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On yonder shore, on yunde shore,
Now ardent with the dept of shade,
Beneath the white-armed s).•amore,
There is a little infant hill].
Forgive this tear—a mothe - I,sceps--
'Tis there the faded flower 'ceps.
. -
She sleeps alone, she sleeps lone,
And 611 . 1111111W8 forest u'efilier-ave;
And sighing studs at autupin moan
. Around the little strange ifs grave,
As though they murmured fit the tate
Of one so lone and desulatei
ilii sounds that seem like S4rrow's own,
Their funeral dirges taiiilly creep;
Then deep'ning to ariaorgal tone,
In all their solemn coder ce sweep.
And pour, unheard, along e w0d,,.,
I
Their desert anthem o'er a had'.
she came, and passed. C I forget,
How we whose hearts h• hailed her birth,
Ere three autumnal suns h'd art,
Consigned her to her mo er Earth !
Loy..s.and . their memories p s's away;
t
We laid her in a narrow 41,
We heaped the suit inouon her breast,
t „ri r „,..,,, rs..se. , like ear drops, fell
U pen her lonely place ui its,.
may hey bless
\lay angels guard it
-1
filer slumbers in the wilder. cm. '
She sleeps_alune, she sleepri alone;
For, all unheard, on yonier shore,
The sweeping flood, with t. rrent moan,
.At e7enirig lifts its solem roar,
As, in one broad, eternal ti. e,
The rolling waters onward glide.
There is no marble monur ent,
There is no stone with seen lie,
To tell of love and virtue. Mint
,In one almost too gowi . die.
We need no such useless t ice
"I'u point us to her resting lace.
She sleeps alone, she slee 11=1
But amidst the tears an( April showers,
The Genius of the Wild *h strnwn
His germs of fruit, los litire. , :t flowers,
And east his robe of vernal bloom,
du guardian fondness u'ec•ihe tomb.
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She sleeps alone, she sleet+ alone,
But yearly to her grave lur t , dressed,
i
And still the sunirfiervine are thrown,
In flannel wreathe sera.l s 'her breast;
And still the sighing auto , n grieves,
And strews the hallowed N ,I it 18 ith leaves
EUROPEANIN*LLIGENCE
The recent arrivals CriMS Europe have brought
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nothing of interest. We [give below some ex•
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tracts from old files, lich we hope t i 'v be THE. FO .. R
n TIIRL.
Visi.g to r e Wreck.
flood entertaining. Th visit to the wrec/or ' “We have this - -i-eek aid a visit to the wreck.
the Forfarshire steamer, and the incidentit,/con• I which is lying in much he same state as it was.
netted with the herpinel Grace *Darling, have only somewhat more utted by the occasional d
4 dashing of the billows nmangst its timber an
quite an air of romance cached to them.
Doncaster Cup for 183 I planks. Upon this occitsion, owing t? the low
1— fhe.''Doneaster S.ll. ,
nide, the extent Mille ro k was much more con.
'ter Cup, won by Lord•Ch sterfield's Don John at
,spictous than before. The sta r board sine of the
the late St. Leger is as bl.iautiful in conception, .
ill•fated vessel lies chocllyyup against a sort of shell
as it is splendid in exec- non. 'I t' consists of a
of the rock;the deck sl holy inchniag. When
magnificent bowl, supported liy the stem of an
she went, in two here, th sea, of course, instantly
oak, the branches and foliage of which spread in
rushed into her engine m, whichi was then es•
wild luxuriance to sustain the seperincumbent e,p6
sad, at the end Wherh the breach
.had taken
•weight, Beneath the howl, and surrounding th
plae'e.., to all the fury o the raging billows; the .
true, is a group of stock, • comprising a sire and
tore-cabin, situated bey d the engine -room, was
two dams, with their foal . modelled from nature,
soon laid open also arid tilted of all its furnittire
in a style of accuracy i ighly creditable to the
snd fittings. Here it was that the poor woman
artist. The tree, its brahehes and foliage, with
Mrs. Dawson and her two children %ere cur
the jock beneath, are esectited in frosted silver,
rounded by the merciless element; They were
and have a pleasing effeet, when•contrasted,with
lyin on the flour, it is Aieved, the anxious mo.
the polished surface of . the Cope • The n•hole
ther g
clasping' a child i each arm,,when the bil
sten& on the pedestati with entablatures, on
lows broke through th frail partition that nos Stewards, (The DUKE OF
which are engraved on ohe side the names of the
atone sheltered them tom .their fury fiercely
tLEVELAND and Ctiaiti.es
struck them, over 'and non, with its briny surge,
C. F. GaRVILLE, Esq.,) arid 014 the other •'Dowcss
and at length destroys , first one, and then the
TEE Races, 1d38." Thel weight is 500 ounccit, other, of the children, i the arms 451 their agon
and the height nearly t m feet six -inches—the other,
parent, whom it h d very , nearly consigned
width in - proportion. he real. vahie is 450
to a similar fate. One f the bodies of the child
guineas.
ran, it will be remem ed, was washed out of its
Fire.—The large Cotton fadtory or Me a. Cart- I mother's arms, and foilnd amongst ,the floating
aright, at Wigan hasla en burced_ ;-1 ss esti- wreck; the other she still retained in her grasp,
mated at ten thousand p unds. • trout taken up to a place of comparative safety
Height of Mountains.— he highest mountains in upon a rock. The oost striking object in the
Ireland, are Gurrancc ' cal in Berry . 3,404 feet,' wreck is the mass 04 machinery. Cyilnders,
,
Brandon 3,120; Lomombill in Wicklow $,029, piston!, tubes, pump —the whole engine, in
and Gualtarnere in Tippeary 3,008. short, with a ll aPPhaner and means to boot, there
Agriators.—Lord Ebsiingftan for the Whigs., Iles
.Mr. Oastler for the Tomes; Mr. Atwood li,r the 1
radicals, and O'Conneln - Ireland constitete a
quartette of worthies.
. The Joker 'taken in.
knight of the thimble,
went into a draper's slit
purpose of purchasing
The shopman. feeling a
thought there could be
,ton, for trying his hand
me a piece of 'scarlet
A peace of purple was qt
tan';scarlet," said the
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I w ELL: TA C H THU, TOP lERC THE 10W zuktwer It &ATI' AND t OCT 1 , 101111 THECAVZIfft HIPTHZ .CHTATHIRIKETAZA.
do as welt," was the reply.
The knight of the counter, a
down a green. "Now, do y
in a-hall angry trine, said lb
ticnce, and IT show yoq on
saw;" at the same layi
the heat superfine bbiek. " '
f , aid,the than of brncoli, ••bu
it !" ^Smells :" sal
yard.gtick, putting his n.
This was the mimen't fur th
hi! tort of the joke; eck, lay
filopman's rare, home hie
on the counter es nose neve
tal stream (as doctors and
most copiously
, 9ver the c
scarlet—that's sca4et, you
tailor, as hetook his exit ;
wit to ruminate upon his m,
cloth, and his own unimp
Greenwich Ga-zette
The Wandering Piper,
Ayr in Scotland.
nallooning.—ln Mr. Gr
second experimental trip in
Mr. Rush, he states that tl
tamed •was 27.146 feet, w ll
altitude or any known m.
The thermometer fell to
freezing point, and the n 4 stmettitr 'to 11 inches.
Mr. Green experienced gtt ~.. difficulty in breath.
mg, but he attributes it principally to the great
exertions he Wes obliged td make in the ascent;
M. Rush, he says kit ni inconvenience nrhit
respiration.. .
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The Nassau Balldon ade another ascent,
when it carried into the r glom; of air the Vito
count Drumlasirig of the .7' cond Life guards, and
another Officer of tite aan. regiment. The comb
pany in the cur Also numtiered Mr. Pole, the aut
I hor ; NI rears. Richard undrrhomas Hughes ; Mr:
Spencer, Mr. Green. and, iiif course, the aeronaut
himself. The. ascent was'one of the most beau
tiful we ever witnessed.
Mr. Roebuck —A servic
has been I,n...wilted Mr. It(
his political admirers.'.
Spa ie.— The. Cleopatra
South America tsfation, an
i the 28th of September, wit
larg for tnerclianl.' necoun
Mayor of . London.—Al. erman Wilson, citizen
and weaver;lias been eke •d Lord Mayor of Lon
ii
don for the ensuing yea : In his address of
thanks he said the livery ed found it ii very die ! .
ficult matter to pronounce What his politick were,
and he hoped that at the end of the year they
would have the same difficlulty. -
The British paelio Linitet arrived at Fal.nouth,
September 26, from Metro, with
. a million of
dollara.
.
Effect of Railway Troielling,—mr. Mori, to.
r„thi-crite,tvi'l.mitepte-P, , i',Vit d &W.,-A ll r- r l l 4
day at Birmingham ; the 'allowing evening they
' lei-formed in Manchei.tert: on Wednesday elicit
day another in Nliachest r; nest evening anoth
er in Liverpool; SIM •on Saturday they gave a
second concert in Btrman ham. They have thdii,
visited the•two great tow sin the north-of Eng
land, and the capital o the midland counties,
twice in Liz days, and iernaincd two nights in
each town, during a space, of time nearly one. half
of which, under the of system of travelling,
would have been alone c4isumed on the road. -
ME blond Society = Aril unprecedentedly large
meeting or the High-laud t Society heti been held
at Ghpignw. At the ciir se orthe preceedings,
- o f dov• - dr
Af few days since, a
r iTunbridge
eccentric
eh a t r o a r ,
t c i z e ,
prime of scarlet cloth.
title disposed foi a joke,
,Ater subject, or occa
. at one. "eau you show
loth ?" said the tailor
Ott produced. 'That..
tuilor. "Oh ! but it will
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Show me 'scarlet."
• .in a twitier, pulled
call that scarlet.?"
tailor. "Have pa
ol the best you ever
down a piece of
es, it is very good,"
mercy on us, how
the knight of the ,
e close down to it.
tailor to commence
ng hold of the poor
',use such stmping,
had before—the Nil.
•ts call it.) flow ing
oth. • "There. that's
lockhead," said the
aving the astonished
.ster's soiled broad
vcd nasal, organ.—
as last heard or at!
en's narrative of
the Nassau balloon i i
e, extreme height atx
[eh is higher than thei
untain in the world!
i '7 degrees below the
aplate, confine £350
flebtick, late M. P., by
loop of war, from" thn
T,'ed at Portainouth on
tw•o millions of dal.
ns and wild heap."ar
"One gloriiins ch'
a every mark of having
emote, end . the fallen pa
rcmind one of the proe.
I. recian temple. Another
{ as the fiforehead—a full
figure. glided, which with
ling mie n , yet Mood gaily
ruin and desolation. It
.. - le a lam rook of the airy
ed aloft :Waving her out
Iwreck belOwt and the et.
i sing. . .
The machinery bea
been of first-rate menu'
lore and archea sneer I
trate ruins of,,some t
object of attraction •
length sylph like, fomal
way ing hand and a 11111
erect amid the scene .-
r) s
wa twilight when we
and hmirieform, per .-
stre hed liand over th
feet was extremely im.
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Visit to the EoSgstonit Lighthou e[.
"It was a beautiful iitattet. when `Wie Were at
the wreck. The last gleant of goldmi - tint had
faded away, and night was. gradually- closing in
epic] us when we quitted the rock.
..,We 'could
not find in our hearts to leave the !pot, late
though it wee, without visiting, weratt but forte
moment, the Longetnne LighthoUre,' to pay our
respect to thaparlings, whose humanlend gallant
Conduct in putting off to the rescue Of the survi
vors on the wreck, at ,the imminent peril of their
lives, has already been described. Old Darling
was waiting off in his beat, to take the carpenter
to his island. We all went together; and, As we
approached the Lighthouse, the herniae, Grace
Darling hereelf was deserted high aloft, lightning
the lamps whose revolving illummatioil has warn.
ed so many an anxious mariner of the rocks and
shoale around. At the side where we alighted
a bold cliff is to be ascended ere you reach the
Lighthouse. Having gained its senorita, we.
were soon at the door of the hospitable tower, and'
received a hearty welcome from old Mrs. Dar
ling Rind her dauntless daughter. But Grace is
noth4ng masculine in her appearance, although
she has so stoat a heart: In person she is about
the middle size—of a comely countena.•re—raih
er fair for so islander—and with an expression
of beneielence and softness moat truly feminine
in every point of view. When: we spoke of her
noble and heroic conduct, she blightly
and appeared anxious to avoid the notiet; which
eipoaed her; she smiled at our praise, bu said
nothing in reply—though her look the whl in.
dicated forcibly that the eonciousness of ha ing
done so good and generous an action had not it
ed to excite a thrill, of pleasure in he;. b m,
which was itself no mean reward."
.• Her conscious heart of charity was warm :^
'•W hen the nine wreched.eurvivors were taken
Wl' the wreck by old 'Darling end. RI I! heroic
daughter, they were conveyed dt once to the
Lighthouse, which was in fact their only place of
refuge at this (line;ank, owing to the violent seas,
that continued to prevail among the islands, they
wcie obliged to remain theie from Friday morn:
ing till Sunday. The boat's crew that came off
to their relict from North Sunderland wete also
obliged to remain. This made a party of nearly
20 permns at the Lighthouse, in addition to its
usual inmates; and such an unprepared for acne&
sion could not occasion considerable inconveni
ence: But the Darlings have too uiuch of the
human kindness about them to. be ea l tlAput out
of their way under any such circumstances:
Grace, characteristically enough, gave up he
'Au&
And btris the (dream at -hope reflow
That languiah'd m the fainting heart."
The situation of Grace Darling is a peculiar
one fir a young female, and one which we sus. '
pert, very few ofher sex would envy. Living on
a lonely spot in the middle of the ocean, amidst
the wildest war of the elements—with the hor
rors of the tempest familiarized to her mind and
her constant lulaby the sound of the everlasting
deep and the shriek of the" wild spreading ocean
with the distant sail on the horizon—she is thus
removed far front the active scenes of life, and
debarred. sate at distant intervals, from any com
munication with her own sex, and from all therse
Innocent enjoyments of society and companion.
ship - .which, as a female, must be an dear to her.
And these are circumstances which go a long
way to enhance the admiration due to I.er gener
osity and heroism; for it is well known that the
natural effect of solitude and seclusion is to dead•
en all the kindlier feelings of human nature; and,
of solitude amongst the most awful scenes of tem.
pest and gloom, to imbue the breast with a por
tion of their own saysge character: And yet a-
midst all these adverse circumstances do we find
her evincing a depth of feeling and a noblenelia of
soul which we might look for in vain amongst
many of those of either sex who are pampered in
the lap of luxury and surrounded with every
blessing which wealth, ease, and noreatrained
freedom can bestow."—[Dundee Adv.]
MARSHALL NEY
At the battle of Borodino, or as the French
call it, of the. Moskva, the most. sanguninary in
modern times, the braii' est of the brave surpassed
himself, and nobly earned the princely title with
which his princely master rewarded him on the
field. But the most valuable service he ever ren
dered France, was in the deplorable retreat from
Moscow. His station was in the rear—the poet
of danger and of honor—and he was the chief if
not ( excepting Napoleon himself )'the, only. hope
of the troops. .In the story of the flight, for
anch it was, every thing is so wonderful that pos.
terity would disbelieve the detailirlf one contem
porary voice bad been raised against them.—
That with a handful of worn-out fonowers, desti
tute °revery necessary, he - should repel the as
saults and arrest the progress of unfired, well
provided, and countless legions ; that, while his
heroic little- band was daily diminished by bun.
ger, cold, and lassitude, he should yet bid deft.
ante to the whole Russian host ; in a word, that
Noy's desperate valor should have secured the n.
arape of any remnant of thes:and army must ev
er command the astonishm 'nt of the world. -
At' one Cline, after leaving Kraenoi the whole
:Russian army lay 'between him and Napoleon,-
but, though he had only' three thousand inen,.he
resolved:to cut his-way „through the intervening
leg;ons„ ;When summoned by Miloradovitch to
capitulate, 4 rnarshal of France never annelid
era!" was his on reply, as he fearlessly led his
d compani against the destructive bat
teries the mine- He then mad a circuit at
midnight - to c banks of the Dnieper, which lie
crossed on the blocks of ice, in spite of all oppo.
vition, gnd finally, with fifteen • hundred men,
joined the emperor., Well might Napoleon be
unable Co find language sufficient to express his
admiration of the hero :.'What a man what a
soldier ! what 4 vigorous chief !" While he still
feared that the marshal had fallen into the hands
Rossiaits. l he arod ti
Also three roilltoos of
,tit joy .nsy pe well col
id receised hia em
wards the gear)
deck of this of
Irezas. 1
ted bet.
Limo di
hoe
BOW.
returnel
had soon a
of saving tb
the passage of the
100 need not be re.
observe that on no occ j
brave exhibit more in,
valor. Five horses were
garments were pierced with
son was disfigured ,with bloo
would have couitineed the co
life remained, had he not be
field by the_ dense and resist
fugitives.-.:4l,turray's Family
A Shrew& Remark.—A iend, who Oppose ,
the amendnients, ip conversi.g upon the isubject
this morning, remarked, the dill Constitution was
an excellent one s and that he id not consider the
amount of patronage in the r overnor'a hinds ob.
jectionable so long as we el•eted honest men.—
He added, however, that slow "thelparq"
have boldly assumed the ground. that the people
have nothing to do with the private character of
a candidate for the Guberni torial chair( it was
wise and proper to take an appointments out of
the Governor's hands.—Pitisbuig Gazette.
"Lcres/WiPe.."—IVIT. Colt
tural Address last week, ill;
modern fashionable female .
ecdote.—A young man who
remained In that useless' st
'half pair of scissors,' at last
he would procure him a WI
sal' of one, who was beau
accomplished, and look her
Soon learning that she kne
to darn a stock lug or boil a
of beet he returned her to
ems useful- purpose; she u
Northampton Courier.
Serious Affair ;.—A contekt arose on Friday nt
Chesnut street wharf, which, we regret to hear, is
likely to melt in the death of one of the parties.
Mr. Bowman, the agen •of the Philadelphia.
Wilmington, and Balumor Rail Road Line, met
Mr. Van ''Bergen, an ag u e n for the Philadelphia,
New Castle. and !Baltimor Steam Boat Line on -
Isciarktho fctry boat that' lies from the foot of
passeo,,:tittmt to Camden on the arrival of the
with a viAP 94/ ;Nove..Yl4; , ialha maulipzlim.
in their tespective lines:, Some dispute arose
between 'Thum, which caused Mr. - Bowman to
strike, or strike at, Mr. Van Bergen witn his
canc.—The latter seizeii the cane in his hand.
and drew oil the lower pall, which had sorred as
a sheath to a sword. We 'understand that there
was some attempt on the part of the captain of
the boat and others to separate them, but before
this was accomplished; Mr: Bowman's sword was
passed through the breai of Mr. Van Bergen.
The latter wee eonveye into a neighboring
house, and surgical aide led.
Mr., Bowman is in the ,handa of the police.—
; U. S. Gazelle.
We understand that gr. Van Burgen dicd
yekerday afternoon.
SELECT TALE.
TIT E EXTR AI
From Dr. Bird'smori:,"Peter Pilgrim."
AMONG the numberless tyrants*, in and
out of office, who rella the sovereign A
merican people with rods of iron, none can
Compare—whether it respects the despot
ic rigour of their rule{ or the patient sub
missiveness or their iMbjects—with their
high naightinesses, the•innkeepers. Steam
boat captains. and stage proprietors may,
in their vanity, contest with them the
claim to superiority in power, and, indeed,
l
the undoubted privileges both these class
es possess to maim d kill their custom•
era at will, would see to put them at the
1: 1 0
head of the powerful but no honest, dis
.interested man who ill! consider all the
circumstances, the wer of the lordly
Boniface over the c mfort ofhis lodgers,
and the uniform dep tram of his rule, can
hesitate to award the palm to their rivals.
In other lauds, cir.- Instances have de
graded the lords of t 0 spigot into a con
dition of subservienc : and vasselage to so
ciety ; and they are i• , 'tingly regarded,
and, incredible as it i ay appear, they e
ven regard themselv:s as the servants of
the publick. Here, n this happy repub
lick, where all are ree but the people,
they have assumed • heir proper attitude,
as masters of their • • trona, whom they
rule with aetocratick severity, grievous to
behold and lamenta•le to suffer. • High
and low,
,the prince of metropolitan ho
tels and the 'kings o t the log-cabin tavern
on the wayside, the know their power,
and exercise it. Th • metropolitan poten
tates, indeed, somet mes affect a certain
citizen-kinglike hum ity, and govern with
decency and suavity while it maybe ob.
served . of the others, their compeers; that
the lower you
,de= s• nd in rank among
them, the more say::: and irrespective be
comes their tyrann . -Thus, -with the
lord of your town nn, you may some
times venture upon a little complaint of
the cook and cha • : rmaid, widreaut a fear
• of being knocked do a for impertinence ;
and, somet imes , in : village hotel, ,you
may prefer -a little expostulation on the
subject of horse-rue: t atitl , clean sheets,
without 'the absolut , certainty of ,being
turned out into the a reets.. But even here
- I 1.
we matt 'ant expect always to find our dig
nitaries in a good humor. The passim:.
sion of power is a constant provocative to
the exercise of it ; and we know not when
the monarch may put on his robes of state,
and shake his sceptre of authority. It is
but a little while, as •every body knows,
h b vboli
,
' l f t tio would WO
ranca for till rad
ceived when Ney,
brace, The latter
undivided, honor
ce mighty twat at
L he sttuy of Water
•.. We shall only
the braves of the ,
though hibpeless
.t .under hiM ; hi:
Ils ; his whale per
and! mud. yet he
:. test on • foot while
: a forced (into the
leas colummi al the
Library.. , •
lan; in his Agricul.
strated the' folly of
.ocation, by an a
had for a long w le
designat y a
seriously det ruffled
He got 'e..refu
"ful and asitionable :
pon trli to his home.
no mg either how
p moor roast a bit
r father's house, as
balance and found
ienced by the good
that she was not
General, your doctor, your Reverend, your
Honorable? - You are, sir, his customer
—a suitor fur - .meat and drink, which he
graciously vouchsafes you, Calt.ng no con-
sideration therefor, except a certain num
ber of ninepencos, or half dollars, togeth
er with a due addition of reverence natu
rally belonging to the master of the house
that shelters you. His house, though ev
ery chamber be' reeking with mud and
rain, is his house, and if you don't like it;
you may leave it ; his beds', th , ugh forty
human souls, with boots on, may have
-nestled betwixt theunchnozed sheets, do
ing battle all night with incubus and Sue
cube, in the shape of those strange bedfel
lows with which misery makes us acquaint
ed, have harboured your betters, and why
therefore should you .prestuno- to grum-
so the obligation to
, binding. The jury
lam but be would
than to be liberated
,agement. 'AR well
tginal Venue de Me•
said the orator, •aa
le women.—lndeed,
much better to have
or she might angwer
tight fait Nis b-acon.
ble ? His table, pkn i ifulty cit sparely
covered as the case may be. with uneata
ble eatables—coffee Made, or seeming to
be made, of burnt blankets, sodden bread,
stale bacon and palpitating chickens, grea
sy potatoes and withered turnip•tops —is.
the table that contents him, and if you
don't like it you may go—to a place en
tirely unmentionable.
Truly . , your republican innkeeper is
find him, sometimes a very amiable per
sonage, as great men sometimes will be;
but take heed you trifle not with . his ami
ableness ; for, verily, he is not a person to
"be trifled with by any rabblement travel
ler, for whom he does not, care the snap
of his independent fingers— no, not he.
In truth, the common country tavern
keepers—those especially in new regions,
or at a distance from the great towns—
are, for the most part, mere farmers, who
have been driven by sheer necessity ( nor
poverty ) to open their houses
,lb the pub
lick. In very few parts of the land is the
country densely enough settled, and the
travelling sufficiently great, to support
lines of taverns along the roads at conve
nient distances. The farmer must hang
out the bush and play the landlord, or.be
eaten up by his hospitally. He knows
nothing of cooking or housekeeping be
yond what he has been accustomed -to in .
his own family, and lie cares nothing a•
bout learning ; in half the instances, he
would prefer the traveller's room to his
company ; it is not therefore surprising
his hotel should not be the best in the
world, nor himself the most obliging of
landlords.
LODGER
With this condition of things prevailing,
it is evident one must not look for any ex
emplificatiens of the alarming rural hos
telries, the little hawthorn-crowned ale
house, so long embalmed in
with
pages of
English poets and novelists, with its prop
er familiars, the facetious host, his bux
om wife, and trim daughter, all obse
quious, bustling, eager to make
themselves, and their house, and every
thing in it, agreeable to your honor.—
You cannot here say with propriety, you
will take your ease in your ion, that being
the privilege solely of its master ; nor can
you have any greater expectation of com
fort, which is an article seldom put down
in the bill of fare. In brief, one should
expect nothing ; and to the inexperienced
traveller Urecommend the maxim which
observation has shown me to be produe
tive of the best effects in mollifying evils, as
well as preventing a bundled inconvenien-
Mes that might otherwise occur : Be sub
missiire ; graciously receive, thankfully
suffer, pay • your money, and depart in
peace.
-
It was once my fate to pass a night in a
certain wayside caravansary among the
mountains in Virginia, a lowly and logly
habitation; from whose mean appearance
no one would have inferred the majostick
spirit of
. the ruler Within; up—or • rather
down to which—for it stood at the bottom
of a hill—one fine evening in, September
rolled a mail-coaeli, well crammed 'with
passengers, of whom I, for my . sins, was
one. We numbered twelve souls in.ali,
nine inside and three out; of which latter
group, I, being somewhat a valetudenarian,
was honoured with elicit beside his high-
nests of the mobile my` tVik e lcsoirlettl •
ions, the r. a Missitssippiati,. t ibia r'.OlllOPl4
vat min as he 'called himself; a:Tenni*. '
gallantly upon the titoto, where`they
1 d & pitched about, as witliittiOri:d
.own the "rocky road in a miumer . aillittia
able to behold, as the Missitisipittanexa'
pressed it "like two short-tailed degairtia
poi"—a , resemblance that yr,att
somewharthe stronger for the 4en, i ep - ditiliti
bow•wows and yelpings with illicit"
--sometin es assisted by the lent esseatO
_ .
see,
rol
—beguiled the weariness.of the day., -•• I
Certainly there never was. ti sets
of rantipole persilhaies got togetlitkitOt
mail-stage before. Besides Atte, Missitisippt.l
an yelping on the top, there was anotheiii
of the same tribe on the inside, who`e,Ould#
imitate the braying. of' an ass to perteu-1
tion—a melody wh;eli ho kepi up in, rival i
ry with his blend and partner aloft. Add
tb thee an Alabamian who sang negro-
songs; a Rock. River Illinois, who .Whoop
ed like an Indian; a Texiao that played .
the mestang, or wild horse of the pratriesis
and, besides kicking the bottom nearly
from the stage, neighed and whinnyed till
the very team. horses on the road respond
ed to the note; and five ofheri who did
nothing but scream and laugh to fill up the
concert; and you have
. before yeu a set o f .
the happiest madbrained rbistererS that
ever astonished the monarch .of a'atage:
house.
• At ,thts place we were destined to sup.
and lodge; and accordingly, in due course
of time, ne were all seated at.the board,
_where we had the satilfaction of' being
tyrannized over both by mine host- and
homes., the one glum yet facetious, the
other' gly as ill.temper, and haughty as ir
princess. There was nothing at all re-'
markable in the supper, which Was no bet
ter nor worse than usual, excel t the ti tat
absence of that sine qua non ofa.Vitginitt
table, fried chickens—and, indeed, of chick.
ens in every shape, there being not -as
Much as a wing ur claw on the table.—
This omission producing a gentle-interrod •
gatory, somewhat in the lose of expostula:
tion, from one of the Mississippians (ebot
as well as all the other travellers; it is pro•
per to say, was playing the part of a very, -
modest, well.behaved young gentleman.)
mine hoetvory ittily g ave ue to understand,
"that it was all our oo n f dt r seeingthril
approaching the tango had. scared - all the
fowls into the mountains." This, the .
Mississippian declared, "reminded him , of
Captain Dobbs' chickens in Kentucky, * .
which, he had the captain's own word
for it, no sooner caught sight orb travel:
ler approaching, than they Immediately,
took to their heels; !King well aware front
long experience, as Captain Dobbs said,;
that the visit of a stranger was eertaitt
death to them."
Before we had finished supper, a thin . teenthi
guest made his appearance—a, tall, .raw
boned Yankee pedlar, who drove up' io
, his little wagon through a shower - -that
had begun to fall, and presently entered
the supper-room, bearineaTair of saddle::
bags which he laid beside him with great
- care, as if afraid its contents should be in
jured if placed out of his protection. He
had a very meek, solemn, unpresuming,
solitary look, and rather sneaked into,
than took a chair, at the . foot of the, table;
where he waited very submissively for the
cuptircoffee which my landlady deigned i
after sundry contemptuous looki and five .
minutes delay, to send hint. On the whole.
he did not seem to produce any . more fa
vourable impression upon my fellow•travel.i
lers, who left him to consume his chicken:.;
less supper by himself„while they proceed..
ed to the bar -room to resolve, a, doubt
which had entered the head. of the Missis
sippian, • Captain Dobbs' friend . --to wit,-
whether the thunder of their approach had
not killed all the mint-plants, and so
prived them of their juleps. This waa
fortunately proved not to be the case ribs'
young gentlemen concocted their sleeping
draughts, smoked their cigars, settled the
affairs, of the nation; and then, having re
ceived a hint that such i was the will and
pleasure of the landlord; ascended to the
traveller's room to seek their beds.'
This traveller's room was the garre
or the half thereof, the other moiety being
partitione3 off, and applied to some - other
, purpose ;,,and as it was neither ceiledscii
plastered, it presented nelerY stfiftingr
look of luxury or comfort. But:,if
ted the rare and captivating spedtacle of
dozen different beds, in which' mitt, maw
was t possess, for pne night of least, dis
happiness of sleeping without a bed-fellow.
The-beds were, moreover,-all single ones,
one only excepted, which was neither sin.:
gJe nor double, and, indeed; was a Ines*
plank stretched beta ceo two stoele, with.
.a'feather bed hung over it, imonier-wise l .
and so far, it appeared to us, that our land-.
- lord even in his out-of-the-world nook;
must have been visited with some inklings" -
of civilization ; but upon further consider
ation, it was agreed we owed -the size,-as
well as the number of the couches; to-the
necessity of the case, the garret being . of
such a figure as to stow a toZini . tcrwitle 7 , 4
beds much more commodiotilly than hiat
that number of double ones.-
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