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WigoLE No. 177.1
TERIVIS
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3711TINZZON
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COMMON SCHOOLS.
[Circular.]
"ItARRISBURG,FEBRUARY 11, 1839
"Tee Commisaioncre of Huntingdon Co:
"GuNTLENEN;-1.17 the fifth paragraph
of the tenth section of the act to •consolidate
and amend the several acts relative to a
general system of education by common
schools, passed the 13th June, 1836, the
Superintendent of Commol Schools in direc
ted annually, in the month of February, to
transmit to the coinuossioners of each coun
ty, a statement of the atocunt every distri!.:
therein that has, and every district that has
not adapted the Common School system,
may be entitled to reetiye out of the .annual
appropriation of two hundred thousand dol
lars, and the commissioners shill immedi
ately cause such statement to be published
three tones, in one or mare newspapers grin
led in said county,
''By the third 'section to the supplement
to the above recited act, passed on the 12th
day of April, 1838, it is thus provided:
"Sitcriox 3. It shall be the duty of the
commissioners of each county in the State,
triennially,, to ascertain with the assistance
of the respective assessors, the exact num
ber of the resident taxible ctizens of each
Common School district in their several
counties, and to certic'y the same under their
hands and seal oroffiee, to the Sup:rinten
dent of Common' Schools, who is hereby di-.
rected to adapt the number of taxablcs, thus
oertified to him, as the basis of distribution
the State appropriation; the said certifi
cates to he prepared and transmitted on or
before the first day nt April m every third
Year, commencing with the first day of April
eighteen hundred and thirty—meet Provi
ded, That if the coin missioners of any onus
ty shall neglect to forward such certificates,
on or before said day, the • Superintendent
nay, in that c*se, adopt the number of tax
able' set forth iu the next preceding certifi
cate or return.
•qou perceive that there will he sonic dif
iculty this year, in carrying into effect these
provisions. AS the enumeration to be retur
ned en the first of April, is to be the basis of
distribution, while the Superintendent is to
furnisli the statement of the amount to
winch each district is entitled in the month
of February.
"It is impossible, at this time, to conjec
ture the prfl.rtiO!l of the two hundred thous,
and dollars, to witiO: cool, district will be
entitled. When the number of taxables is
ascertained by the enumeration to ho return
ed on the first of April next, the prop,tion
will be reduced according to the increase of
the taxables. As the main"object of furnish
log this statement in the month of February,
is to give notice to the districts of the amount
of tax they are required to assess in order to
entitle them to the State nppropriation; mul
as the reduction in tl.is sum, arising front the
additional number of taxables, will not be
great. it iS•coosiderel that a publication of
the statement famished to you by the Su
perintendent, in Fkbruary, 1838, will suh- 1
stantially comply with the law. YOU will,'
therefore, re-publish that statement Miring
the present month, Cu' the information of the
districts, and inform them that it centains
the amount, to which they arc entitled, of
the two thousand dollars for the present
year.
"I am constrained to urge upon yru the
necessity of furnishing the exact comber at
taxable% in each of the districts in your noun
ty, agreeable to the above recited section,'
as soon as practicable, mid not to delay the'
matter longer than the Ist April. You per
ceive, by the concluding part of the section,
that if this return is not made in time, the
taxable% In the preceeding return are to be
adopted, by which your county will be de
prived, for the year, of the State appropria
tion to the additional taxables in the respec
tive districts, granted by the eleventh sec
lion of the - act of 12th April, 1138, which
makes the amount of the State apprepris
ties equal to one dollar for each taxable cit
iatte."-
FR. R. tiIIUNK.
Superin:endent of School.."
fa compliancz with the foregoing instruc
tions, the following statement of the :talcum
dee the several School Districts at Hunting
don county, for the COMMON SCHOOL year .
11339, is again published na the bails of dis
tribution of State apprcpriatton to the said
districts for the school year MO, anti which
will form the data, upon which the Districts
must assess their respective school tax, tar
the costing year.
VIZ:
Allegheny -
Antes -
Dares
Cromwell -
Dublin -
Franklin -
Frankstown- 350,45
•
Henderson -- - 168,32
Huntingdon - - 161,85
Hopewell - - 121,71
Morris -- - 216,88
Porter - • 162.50
Shirley -138,54
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Springfield . - 127,54
1 ell - - _ . 117,18
Tyrone - - - 142,43
Union -- 281,12
Walker -- 100,35
-
W. Mark - - 211,05
West - 244;07
W uodbury- 574,85
Hollidaysburg - - 192,93
The several assessors within the county of
Huntingdon, are required to make cut their
assessments with a correct return of the
whole number of taxables in each COMMON
SCHOOL tiiett'ict, and re urn the same to the
Commissioners office in the borongb of Hun
tingdon, on Fri:lay the 29th day of March
next, that the comitissirmers may be ena
bled to caw Otto o ff, et the act of the Gen
eral Assembly recited on the foregoin cir
cular. The personal attendance of each of
the Assessors at that time wall be necessary
Attest,
J. ARMITAGE Clk .
Comm's. office, Huntingdon
February 18th, 1839.
POETRY.
English Slavery at iiwaxr, or
the Factory diariho last bay.
The follt,uing is an r xtrnct from the evi
dence given before a Committee of the Bri
tish Hun, Ctmmoos, on the subject of
JJJ iiiii the period of young persons work
ing in the factories.
"There was a girl of a poor man's that I
Was Called to visit; it was poorly; it hail at
tended a mill, and I was obligvet to relieve
the father in the course of my office (that of
assist:tat overseer of the poor,) in conse
quence of the bad health of the child; by
and by, it went back to its work again; and
one clay he came to use with tears in his eyes,
I said, "What is the matter?" He said, 'My
little girl is dead!' I said, 'When did she die?'
He said, 'ln the night; andwhat breaks
my heart is this, she went to the mill in
thy morning, she was not able to•do her
work, and a little boy said he Would assist
her if she would give him a half-penny on
Saturday; I said I would give him a penny;'
but at night when the child went home, per
haps about a quarter of a mile, it fell down
seve: al times on the road through exhaes•
den, till at length it reached its father's
door with dilhculty, and it never• spok a au
dibly afterwards; it divd in the night. I
judged she might be bin years old."
In connection with the above,- we extract
the following pathetic stanzas from 'The
or Sun," (London paper,) of the 6th of
'Twas on a winter morning,
'!'he weather wet and wad;
Three hours before the dawning
The father roused his child,
Her daily morsel bringing,
The darksome room he paced,
And cried, 'The bell is ringing,
My hapless darling haste."
"Father, I'm up, bat weary,
I scarce can reach the door:
And long's the way and dreary,
0 carry me once more!
To help us we've nn mother,
You've no employment nigh.
They killed my little brother,
Like him I'll work—and die,"
Her wasted form seemed nothing,
The !Old was at his heart;
The sufferer he was soothing
at the mill they part.
The overinoker met her,
As to her frame she crept,
Ann with his thong he beat her,
And cured her as she wept.
Alas! what hours of sorrow
Made up her latest day;
Those hours that brought no morrow
Too slowly passed away,
t seetti'd as she grew weaker,
'rile threads the oftener brake,
The rapid wheels ten quicker,
And heavier fell the stroke.
The sun had long descended,
But night brought no repose;
Her nay began and ended,
As cruel tyrants chose.
At length t' a little neighbor
Her half-penny she paid,
To take her last hour's labor,
While by her frame she laid.
M last the engine ceasing,
The captive noweward rush'd,
She thought her strength incrsasing....
'Twat; hope her spirits flushed;
She left, but oft she tarried,
She fell and msr nn mote,
Till by her comrades carried,
She reach'd her father's door.
All night with tortur'd feelings,
Ile watched his speechless
And close beside her kneeling,
She new him not nor smil'd.
Agsin the Factory's ringing,
Her last perceptions tried;
When from straw-bed springing.
'oris time!" she shrieieti and died!
That night a charitt pn,sell her
While on the , ground she lay!
The daughters of her master
An evening visit pay--
Their tender hearts were sighing
As negro wrings were told;
While the white slave was dying,
Who gain'd their father's gnld!
6140,49
191. f '3
- 581,52
136,60
99.70
165,73,
"ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, 03E DESTINT."
A. W. BENEDICT PUBLASITER AND PROPRIETOR.
HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1839.
MISCELL.O.NEOUS.
Extraordinary Angling
Adventure.
A few summers ago 1 was pursuing my
favorite amusement, when I met with the
following ludicrous incident, over the re
cital of which I have since had many a
hearty laugh, in which I have no doubt my
readers will join. The scene of my ad
venture was a small lake in Perthshire,
beautifully situated at the head of a rich
ly wooded glen, and the undulating hills,
which slope down to the water's edge,
are clothed with noble specimens of the
Scotch fir; the reflection of the lofty trees,
the gray rock, and the purple heather, up
on the quiet deep water, gives the pic
ture the cast of the most intense solitude,
and the spirits gradually sink into a state
of melancholy pleasure. It is the recol
lection of wandering amid such scenes as
this, which produces a sort of mania for
fishing which we often see in some anglers,
and surely it is an excusable one where
the imagination can revel on the wonder
ful and stupendous works of our Creator.
I was diligently working the little silvery
front, with which my hook was baited,
when my reflections were disturbed by a
low muttering from the woods behind me,
1 lad not liatened lung before a loud
crashing among the branches warned me
;1,,,',. it was, time to cut: and as a ball is an
uply customer at all times, I seized my
rr;il and dashed for the nearest tree, but a
pike at this moment, not aware of my al
arm followed my example in dashing at the
bait. There was no dine to spare, so let
ting the reel run, with the aid of a little
gymnastics, I established myself on the
first stock of a stout pine, and viewed
with great satisfaction my sava g e blear
eyed foe, just in time to - be too late; he
seemed determined, however, on a block
ade, and kept tearing up the turf, and but
ting his broad forehead against my house
of refuge, giving me a good sample of his
Woody intentions. ISly attention was
quickly called to my aquatic friend, who
was making most wofut depredations on
my line, which fortunately could boast of
nearly three score yards and ten; he had
near! y run it out and it was with joy that 1
saw him throw his huge carcass a couple of
feet under water, with the view of break
ing his bonds by the weight of his fall. I
was prepared for this; and after a few
wild and unruly runs he became much
more tractable. It was out of my power
to come to terms so long as old homey
stood centry below, so I sat very com
fortable playing my fish. •
At this part of the lake the water cov
ers a shallow bank to the depth of a tew
inches. It was here, after in vain seeking
to ease himself of my steel, he made his',
last and grand struggle for liberty. He
took a furious dash, sprung and lolled
about, and at length ran himself aground,
producing an infernal commotion of the
water, which he lashed into foam around
him. It was not long before the bull's
fancy was tickled, and possibly reasoning,
from my earnest attention to the motions
of the pike. that there existed some con
nexion between us, made furiousli at his
new acquaintance. Here commenced
ode of the rarest combats that ever was
fought, but the knight of the water proved
himself more than a match for his lordly
antagonist. However skillful I might be
in playing my fish, 1 could not pretend to
' have soy power over the motions of the
assailant,. but -sat, almost splitting with
laughter, while icy line which was imme
diately broken, was twisted around the
horns and legs of the bull, who was going
right and left into the stranded fish, who
was, notwithstanding, scarcely hurt, as
nothing very effectual could be done
against his scaly sides, while every now
and then he would turn to pin his enemy.
An opportunity was not long in occuring,
and his long
,jaws and hooked teeth were
firmly fixed in the nether lip of the ensu
red and terrified animal, who bounded
along the shore tossing his head and
using every effort to get rid of his tor
mentor; but it was all in vain, his rage
and violence were equally useless.
I was quickly on terra firma, and leas,-
' ing my rod, dashed on in pursuit, in which
I was joined b y two herdsmen and their
dogs, who had come up on hearing the
. noise. What is coursing, what is fox hun
ting, what is any chase that can be named,
in comparison with the sport we were en
gaged in? There was the bull tearing on,
,tail erect, bellowing with pain, and three
dogs keeping up with him, and every now ,
and then venturing a spring at his nostrils, '
or at the dead and tern fish, which still •
appended to him, his grasp in death as'
deadly as in life. This however could
not last lens, and the poor bull, complete
ly exhausted, sank down, vanquished hy •
a dead fish! The dogs were taken off
him, as likewise the remainder of my
A.
ike which could have been little short of
,be
pounds, and it was so torn, as. to
,be fit only for the dogs, who did not, how-
ever, seem to relish it. The herdsmen
were much amused with the recital of my
adventure, and assured me the hull would
quickly recover from the effects of his
spree, and such another I hardly chink he
would wish to he engaged in.—Manx,
Isle of Man, Liberal.
The Pawn Broker.
Visiting the Pawn Broker's shop in
Chatham street, for the purpose of re
deeming some articles left by an unfor
tunate friend, the following circumstance
arrested my attention:—
A middle aged man, entered with a
bundle, on • which he asked a small ad
vance, and which, on being opened, was
found to contain a shawl, and two or three
other articles at female apparel. The
man was stout and sturdy, and as I
judged from his appearance, a mechanic
—but the mark of the destroyer was on
his bloated countenance, and his heavy
stupid eyes. Intemperance had marked
him for his own. The pawn broker was
yet examining the offered pledge. when a
•voinan, whose pale face and attenuated
form bespoke long intimate acquaintance
with sorrow, calve hastily into the shop,
and with the single exclamation, "Oh
Robert!" darted rather than run, to that
parkof the counter where the man was
standing. Words were not wanted to I
explain her story—her miserable husband
not satisfied with wasting his own earnin,, ,, s
and leaving her to starve with her clul•
dren, had descended to the weariness of!
plundering even her scanty wardrobe,
and the pittance, for obtaining of which
this robbery would furnish means, was
destined to be squandered at the tippling
honk. A blush of shame arose even
upon his degraded fitce— but it quickly
passed away—the brutal appet!te prevail
ed, And the better feeling that haul appa
rently stirred within him for the moment,
Bann gave way before its diseased and in
aatiated cravings.
‘Go home,' was his harsh and angry ex
clartMtion, 'what brings you.here, running
lafter me with your everlasting scolding?
Go home and mind your own siness.'
'Oh Robert, dear Robert,' answered the
unhappy wife, 'don't pawn my shawl.-^.
Our children are crying for bread, and I
have none to give them. Oh let me have
the money; it is hard to part with •that
shawl, for it was my mother's gift; but I
will let it go rather than see my children
starve. Give me the money, Robert, and
don't leave us to perish.'
I watched the face of the pawn broker,
to see what effect this appeal would have
upon him, but I watch.-d in vain. He
was hardened to distress and had no sym
pathy to throw away. 'Twelve shilling
on these,' tossing them back to the droll. ,
hard, with a look of perfect indifference,
'Only twelve .shillingsr murmured the
heart broken wife, in a tone of despair.—
'Oh Robert don't let them go for 12 shit•
lings. Let me try some where the.'
Nonsense, answered the brute. 'lt is
as much as they're worth I suppose. Here
Mr. Crimp, give us the change.'
The money was placed before him, and
the bundle consigned to a drawer. The
woman reached forth her hand towards
the silver, but the movement wns anticipa
ted by her husband, 'There, Mary,' he
said, giving her half a dollar, 'there, go
home row and don't make a fuss. I'm
going a little way up street and perhaps
I'll bring you something from market
when, I come home'
. The hopeless lodk of the poor wdman,
as she meekly turned to the door, told
plainly enough how little she trusted to
this ambiguous promise. They went On
their wayshe to her famishing children,
and he to squander the dollar hehad re
tained for rum! —Scenea from Real Life.
The Impudent Bride.
Not long since, in Liverpool, as a cou
ple were going to be married, anal had
proceeded as far as the church yard gate,
the gentleman: stopped his lair comrade
with the following unexpected address:
"Mary, during our courtship ; I told
you most of my mind, but not nll of any
mind; when we are married I shall insist
upon three things."
"What are they?" asked the astonished
lady.
"In the first place,' said he, "I shall
lie alone; second, I shall eat alone; third
ly, I shall find fault with you when there
is no occasion for it. Can you submit to
these conditions?"
"Oh yes sir, very easily' she replied,
"fur if you lie alone, I shall not; if you
eat alone. I shall eat first; and as to your
finding fault without occasion, that, I think
may be prevented . , for I shall take care,
that you never want an occasion.
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The Mechanic)* Children.
Let a group of children be gathered at,
a school or play ground, whether they be
rich or poor, gentle or simple, they will
coalesce so as to realize the most com
plete levelling theory. If this is true of
the very poor, how much more apparent is
it, when the comparison takes in ttte off
spring of the well doing mechanic. Chil
dren, take them one with another, are
beautiful creatures--at least in America,
-nay all the world over. Sir Joshua
Reynolds has observed that children, un
til mistaught, always throw their limbs
into graceful attitudes. I trouble myself
very little, when I meet a rosy, ingeni
ous, clean, and happy child, with the in
quiry whether it be aristocratic or a ple
beian in its origin. John Randolph, of
Roanoke, was in the habit of alluding to
certain families, as having no ancestral
portraits. Now I questicn whether the
guest orator would not have given Rushy
Forest, or even Roanoke, for a pair of
boys, It is better to have fruit on the
limbs, than ever so many dead roots under
ground. A cluster of merry, healthy
boys and girls, is better than a family
crest, or old plate, or faded pictures, or a
genealogical tree, or the pitiful pride of
penniless grandeur. These olive tr :inch
es around one's table atThrd good presum
tion of a certain degree of health end
virtue; and are just what the patricisns of
I lordly Britian often sigh for in vain. Ev
ery now and then some great family goes
out like a dying lait:p, with an impotent
conclusion. Blessvi! are those poor men
who are rich in children, such as 1 ti.e.mi
I plead guilty to the charge tg !;ving at
the center of it very narrow aliey, with a
somewhat ignoble name. My window
looks upon this humble avenue, which is
properly a cads-sec. - At a certain hour
of every day it is filled with boys and
girls; for :it the further end of it there is a
"madam's school." My writing is ever
and anon interrupted Its. the joyous lati;rli
or the scream of ecstaey from these romp
ing creatures; I seldom fail to look oat, 1
and am generally as long nibbing my pen
at the window, as they ail: in their
irregular procession through the inns.—
True, they have polled a board off air gar
den fence, and foraged most naughtily
among toy gooseberries; but whit of that?
I have many a time paid a heavier tar tor
'a less pretty sight. They are happy; so
ant I, while I look at them.
Surely nothing can be more graceful Or!
attractive than the lawn•like girl, not yet I
in her teens, not yet seduced into the bold
coquetry ar.d flirting display of the "young
miss." Whose children ate these/ The 1
children of mechanics, almost without
exception. Call it not pride in the anx
ious mother, that she decks these little
ones in the cleanliest, fairest product of
her needle, and shows oft' with innocent )
complacency the chubby face or slender'
ankle; call it not pride, but lore. The
1 mechanic's wife has a heart; and over the
cradle, Which she keeps in motion while
she plies her task, she sometimes wanders
in musing which needs the aid of poesy to'
represent it. She feels that she is en
American mother; she knows her boy not
only muy but most have opportunities of
advancement far superior to those of his
parents. She blushes in forethought to
imagine him illiterate and unpolished when
shall come to wealth, and therefore she
denies herself that she may send:him to
school.
What a security Provdenee has given
us fur the next race of men,•in the gush ,
ing fullness of that pernettml spring—a
mother's heart I Iss id was proud of our
American wives; I am ready to kneel in
tears of thankfulness for our Arnerican
mothers.
But let me get Una from the mothers{
to the children. Ou r future electors, and'
jurymen, and judges, and magistrates,
are the urchins who are now shouting and
leaping around a thousand shops and:
schoolhouses. Shall their parents live in
disregard of the duty they owe these bud-
ding minds? I am halt disposed to On
dertAke a sort of lectureship, from house
to house, in order to persuade thes?, halt
ers and mothers that, with all their affec
tion, they are not sufficivntly in earnest
in making the most of their children.
would talk somehow in this way. "My
good sir, or madam, n ew old is that boy?
Very well, he is well grown f,u his age,
and I hope you are keeping mind that he
will live in a different world from that in
which you gild I live. Bring him erp ac
cordingly.
"Lay upon him very early the gentle
yoke of discipline. Guard him from
evil companions. save him from ittleoess
which is the muck heap in which every
rank, noisome weed of vire grows up.
Put work into his hands, and make it his
• pleasure. Make hint love home; and by
all means encourage him to lova his pa
rents better than all other human beings.
Allow me to beg that you will not WI us
to the absurd cant which some people ,
.
parrot hire, catch and Salo, against boo k
VoL. IV, No. 21
learning. Deter mine that this fellow sha
know more than ever you bays known;
then he will be ari honor to your decli
ning years. Keep him at a good schoul;
reward him ‘%itts good books; and lie will
one day bless you for it. I know men in
our legislature, who 'were brought up to
hard work, and are note very rich; but
they cannot utter a single sentence with
out disgracing themselves by some vulgar
otpression or .nme blunder in . gratunlr.
They know this, but have fouad it out too
late. They feel that their influence il on
ly half what it might have been, if their
parents had only taken pains to have
them well taught. Now look ahead, and
give your child that post of Tortoise which
no reverse in trade can take away.
It is a great and prevalent error, that
children may be left to run Wild in ever , /
sort of street temptation for several years
and that it will then be time enough. to
break them in. This horrit mistake
makes half our spendthrifts, gatnblers,
thieves, and drunkards. No man would
deal so with his garden or lot; nu man
would raise a colt or a puppy on stick a
principle.. Take notice, parents unlcgs
you till the new sail, and throw in goal
seed, the devil will have a crop of poison
weeds before you ;now w!iat is takin., ,
place. Look at yoar d , :zr and
think whether you ail( leave his safety or
rum at he zard.—..Anterican Mechanic.
_Dian - Of a 'Tree Drinfter.
Monday iliaeriag.—Reniy believe I
was drunk yesterosy, although it wee due
day, li ife asked no to accompany her
to ' church—l declined—weather top fire
Gr one to be hoaxed up. Welked net,
every thing dull —.Sunday always dull in
St. Louis, No literary circle ii ere; all ie.
business, drinking or church goinr. Met
shirr acquaintances, i who invitednelille;
Leese "to take something." Four of n 3.
lied to drink four times round of conne•i
or it would have looked illiberal. Cot
quite talkative. and said game ver y KA.-
tsh things tiiat I thought very witty, New
coat etedeo fly-. - ...eh tablr,..thri,,ghs.ll,,
efforts or a genileman -loafer, -to convev
to his mouth a reeking piece of tried 4';ti.-
lists ! Really believe fewof these gentry
have boarding houses or "meal' niere
than once a dr v• Titeir voracity iSal-
I must inconceivable! kl ent home mueley;
liquor could not have been good. Wife
looked grieved, but endeavored to con
ceal her feelings.=-had rather been sek ,
tied it once—but .she never ;will scold!
Couldn't eat any dinner; appetite gone.
i Get up in the morniug with a brad ache:
and parched mouth; walked down to the
—collbe house, ow! was soon in a fair
way of feeling better. • If ent home late;
dont know exactly what time, or how I
got there. lint must have been in: the
gutter! muddy; evidently ge utter nett&
it ife brushed i t, and sieheti; don't think
I'll get drunk today; it is a beastly prac
tice. Always hate to see men drunk,
!lad better go to church with wife yester
day. Would have saved my creditand
her feelings. Hand trembles —must go.
out and take something to steady it. _
niesday Morning.—Aiost how vain
are the resolutions of those who have the
talons of the fiend upon them! is there
any escape? I know not! Tried to keep
sober all yeetertlay, but did not succeed;
have been -.cut" by' several respectable
persons, who do not care tube seen its
company with a drunkard. Quarrelled
last night at • hoase; but it was not.
my fault, 1 was insulted. Mr.--had
the assurance to refuse drinking with me
on the pretext that I had already drank
too much. Was'et drunk them,"l know;
had'nt drank more than !twenty lime
during the whole day. Went to— , - e -bil ,
liardrooni, sae , twit pool players 114(61)g- -
five hundred chillers a side, Olk the Amine
of a single ball? Sat down, and tried to
moralize upon the follies of Mankind; it
would'nt do; could'nt arrange nay ideas:
Amused myself .for some time, by soen ,
ring a group of players on the opposite
solo of the room. With the aid of both
eyes, I counted ten; with one only. I
could only make out live. Quite a ration
al and interesting amusement. Fell a..-
sleep at length, however, and was woke
up by the proprietor of the house. after
some hours repose. Felt'•somee.hat re-
treshed and made out lego home. Feel
very thirsty this morning. Have been
under the necessity of taking sonie stem
-1 Woe before breakfast. This is a very lied
habit. It. soon bloats a moan; never known
it to fail. Liquor formerly sickened toy
, stomach; it don't have that abet any inure
, a bed omen. 'Re poison has taken root
.1 (lave important business to nctend to, .o
day, and feel ashamed to look any decent
titan in the face! Must team, that's
certain.- -Si. Louis Bulletin.
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The differenca ty.tilieen the tutor man
and the rich is, that the poor walks to get
meat for his stomach, the rich a stomach
for his meat.