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The Western Herald.
VOL. I.
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING
BY O. P. SHAW,
• and
Edited by A. G. FAMBBOUGH.
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ters connected with the establishment, must be post paid
in order to secure attention.
!CP Notice of the sale, of Land and Negroes, by Ad
ministrators, Executors, or Guardians, must be published
sixty days previous to the day of sale.
The sale of personal Property, ill like manner, must be
published forty days previous to the day of sale.
Notice to debtors and creditors of ail estate must be
published forty days.
Notice that Application will bo made to the Court of
Ordinary for Leave to sell Land or Negr6es,must be pub
lished FOUR MONTHS.
Notice that Application will be made for Letters of Ad-
I ministration, must be published thirty days and for
I Letters of Dismission, six months. *
‘jlierilFs scales Tor J uue in
CASS COUNTY.
Iml. Dist. Sec. Property of To satisfy.
1115 21 2 Charles Gunn, Allen Courtney.
593 17 3 John W. Pat-, Edward Garlick.
Hil’ 17 3 Joseph Roe, T. S. Bailey, dec’d.
21, 2-3 3 Ar. Warren al. V. J. Murray,
1007, 21 2 Shadiick Dean, P. J. Murray.
255 4 3 Caleb Garrison, P. J. Murray,
273, 4 3 Stephen Garner, P. J. Murray.
245, 5 3 William Jackson, P. J. Murray,
15 iG 3 Christopher Rider, P. J. Murray,
280. 22 2 David Abbott, P. J.’ Murray.
213 1C 3 J- Crutchfield, dec. Joseph Echols Sc Cos.
CHEROKEE COUNTY.
195,13 2 Andrew Scott, SturgcS k Blunt,
807, 15 2 Philip ThonituiiJ, Penni3 Mahoney,
327, 21 2 AmoS M’Lcndon, Tandy D. King,
483, 3 2 John Rose, William Felton,
223, 2 2 John Fryer, Felix G. Barnes,
245, 14 2 Ignatius Scott, Jotin Burk, et. alias.
1078, 15 2 William Jackson, Ex. of Rob't. Wayne.
FORSYTH COUNTY.
010, 2 1 Isaiah Whitlock, Cary W. Jackson,
254, 2 1 Wm. Westbrook, It. L. Cato,
132, 14 1 Lewis Smith, Lawhorn & Venable,
1227, 14 1 Rowland Bearden, John M. Miller,
1263, 14 1 P. Powel, Anthony Steel,
G 29, 3 1 Abraham Leathers, C.Ficlding, S. Brown,
850, 14 1 Anderson Baker, Samuel M’Junkin,
331, 2 1 Wm. Wilkerson, Sainuel M’Junkin,
Si) 3 1 Joshua Holder, B. F. Porter,
2J6, U I William Davis, 11. Terrell, R. Butler,
FLOYD COUNTY.
24, 22 3 Pryor Clirittendon, James Long,
SO] U 4 ScthOrmes, Turhune & Cone.
MURRAY COUNTY.
46,25 3 John N. Kyle, P. J. Murray,
109, 25 4 John Hams, P. J. Murray,
322, 17 3 Samuel Paxton, P. J. Murray,
123, 26 3 Burrel Thompson, P. J. Murray,
30, 9 4 William Davis, P. J. Murray,
268, 8 3 Henry Huff, P- J. Murray,
20, 26 3 John it. Cano, P. J. Murray,
73, 13 3 James Higgins, P. J. Murray.
The above is a full synopsis of all the Shcrifl’s Sales m
fee Cherokee Circuit, for June next, except in Lumpkin,
Gilmer and Paulding counties, which may be seen in this
paper, by reference to the Sheriffs advertisements.
GOLD MD Ll\ WAPS,
tothe delay of some of the Surveyors, in
making their returns, and the consequent delay
hat ‘'as unavoidably attended the publication of the Gold
tlaus of Cherokee, 1 have concluded to reduce the price
f-hem from TEN to SIX DOLLARS. The Gobi Map
s divided into three parts, and the price of the three, com
irisin” all the Gold Districts, with tlie exception ol the
■leventli. in tlie firstseclion, which has not yetbeenre
urued will hereafter bo six dollars, or two dollars fifty
ients each. X have also now preparing, winch will be
vi- weeks, a CHART representing all
ihc -1 ALTriLS of, and IMPPROVEMENTS ouev
erv Lot on iny Land Map, which, together with the Map,
will be °sold icr FIVE DOLLARS. All persons who
have purchased,and all who may hereafter purchase the
Land Map, shell receive a list of the dualities, gratis, so
soonas completed. ORANGE GREEN.
April G—1 —ts
BTmOST-MASTERS, below the
8*38? Mr counties formed outof theChcro
fe'r JUsß* kee territory, will please not to forward
- letters and packeges directed to other
to! “rokee Court-house—there are three post
on, ’ lO .• ara il t ,l through what was originally
Kkee- 5 thrower route bv way of DeKalb Countv, to
Silt (Dawson,) county, to tad of
Coosa in Floyd‘County;theL^; county> an d
Gwinnett county, Hickory t jai *•- • vi.. rrav coun .
Cfccrokee Court-House, to Lc-.oU m Mu.ay
‘J : th .e “PP° r a " d l ° n & fo ir . Lump
*nd Murraysville in Hall county, i>e.- | larna <j e villc
kin county, Hightower in r orsyta coUiu ’ . :
in Cherokee, Talkingrock in Gilmer, to Spo-,_ P ..v,™
Murray county. Ts a little attention is given to thu *- *
uuch difficulty and dissatisfaction can be obviated by m,c
sending letters and papers to offices to wbfch theyaro not
directed. A POSTMAS X
April 30.—4
The following is a list of Post Offices established in
this Judicial Circuit, to wit: —
Cherokee County.—At the Court House, Wm. Gn
iham.
Harnageviile —H.T. Simmons, P. M.
Hickory Flat —Eli M’< onnelt, P. M.
Cass County —At tlie Court House.
Two Runs —Chester Hawks, P. M.
Adairsville —Barnet S. Hardeman, P. M.
Stmfurdville —John Davison, P. M.
Pine Log —Jamen A. I hompson, P. M.
Hoyd County —At the Court House, Head of Coosa ;
3. M. Lavender, P. M. ; Vann’s Valley, James Ilemp
lill, P. AI
Forsyth County —At the Court House. Hightower;
1. M. Scudder, P. M.
Gilmer County —At the Court House. Talking Rock;
). H. Nelson, P. M.
Lumpkin County —AttlieCourtXlouse, Harbcn’s Store,
1. B. Xlurben, P. M.
New Bridge; RobertLegon, P.
Mu r ruy County —New Echota; William Tarvin, P.M.
Spring Place; W. N. Bishop, P. M.
Panldin” County —At the Court House.
tyUmn County —At the CjUlt flause.
AURARIA, LUMPKIN COUNTY, GEORGIA, JUNE 4, 1833.
POBSaT.
THE MAGIC OF NIGHT.
Maiden, arise from the darkness of sleep,
The pight is enchanted, the silence is deep;
Open thine eyelids —awake to the gleam
Brighter tlian ever yet burst on a dream.
Sweet though thy visions be, fuir as a star,
Here is a vision more exquisite far,
Oh! look at yon lull, while the blue mist above
Is wreathing around it—an image of love.
NqW glance below o’er the sparkling bay,
And the ship that severs its star-led way,
And the moon that stops, like a beautiful bride,
To look at her face in the tranquil tide.
And mark how far the heaven is strewn,
With courtier clouds that worship the moon ;
While otlicrs lie snowy and still through the night,
Like a myriads wings all ready ibrlligut.
Earth seems an Eden unstained by crime,
So pure is the scene, and so lio! ” the time:
Tempest is now with the winds upcurled,
And Nature and Night are alone ill the world.
The numbered sands of time seem run,
And Earth and her Heaven are mingled in one;
The light, like love, is silent and deep—
Maiden is this an hour of sleep ?
•‘NOT A DRUM WAS HEARD.’’
Not a sous had he got, not a guinea or note,
And be look’d confoundedly fluried,
As he bolted away without paying his shot,
And,tlie|lanlady after him hurried.
We saw him again at tho dead of night,
When home from the club returning,
We twigg’d the doctor beneath the light,
Os the gas-lamp brilliantly burning.
All bare and expos’d to the midnight dews,
Reclin’d in the gutter we found” him,
He look’d like a gentleman taking a snooze
With his martial cloak around turn.
• The doctor’s as druuk as the devil,’ we said
And manag’d a shutter to borrow,
We raised him, and sigh'd at the thought that his head
Would dreadfully ache on the morrow.
We bore him home, and we put him to bed,
And we told his wife and daughter,
To give him next morning a couple of red,
IJeirings u.'ii? soda-water.
Loudly they talk’d of his money that's “one,
And his lady began to Upbraid him,
But little he reck’d—so they let him snore on
’Neath the counterpane—just as we laid him.
We tucked him in, and had hardly done,
When beneath the window calling,
We heard the rough voice of a son of a gun
Os a watchman ‘one o’clock’ bawling.
Slowly and sadly we then walked down
From bis room in the upper story,
A rushlight we placed on t’ .Id’ hearth-stone
And we left lum alone in hi ory.
SARATOft * SPRINGS.
Miss Simper appeared at Saratoga in an ele
gantsuit of sable. She was said to be in mourn
ing for her father, an opulent broker in Baltimore,
recently deceased. Griefharl wasted her health,
and weeping had washed away her roses, and
she was come to recover her appetite, and rean
imate her blushes.—Miss Simper, of course w-as
an heiress, and attracted great attention. The
gentleman called her a beauty, and talked a great
deal of her real estate, bank stock and securi
ties.—Some of the ladies thought her complex
ion too sallow, and some objected to the style
of her dress. Mrs. Highflyer said she had not
the air of a woman of fashion, while Capt. Hal
laird pronounced her a suspicious sail, and de
clared his belief that she was a privateer in dis
guise. The fair stranger, however, walked daily
to the fountain, modestly cast down her eyes
when gazed at, and seemed unconscious of all
but her own horrors.
About this time Major Fitzconnell appeared
upon that busy scene. He was a tall, handsome
man, of easy address, and polished manners,
who seemed to regard all around him with an air
of very polite unconcern. He was announced
as an officer ol his Britannic Majesty’s service,
and brother to Earl Somebody in England. It
was reported that he had large landed posses
sions in the west. He did not appear to seek
society, but was too well bred to repel any ci
vilities which were offered to him. The gentle
men were well pleased with his good sense, his
knowledge of the world, and the suavity of his
manners; but as he seemed to avoid the ladies,
they had little opportunity of estimating his qual
ties.
Major Fitzconnell and Miss Simper met by
accident at the fountain. The officer, who had
just filled his glass at her approach, presented
it to the lady, who, in sipping the transparent
element, dropped her handkerchief. The gen
tleman very gallantly picked up the cambrick,
and restored it to the fair hand of its owner—
but the blushing damsel abashed by the easy at
tentions ofanelegant stranger, in her confusion
’usther reticule, which the soldier gracefully
• 1 upon her wrist, with a most respectful
i ep , the one side, and another
n° W ‘ i"u her. ‘W'ed the civilities of this
bow on the other, terii.- Uu - ” , ~ „
meeting. The gentleman “’ ; R RUC d his wa . ,
and the lady returned to her cliarndP I '. r
Miss Simper felt only sensible of the honoi °*
having elicited three graceful congees from the
brother of an English earl cannot be doubted;
nor can we suppose, without injustice to that
gentleman’s taste, that he saw with indifference
the mantling blushes which those attentions had
drawn forth; certain it is, however, that as they
separated in opposite directions, neither of them
was seen to cast “one longing lingering look
behind.” As I had not the privilege of intrud
in'* into either of their chambers, I cannot say
what fairy forms might have flitted around the
Majors’s pillow, nor whether the fair one dream
ed of coronets, coats of arms, kettle drums, and
epaulets. In short, lam not able to inform the
inquisitive reader, whether the parties thought
of each other at all; from the extreme difficulty
of a*aiu bringing two such diffident persons in
It comes, the Herald of a Golden World.
contact, I am inclined to think th.i adventure
would have ended here; —had not “chance which
oft decides the fate of mighty monarchs,” decid
ed theirs.
Bliss Simper’s health required her attendance
at the fountain on the following morning at an
unusually early hour ; and the Major, while oth
ers were snoring, had sallied forth to enjoy the
invigorating freshness ofthe early breeze. They
met again by accident at the propitious well:
and as the attendant, who is usually posted there
to fill the glasses of the invalids, had not yet ta
ken his station, the Major had not only the hap
piness of performing that office, but of replen
ishing the exhausted vessel, until,the lady had
quailed the full measure prescribed by the med
ical dictator of this little community-. I-*rn not
able to say how often they pledged each other
in the salubrious beverage; but when the reader
is informed that the quantum prescribed to a
delicate female varies from four to eight glasses,
according to the nature of her complaint, and
that a lady cannot decorously sip more than one
mouthful without drawing breath, it will be seen
that ample opportunity was afforded on this oc- I
casion for a letc-a-tele. The ice being thus bro
ken, and the water duly quaffed, the gentleman
proposed a promenade, to which the lady after
some little hesitation acceded; and when the
great bell summoned them to breakfast, they
repaired to the table with excellent appetite,and
cheeks glowing with healthful hues, produced
by the exercise ofthe morning. At ten o’clock
the lady issued forth from her chamber, adorned
with new charms, by the recent labors of the
toilet, and strolling pensively, book in hand, to
the farthest corner ofthe great piazza, commenc
ed her studios. It happened, at the same mo
ment, that the Major, fresh from his valet’s
hands, hied himself to the same cool retreat, to
breathe forth the melancholy musings of his
soul, upon his flute. Seeing the lady he hesi
ated, begged pardon for his intrusion, and was,
about to retire—but the lady assured him it was I
no “intrusion at all,” and laid aside her book.
T. U ,C gCr.;!?man was soon seated beside her. He
begged to know the subject of her researches,
and was delighted with the taste displayed in
the choice of her author; she earnestly solicitea
a display of his musical talents, and was enrap
tured with every note; —and when the same
impertinent bell which had curtailed th-ir morn
ing walk, again sounded in their ears,they were
surprised to find how swiftly time had flown, and
chagrined that the common place operation of
eating was so often allowed to interrupt the feast
of reason, and the flow of soul.
At four o’clock the military stranger handed
Miss Simper into an elegant gig, drove to the
neighbouring village;—wheie rumor soon pro
claimed that this interesting pair were united in
the holy bands of matrimony. For once the
many tongues of fame spoke truly—and when
the happy Major returned with hisblushingbride,
all could see that the embarrassment of the lov
er, was exchanged for the triumphant smile of
the delighted bridegroom. It is hardly necessa
ry to add, that such was the salutary effect of
this pleasing event, that the “young couple”
found themselves restored instantaneously to
perfect health; and on the following morning
they bade adieu to Saratoga Springs.
“This is a very ungenteel affair !” said Mrs.
Highflyer. “ I never heard, the beat of it in my
born days!” said a fat shop-keepers lady.—
“ How funny!” cried one young lady. “ llow
shocking!” exclaimed another. “Egad, that’s
a keen smart gill!” said one gentleman. —
“ She’s a tickler, I warrant her!” said a second.
She’s a pirate, by thunder roared Captain Hal
laird.
In the mean while,the new-married pair were
pursuing their journey by easy stages towards
the city of New-York. We all know “ how the
blest charms of nature improve, when we see
them reflected,” and so on, and we can readily
imagine, “how happily the days of Thalabapast
by” on this occasion. Uninterrupted by cere
monious visits, unrestrained by the presence of
third parties, surrounded by all the blandish
ments which give enchantment to the rural
scene, it is not surprising that our lovers should
often disgress from the beaten road, andas often
linger at a romantic spot, or a secluded cot
tage.
Several day ha.l now elapsed, and neither
party had made any disclosure to the other upon
the important subject of finance. As they were
drawing near tlie end of their journey, the Ma
jor thought it advisable to broach this delicate
matter to his bride. It was upon a fine sum
mer eveming, as they sat by a window, at an
inn, enjoying the beauties of an extens.ve land
scape, that this memorable conversation occur
red. They had been amusing themselves with
that kind of small talk which new married folks
find so vastly pleasant: as how much they love
one another, and how happy they intend to be,
and what a fine thing for two fond hearts to be
Unsolved and melted down into one, &c. Ma
ny examp- es l° ve and murder were related—
the lSdy told of seven! distressed swains who
had incontinently • hanged themselves for their
mistres e-. and the gentleman as often asser
vated ftv.t ‘>ot one of those martyred lovers
adore ! ; m ifj Ct of his passion, with half the
fervor which he felt for his own, dear, sweet, dar
ling, precious, little Anne! At last, throwing
his arm over his wife’s chair, he said carlessly.
“ Who has the management of your property,
my dear!”
“ You have, my darling,” replied she.
“ I shall have, when I get it,” said the hus
band—“ I meant to inquire, in whose posses
sion it was at present?”
“It is all in your possession,” said the lady.
“ Do not trifle with me,” said the gentlemen,
patting her cheek—“ you have made me tho
happy master of your person, and it is time to
give me the disposal of your fortune.”
“My face is my fortune, kind sir,” said she
laying her head on his shoulder.
“To be plain with you, madam,” said the
imprisioned bridegroom—“ I have need of mo
ney immediately—the hired gig in which we
came to this place has been returned,and I have
not tho means to procure another conveyance.”
“ To be equally candid with you, sir,” re
plied the happy bride, “ I have nothing in the
world but what you see.”
“Have you no real estate ?” said the Major,
starting on his feet.
“ Not an acre.”
“No bank stock I”
“None.”
“No securities—no jewels—no money?”
“Nothing of the kind.
“ Are you not the daughter and heiress of a
rich broker?”
“ Not I, indeed.”
“Who the devil are you then?”
“I am your wife, sir, and tho daughter of a
very honest blacksmith.”
“Bless me !” exclaimed the Major, starting
back with astonishment—then covering his face
with both his hands, he remained for a moment,
absorbed in thought. Resuming his serenity,
he said in a sneering tone, “ I congratulate you,
Madam, on being the wife of a beggar like your
self. I am a ruined man, and know not
whence to supply my immmediate wants.”
“ Can you not draw upon the earl, your bro
ther?” said the lady.
“I have not the honor of being allied to the
nobility.”
Perhaps you can have recourse to the pay
master ol your regiment?”
“ I do not happen to belong to any regi
ment.”
“ And have you no lands in Arkansas?”
“ Not an acre.”
“ Pray then, sir, may I take the liberty of ask
ing who you are?”
“ I am your husband, madam, at your service,
and only son to a famous gambler, who left me
heir to his principles and profession.”
“ My father gave me a good education,” said
the lady.
“ So did mine,” said the genilumen —“but it
has not prevented me from trumping ttiC wrong
trick this time - ”
So saying, Major Fitzconnell bounced out
of the chamber, hastened to the bar, and called
the landlord. His interresting bride followed
on tip-toe, and listened unobserved.. The Ma
jor inquired “ at what hour the mail-stage would
pass for New York.” “ About midnight,” was
the reply. “Please to secure me a seat,”said the
Majoi, and let me be waked at the proper hour.
“ Only one seat?” inquired the host. “ One
seat only ?” was the reply. The landlord re
marked that it was customary for gentlemen
who set off in the night, to pay their fare in ad
vance, upon which the Major paid for the seat.
The Major and his bride retired to separate
chambers; the former was soon locked in the
ai ms of sleep, but the latter repelled the drowsy
god from her eye-lids. When she heard the
stage drive up to the door of the inn, she hastily
rose and having previouly made up her bundle,
without which a lady never steals a march, has
tened down stairs. Upon the way she met the
landlord, who inquired if her husband was
awake.
“He is not,” said the lady,“and need not be
disturbed.”
“The scat was taken for you then?” inquired
the inkeeper.
“ Certainly.”
“Oh very well—we’ll not disturb the gentle
men—the stage is ready, madam, —jump in.”
Mrs. Fitzconnell jumped in accordingly, and
was soon on her way to New York, leaving
the gallant and ingenious Major to provide
auother conveyance, and anew wife, at his
leisure.
Civilisation and Barbarism. —What is civili
zation? Noah W r ebster says it is the “state
of being civilized—the state of being refined in
manners.” What then is Refinement ? “ A
nice observance of the civilities of social life,”
says he; and thus the seeker of the definition
vibrates like the pendulum of a clock, between
tho two words, learning only that civilization
is refinement, and that refinement is civiliza
tion.
Let us be permitted to define a little. Ci
vilized people arc those whose manners and
customs are like our own, in whatever country
wc may happen to be born—and Burbarians
are those whose manners and customs are diffe
rent from our own. Here, for instance, a civi
lized man is one who wears breeches, boots, a
shirt, coat and hat; who eats with a knife and
fork, and drinks coffee or tea with his breakfast.
Pass to the banks of the Arkansas, and the wig
wams of the west, and there the man is civili- !
zed who wears a blanket, drinks water, (rum is i
the offspring of civilization,) and sleeps on the
ground. There the civilized lady bores holes in
her nose, and suspends her ornaments to that ve
ry respectable organ— here the refined lady
bores holes in her ears for a similar purpose.
What is there, abstractedly, more civilized in
the ears than in the nose ? And yet, we laugh
at the squaw in her blanket and with her nasal or
naments, and call her a savage ?
Again —Mr. Brown comes down from Buffa
lo and meets his old friend, Mr. Smith, in Broad
way. Their right hands instantly meet, and a
violent shaking ensues. “ What are those men
fighting about l” says.the dark son of tropical
Africa, to his white friend. “ Fighting ! hood !
They are old friends that have not met for a
long time, and tiiey are expressing their good
will toward each other by shaking hands.”—-
“What barbarians! why in my country when two
friends meet they rub their noses together.
“ What savages,” says the white man.
The ceremonios Mr. Fitzroy meets the court
ly Mr. Clarence, at which he raises his beaver.
“What does that mean?” says Hassan Ouglou.
“.We are saluting each other,” is the reply.
“What a ridiculous custom,” says Hassan. In
my country wc salute by clapping both hands on
the forehead and making a low salaam.” “W hat
barbarians!” exclaims the Congoes, “in my
land whenever two gentlemen meet, they snap
the thumb and fore finger together at eaehuthcr.
“How ludicrous says the white man.” Spirit of
common sense! will thou deign to tell us whe
ther the manners and customs of any of tho
three are more ridiculous than those ot tho
others.
The Persian pulls his meat to pieces with bis
fingers, and eats horseflesh. “Shocking,”says
the New Yorker, as he sets down to a game
dinner, to a dish of bear’s meat. —The Indian
cooks his rattle snake, much to the horror of bro
ther Jonathan,who breakfasts on stewed eels.
The Abyssinian cuts a steak from his cow,
sews the skin over the wound, and lets the ani
mal go about her business till another fit of hun
ger leads him to cut another slice. “The un
feeling wretch!” cries the European butcher,
as he sticks a pig in the throat, and looks com
placently on the expiring grunter. The Moor
ish lady stains her hair and the ends of her fin
gers with saffron. ‘•‘Dear me how strange.”
says lady Barbara Belle, and away she goes to
her toilette, to rogue for the evening ball. Tho
Chinese woman compresses her feet into tho
length of a paper of tobacco. The fair peri
patetic or Broadway, laughs at the absurd cue
tom, and screws her waist to the dimensions of
a Spanisn cigar. The turk goes to market and
buys half a dozen wives.—“ The brute! ’exclaims
the civilized beauty of fashionable life, and
marries the richest suitor that she can find.
Now then, have wc not satisfactorily proved,
that civilization consists in our way of doing
tilings,—and that barbarism consists in other
people’s way of doing things. Let common
sense answer. —A". Y. Standard.
Tommy Buck. —Was brought up to take earn
of seventeen cows, belonging to hi? father ; to
drive a four ox team with lib, the old mare, at
the end of it; cut wood in the winter, and raise
grain in the summer. But alas! at the peri
lous age of sixteen a dancing master came into
the village, and Tommy by dint of persuading,
pursuaded his honest old father to permit him to
subscribe, and instead of chanting obsolete
psalm tunes in the chimney corner upon a w in
ter’s evening, pumps, lufiles and a fiddle
“ reigned in their stead ” In lieu oi flail, pi
geon wings, and “ right and left” were heard on
the barn-floor, and the oxen and Tib were left
to “chew the cud” of slipperless loneliness.
Tommy’s idec3 were raised, and his wits out
right descended from his heud to his heels, leav
ing his upper story to let. Straghtway a ball
was had, and Tommy shipped the shell of u
fashionable, and wore gloves, and fell in love.
True, he was rather awkward in manerisms at
first; but then he sported a smart toe and ac
quired ease and impudence—and eventually*
by activity and toe and heel exertion, capered
into the good graces of Molly Reed, who could
weave sixteen yards of shirting per diem. Tom
my then set up for a beau after ladies’ own
hearts, and went to town to sell gown patterns
as an apprentice, (being above driving the ox
en in partnership with Tib) determined to be
come a marchant. And so he did—and his fa
ther died, leaving him the bulk of his fortune,
when Tommy determined to do two things, viz.
cut Molly and keep a curricle. The first was
the most difficult, but he had learned a “ tb.ng
or two,” and after a due quantity of tears on her
part the separation was affected and the curri
ricle purchased.—Tib, the old mare, the cows
and oxen, were translated into two greys, and
Tommy from a plough boy to a fine gentlemen.
The farm, milking pails, pigs, hens und ducks,
were channel to cash and style, and the balance
over this .Ac cessary expenditure .invested in the
house of Tommy Buck, Landshark & Cos.
And then Tommy went to the Springs and
gamed, to the theatre and drank, to his counting
house and whistled, and these were beautiful
times. Tommy’s credit was good, and lie used
it; his cash was plenty, and he spent it; his
health fine, and he gave it a trial.—VV ho like
Tommy? He made love anew to a city belle,
but the sly old fox of a father said nay. Ho
asked a poet to write doleful ditties, and he said
vea, and he paid him. The sonnets were full et
darts and cruels—and the girl married another.
Tommy sighed, and drank, ate gained anil
whistled, “todrive dull care away.” and then
\ failed. Tib kicks up her heels in scorn at him.
| Molly sends four chubby children to school an.l
loves her husband. His lady-love of sonnet
reading memory, docs not notice him in the
street,°and Tommy has shipped to go to India
at ten dollars per month in the forecastle oi a
ship. .
Moral. —Pigs and cows r.rd ducks and h> ..
and old Tib with a good farm und money at in
terests, are better then greys and curricles, and
gaming, and theatres, and style; unless one.
prefers to go to India at Icti dollars per merit!-
j before the mast —and so ends our story.
. TilClO WO co *ah:s with “ ’.; :e-
NO. 9.
