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Couchs!
Did nny of our readers ever bear of a race of men
called Concbs ? No : yet there is such a race of beings
on this continent, numbering several thousand, and what
ib more surprising they are American citizens.
Oar authority is Oswego, a very learned and tie- I
gant writer for the New York Tribune —a paper
which we always quote from with reluctance, though
we are often compelled to do so, as it is conducted with
signal ability.
Oswego writes from Key West, and says:
This “city** contains about 3,000 inhabitants,
of which about 300 are slaves : 1,700 are Con
chs, ancl the remaining thousand are descended
from the ‘‘rest of mankind.” These Conchs are
peculiar specimens of human kind, and immi
grated to Key from the Bahama Islands, some
260 miles east of this, upon the other side of the
Gulf-Stream. When fust, or wherefore they
were called Conchs , authentic history has not
informed us. We know, however, that they are
the descendants of Knglish emigrants and the
Royalists of Georgia and Carolina, who settled
upon and fled to the sandy and barren Bahama
Islands. Living there in comparative indolence
and disregarding the laws of Nature and of Na
ture’s God, by marrying and intermarrying with
in the prohibited degrees of consanguinity, they
have become a distinct class or race, whom the
Almighty has, apparently, marked with degen
eracy. Among their children—they are legion
—you can only occasionally recognize an ex
pression or a feature of the ‘‘human face divine.”
Many, and indeed most of the Bahama Islands,
are quite barren and unproductive, and the resi
dents live mainly upon fish. Ihe shell fish call
ed couch or abounding, it became and
is their principal or favorite food, and hence. I
suppose, they acquired the name <>f Conchs.
However this may be, or whether the name was
originally adopted by themselves or applied by
others as a nick-name, it is now and for a long
period has been, the distinctive cognomination
of a large portion of the Bahamians; and upon
their native Islands, the conch-shell ’ is the allu
sive picture or emblem upon all their flags and j
banners. Even at the time of the Governorship
of the notorious Lord Dunmore, the name was
familiarly recognized by the Bahamians, for, at
their party meetings and jollifications to petition I
the King for his continuance in office, the fol
lowing sentiment, in doggerel, was a favorite: !
Here’s a health lo Lord Dunmore,
The conch is out, the shell at his door ;
He who votes ior Lord Dunmore,
He is a Conch , I am sure.
Tradition, slightly aided by a fertile imagination
however, can assign to this peculiar people a far
more ancient and classical name and habitation. !
Neptune, the God of the Sen, we are told, had a
numerous progeny by goddesses and mortals.—
Triton was his only son by Amphitrite, and he j
became a sea deity and the trumpeter to his fath
er. Now we know that the instrument or
“trump-marine” used by Triton to call and mar- !
slial his father’s clan, was a conch-shelly for Ovid I
says:
Triton vocat ; concha- que sonorae
Inspirare jubet.
And may we not reasonably infer that the clan
who obeyed the call of the loud sonuding conch
shell, when blown by the deified Triton, were
called Conchs, and that they are the real pro
geirtors of the present diving, amphibious race,
who rally around and follow the conch-shell
as their armorial ensign, and who are now dis
tinctly known among men as Conchs ?
The Conch-men of this day and generation,
at least upon this island, are a cadaverous, sor
ry, and fishy-iooking genus hominum. They
are proverbially peaceful, honest, temperate and
religious, but have none of the pugnacious ener
gy, scheming proclivity, and perpetual mobility
of the Yankees. Their chief business is fishing, j
sponging, turtling and wrecking, and generally
on their own account, and not as the “hirelings”
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of others. The labor which a Northern or Wes- i
tern mna performs at a dollar a day and one
hundred and fifty a year, the Conch regards as
servile , and three dollars per day would not hire
him to perform the same labor. Their wants
are few, and in this latitude and locality, easily
supplied. Their principal food being fish, the
waters around the Key furnish a continuous and
inexhaustible supply, and occasional wrecking
procures for themselves and families the neces
sary clothing, bread, gioceries, &c.
Sponging is the gathering of sponges along
the reefs, and when steadily and industriously
followed, fifty dollars a month is easily earned.
Turtling is a favorite employment with the
Conchs and so abundant are they that every fami
ly upon the Key, for a bit, (twelve and a half
cents,) can dine daily upon fine turtle-soup and
turtle-steaks. These large sea-tortises are
sometimes taken in nets, sometimes by “turn
ing,” and sometimes bv “pegging.” At certain
seasons they come out upon the beach, in large
numbers, to deposit their eggs in the sand. At
such times, particularly moonlight nights, they
are suddenly approached and turned upon the
back, before reaching the wate>. It is very
exciting sport, requiring great skill as well as
practice to he successful. This is called “turn
ing turtle ” And “pegging turtle” is equally
exciling, and requring more skill and experience.
Take a stick twelve or fourteen feet in length,
insert into one end a pointed steel, like that of
the shoemaker’s awl, and fasten to it a line or
cord ; armed with this instrument, you sail along
the reels, and throw it, harpoon fashion, at the
turtle’s back, and the steel-point strikes so firm
ly in the shell, that turtles weighing 400 pounds
are securely “hauled in’’—and this is called
“pegging turtle.” Large pens or cribs are built
in the Bay, in which are kept a large supply,
constantly on hand, for home consumption and
exportation.
There is a portion, and a very important and
interesting portion of the wrecking business,
performed exclusively by the Conch-men— it is
the diving and working under water. When
a vessel bilges and fills with water or sinks, they
are employed to dive into the hold of the vessel,
and there make fast to and save the cargo.—
Forty and fifty feet is regarded as a good work
ing depth of water, and a Conch has been
known to “dive down’’ ninety feet, carrying
along a cable, and make fast to an anchor.—
I hey are trained to diving from early childhood,
and hoys often years old will, at any moment,
plunge in and go down twenty feet to pick up
a sixpence. Indeed, it is said” (this l call a fish
st ory) that expert covers will dive down forty
feet, sledge-hammer in hand, for their favorite
shell fish, the concha, and there break the shells
and eat their breakfast, before coming up “to
blow off.”* Their endurance of protracted sub
| marine existence, is certainly most astonishing,
j and their amphibious labors are not only im
j portant, but indispensable in saving wrecked
I cargoes.
These Conch-men are almost wholly unedu-
I cated, and with few exceptions make no effort
| and manifest no desire to educate their children.
Their dwellings are mostly one-story wooden
buildings, elevated upon blocks some three or
four feet from the ground; roughly boarded
; outside, and unfinished inside; windows desti
! tute of sash or glass, but having blinds made ot
unplaned boards, which are kept open during
I the day and closed at night. In their social in
tercourse, they confine themselves almost ex
clusively to their own class or race, and their
dwellings are contiguous in a distinct portion ot
the “city”—known as “Conch-Town.”
Such are some of the noticeable points in the
historical, physical, industrial and social pedi
| gree, character and condition ol the Conchs,
who comprise two thirds of the entire popula
tion of the “Citv of Key-West.”
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columbus7georgia.
SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1853.
Telegraphic News. —Owing to the fact that the
wires have been down between this point, Mobile and
New Orleans, we have received no dispatches by our
cniietpondent by the Western route for three days.—
Wile rn that steamer’s news has been received by
tin E &<tei n Route, representing the market at Liver
pool fa r.
Congress—Tlie Character of our Public Men.
The demoralization of our public men has become a
favorite theme with the Editors, and is not a distasteful
morsel with members of Congress, The hardest
hits in this direction which we have lately noticed, are
contained in the Richmond Examiner of a late date.
It states that there is one district in the South, which
ever has been represented by a succession of drunkards,
from a time whereof the memory of man runneth not
to the contrary 5 and that there are several districts in
the North which have never returned any others than
notorious rogues and defaulters ; that fifty or a hundred
dollars apiece to get men to stay in their places and vote,
when a small bill comes up, is not a thing unheard of ;
that debauchery and sensualism have set an unmistakea
ble mark upon the cheek of more than a majority of
the members; and that the proportion of clear-eyed,
earnest and honest faces among that distinguished crowd
are like the scattered stars which shone dim and dis
tant through the murks and shadows of Milton’s Hades—
they only serve to make the darkness visible.
The pithy ediior well says, that the members of Congress
have forgotten who made them. Congress has become
careless of public opinion. Both parties there feel a per
fect apathy in relation to the sayings and doings of all out
siders. The Democratic party feel seeure. It has just
crushed its adversary beyond the fear of another fight. The
majority in every Democratic District has been doubled.
Hence the Democratic party feels like that rich man in
the Scriptures, who said, Soul , thou'hast meat and drink
laid up for many years : eat , drink and take thine ease ;
while the remnants of the Federal herd sing the same
song with another burden :
“Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.”
Like the beggar in Horace, ihe Whig party can sing
before the robbers. It is safe, because it has nothing to
lose.
The cure for this great and alarming evil is in the hands
of the people. Every two years they have the oppor
j tunity of correcting-it, by selecting not only able but
sober and honest men to represent them in Congress,
and they should make a ennsoienitous use of such op
portunities. Drunkards, gamblers, debauchees, specu
lating adventurers, are unworthy of the confidence of
the people and will abuse their trust if sufficient temp
tation is offi-red to them. Private virtue is the highest
j qualification of an American statesman. We are too
: much undt r the sway of oily tongues—the meanest
! and poorest of intellectual gifts. Hence lawyers crowd
the halls of Congress to the exclusion of all other classes
of community. It was not so with our ancestors, nei-
Washingtou or Macon were orators ; and in our age
would doubtless have been considered very unfit per
sons to send to Congress. They had neither brass nor
“words, words, words,” but sound sense and incor
; ruptible integrity.
It is nonsensical to separate political and private vir
tue. A man who will cheat his neighbor, will cheat his
country. A man who will indulge his lusts at the ex
pense of his family, will be equally untrue to the State.
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Arrest of a Georgian at Bremen.
| We learn from the Republican, that Mr. Conrad
l Schmidt, a citizen of Savannah, who went to Bremen
I some months ago on a visit to his relatives in Germany,
with a regular passport from the United States de
i partment, was arrested by trie Bremen police on a re
i quisition of Hanover, for military service due that state,
I thrown into prison, from which he was released
| after five day’s confinement only on the energetic re
monstrance of our Consul at Bremen, Mr. King, and of
our Minister at Berlin, Mr. Barnard. Mr. Schmidt, it
j seems, left Hanover in 1839, had never been in the
j Hanoverian army and owed no military service to
that State; while he was in prisou an other citizen of the
j United States was pursued by the Bremen police, but
; luckily escaped.
The Republican well remarks that it is high time that
! our government looked into this matter. The Bremen
I Senate ought to be made to feel that they cannot with
I impunity thus disregard commercial usage and the
I spirit of commercial treaties. They owe most of their
! prosperity to their trade with the United States, and
; the time has come when they ought to choose between
j their commercial interests on one hand and their blind
obedience to the Germau Diet on the other,
Au Explanation.
It is proper to state that the information given of
I Mrs. W bite's escape from the Asylum was based upon a
j private letter, net intended for the public, and without the
knowledge of Dr. Green, or of the person to whom
the letter was written. It was thought proper however
to put the public upon their guard against one known j
to indulge in insane hatred against several of our best
citizens. M ill the papers who have noticed the former ■
article please copy this.
Taxes and Labor.
Our article upon this subject has been objected to by
our neighbor of the Corner Stone , though the ground
of objection is not patent. Our position is, Ist that a man
who votes ought to pay taxes, 2d that every tax-payer
ought to be taxed in proportion to his ability to pay.
The principle asserted by the mechanics of New Orleans
is that capital ought to bear the whole burthen 01 tax
ation. By this rule professional men, merchants, me
chanics, sportsmen, actors and many other classes of the
community who have large incomes,but no capital , would
be entirely’ exempt from taxation, while the industrious
farmer, mechanic, &c., who live economically, and lay
up and invest a portion of their “hard earnings, ’ would
be taxed. Such a policy would be neither just nor expe
dient.
Grocers’ Meeting.
“Great is Diana of the Ephesians.” See Acts, 19 Chap.
24—28 verses.
We learn from the Savannah papers, that an ad
journed meeting f the Grocers of that city, convened
at the Exchange Long Room, March Ist, for the pur
pose of receiving the report of a committee appointed
at a former meeting to draft resolutions expressive ot
! the sense of that meeting on the attempt to procure
further legislation on the traffic in liquors, and to pre
pare rules for their government as an association.
The meeting was organized by Mr. Wm. M. David
son presiding, and Mr. Waring Russell, acting as Sec
! rotary.
The following resolution was read, introductory to
their constitution, and unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the undersigned, believing that the
legislation which is recommended by those who are in
i favor of the law known as the “Anti-Liquor Law,” will
he in violation of rights which are inalienable, and not
! the subject of restriction by legisilation : and feeling that
it is a duty that we owe to ourselves and our fellow-citi
zen t, to prevent, if possible, any further prosecution of a
subject injurious in its tendencies and restrictive of our
i rights as citizens of the United States; are desirous of
forming an association having for its object the opposition
I by all proper and lawful means, of any further legislation
J upon the subject of the traffic in liquors ; and also for our
mutual protection in the pursuit of a just and honorable
calling : And we do hereby form ourselves into an as
, sociation to be’ called the “Groceis’ Association of the
City of Savannah.”
j Among the articles of the Constitution, we noticed
the following declaration :
“That this (the association) is to have no reference
! to any party (political) organization now existing.”
In reference to a proper observance of the Sabbath ,
I the 9th article thus expresses the sentiment of tho asso
ciation :
“It being the desire of every member of this associa
tion to discontinue the practice of trading on Sundays ,
and believing that it will advance the interests of the
j association, we do pledge ourselves to discontinue the
| practice, and hereafter close our doors on the Sahbath. v
The constitution being adopted, and the signatures
of those present desirous of becoming members having
been obtained, the meeting adjourned, subject to a call
of the chairman.
Raymond & Co.’s Circus and Menagerie.
This celebrated company has arrived in Town and
will exhibit on Monday, (day and night.) Their en
trance into the city was imposing, and attracted much
notice. Their performances and exhibition are said to
bo capital.
New Boot Leather.
! Mr. J, W. Galveston,jt is said, has manu
i factured beautiful boots out of aligator’s skins. They
; resemble the finest calf-skin and are mottled like tortoise
1 shell.
! .
Murder. •
Mr. W. S. Irby, of Alabama, whipped a negro ni3n
to death, not long since, and was immediately ar
rested and bound over to court, in a bond of SSOOO.
Such outrageous inhumanity should meet the condign
punishment the law annexes to the crime.
46 The Union.”
The statement that Harney ofthe Louisville Demo
crat was going to Washington to edit the Union is
said to be a fabrication, by a correspondent of the N. Y.
Herald; who further states that the paper will con
tinue under the sole editorial control of General Arm-
I strong.
The Colville Family.
We are indebted to J. W. Pease of this city for a
copy of this entertaining work, by the author of “Frank
Fairleigh,” &e. The London Quarterly Review pro
nounces it “a gem of a household book, worthy to
be put in the hands of every youth, and be introduced
into every social circle.”
South Western Circuit.
It is reported that Wm. H. Perkins, Esq., of Ran
dolph, has been elected Judge of this circuit.
Telegraph.
A Telegraphic office has been established in Madison,
i Georgia.
! .
Rates of Postage!
It is not easy, always, to keep in mind the required
amount o! postage stamps on letters, &,e., under the laws
now in force. The following convenient table of rates
gives the information required at a glance, and we prerent
it to our readers with the suggestion to cut it out and p_ t]
in some convenient place, to save the trouble of asking red
having to answer questions about it:
Letters—
Each 4 ounce under 3000 miles, prepaid, 3c. ; unpaid, sc.
Each 1 ounce over 3000 miles, prepaid, 7c.; unpaid, 10c.
All Printed Matter in General—anywhere in the Uni
ted States:
First three ounces, ic.
Each subsequent ounce, lc.
It not prepaid, double these rates. But—
Newspapers and Periodicals—paid quarterly or yearly in
advance—
First three ounces,
Each subsequent ounce, lie]
not weighing over 11 oz., in the State where pub- j
lished, *c. each, and weekly papers in the county where
published, free.
Newspapers and Periodicals published monthly or
oftener, and Pamphlets of 16 Octavo pages or less, when sent I
in packages weighing at least 8 oz., piepaid, ie. an oz.
Books— bound or unbound ; weighing not more than j
iour pounds, may be sent by mail, for each oz.,
under 3000 miles, prepaid, lc. I Unpaid, lie I
Over “ “ “ ii c . j 3 C ;
fractions oyer a single rate are charged as one rate
‘ Periodicals,’ in the sense used above, are publications
issued once iu three months or oftener.
Soil of the South.—No farmer ought to be
without an agricultural paper. Some do get along
so, but they would do a great deal better with one.
The Soil of the South would enable them to save
its cost tweniy times over. The editorial articles
ou work for he mouth are invaluable. Published
by Lomax & Ellis, at Columbus, Ga. Terms $1
a year in advance. —Marietta Advocate.
Three Days Later from Europe.
ARRIVAL OF THE HUMBOLDT.
Private dispatches received yesterday afternoon,
announce the arrival at New York, of the Ameri
can steamship Humboldt, from Havre, with li\er
pool dates to the 15th ult., three days later than
previous accounts. The dispatches state that the
Liverpool market was dull, with a decline of one
sixteenth of a penny, and that the market closed
film.
Further by the Humboldt.
Political. — England . —In the British Parlia
j meat Lord John Russell stated that the Govern
i ment was perfectly satisfied that Napoleon had no
I hostile intentions against England.
France. —On the 4th ult., the Emperor, in per
! son, in an address to the French Chambers, said
that he had determined upon a reduction of the
Army, that it was his intention to cultivate a good
understanding with foreign powers, and to convince
the incredulous that when France expressed her
intentions to remain at peace, the must be believed.
The speech produced a good effect on the Bourse,
1 causing a rise in the funds.
Italy is ail quiet. Accounts from Milan report
that the recent outbreak was a small affair. The
ringleaders were hanged, and martial law was rig
orously enforced.
Loss of the Steamer Queen Victoria.—The
steamer Queen Victoria was wrecked on the coast
of Ireland, and fify persons drowned.
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The Europa arrived at Liverpool on the 13^i,
and her news touching the extent of the crop had a
I depressing effect on cotton. On the 14th the mar*
| ket was dull, with sales of 5,000 bales, at a decline
i of l-16d. On the 15th the market was firmer, with
sales of 500 bales.
Wright, and Gundy quote cotton 1-8 lower, but
admit that it rallied to 1-160. Other circulars give
a decline of l-Bd. in middling and lower qualities,
without any change in other descriptions.
Soil of the South. —The February number of
j this valuable book has been received. It contains
| a variety of interesting articles ; among them we
i notice the premium essay read at the last annual
j Fair of the Southern Central Agricultural Associa
tion, on the subject of the Cotton plant, and writ
ten by the Editor, Col. James M. Chambers.—
Col. Chambers is a practical farmer ; he has bee n
engaged in the cultivation of the soil for a number
of yeats, and is among the most successful plan
| ters of his section. The book should be in the hand
j of every planter, and after one year’s reading it,
ino one engaged in that business would feel wil
j ling to do without it.
It is published very handsomely by Messrs. Lo-
I max & Ellis, iti Columbus, Ga., at $1 per year in
j advance.
j Besides its agricultural merits, Mr. Charles A
; Peabody, the most skillful and scientific horticul
turist in the South, is connected with it, and in
j that department makes it the most valuable book
! published in Georgia.— Central Georgian.
I—
| The Galveston Neics understands that Col. Kin
ney has recently sold one half of his interest in the
town of Corpus Cnristi, for the sum <;f one hundred
thousand dollars.
Washington Items-Gen. Pierce and his Cabinet,
Arc.
Washington, Feb, 27th,—Gen. Pierce yester
day, during the morning, received calls of cere,
mony at his apartments, only admitting one
1 person at a time. The rush was not very great
| the reception not being generally known. Be
tween 2 and 3 o’clock he visited for a short
time the two Houses of Congress, and was re
ceived with great attention.
The following is said to be the true complex
ion of the Cabinet, as definitely fixed upon :
Hon. William L. Marcy of New York. Secretary
of State ; Hon. James Guthrie of Kentucky,
Secretary of the Treasury : Hon. Robt.McClel
land of Michigan, Secretary of the Interior;
Hon. Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, Secretary
of War. Hon. J C. Dobbin of North Carolina,
: Secretary of the Navy ; Hon. James Campbell
of Pennsylvania, Postmaster General ; Hon.
Caleb Cushing of Massachusetts, Attorney
! General.
The following persons are named as candi- !
; dates for the o lice of Commissioner of Public I
j Buildings and Grounds ; Peter M. Pierson, j
i Chas. L Colton and Mr. Pepper of the District; j
Major Lewis and Messrs. Hennicutand.Throck
morton of Va. Hen. Riehard H. Stanton of Ten
nessee.
Numerous strangers are arriving and the ho
tels are already filled. The boarding-houses
and private dwellings are also filling up.
Hon. George Briggs was last night arrested
for the late assault on Postmaster Hubbard, on
complaint of a private citizen, and held to bail
in the sum 0f52,000.
Gen. Pierce attended Rev. J. C. Smith’s
Presbyterian church/this morning.
Attorney General Crittenden was married to
! the widow of the late Gen. Ashley this morn
ing, at Dr. Payne’s Episcopal church. Presi
dent Fillmore, Gen. Pierce, Gen. Scott, mem
bers of Congress, of the Cabinet and many
| others were in attendance. The bride was
given away by Secretary Everett.
Interested Friendship.— The Grandfather
of the late Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland was a
great humorist, and used frequently to divert
himself with a village fool or “natural,” called
Will Spears. One day Will met his lordship in j
the avenue leading to Eglinton Castie, bat the
peer being in a brown study, passed his brain
less acquaintance without recognition. Pro
ceeding on his way, the “natural’; found a bone,
and, sitting down on the sward, commenced
lunching on the same. Eglinton, shortly after
wards retracing his steps, came up to Will
Spears, and being now aware of his presence,
saluted him with his wonted cordiality, exclaim
ing: “This is a fine day, Will, my man ! ” Will
had not forgotten the supposed cut which he had
so recently experienced ; he glanced suspicious
ly at his lordship, and holding the half polished
bone behind his back, observed, in a sneering
and half-reproachful tone, “Ay, ay ! folk lute
aye plenty o’freens when they hae ony thing to
gie!”
A Poem for Mothers Only.
[it is called the “New Comer,” and
beautiful and true.] —
The hour arrives, the moment wished and feared
The'child is born, by many a pang endeared *’
And now the mother’s ear has caught his cry
Oh ! grant the cherub to her asking eve !
He comes, she clasps him ; to her bosom pressed
He drinks the balm of life, and drops to rest. ‘ ‘ ’
She, by her smile, how soon the stranger know- •
How soon by his the glad discovery shows; * ‘
As to her lips she lifts the lovely boy,
What answering looks of sympathy and joy :
He walks—bespeaks—in many a broken word
His wants, his wishes and his griefs are heard-
And ever, ever, to her lap he flies,
Where rosy sleep comes on with sweet surprise
Locked in her arms, Ins arms across her flung,
That name most dear forever on his tongue. ~
As with soft accents round her neck he clings.
And cheek to cheek her lulling songs he sings^
How blest to feel the beating of his heart,
Breathe his sweet breath and kiss for kiss impart
I Watch o’er his slumbers, like the brooding dove,
And, if she can, exhaust a mothers love!
New Use for Bedbugs.— The New
York Sunday Allas announces that a discovery
of the utmost importance to wine drinkers has
been made by Mr. Struggles, a maker port and
of champagne wine in New Jersey. The Lancas
rat Express,from which we derive our facts, states
that the rapid consumption of cockroaches used
to give the nuttv and peculiarly piquant flavor
to wine, had made it difficult to find a sufficient
supply. In this dilemma the wine maker con
ceived the happy idea that bedbugs might be
used as a substitute. He tried the experiment,
and the result was far more satisfactory than
he had anticipated. It was found that a quart
of bedbugs contained as much of the flavoring
principle as three pints or more of the roaches
—and that the former have but little of that nar
cotic or sleep producing effect which is attribu
ted to the latter. Contracts have been made
with some of the fashionable boarding house
keepers in Philadelphia and New York for an
ample supply of this new article of traffic. It
is thought the boarders will be somewhat pleas
ed with this intelligence.
Combing a Puppy.—A good anecdote is told
of Mrs. Patterson, of Baltimore, the American
lady connected with the Bonaparte family by
marriage. Being in Italy, at an evening party,
it fell to her lot to be handed in to the supper
table by a young English noblemen, who, un
like most of the patricians of England, had
a good share of the puppy in his composition.
Thinking to quiz the old lad v, he said :
“You are acquainted with the Americans, 1
believe V’
“Very well.”
“A monstrously vulgar people, aren’t they?”
“Yes; but what could you expect when you
consider that they are descended from the En
glish? Had their progenitors, now, been Ital
j ians or Spaniards, we might look for some good
’ breeding among them.”
The nobleman did not venture to tread on
Mrs. Patterson’s toes again that evening.
Wanted. —A tiler and drummer to beat time
to the march of intellect.
A pair of snuffers for the light of other days.
A stone-cutter who can drill deep enough to
blast the rock of-ages.
1 he thing which a man fell v when he
was thrown out of a window.
To know how many feet in the vard of a
house.
The exact size of a hum-bug ; also if there are
any in London-
A link ot slumber’s chain the man was bound
with. , -4
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Couple of Them.— A physician going down
Regent street, w ith a friend ’.of his, said to
| him—
“ Let us avoid that pretty woman you see
| there on the left. She knows me, and casts on
me looks of indignation. I attended her hus
band.”
“Ah ! I understand; you had the misfortune
to dispatch him.”
“On the contrary,” replied the doctor, ‘T
saved him.”
Professor Porson, having once exasperated
a disputant by the dryness of his sarcasm, the
petulant opponent thus addressed him.
“Mr. Porson, I beg leave to tell you, sir,
that my opinion of you is peifectly contempti
ble.”
Porson replied—“l never knew an opinio*’
of yours, sir, which was not contemptible.’ ’ *”
A Mormon paper, published at Liverpool, pro
fesses to circulate twenty-three thousand
copies.
A man who is seventy years old, has spent
twenty-three years of his life in bed, and five
years at table !
OCT A planter informs the editor of the
Miliedgeville Union, that the buzzards are at
tacking his stock, lie says that, within a few
weeks, so great had been the destruction among
his lambs and young pigs, by the buzzards, he
could no longer trust them out of the super
vision of some person on his premises. He had
witnessed an attack made by them upon a full
i grown ewe, which would have proved success
ful but for timely interference.
lO* An old lady onceyaid that her idea of a
great man was : “A man who was keerfulof his
clothes, didn’t drink sperits, kin read the Bible
without spellin’ the words, and kin eat a cold
dinner on wash day, to save the wimmen folks
the trouble of cooking.”
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Impromptu hv M. Leghos.— On the text of
a sermon by Pelham, Bishop of Exeter, upon
his translation to Lincoln, “Be ye steadfast and
immovable.”
Not what the preacher says, but does,
Ought chiefly to be noted ;
Be ye immovable, he says—
But oft he goes, promoied.
The preacher’s comment from the text,
Appears a variation ;
The original is not perplexf,
The fault’s in his translation.
00“ In the streets of Leicester one day, Dean
Swiit was accosted by a druken weaver, who,
staggering against his reverence, said :
“I have been spinning it out.”
“\es,” said Dean, “l see you have, and now
you are reeling it home.”