have believed it?” cried his wife ,
pa’e almost with anger, and swallowing between
her prerty lips a glass of wsue, to allay, in some
degree, the excitement ol her feelings. “Tite
wrectches!—wbo would have thought it!!’
The conversation, though, changed to another
subject; Mrs. Crosby soon forgot her anger, aid;
rising from the table, we adjourned to tlicir hand
somely furnished parlours, consisting of two"’
rooms with tolding-doors, a beautiful Turkey
carport, mahogany stuffed seatchairs, tolas, nift
rors, vases, Ac. Ac. —and nr. thdwalls a prctii
sion of paintings and engravings in richly gilt
frames, the subjects ot w hich (as i have previous
ly noticed) were mostly of a dramatic nature.
“See here,” said she', directing my attention <S
a large painting ot our national tragedian; Mr.
Forrest, in the character of Metatucra-—Whfi.
think you of this ? Is it not admirable ?*
I acquiesced. ‘Ais truly, ’ fcffid I* “asfltfi*
painting.” -
")tisP' she etrphatticahy retpcttricd, gWyf’g,
upon the painting with the rapture of ah ftStfsC
And whilst her eyes sparkled with detigfcttsao
went on, speaking ot Mr. Forrest in highest o
terms, pointing out to me the beauties ol coloring;
and expression ot the paiuting, and a.>se;|liig bite.,
to be a man of very superior talents. “ i lie name
of Garrick,” said s'be, “occupies the highest place
in flic historv oi tne Littisli drama—aud in my
opinion,” she added, “Mr. honest is dtetir.ed tv
art equal pre-eminence upon tUe records of
American stage.”
I assented.
‘Ami what do you thiuk, ray dear 1" she aekctlr
turning to her husband with u playful smile an#'