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[COSAM EMIR BARTLETT— EDITOR]
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TO RENT
TIIF. subscriber has three enmforta
-111, lEL *''« dwelling li.im.es to rent iho en
taniig year: ihero are attached tu
' tch, all necessary out houses, and
good garden spats Appl* to J unes Van Ness
or to the uuderaigned
0,1 jomn n page
rosedale
I dnr/t kuo-.v hour it happened when
we were house-hunting me other day, that
nobody ever thought of Rosedale. 1 should
have objected to it, as out of distance—it’s
and good six miles off; and as being uterly uu
reconitueudabiu by one rational persoe to
another.
.Neviliei less is Rosedale r*ne of the pret
tiest cottages that over sprung into exist
ence hi brick or on paper. Ali strangers
go to see it, and lew “cols of spruce gentil
-1 y !lr(! • v<) well wonh seeing. The ra
pid succession ol occupiers is the more ex
traordinary matter. Every body willing
to come to Rosedale, hut nobody stays. °
Eur this, however, it is no*,'difficult to
assign very sufioient caus\ Every room
is in masquerade : the saloon Chinese, full
of jars and niadaiins and pagodas; the li
brary Egyptian, all covered with hierogly
phics, and swarming with furnituie ciuco
diles and sbpynxes. Only think of a cioc
odile couch and xpliynx sofa ! They sleep
in lurkisli tents, and dine in a Gothic
chapel Now English ladies and gentle
men in their every day appural look excee
dingly out ol place amongst such mummery.
The costume wont do.
1' irst on the list of tenants was a bride
mid bridegroom come to spend itte early
months of their nup'ial life in this sweet re
tirement. They arrived towards the end
of August with a great retinue of servants,
horses, dogs, and carriages, well bedecked
wii li In id 1 1 favours. I lie very pointers
had white ribbons round their necks, so
spleaded was their rejoicing, and had each
as we weie iucrediblv informed, catena
huge slice of wedding cake when the hap
py couple returned fern church. The
bride, whom every body except myself cal
led plain, and whom I thought pretty, had
he n a great heiress, and had married fir
love the day she came of age. She was
slibgt of form and pale us complexion,
with a profusion of brown hair, mild ha
zel eyes, a sweet smile, a soli voice, and an
air of modesty that clung about her like
a veil; I never saw a more loveable crea
ture. He was dark and tall and stout and
bold with an assured yet gentlemanly air, a
loud voice, a confident manner, and” a real
passion for shooting. They stayed just a
fortnight, during which time he contrived
to get warned oft half the m inors in the
neighbourhood, and cut down the finest elm
on the lawn one wet morning to open a
view of the high road. I hope the mar
riage has turned out a happy one, foi she
was a sweet gentlo creature. I used to
see her leaning over the gate watching his
return from shouting with such a fond pa
tience ! And bound to meet him when ho
did appear ! And the pretty coaxing play
fulness with whcly she patted and chided
her rivals the dogs ! Oh I hope she is
haopy ! hut I fear, l fear.
Next succeeded a couple from India, be
fore whom floated reports golden and gor
geous as the clouds at sunset. Inexhaus
tible riches; profuse expenditure ; troinen
dious ostentation; unite trd of luxury ; or
tolans; becafieos; French-beans at Christ
mis; grean-pens at Easter; strawberries
always ; u chariot and six; twelve black
footmen ; aad parrots and monkeys beyond
all count. These were amongst the most
moderate of the rumours that preceded
them ; and every idle person in the coun
try was preparing to he a hanger-on ; and
every slurp-keeper in L 5. on the watch for
a customer ; when up drove a quiet-look
iug old gentleman in a pouy-chaise, with
a quiet-looking old lady at his side, and
tooK possession, their retinue following in
a hack post-chaise. Whether the habits
of this Eastern Croesus corresponded with
his modest dehut, or his niaguificietit repu
tation, we had not time to discover, al
though from certain indicators, I conceive
that much might bo said on both sides.
They arrived til the middle of a fine Octo
ber, while llto China roses covered the
walls, and the Chiua-asters, and dahlias,
and fuschias, and geraniums in full blow,
gave a summer brilliancy to the lawn ; but
scarcely had a pair of superb Common
prayer-books, bound in velvet, and a bible
witti gold clasps entered in possession of
the pew at church, before “there catre a
frost, a nipping frost,’ which turned the
China-asters, and the China roses brown ,
and the dahlias, and geraniums black, aud
the nabob and the nabubess blue. They
disappeared the next day, and have never
been secu or heard of since.
Then arrived a fox-hunting Baronet,
with a splendid stud and a splendid fortune.
A young man, a single man, a handsome
mau! Every speculating mamma in (ho
country fixed her eyes on Sir Robert for
a son-in-law ; papas were sent to call ; bro
thers wero enjoined to go out hunting, and
gel acquainted; nay even certain of the
youut; .adies themselves (f grieve to say it!)
showed sy mploms of condescension which
might almost have made their grandmo
thers start from their graves. But what
could they do? How could they help it,
poor pretty things? The Baronet, with the
instinct of a determined bachelor, avoided
a young lady as a sparrow does a hawk,
and discovering this shyness, they followed
their instinct as tho hawk would do in a
similar Case, aud pursued the coy bird. It
was what sportsmen call a fine open sea
son, which being translated, means every
variety of wintery weather except frost—
dirty, fogey, sleety, wet; so such of our
belles as looked well on horse-back, took
the opportunity to ride to cover and see
the hounds throw «fl; and such as shone
more as pedestrians would take an early
walk, exquisitely dtessed, sot their heal'n’s
. >ke, towaids the general rendezvous. S ill
Sir Robert was immovable. He made no
COLUMBUs-’, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1-30.
morning calls, ac.eptM no invitations,
spike to no mortal till he had ascertained
•hat ihete was neither sister, daughter,aunt,
or Cousin iii ihw cusp, [!•? it opt (rom tvu
iv petticoat «is uit tamed tiie coiH-iniuu
of the plague, shuned b»ll-rooms and diaw
ing-ro ms, as if they were pesl-hnuses, and
filially had tiio comfort of leaving Ruse
dib) without having even bowed to a fe
male during his stay. The final cau-e . f
Ins departuie has been and fLuemly reported;
some hold tbit he was frightened away bv
Miss Amelia Singleton, who had nearly
caused him to commit involuniaiy h nui
cidt;, ( is tint the word for killing a wo
man ! ) by crossing and re crossing before
his hunter in Sallow- ii- ld-lane, therhy put
ting him in danger of a coroner’* inquest;
whilst others assert ihit his landlord, Mr.
Walker, happening to call one day, found
his tenant in dirty boots on tile sphynxstda,
and a Newfoundland dog, diipping with
inud oil the crocodile couch, and gave him
notice to quit on the spot. For my part I
regard this legend as altogether apoclny
phal, invented to save the credit of tho
house by assuming that one of its many in
habitants was turned out, control v to his
own wish. My faith goes entirely with
tho Miss Amelia version of the history ;
the more so, as that gentle damsel was so
inconsolable as to marry a former beau, a
small Sqniio of the neighbour hood, ratlmt
weather-beaten, and not quite so youn« as
he hid been, within a month after she had
the ill luck not to be run over by Sir
Robert.
However that may have been, “thence
ensued a vacancy ’ in Rosedale, which was
supplied the same week by a musical fami
ly, a traveling band, ditnns, trumpets, harps,
pianos, violin*, violiucellos, trombnbs, and
German flutes—noise personified! an incur
nation ol din! Tile fmtily c nsisted of
three young ladies who practised regular
six hours a day ; a governess wno played
on some instiument or other from morning
till night ; one fluting brother ; one fiddling
di’to ; n violinceiling music-master ; and
a singing papa. Tile only quiet person
amomg them, the “one poor half-penny
wottli of bread to this monstrous qu nii y
of sack ’ was the unfirtunato mamma, sole
listener, n« it seemed, of her innumcrous
choir. Oil how we pitied her! She was
a sweet placid-looking woman, and young
er in appoareuce than either of her daugh
ters, with a fair open forehead, full dark
eyes, lips that seemed waiting to smile, a
deep yet cooi colour, aud a heavenly com
posure of contonance, resembling in featu
res, expression, and complexion the sm ill
Madonnas of Raphael. We never ceased
to wonder at her happy serenity until we
found out that the good lady was deaf, a dis
covery which somewhat diminished tiie ar
dour of our admiration. Haw ibis envia
ble calamity befell, I did not hear, —but of
course that din ! The very jus and man
darins cracked under the incessant vibra
tion ; I only wonder the poor house dirl not
break the drum of its ears; did not burst
from its own report, and explode like an
overloaded gun. One could not see that
unlucky habitation half a mile off, without
such a feeling of noise as comes over one
in looking at Hogarth’s enraged musician.
To pass it was really dangerous. One
stage-coach was overturned, and two post
chaise ran away in consequence of their
uproarious doings; and a sturdy old-fashi
oned country gentleman, who rode a partic
ular anti-musical startlish, blood-horse, be
gan to talk of indicting Uosedale as a nuis
ance, when just at the critical moment, its
tenants had the good fortune to discover,
that although the hermitage with its vaul
ted roof made a capital concei t room, yet
that there was not space enough within
doors for tlioir several practisings, that the
apirtments wore too small, and the parti
tions too thin, so that concord was tin tied
into discord, and harmonics went crossing
each other all over the house—Mnzirt
joistled by Rossini, and Handel put down
by Weber And away the)’ went aiso.
Our next neighbours were two ladies,
not sisters, except as one of them said in
soul; kindred spirits determined to retire
from tlie world, and emulatu in this sweet
retreat tho imo-ortal friendship of the ladies
of Llangollen. The names of our pair of
friends were Jackson anti Jennings, Miss
Laura Jackson (I wonder whether Laura
really was her name ! She signed liersolf
so in prose and in vet so, and would cortain
ily for more reasons than ono dislike an
appeal to the Register ! besides she ought
to know ; so Laura it sli (|i be ! ) M i«ts L tu
rn Jackson and Miss Barbara Jennings,
commonly called B.tb. Both were of that
unfortunate class of young ladies, whom
the malicious world is apt to call old maids;
both rich, both independent, and both in
the fullest sense of the word cockneys
Laura was tall and lean, aud scraggy aud
yellow, dressing in an Arcadian sort of
way, pietsy much like an opera sli'-pht-rdess
without a ct volt, siugtng pastoral songs pro
digiously out of tune, aud talking in a di r p
voice, with much emphasis an 1 astounding
fluency all sorts rtf sentimentalities all tho
day long. Miss B irhara on the other hand
was short and plump and round faced and
ruddy, inclining to vulgarity as Laura to
affectation, with a great love of dancing, a
pleasant chuckling laugh, and a most agree
able habit ol assentation. Altogether Bab
was a likeable person in spile of some non
sense, which is more than could honestly bo
said for Iter companion.
Juxla-posilion laid the corner stone of
this immortal friendship, which already las
ted four mouths and a half, and cemented
by resemblance of situation, and dissimi
larity of character, really bade fair to con
tinue so tu j mont'v longe . ILtli hud been
heartly weary of ’heir previous situation':
Laura keeping boose for:: brother at Al
dergate street, whete us she said she was
overwhlmed l.y odious vulgar business;
Barbara living with an aunt on I'n.h street
H If, where siio was tiled to death of hav
ing notiiing to (]<>. Both had a passion for
the country. Loire, wiioexcept one jaunt
to M legate, |,a | never been out oHNfc;
sound ol 13 nv-bcll, that she might ruralize
alter the fishion of the poets, sit under
trees and gather loses all day long; 13 ib,
woo in spite of early trips to Palis anil
Russels and Amsterdam ami Brighton, had
hardly s< eu agieeu field except through a
coach window, was on her side poss< sed
with a mama lor notability ami manage
ment ; she yearned to keep cows, fitteu pigs,
1 ree( l poultry, grow caboages, make hay,
brew and bake, and wash and churn. Vis
ions of killing her own mutton flitted ovor
her delighted fancy; and when one eve
ning at a hall in the Borough her favorite
partner hud deserted her to dance with her
m ice, and Miss Liura, who had seen Miss
Steward's letters, proposed to her to retire
from the world ami iis vanities in imitation
"f the illustrious retluses of Llangollen,
Miss Bnbara caught above nil things with
me prospect of making her mvn butter eve
ry morning for breakfast,* acceded to the
proposal most joyfully,
The vow of friendship was taken, and
nothing remained hut to look out for a
house. Bnbara wanted a farm, Laura a
cottage ; 13 nbara talked of cows aud clover,
Luna of Nightingales and viole's; Bn ba
il sighed far Yoikshire pastures, Lima for
Welsh monlains ; aud the scheme seemed
likely to go <ff for waul o! an habitation,
when Rosedale in all the glory of advertise
ment shone on Miss Laura in the Mnruing
Post, and was immediately engaged by tiie
delighted friends on a lease of seven, four
teen, or nnn and twenty years.
It was a ra.v. bloody Match evening, when the
fair partners arrived at the cottage. Miss Laura
made a speech in her usual stylo on taking poses
sion, an invocation to friendship and rural nature,
and a deprecation of cities, society and men ; at
the conclusion of which Miss liaibara under
went an embrassa le ; and having suficntly ad
mired wonders within they sallied forthwith a
candle aud lanthorn to view their ruralities with
out. Miss Laura was better satisfied with tins
ramble than her companion. She found at least
tree3 and priin-roses. whilst the country felicities
of ducks and chickens were entirely wanting
Bab, however reconciled the matter by supposing
they wero gone to roost, and a little worn out
by the journoy wisely followod their exam-
ple
Tho next day saw Miss Laura obliged to in
fringe hor own most sacred ami inviolable rule,
arid admit a man—the apothecary—into this mai
den abode. -She bad sate under a tree the night
before listening not to, but for a nightingale, and
was laid up by a most unpastoral lit ol tue rheu
matism Barbara in the mean while was exam
ining her territnry by day-light, and discovering
f csil cause of vexation at every step. Here siie
was in the country, in a cottage ‘-comprising,”
as the advertisement set forth, “all manner ol
convenieco and accommodation,” without grass
or corn, or cow or sheep, or pig or chicken, or
larkcy or goose ; —no laundry, no brew-house,
no pig stye.no poultry-yaid ! not a cabbage in J
in tho gmdcu ! not a useful tiling about the houscl 1
Imagine hor consternation !
But Barbara was a person of activity and re
source. .biic sallied out forthwith to the neigh
bourin'* village, bought utensils and live stock;
turned the coacli-housa into a cow slab; projected
a pig-stye in the rosery; installed hor ducks and
geese in the orangery; introduced lire novelty ot
real milk pans, Churns and butter prints amongst
the old china. Dutch-tries and stained glass of that
make-believe toy the Gothic dairy; placed hei
browin'* vessels in “ the housekeeper's room,”
which to accord with tue genius of the place had
been filed up to represent a rrobber’s cave; depos
ited her washing tub in tiie bailor's pantry, winch
with a similar regard to cong.uity had been deco
rated with spars anil shells like a Nereid s grotto;
and finally, in spite of all warning and remonstnnee
drov i,er sheep into the shrubbery, and tethered
her cows upon the lawji.
This last snoke was too much for the gar
doner’s patience, h" betook It nose If in all
baste to B, to apprise Mr. Waiter; and Mr.
Walker armed with Mr. Samuel Tomkins
atiri a co pv if the Ic ise maue Ins appearance
with breathless speed at Hosedate. Bar
bara, in spite of tier usual placidity made
good battle ou this occasion. She cried and
scolded atari reasoned and implored; it was
as much « Mr. Walkt r, and Mr. Samuel
Tomkins aided by their mute witness the
lease, and that very clamorous auxiliary the
gardener, could do to outtalk hoi. At last,
however, t.toey were victotious. Pu«r Miss
B ib’s live nock were forced t*< make a m
pid retreat, and she would probably have
marched off at the same time, had iiotau in
cident occur td which brought tier visions of
rural felicity inucl*nearer to the reality than
could have u. ?en anticipated by the liveliest
imagination.
The faroiei'fc wife of whom she had made
her’purchases, end to w bom sutx unwillingly
addressed liers elf to resume thejn, seeing to
use her own words, “how much Madam
seemed to t.ike ou at parting i.iti> the pool
dumb tilings,” kindly offered m accommo
date tin in ash ardors at a uiytltialu sttpeinl
volunteerin' al o lessons in the chickovi
rcaring and (i | ig-feedmg .department, H |
which tho lady lid to be su.-e stand r<* .her
in need.
Os < ourse Ba.’bara closed with this pto
posal at « word «te never whs so happy'
in Iter file; her cow*, pig t, ands muhry,
ert pension , close by, where she mi gfax see
them ct lay hour it she liked, and sne he»-
self with bo h bonds full, feoruu g H t the
farm, jnnf orderi «g at the cottages., and dis
playing nl3 that cam be imagined of ignor
ance and good I rumour at bulb.
Her « untaken were innumerable. Once
for iiistai c»', sh i carried away by irmiii fi.rn
fi mu auu key,' »>>so nest sho bad ine ill-!v dt
to dts.’Ovei ,thtr tion eges, justrea dy to bm civ,
and afier a sev ore combat with the furi ni
and injured het ,brought them home to H ro
dalo as fies. '-I »tJ—under a notion i a Jici
new in nalut >•! hiUpry, that turkeys la y »*t
their egg* m u 9v Another liue *»h
VOLUME FIRST—NUMBER J
discovmuj a hoard . f choice double daahfi
roots in a tool-in.use belonging to her ofd
enemy the gatdener, atm delivered them u»
the r..nk f>r Jerusalem artichokes, «bo
FWiesseil them as such accordingly No end
to B ii bare's blunders! hut her good-humour,
her rlieeifnlness, Imr liberality and the hap
py frankness with which she laugh* and it fi* r
own misi likes, earned her li lUinplian ly
through. I veiy body Itkid her, especially
a snug little curate who lodged at the very
fann-lionse at brie her pig* and cutils wero
boarded, and said iwt-uiy limes a day that
Mis* Biib.ua Jennings was llio pie us at. test
woman in England. Buibaiy was oever so
happy in her lilt*
Miss Laura, on hor part, continued rheu
matic and pouriy, tint] kept closely to her
bed-chamber, the Turkish feat, with no
other cons I 'lions than novels fro in ihe next
town and the daily visits of ihe apothec uy.
She '.vus slicked at Miss Barbara’s intimacy
with tho firm people, and took every op.
poiluuity i 1 'oiling her *u. Barbara, never
very (oud of her fair companion's harangues,
and not the more leconciled to them frnu*
their being directed agrinst her own partic
ular favorites,Van away as often as she could.
So that ton two frieuds had nearly arrived
at the point of not speaking, when fliev met
one afenoou by mutiiil appointment in tb«
Chinese Silnon. Miss B rboru blushed and
loocitcd silly, and seemed trying to say some
thing which she could not bung out. M iss
Laura tried to bhisii lather iinsiu cesslullt.
She however c uld talk at ali linits, her
powers of speech neie nevr known to (ail;
and at (lie end of an oration in which sin*
proved, as wax pretty evident, tbit they h.nl
been mi-taken in supposing the cotnplinyof
each all.sufl) i«nt to the other as well as in
their pi in of seclusion from the world, sho
invi'ed Miss B irhsra,-after another vain at
tempt at a blush, lo pay ilie lsi honouis to
slieir fiiendsltip hv attending Imr to the hy
menal alter, windier she hid promised to
accompany Mr. Opodeldoc on the morning
after the next.
,‘l ciin’i” rplied Miss Barbara.
“ Ami why no i ' resumed Misi Laura.
Surely Mr. Opodel ‘
“ Now, dun t beaiigij! 1, interrupt'd our
Bah. “1 can’t be your In idem-aid ihe day
after to-morrow, because I am going to bo
mariied myself to t!i" curate.'.
And so they left Rosedale, sod 1 shall
leave them.
Fatal Frol ir —About twenty yen I * ago n young
i ronthfftnn, mnnrkttblo for nl ronff nerve, r:*>« .t/ ’»
party consisting of. a few friends, where gh ists
and supernatural agency became the subject of
conversation. Alter a tew remarks by mine of
the piety, the young gentleman's opinion was
a-deed, when lie firmly declared be had no belief
whatever in such nonsense, and that he would us
soon moot a herd of <h..sls as a flock of sheep, and
that he would no morn min i a ni hi m u
reputed haunted house, Ilian by his own fi.p side.
One or two of the party determined to try his
nerve, and one gentleman in particular, offered
to wager him a dozen of wine that he would bo
a/rai jto sit op all nig/it with a corpse Ho instant
ly accepted the bi t, provided be was allowed a file,
a pair of pistols and a gWas of grog, and bis own
house being made the scene of trial of his nervous
faculties. These terms being agreed to, the parj
1 ids separated, and the next evening was lo bo tho
time appointed fir ihc decision of the bet
The next evening came, and every tiring being
in readiness, pistols, file, and grog—tho corpse was
brought in by tho party who laid the wagei, assist
ed by a friend, enveloped in a large shoot, and
placed in u coffin, and set in (lie middle of the
room. At tins instant, the young man was called
down from the room to speak to a person upon
some tr fling business, which he instantly dispatch
ed, and and returned upstairs, the parties who
hrouglit the corpse in, nller wishing hint a get".}
riig it, were oil the point of departure, when ho
j earnestly said to them, —
“ Now it any tricks are attempted to he played
with me, I will fire at the corpse, it or-.o it is for 1
st.nne'y suspect it i* « living being.” They made
him no farther a swei to this IV eat than theso
ominous words, —“ Remember tv. olve oclnok'.”
He was then lefr alone Vfc stirred his fire,
and sipped his grog, and made iiimsclfas comfort
able as he could possibly th*. At length the so
lcmn hour of mid night a rived. As the last
stroke vibrated oil the ear, he instantly saw tho
corpse begin to move—Ur snatched a pistol from
the table, advanced to the coffin, and exclaimed.
“if you stir another sto - ,. ] w £ re To this in
junction he received no : nswer, —the supposed
corpse lose up in thg eof ,n, and stepped towards
him. He repeated Iti ; ihi £i jt.it s'. ill advanced lm fi
red, and the Ini’to' wa , thrown back in hisf.ee
by the corpse, ho tel! t j|| K ground with a piercing
shriek, and msr a ’ nnatie,—in which wretched
state lie reoiair ,-d 1 .p |,i ß death, which happened
about a vent a ter ' J ; i s tragic and truly heart rend-
ing occasion
A more t une gable instance of cruel folly per
haps nevo- Jlred And had but its victim for
a momoo t ref seed, he would hare hecn saved; —-
but the idea jf the bullet being returned, or per
bans oj sho a follow creature, look such an
effect on li j nerves that re.v On forsook her empire
nevo', to r jt l;rn . A mermen 'e forethought would
have sav J( t him.
Burn p the time he was called out of the room
tc spe Jr to the person who w ished to see him,
( who *-,as a party concerned!, the bullets wore
1 draw , from tiie pistols, and given into I’.O hands
| oft! ir corpse, who was likewise one of lire party
who , was present when the wager was laid. T' e
°° mrrence is never thought of by either of tho
a ' t:.r« in this fatally foolish affair, but it occasions
a sigh or a pang of remorse.— tmuttnir.
‘ Once' said a Quaker, in a dispute concerning
i titles, ‘ I had the honor to be in company with an
Excellence aud Highness. Ilis Excellence was
the most ignorant and brutal man I ever saw ; and
his High ness measured just four feet eight inches.
A highlander (whose regiment having been stir
i round*'d had cut their way out with tiie hi and
sword, wrtir lire loss of half their number ) being
the Inst in retie.iting and highly chafed, was slap
ped by a frrward Fie. chimin returning from li.e
corstiit who cntrgeii'kum w ith his bayonet, but
i y.oii finding tin. disadvantage of liis weapon cried
i tit “ quarter f!” ‘ Quarter ye ” said OonaM, ‘<«
niin kle teefil may i,iiarler ye tor mePv my soul
I'f.v line time In .piarter ye ; ye inrun e’en be c u
loiitt to he e.iUit in tun!’ making ir.a held tiy
from lu* shouldurs.
It is mehtinned in the I.or son C- iriui 'hat
iho number ofmifiisiy who foil in life d’if. r at
conflict* in l**ri«, durinp ’hr. o prin< ipal day. of
lcluki, was S 1)00 amt ol'lho .opulnc..and Nutioa
tl Ouanis istaiiV and able 'ha' nuuibt