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I have bworn upon the Altar of God, eternal hostility to every ri of Tyranny over the Blind of Man." -Thomas' Jcftcrsoh.
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MR. JONATHAN SLICK'S
NEW YEAR'S CALLS.
Jonathan's ideas of the real difference be
tween a real lady a House and Furni
ture, and the House of a struck tip Par
venue His ideas of Love and Ladies.
I made a lccllo inquiry about how people
did a New Year's day and found out that it
was tho fashion to set out things, and treat
every body that come to seo you. So ear
ly, in tho morning I put on clean linin, to
mako ray calls in.
I hadn't but just got to thb door, when
rny pusey cousin driv up; so I got into the
carriage, and off wo went, down Broadway,
at a smashing rate, till at last we stopped a
foro ono of the neatest-looking houses that
I'vo seen in York,; it watnt ciinckled and
fineficd off with wood-wor,d and iron fen
ces, but tho hull Was solid stun. The steps
wcro mado of the same, with great stun
sides a rolling down frorrt the door to the
. jidcwalkj Tho door was sunk clear imp"
the front there warnt no chunk" of siIveTln
the middle, to write the owner's name on:
so I s'pose he thought that every body
ought know where a rale fashionable chap
lives, without his hanging out a sign to tell
folks. Jason was jist a going to givo the
knob a twitch, but he seemed to remember
and, scz hcj to the tall chap that had got
-down
Why dont you ring V With that the
Tchap made a drive up the steps, and it warnt
asecond afore the door swung open, and a
nico old fellow dressed up as neat as a new
pin, but without regimentals, stood inside.
Arter making a bow, he opened a mahoga
ny door, and vuado a little mtion with his
hand, as much as to say walk in. Ja
son ho kinder deemed loth to go in first; and
arter all his money, I couldn't help but think
the old feller ih tho hall Ibookcd as well, and
acted a good deal more like a real gentle
man then ho did. There's nothing like be
1 ing rich to get up a man's pluc'iS Arter
fidgctting with Lis watch-seals a minute;
Jase stuck up his head like a mud-turtle in
tho sun, and In ho went. I followed arter
as close as a bur to a ehesnutfor in my hull
life I never felt so scared. The house didn't
seem liko alias Miles' nor Cousin Bebce's
nor yet like tny pascy cousin's. Coming
from his house into that seemed like going
tut of a blustering wind into a calm snow
storm. Every thing was so Ieok and still
that it didn't seem like any thing elso that
1 ever seo. Cousin Slick went in fussing
along, and a tall, hafnsomc lady got up from
h chair, whero sho sat by the firo, and cum
towards us, Arter Jason had given her n
little infonnalion about tho weather told
her it was dreadful cold, soon, ho stepped
Lack, end spreading out his lianas sort of
liko his wife, sezs ho
' Mrs. this is Air. Jonathan Sliiik,
"a voting relation of mine.'
I declare It made my heart beat (o seu
how nuriilv she smiled her eurchy was
as soft and oasy as a bird sho didn't wrig
elo up her shoulders and stick out her feet
as some of tho rest on 'am did, jist seumod
to droop down a liltlo easy and then sho
asked U3 to sit d(own, and in losi than no
timo wo felt as much to home as if we'd
known her ever since she was a baby. In- j
stead of b'eglning to give me a lot of soft
soddor, as somo of tho other womin did, she
just set in, and began to talk about old Con
necticut, and sich things as she must a seen
was likely to tickle me like all natur, and
her voice was so soft, and sho kept a smil
ing so, that I never foil so contented in my
lifo as I did a talking with her.
At last she. begun to ask Jason some ques
tions about the-Western- country so 1 had
a chanco to look about mo a little. Instead
of being dressed out likb a thing sot up for
a show, sho hadn't nothing on but a hand
some silk frock and a lectio narrow velvet
ribben tied round her handsome black hair,
that was brushed till it looked as bright as
crow's back; I never did seo any thing
braided Up s6 nico as it was behind. She
hadn't on iho least bit of gold, nor fur bcl
ow3 of any kind only jist a leettle pin that
glistened liko a Bpark of fire, which pinned
tho velvet ribben jist over her white fore
head, tt tally beats me to mako out why
I can't tell you what was in the room, jist
as I do about all tho other places; but some
how it aint ea3y to tell the difference, for
there was settees, nnd chairs, and tables,
and curtains and so on but y it it warcnt
a bit like any room l ever seo afore.
There Warnt no glistening and shinning and
gold and silver, but I couldn't get the no
tion otit of my head, that every thing cost
a good deal more than if thero had been ev
er so much of it. Tho room seemed made
exactly for the things that were in it; am!
there Warnt a thing that didn't fit into its
placo like waxwork. There was ono thing
that looked awful handsome and it was rale
ginuina loo; but at lirst 1 tlinuglit it was
somo of these York-make-b'elicvers. It
was a slim green tree, ccnamost tall enough
lo reach my head, all blown out and civer-
ed over with as much as twenty of the big
gest and whitest roses I overdid sec. It was
A0jj.ilibOJhhJLWiJWiulAaMnrldjivJi'jj.
tho sun come Kinuer,solily through the cur
tains down into the white posies, they stern
cd to sort o' blush liko a pcachblow; yit
they raly were as white, according to natur.
as tho cleanest handful of snow you ever
see; Thb tree grew out of a great marble
flowerpot, and when I asked its name of
tho lady, she looked as bright and sweet as
one of the flowers, and told me it come from
Jappan, away east. Thcro was somo pic
lures hung agin the wall, that struck my cyo
so that I couldn't keep from looking at 'em
She seo hdiv I was took up, scz she
That's a beautiful picture Mr. Slick;
don't you think so 1 Thero is something
in Doughtio's picters that I love lo look oni
his grabs and hillocks look so soft and gicsn,
he docs excel every American artist most
certainly in his asmospher.'
' Wal, mam,' sez I, I aint no judgo of
pictures, but sartinly to my notion, that does
outshine cousin Jason's lions and roosters
and croushongs all to nothing; it don't glis
ten so much, but come how them great trees
do look so nat'ral and cows lying down un
der them so lazy;it ccnamost makes mo hum
sick to go back to Wcathersfiuld when I sec
it.'
Hero Jasc trod on my too with his con
srrned hard boot. .Wal, think, sez I, what
Have I said now; and I looked right in tho
lady's faco to seo if she'd been a laughing;
but she looked so sweet .and unconsarned
as would bo and, sez she, a getting up and
going across tho room for Jaso mado a
motion as if ho was in a hurry sez she,
' Let mo help you to somo cake and wine.'
With that sho went to a tablo that had
some decanters and wine-glasses on it, be
sides a Info, of cako as white as the drifted
snow. I sniggers, but it-did look as neat as
a new pin. Thero was a heap of ralo flow
ers and leaves, jist picked from tho bush,
frtifrli and fair, twisted round tho edge of
tho cake, and a lectio whlto sugar dovo lay
smuggled down in tho middle. Cousin
Jaso filed tho glasses, and he made a little
Hpooi.h but KQinehow it didn't seomo as if
I cfiuld go to talking soft sodder to that hand
some crittoiv-sho looked so sweet yet
pwiuiul. A 3 I did was jist to drink the
wine, and then bend my head kinder Boftly
to, try and match her curchy but if I didn't
wish hot a happy now year in my hfcart,
ra a lying toot, that's all. When wo
went away, sho gavo us an invite to, come
agaip, and sho was mortal pcrlitc to me.
If I don't go it'll be because I'm afeard, for
I don't know when I'vo taking such a shino
to. any thing that wares petticoats;
Just ai soon as I'd got clear of tho door,
and Jaso had bjiwed and scraped himself
out, wo gdt into the carraige again, and sez
he
Wall, cousin, how do you like Mrs.
-?'
Like her 1' sez 1, if I don't there's no
snakes. She's none of your stuck up, fini-
fled, huinburg critters, but a rale ginuine
lady, and no mistake.'
It s pity she hasn't moro tasto and em
ulation to tlx up. her house,' scz he. ' Sho
raly dont know how toj cut a dash, and yet
her husband is as rich as a Jew.'
'Wal, raly, I dont no what to think of
that,' scz I. 'Somehow when I seo every
thing in a room kinder shaded off, ono co-
our into another that's cnamost liko it, till
the hull scctri to bo alike, jist as it is in that
lady's room, it seems to take my notion
amazingly. I can't tell why but it rnado
mo feel as if the room had been made up
into a big pictor and as it is in part, and I
begun to think that' I was agoing to say
something alfiied cutting about these stuck
flashy houses and people that I'd seen here
in York when tho carriage driv up to a
nothcr door. In wo went, eat and drank,
and then out agin ; and then it was riding
from one house to another, and eating and
drinking till it got ennjist dark, and I was
clear luckertid out, besides beginning to feel
wamble cropped n lcetle, with the heap of
sweet tilings I'd becri a eating all day
The Now Year day hero in York is sar
tainiy as goou as a snow such lots oi gals
aa a feller'HCow-nllC
iiui!Biyclrnp--Jt,J'"nlivig' Dinner yet a
York New Years, a good turkey with
plenty of gravy and tatur. I swany howl
wish I'd been a eating them things instead
of this heap of tarual cake and sugar things
I shan't feel right agin in a month, I'm sure
on it.
I guess you Wheather-ficld teetotalist3
would a started some to see how the young
chaps begun lo mal o fence along the stun
side-walks towards night; somo on'em were
purty well over the bay I can tell you. I
went to seo lots of women and pals, and
cousin Mary among the rest, and arter
cot bacli lo my otiico, I couluu t tret one
wink of sleep. My head was chuck full
gals all night such a whirring and burring
as there was in my upper story vou never
did know on, ever time I shut my oyes
tho offico seemed chuch full of gals and fca
thcrs, cut glass, till it-seemed if I would go
crazy a thinking over -all I'd done; but the
last thing that got my btain jist afoicldrop
pod to sleep, was tho real lady, aud :ny pu
cey cousin's stuck up wife.
nut i can t slop io write you on alt my
dreams that night. I don't think dougli
nuts or sugar candies set well on the sto
much, ana l don t thinic seeing so many
gals sets well on my head. There Is a
terrible all-ovcrisli sort ot a ieelwg in a
young feller when he's been a cruising a
mong tho gals all day, and comes hum and
cuddles up in bed at night. When he gets
ono gal stuck fast in his hoad and his hoart,
as I had Judy White he's as qiiiot ad a
kitten, and his head's a sort a settled ; but
arter he's been a roving ovor the world as I
am doin, his heart is rather lily, and there's
nothing that sticks in except the drugs,
tho puro essence sifting out all through.
Getting in love is somewhat liko getting
drunk, ths more a fuller loves the moro ho
wants to and when tho hearts gets a going
pitly pat, pitly pat, thero is such a swoll,
that it busts up all tho stringe, so that it
can't hold tho ralo grit at all. When Judy
White fust took hold my arm, I give the
coat slcevo a real hearty smack, where her
hand took hold, and thai coat I really did
love butler than any other I ever head on ;
-but I novet( think the better 61 my yaller
glover for shaking the hands of all the gals
irt,York. I'vo only got Miss Miles out of
my head, to get a thousand new shining
faces in. Lord knows what'll become of
rne, Par, if I go on to be bedivelled arter
tho women, as I have been this new year's
day. When a feller is mado any thing on
by 'cm, he must havo been brought up un
der eood preaching in YYcathcrsiield to
stead in hero in York. I feel as if I
should'n't be good for much afore long,
myself.tho way I om going on, but to skeet
up and down Broadway liko that era Count
and to hang round gals' windows with fifes
and bassoons, and drums and guitars at
night. When they heigh ho mo so, there's
no help to feeling icj wish all o
ver. I cant iook full into a puriy girl's face all
a flashing so, without being kind a dazzled
and scorched. It warms me up in this cold
weather, ami kindles such, a pulse in my
heart, that the blood runs through it as hot
as if it had run through a steamboat pipe.
And then the all fired critters have so many
sly ways coming over a feller with them
arociinkum crankums of theirn,thatl don't
think much of a man who can see their
purty mouths work, and not feel his work
too. If they sidle up, I cant help sidling
too if I died and when them black eyes fall
flash on mine, I wilt right down under'em
as cut grass in Wealhersfield on a hot sum
merday. it is nature all this, and I can t
help it no how.
uut you iinow, l'ar, l was Drought up
under good preaching, and I now go to Dr.
Spring's meeting always as strait ss Sunday
comes round, and twice a day. If women
do snarl up a feller's heart strings, though
they keep him out of other Scrapes, any bo
dy will tell you that. A man that is in love
a leetle la not always a running into rum
hole s, and other such places. He don't get
gambling- and isn't a sneaking round at
jiifrhis..,i.,t.
Love, according to my notien on it, is a
good anchor for us on this 'ero voyage of
lifo 1 it brings us up so all standing when
we put on too much sail. It puts me in
mind, now I think on it,ourc cruise through
Hell Gate in Captain Doolittle's sloop; for
jist as the lido and wind was a carrying us
on tho rocks, we dropt anchor and kept off.
I look on tho uses of women putty much as
I look on the freshet that in spring brings
down tho Connecticut tho raal rich soil for
the meadows in Weatherfield. They make
a creat deal of splutter and fuss in their
spring timo, with their rustles and their rib
bons, and their flotillas, I know ; but then
they light on a fuller for good, they aro tho
raal onion patches of his existence. Put
us togethcr.and the soil will grow any thing
but keep us apart, and we are all thistles
and nettles.
from tho Statcn Islander.
AN INCIDENT OF THE ItEVOLU
TION.
In the summer of 1779, during one of
the darkost periods of our revolutionary
struggle, in the then small villago of S-
(though it now bears a moro dignified title.)
in this stale, lived Judge V ,ono of the
firmest and truest patriots within the limits
of the ''Old Thirteen," and deep in the con
iideuce of Washington. Like' most men in
his times and substance, ho had furnishei
himself with arms and ammunition, sufli
cient to arm tho males of his household.
Thcso consisted of himself, three sons and
about twenty-fivo negroesi The female part
of his family consisted, of his wifo, one
daughter, Catharine, about 18 years of age,
tho heroine of our tale, and several slaves
In the second story of his dwelling house
immediately over tho frontdoor was a small
room called the 'armory,' in which these
arms wero deposited and always kopt ready
for immediate use. About tho timo at which
wo introduced our story, the neighborhood
of tho village was much annoyed by thenoc
turnal prowlings and depredations of nume
ous Tories.
It was on, a calm, bright Sabbath after
noon of the aforesaid summer, when Judge
V. and his family, with tho exception
of his daughter Catharine, and an old indis
posed female slave, were attending Service
in the village church. Not a breath disturb
ed the serenity of- tho atmosphere not a
sound profaned the sacred stillness of the
day. Tho times were dangbrous.and Catha
rine had locked herself and tho old slave itt
the house until tho return otthe family frorrt
ohurcli. A rap was heard at the front door.
'Surely,' said Catharine to the slave; Uho
family have not yet como horned church
cannot be dismissed.' The rap was repeat
ed, I will seo who it is, said Catharine.asJ
she ran up stairs to the armory. On open
ing tho window and looking down, sho saw
six men standing at ths fiont door and on
tho opposite side of the street three of whom
he know were Tories, who formely resid
ed in the village. There names were Vaa.
Zandt, Finly and Sheldon. The other
three were strangers, but sho had reason to
believo them to be of tho same political
stamp, from the company in which she!
found them;
Van Zandt was a notorious character and
the number and enormity of his crimes had
rendered his name infamous in that vicinity
Not a murder or robbery was committed
within miles of S , that he did not get
the credit either of planning or executing.
Phe characters of Finly and Sheldon wore
also deeply stained with crime but Yari
Zandt was a master spirit in iniquity. Thd
appearance of such characters; under siicrt
circumstances, must have been truly 'alarm
ing td a young lady of Cathanrie's ago if not
to any lady, young or old. But Calharind
possessed her father's spirit 'thd
spirit of the times,' Van Zandt was standing
on the stoop, rapping at the door while hi
companions wore talking in a whisper'
oh the side walk on thd oppbsile side of tits'
street.
'Is Judgo V -at home V asked Vad
Zandt, when he Baw Catharin0JittliQ mn?
He is not,' said she.
We have business of pressing impor
tance with him, and if you will open thd
door,' said Van Zandt,'&o will walk in and
remain till ho returns.
No.' said Catharine, ' when ho went td
church, ho left particular directions not td
have the doors opened until he and the fam
ily returned. You had better call wheri
the church is dismissed. '
'No,' retorted the villain, 'we will enter
now or never.
'Impossible.' replied she;'you cannot en
ter until ho returns.'
'Open the door,' cried ho 'or we'll break
it down, and burn you and the house up to
gether. So saying, ho threw himself, with
all the force he possessed, against the door,
and at the same time called upon his com
panions lo assist him. The door however
resisted his efforts.
' Do not attempt that again,' said Catha
rine, ' or you are a ueaa man, at tno samo
time presetting from tho window a heavy
horseman's pistol, already cocked.
At tho sight of this foimidable wedpon,
tho companions of Vad Zandt, who had
crossed the ctrcet at his call, retreated.
What?' cried their leader, 'you cow
ards ! aro yoii frightened at the threat of a
girl I' and again he threw himself upon tho
door. The weapon discharged, and Vail
Zandt fell.
The report was heard at tho curch, and
males and females at once rushed out to as
certain tho cause. On looking towards tho
residence of Judge V , they perceived
fivo men running at full speed, whom the
Judge's negrno3 and several others gave
chase lo and from an upper window of
his residence, a white handkerchief wad
waving, as if beckoning for aid;
All rushed towards the placo, and upon1
their arrival, Van Zandt was in the agonies'
of death. He still retained strength to Ac
knowledge that they had long contemplated
robbing that house, and had frequently bgen
concealed in the neighborhood for that pur
pose no opportunity had offered Until thai:
day, when lying concealed in tho -(roods;
they had seen the Judge and his family gd
ing to church?
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