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i k ' r s; u,r y c l "<) further,iet mete!! you what
said jbt 1/cfore this ; he came «ct
f .mtomv idee of- lon or a fiok (I eye
'cvmcati l-ie same ;) and I* '“'ty
Ootml bnMt-piremnd fcMM.naga.Bwl gjf|
. nnes and a snnfi-’nox, and mnnv ou-er bicoj
I re was tulkin to Bcekuv Rant..c, ami
, 0 c!o sumthin birr, says he. ‘*mv (Jeer Y:g, I m
! -c that nothin ki. be more evnlleratm to the
fcipondia fee!ins of a kmir than wea *&U
licksv of wit and only : skm onl.vant con,la- -
htions: eh! eh! lo ! thebnuoautlucrgroom
coniith !
■ A mat -hle.-s para,
With e-pel virtue forme h nad eque! -rase,
The same, and» inguish: by their sex atone;
Hor’s the mild luster of the b: >am;n re.orn^
A p.d hisen the radianc of die rizzin day. -
Bekkv looked like a poorsimp-Hun as she v;xs.
and that sko was p-c‘ondo.l t.‘ia? sac* had oi cm
rit the like. I soon tin*3 that ciipplo toother for
ever. Dob, and goo I hick go wtn cm. oal'v
was dressed very plane, yet the stranger sui I
lie never saw sieh beautiful flowr.vsa a : ii, ly
lows, frills and quiilin . Wiiat’u that ko
vfd about q'.iilti.i on Sally’s dre m ? says Ze;<c,
ril bet old Beisv that there’s bin a qulltiu on
the sect ot Ids britches, as fine as he looks and •
ns sweet as liesmttils. Ilasli, says 1, Corprul,
h'* aint much no how. Well, wo all, arte:*
patina tarnation sigiit of hog, blscakt «. and
other (lower fixins, went into the house for a
dance. Tlie Corprul took his scat i:t tiio eo:*.
j, or .—fiddle under Ids ciun—both feet a >tomp
jng—both eyes a roll in—his tang out, and he
p’aycd Hamburg ladies with a perieet ioosre?
all the wile. Now, 15oh. some tin said in t. .e
post, not long ago, that D*uic;n was noaee.i e
reduced to a.systim, but if he had sen the ca
pers the pads cut that night, he would have sad
it was kick in and stoinpin reduce 1 to sore,
heels and bruised shins, fori 11 !>e blasted il I
ever see sich pranks in all my iile : trey liopt
and they twisted, they run here and tecre buck-j
wards and forwards, rigitt and lei: and era so i
ways, mashin toe - *, tcarin frocks, and t“e boys;
sometimes shuffled aw. y back to back td a col-;
lizzion would pitch cm over the gals. Taey
o:ilv got thro one jig when they were all tired
down ; then alter a w:!c one oi the gals took a
seet in the middle of the room, and all the boys
and gal.s walked roun hersingin,
Old sister Fhelw, how merry were we
When we sat under the Juniper tree ;
The Juniper tree, i-o.
Put this hat cn your head, keep your head warm,
Take a sweet kiss ’twill do you no harm; •
’Twill do you no harm, i-o !
Then one of the bos's would kiss her, and an
other gal take her sect for her buss, and so ou.
After that play, one got up in the middle ol the
iloor and commenced singin,
Rainin, a halin, a cold frosty niornin,
In comes the farmer a drinkin
Phoo! hollered the Corprul, grabbin hisj
nose with both band?.—“double tiibb'e ppit*•
cat! What’s that stinks so?” Says I, hush
Corprul don’t. “ E'i, eh, mate” says Zi.ko
44 hain’t you got a nose ?” Yes, but I don’t
smell anything—l do by jings ! ingons, garlic,
assyfet-titv and pcrcooti root, yea, worse, sais
Zeke. Just at that time in come stranger with
a great big beef blather full of wiiat the cor
f< ml-smelt, and says lie—Ladies and gentle
mens—l am about to submit to your serious
and candid consideration a lecture on gnssollo
gy, and afterwards proceed to administer a
very small portion of this Sulfurick Ether
Ether indeed, says Zeke, its either kurrin or
says I hush corprul and hear the strang
er—to any person who will come forward for:
t at purpose, and in the first place it develops!
the passions, or more properly, it excites andj
throws into action the instincts well don t
throw out any more on cm, says Zeke ; so Mr.:
.Stranger you can jist stop that speech and give
the gals that gass. Yes, says all, let’s have
the g xss; but none on cm wouldn’t take it till
the stranger took it. Well, be stopped his
nose and put the pewter fiusetts in his mouth
—he wheezed and lie bowed, till arter a while
he drop! the blather and commenced: —Eo-
mans,countrymen and lovers!
Look then abroad through nature to the range
Os plannits, suns and andymantin spheres,
iFneelin unshakin through the void immense,
And speak, oh man does this capashus scene
With half that kindlin majesty dilate
Thy strong conceptions as when the gass
Dang my buttons if that aint all rant frnton,
fudge and fuldlestiks, says Zeke, let Hekkv
Randle take it an if she does so then I’ll be
lieve in it. Well, with a good chance of coke
sin, Bekky pulled ofT her curls, and a great
long hickry slab out of her buzzum, and com
merced takin it like the stranger. Hurra for
Bekky! lean to it Bekky, and suk your full,
hollered Zeke. A.ler a wile Eckky let loot,
and tried to sing
Djvs of absence sad and dreary,
but she could’nt do it no how, so she repeated,
The rose had been lately washed in a shower,
j There comes sum more nonsens, says the Cor
.irul, but 1 reckon it makes em fools, and I’ve
alwas hcarn that poets was loots. Well, then
• the stranger’s sister, who v.as a skool tocher,
.ook it, and after twi-tin her nee this way and
!that, and humrnln and hu\vk:n, and beudin her
| self like a bow, site sung
Cos, ft ryi* me, w!iy should sorrow
O’r that brow its sadness fling,
'and before she could sing any more, Zekehol
lo -ed out, What tl'.e devil is she a cry in about?
S.:c aint cryin, says I, Tints the way gals
sing i: who larn it at school. Well, said tlie
(*<»!•■;t ul, I’ll take it myself, and if it gits any
rimes out of me. vou can go and git blood out
of a turnip. So Zeke goe; up, stops his nose,
nubs the tiling in his month, but n .o didn’t stay
there long, for jumpin up and coTm, he swore
no person had taken it th ;t night, and that he
had as good livers and lights a? any man, but
he, nor no gal on the grit could swaller such
j stuff. A for Zeke said that, ail on em come
;>■) io me beggin rr.c to try it; Now squire,
.s-ivs Beekky, you try it and show the corprul
there’s no sept ion in it—Do squire—Come
s mire—Now do squire, all at once. I began
to think of Dolly; so I says, You’ll tell Dolly
,o, no, no, said all. Well I took the tiling
in mv mouth, and dad blamed if it want like
lire in mv throat. The stranger said, When
its too stiong open your mouth a lectio. 1
hung oi, openin my month w hen it was too
hot, till niter a while 1 begins to feel right
week and sleepy; their talkin begin to d:c
'away like they were all a go'n away, the fire
looked pale, but 1 felt so tarnally glorious, that
I commenced slmfilm right away —head back
and arms akimbo. 1 knew it all and heard cm
but sarn if I could help it. I heard cm
holier, Go it my old coon! Dont he cut t. e
pigeon wing? Git over dabble trubble and
give us the dubble shuffc. Look at his Gab
bean shanks how they bang one another. —.
When it was goin off, Bekky Randle and
Aggy Wiggins were standin right before me
Infill at mo. I stopped dnnein and caught
Bekky round the neck to kiss her, but she fit
like a game pullet, poll in her nails in my eyes,
and bitin like a snake. Avtcr a while some
one tripped me up and when I was tryin to
rise she caught both skirts of my coat and pul- 1
lin them over each sholder kept me dawn, and,
lore mv coat np to the coller fehind. Thej
gass bein off. I began to git mad, but I couldn’t
git up without toarin mv coat clear of!. Just |
then someone hitched Bekky & give her sich
a thump in the ribs that she let me loose to fight
in another quarter. W hen I got up, Great
John ! who were fistv.cuffin one another, but
Bekky and Duly. Dolly laid her out as cool 1
as a tutor in three licks, and then made at me;
i but I tell you. Boh, I didn’t leave that place
slow. Dolly raved and pitched, she said she;
1 never saw sich carry ins on, that it was a
shame and a disgrace for people to go on so.
Out from behind a tree 1 watched her, n>y
deary, and now while I’m thinkin on it. il the
President will have the Cherrvkcc injins to stay
here, I’ll git Governor Gilmer to stay at home,
and with a hundred women like Douy, Id
scour the Iniins not only over the Mississippi’, j
hut into the Passime Gshun, in a hurry. — i
When she cooled down, I went up, and sa\s
she, Now, Mr. Barlow, I told you that yon
wore rot after any good, and I was so sartin
on it, that I left home soon arter you did, and
I've been watchin you all the while, jest to ketch
you. I’m caught, says I, if that’s all voi
want. Just then, Zeke came from the sprint
and his r.osc looked as big and red as a pum
scrannit, says 1, Where have you b;n,coiprul
says he. I’ve bin to wash my bloody nose, anr
I’ve bad a rcgler set-to with Mike Davison
he tripped you up, and l gave him a golt nn
dcr the lug' that brought the squalls from him
He give me a bruzer on the rose, but revei
mind that, I sdn him glory fore I stop’t. Nov
irist see. said Dollv, what has grown out of tu.:
gass. You all know that the cause of ar
evil, is that which is fundamentally evil, you
know that the gilt of drunkness rises from de
istructionof reason; the liquor hem the fundi.
I mental evil—so I lay this down as true, that
I whatever destroys reason is sinful; gass de
stroys it, therefore gass is sinful. Tiiat’sasil
ilojism, said the stranger. You’re n silly g:z
' zard voursclf. says Dolly, and I il cut it ou,
for you. Says I. Dolly, you preach morality,
and act unmorality yourself, so you preaches
in vain. Well, says Dolly, I act as I think,
and if you dont like it you may lump it. Sa\s
1 1, Dolly, you area higgot, says she, you’re a
fool. I give in,says I—we are all fools; so
this mitv adventure admonished me. I went
j home with the corprul an J Doily,and 1 .bant Lft
i home since.—Glad to bear fi orn you. Mv
j admiration to nil. Yours etarually, with
great respaction,
LILLY BAIYLOW, J. P.
Dooly, Warren Cos., Geo. )
June Gtb, 1338.
For the Southern Fog*.
Trill vale or Micoucirr.
Say 1 have you not heard o( the vale in (he mountains,
The loveliest spot in our own verdant land—
W here the bow o: oamipoter.ee hangs o’er tho foun
tains,
And the breezes are healthful, reviving and bland ?.
Where the. zephyrs perfumed as from the Spice Islands
I Mount lip from the valley to welcome the morn ;
, Where the gale robs the zephyr to gladden (he highlands
I With sweetness that e’en to proud Yonah is borne T
! Tis a val'ey of pence—rich in ev’ry soft feature,
1 In sunsdnne or shade, in its own verdant green;
Tis Georgia s Egena— most iovo y-r-by nature
j Can ’J out of a chaos o', wdd mpuntala’s scene !
Tis the vole ofNau?oocV* remembered in story- —
The silent retreat where bright waters run ;
The :i line ot repose—the arena o' glory
j iv hen me war-whoop had ceaseJ and the conflict was
done :
l was me couch of the hunter, when Phoebus descending 1
| Left a mantle of darkness over the scene ;
i, T was the tryst ot thelovers, when evening was blending
With starlight’s soft rays o’er nature’s terrene—
j And oft on the banks of those limpid still waters,
! When night’s cresent orb fcrmg in beauty above ;
Has the young Indian brave, to Nau'oochy’S dark
daughter—
i Unheard, save by her, told his wiifi tale of love,—r
’T was the warrior’s home —whan, the battle was over,
His peaceful retreat —his soft couch of rest:
When v.ra-y of carnage, the husband and lover
j Returned to repose in the vale of the blest.
* * * * * *
Oh ! why is the paA in “gloom and its glory,’’
Its bahts and its shades, withheld from the view 7
V. hy, peaceful Nnucoochy, is thy epic story
i Untold to the many, and known to the few ?
’Tis said that a chief, in the far-west, rehearses
! At times, the deeds thy warriors have done,
And tells cfan hour, in tradition’s dark verses,
From the far cast they came with war-steed and helmet,
With cuirass and sword —and faces all pale,
Nor heeded they then the peace proffer’d calumet,
But swept with Death’s torrents the beauiiful vale;
The valley was drench’d, and the late limped current
Was red with the blood of the valiant and brave.
The few* who remained, fell back when the torrent
Breaks out from tire brow of thy uppermost cave;
And there the small band, the la3t to inherit,
If conrpuest was their’s, the nation’s domain,
Guided on by Mauito, the frowning war spirit
Threw a rampart of stone ’twixt mountain and plain,
In the eyrie aloft, the exiles all lonely, *.
Unconquer’d look’d down on their o.wn lovely land.—
Alas! that a breach in that rampart tells only—
“ Sad indeed was the fate of that valiant band” —
Is this then thy story ?—thy requiem for ages ?
Time’s footsteps have left thee iimt record of stone;
'Tis the only bright line on thy undecay’d pages,
That tells to the world what thy heroes have done;
For there still a rampart in ruin encloses
The sky girted summit" ofYonah’s dark crest —
But thy fame, like thy strength, in si'ence reposes,
Save when sung by the silver-hair’d chief of the west.
J. C. E.
MACON:
Saturday Morning, Jsas i), 183$.
£k?* He have been compelled the present week to
reduce the size of our sheet, forihe want of larger paper
—it being all that possibly could be had. Some delay
on the river hna occasioned thU disappointment, as a
supply has sometime since been ordered, and which
will probably be in time for next week’s paper when we
hope to present an improved sheet.
SKr Advertisements omit:ed this week shall be at_
ended to in our next.
Number forty-eight, Volume fifteen, of the New
Yoke Mirror has been received. We regret that we
save nor an opportunity of examining its pages more
m tic ally than we have done; we have found, however
o far as we have gone, its sparkling pages to be mos
, illuring—so much so as to strongly tempt us to lay by,
for a time, other more pressing, but not so pleasing du
ties. Its attractions are even greater than usual. It is
a'tendcd with a beautiful engraving of the “Bay and
Harbour of New-York, from Staten Island.”
JKr Florence ItfeElcoddy, an Irishman, was thrown
from a horse, on Sunday last, and killed. Verdict of
inquest, “ accidental death ”
sOr The long talked of North-west passage, which
was to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, around
the Northern portion of the American continent, har,
it is stated in the London Morning Chronicle, been di;-|
covered by the agents of the Hudson Bay Company.
If true, it is quite a desidratum in Navigation, and will
probably open new fields to enterprise.
G* G,« i -tiJuy La;, th* .dtwn
:eb, and received ;’:om ih# hands of Mr*. Ladd, of
Vintvil.'e, a beautiful Standard which was executed
" kh “fitura! taste and elegance by her own fair hands.
The design, Is, the Cont-of-Arms of the United States,
with the bust of Washington, upon one side, and the
| Goddess of Liberty, bearing the “Star Spangled Ban-
| ncr > all( l beneath her feet the “Horn of Plenty,”'
|on the other; together with the motto, “ Sub Hoch
710 I titce*," (under this sign thou shall conquer.) An.
J address was delivered by E. A. Nisbef, Esq., on the ’
part of the lady presenting the Banner, and suitably
responded to hy the acting commanding officer, Lieut.,
J. A. Nisbet. Wc have been politely favored by tha
Committee, with the shor*, but beautiful, Address of th»
former gentlemen, which hero follows :
j GzxTr.EMr.x: I understa /rd the Flag of your Compa
jny is wearing away and appears to be but the tvpe of
i !, y-S° n e service. It lias often been unfurled, the rnlly
i mg signal of civic vigilance, i« has encountered the trop
ical stornu of Florida* it proudly waved for a long and
i anxiou=season, on the ramparts of Fort Cooper, and is
piercer! with the bullets of the Seminole. It is endear
ed to you by the recollection of many trials and some
\ 'oiimp'.s. You will therefore cherish it the more affec
, honately, and with the greater devotion, because of the
; genius . -id amiable virtues of her who gave it.
Allow me in behalf of Mrs. Catiiajuxe Ladd, to
present to your g.-'la it Company, another stand of co
ours; devised by Female taste, and executed by Fe
rns e ir.grnmf’.. Receive it as the representative in your
. ranks, of the Fair of our Country, and th# emblem of
J that confidence which Woman irposca in the heroism
of the Soldier. In the presence of such a memento, tha
Soldier will not yield his person living, a trophy to the
foe; or his character a victim to guilt and shame. This
is the Banner of Beauty and the Brave. It is commit
j ted by confiding dependence to the keeping of honor
and Patriotism. ’Fhe trust is on holy one, and the se-.
eurity of its custody unquestioned. Its tender and ac
ceptance replies love and reliance on the one hand, and
; virtuousconduci, and generous devotion, on the other.
J n.e favors ot the Fair, are the surest reward, which
awaits me guardian ot Liberty : and the defenders of
ho ne and us charities; whilstthevrejoice beneath tha
shielding colours, their hands have wrought and
th -ir hearts bestowed. Upon its ample and beautiful
; folds, behold, gentlemen, the beaming stars, and glow-,
ring stripes of the Union! The untarnished escutch
eon, of our uncompleted Republic! The armorial in
signia ot Sovereignty. You are this day made, the de
positories ot public right, arid private peace; when,
therefore, this Banner of Beauty and the Brave shall
be lowered in War, or furled in peace ; we shall know
that the Macon Volunteers, are extinct.
After firing the solute, the Company were greeted by
the sweet voice of Music from an array of beauty—tha,
young Ladies composing Mrs. Ladd's Music School.,
The song was composed by Mrs. Ladd, and
to the Macon Volunteers.
SONG. AIR “ HAIL COLUMBIA.”*
Should ever foes invade our land,
Then may our gallant little band,
Os brave, of brave, young Volunteers, (repeat.)
Be ready at the trumpet’s sound,
When tne dread w ar-cry echo’s round j
And wi:U true patriotic zeal
Rush onward to the battle field,
Resolved Columbia’s land shtjl ba
Ever the home of Liberty 1
Conquer you will, conquer you must —
G id guards the brave, fights with the just;
Then let thy motto ever lie,
Death, Death, or LIBERTY !
Whilst glorious ardour fires each heart,
De*ermine now with all to part —
With all—all but thy Liberty : (repeat.)
Say who would shrink—say who would stay,
Or hide him from the battle’s fray ?
Each Wife, each doatmg Mother hera
Would freely give up all that’s dear
To save the land that now contains
All that of WASHINGTON remains.
Conquer you will, &c.
Lightly, ns now, oh ! may we see
Thy Banner ever floating free ;
Us broad sinpes spreading to the breeze— {rtpeat.\
The Standard of thy native land,
Let nought but Death tear from thy hand ;
Its brightness sullied never see,
Thy winding-sheet first let it be ;
Yet Heaven will save and ever have
The Stars we borrowed from above.
Conquer you will, &c.
Oar Country !
What a charm around that word ! it is as soft, as ctK
dearing, as nature’s nearest tie. It is mother, home,
protection, all. But to an American how much else
may be said of his country —rich in every variety of'
beauty, wealth, and climate. The following extract
from the Knickerbocker will illustrate farther this idea..
“ One cannot feel the grandeur of our republic, unless
be surveys it in detail.—For example, a Senator in Con
.-ess, from Louisiana, has just arrived in Washington..
Twenty days of his journey he passed in a steamboat,
oil inland waters—rbut constantly moving, atquick pace
too, dav and night. I never shall forget the rapture of
a traveller, who left the green parks of New Orleans
early in March —that land of the orange and the olive,,
then teeming with verdure, freshness, and life, and as it
were, mocking him with the mid-summer of his North-,
ero home- He journeyed leisurely towards the region
ofice and snow, to watch the budding of the young
flowers, and to catch the breezes of the spring. He.
crossed the lakes of Ponchartrain and Borgue ; he as
cended the big Tombackbee in a comfortable steam
boat. From Tuscaloosa he shot, athwart the wilds of
A'abame, over Indian grounds, that bloody battles have,
rendered ever memorable. He traversed Georgia, the
Carolinas, ranged along the br.se of the mountains of'
: Virginia,—and for three months and more, he enjoyed
one perpetual, one unvarying, ever-coming spring,—
that most delicious sp-snn of the year,—till hv the mid
dle of June, he found himself in the fogs of the Passtna
quoddy, where tardy summer was even then hesitating
whether if was time to come. And yet he hack not been
off the soil of his country.”