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T CTOTIfiF. w. ntTlll'K, n. v.
Yes ! bear them lo their rest ;
The rosy ha!e, tired with the Rlare of day,
1'hc piatiler fallen Mslrep c'rn in his play,
Clap them In thy soft breast,
O, Nia'bt,
Bless them in drrams with a deep hushed delight,
Yet must they wake again,
Wake soon lo nil the bitterness of life,
The pan? of sorrow, the temptation strife
Aye, to the conscience-pain
O. NUM.
Canst thou not lake widi them a longer fl'glit !
('ant thou not bear thprn far
E'n rj iw all ionnci nt before they know
The taint of sin, its consequences of wo,
The wo Id's distracting jar,
O, Night,
To some ethereal, holier, happier height !
('n-t thou not hen them up
Through starlit skies, fur from this planet dim
And sorrowful, eVn whde they s'eep, (o Him
Who drank for us the cup,
O, Niiiht,
The cop of wrath for hearts in faith contrite !
To 1 1 i in, for them who slppt
A bal.e itl I lowly on His mother's knee,
And from that hour to cross-crowned Calvary,
In all our sorrows wept,
O, Night, liRht.
That on our souls mihl d.ivn Heaven'a chei-ring
So, 1 iv their little heiils
Close lo thil liunian breast, with love divine
iJeep henting, while his arni immortal twine
Around them as he sheds,
O. Night, miijhl.
On them a brother' grace of God's own biundle.-s
Let them immorta' wake
Among thJlireattib'ss flowers of Paradise,
t here rnigrLgong of welcome with surprise
This their last td.ep may break,
O. Night,
And to celestial joy their kindred souls invite.
There can come no sorrow,
The brnw rlnll know no rhdr, tbe eye no te ir.,
Forever yoiinir ihtmig't heaven's eternal years,
In one unfading morrow,
O, Niuht.
Nor tin, nor ape, nor pain their rherub beauty blight.
Would we sleep as they.
So stainless and so calm, al rest wiih thee,
And oidv wake in immortality !
Hear us with them awav,
O, Niuht,
To that ctheral, holier, happier height.
I. mm tit of n Single l.mlj-.
It's n ally very sb cn'ar,
I c.innol make it out,
I've imny beaux, yet none propose-
U bM an- rli y all a'nitit ?
There's Mi. IS.iiVy, comes lo re daily,
'l o dinner, ar:d In doze ;
He smiles and Hubs, Links very wis.
And jet he don't propose,
Thev sle d my pocket handkerchit Is.
They ir iy foi lurks of bar,
Tb' v a.-k in. for my h uid to dance,
They priis.' my Brace and air ;
There's Mr. Dyson, bind of Hyson,
I womb r he iboi'l cl ite ;
I ni ike his lea he smiles on me,
And yet bed. .n't propose.
At paik or play, by night or day,
They follow me about,
Riding or walking, singing or talking,
At revel, masque or route.
My father thinks it very bad,
l b . I out of all the tieaux,
Who come to dine and dtink his wine,
None uf them will propose.
Ys, it is vuiT singular,
I've half a mind to pout j
Of all the beaux none will propose,
What do they dream about i
However, now my mind's resolved,
In poetry and prose,
Whate'er ensue, or false or true,
One of them sihll propose!
Kkkp Dim no. I know nothing better, for
noor, miserable, do nothing, k'ur-till sort of bo- I
ings such 88 nut tinfreiicul ly attempt to act
their part in life's drama than to set about do
ing, with all their soul and strength, whatever j
proper work, either fur body or mind, comes first
to hand. When one is in the Slough of Des
pond, a good leap at almost anything will get
him out. "Do you keep doing," is Nature's
preat discretion. Our work can never be done
up. There is no rest. If we ait down, we are
.'one. Like criminals in a treadmill, we must
go on nolens volcns if willingly and constant
ly, very well ; if reluctantly and remittently,
then wc must expect raps to keep us going.
Turner,
Pettv Abibtocrjuy. If there is anything
disagreeable in the social circle, really loath
tome in uny kind of society, it is to hear a poverty-stricken
aristocrat, too lazy to work, and
ashamed to beg, talk of what he once was, of
rich uncles, aunts, cousins, of the splendor uf
his father's mansion, and hie mother's "first so
ciety." He hnd better date his origin in a ling
fy, and then the public, now bored to death
with stories of ancient eminence, would give
him credit for some encrpy in getting up in
he world,
SUNBUMY AMERICAN.
AND SIIAMOK1N JOURNAL.
Absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the
Ilj niaNNor & Lively.
AST IJVCIDKXT OK THE KKVOM'TION.
In the summer of 17T !), during one of the
darkest periods of our revolutionary struggle,
in the then small village ofS , (though it
now bear? a more dignified title,) in this State,
lived Judge V. one of the finest and truest
patriots within the limits of the "Old Thirteen,"
and deep in the confidence of Washington.
Like most men of his time and Eubslanco, he
had furnished himself with arms and anitinition
sufficient for the males of his household. They
consisted of himself, three sons, and nhnnt
twenty-five negroes. The female pat, of his
family consisted of his wife and daughter
Catharine, about eighteen years of age, the
heroine of our tale, ntul several slaves. In the
second story of his dwelling house, immediately
over the frontdoor, was a small room called
the "armory," in which the arms were deposit
ed, and always kept ready for immediate use.
About the time at which we introduce our
story, the neighborhood was much annoyed by
the nocturnal prowling and depredations of nu
merous Tories,
It was a calm bright Sabbath afternoon ol
the said summer, when Judge V. and h;s fnnii
ly, with the exception of his daughter Catha
rine, and an old indisposed slave, were attend
ing service in a village church. Not a breath
disturbed the serenity of the atmosphere no
sound profaned the sncredness of the day ; the
times were danirerous, and Catharine had lock
ed herselfnnd the old slave in the house, until
the return of the family from church. A rap
was heard at the front door. 'Surely,' said
Catharine to the slave, 'the family have not
come home; church cannot be dismissed.'
The rap was repeated. 'I see what it is,' said
Catharine, as she ran up stairs into the armory.
On opening the window and looking down, she
saw six men standing at the front door and on
the opposite side of the street, three of whom
were Tories, who formerly resided in that vil
lage ; their names were Van Zandt, Finley and
Sheldon ; the other three were strangers, but
she had reason to believe them of the same po
litical stamp from the company in which she
found them.
Van Zandt was a notorious character, and
the number and enormity of his crimes hud ren
dered his name infamous in that vicinity. Not
a murder or robbery was committed within
miles of S , that ho did not get credit ei
ther ofplatining or executing. The characters
of Finley and Sheldon were also deeply stained
with crime, hut Van Zandt was a master spirit
of iniquity. The appearance of such circum
stances must have been truly alarming to a
young lady of Catharine's age, if not to any la
dy Voting or old. Hut Catharine V. possessed
her father's spirit the spirit of the times. Van
Zandl was standing on the step, rapping atthe
door, while his companions were talking in u
w hispr ron the sidewalk on the opposite aide of
the street.
"Is Judge V. at home ." asked Van Zandt,
w hen he siw Catharine nt the window 'jUnc.
"He is not," said she.
'We have business of pressing importance
with him, and if you will open the door,' said
Van Zandt, 'we will walk in and remain till
he returns.'
'No,' said Catharine, when he went to
church, he loft particular directions not to have
the doors opened until ha and his family return
ed. You had better call w hen the church is
dismissed, '
'No,' retorted the villain 'we will enter
now or never.'
'Impossible,' cried r he ; 'you cannot enter un
til he returns.'
'Open the door, cr'u d he, 'or we'll break it
down and hum you and the house up together.'
So saying, he threw himself with all the force
he possessed against the door, at the snmo
time culling upon his companions to assist him.
The door, however, resisted his effort.
'Do not attempt that again,' said Catharine,
or yon are a dead man ;' at the same time pre
senting from the window a heavy horseman's
pistol, ready cocked.
At the sight of this formidable weapon, the
companions of Van Zandt, who had crossed
the 6trcet at his call, retreated.
'What,' cried their lender, 'you cowurls, are
you frightened at the threat of a girl V And
again he threw himself against the door ; the
weapon was discharged and Van Zandt fell.
The report was heard at the church, and
males and females at onco rushed out to ascer
tain the cause. On looking towards the resi
dence of Judge V. they perceived five men
running at full speed, to w hom the Judge's ne
groes and several others gave chase, and from
an upper window of his residence, a white
handkerchief was waving as if beckoning for
aid.
AH rushed towards the place, and upon their
arrival, Van Zandt was in the agonies of death.
He still retained strength to acknow ledge that
they had frequently been concealed in the
neighborhood for that purpose, but noopportuni
ty had efitred until that day, when, lying con
majority, the vital principle of Republics, from which
Hmbiiiy, Northumberland Co.
cealed in the woods, they had seen the Judge '
and his family going to church.
The body of the dead Tory was taken t'p and
buried by the Sexton of the church, as he had
no relations in that vicinity.
After the absence of two hours or therea
lioutH the negroes returned, having succeeded
in capturing Finley, and one of the strangers,
who were that night confined, and the next
morning, at the earnest solicitation of Judge
V. liberated on promise of mending their lives.
It was in the month of October, of the same
year that Catharine V. was silting by an upper
back window of her father's house knitting;
though autumn, the weather was mild, and the
window was hoisted about three inches. About
sixty or seventy feet from t'le rear of the house
was the barn, a huge edifice with upper and
lower doors ; the lower doors were closed and
accidentally casting her eye towards the barn,
she saw a small black door on a range w ith the
front door and window at w hich she was sitting,
open, and a number of men enter.
The occurrence of the summer immediately
presented itself to her, and the fact that her fa
ther and the other males of the family were ot
work in a field some distance from the house,
led her to suspect that the opportunity had been
improved, probably by some of Van Zandt's
friends to plunder and revenge his death.
Concealing herself, therefore, behind the cur
ia ins she narrowly watched their movements.
She saw a man's head slowly rising above the
door, and apparently rcconnoiteriiig the premi
ses it was Finley'u. Their object was now
evident, doing to the "armory," she selected
a well loaded musket and resumed her place by
the window. Kneeling upon the floor, she
laid the muzzle of the weapon upon the window
still between the curtains, and taking deliber
ate aim, she fired. What effect she produced
she knew not, but saw several men hurrying
out of the barn by the same door they entered.
The report ogain brought her futhcr and his
workmen to the house, and on going into the
barn, the dead body of Finley lay upon the
floor.
Catharine afterwords married a captain of
the Continental army, and she still lives the
mother ofa numerous and respectable line of
descendants. The house is also in the land nf
the living nnd has been the scene of many a
prank of the writer of this tale in the heyday
of his mischievous boyhood.
tirnfdiig of Grnpe Vines.
Wc received, two or three days since, the
Horticultural Magazine for August. Ainono
the contents is an interesting paper on the
grafting of grape vines, which is described as
an easy and generally successful operation, and
by which the most delicate European varieties
may be rendered more hardy by inserting them
on native stocks. The writer, Mr. Cainak, of
Athens, Georgia, says:
"As to grafting nothing is more simple, ifthe
right method he adopted. Cut oll'the old vine
below the surface of the earth, after the leaves
are fully expanded, and all danger of bleeding
is past. Split the stock as in cleft grafting.
Insert the scion, consisting of one year old wood,
and having two or three buds, having first cut
the end to he inserted in a wedge like shipe.
Ifthe stock close firmly on the scion, tying is
unnecessary. If it do not close firmly, then it
must be bound uptight. Draw the earth upa
round the whole, leaving the bud mainly de
pended on, usually the seend from the top, just
even with the surface, and the work is done.
The after imn ifceiiicnt consists in taking off
the sprouts that rise from the stock, those that
spring from the scion, all but one, and training
that up carefully as it grows. No tree is so easily
prorogated, by grafting, as is the vine in this
way."
Mr. Camak adds, that it isessential that the.
operation sh mid not ho performed in that season
when the plant is subject to UtciHng. Ho
performs it ulter the leaves of the stock are fully
expanded and the sap has ceased to flow. He
mentions, also, that he has been told that it is
equally successfull if performed before the sap
rises. He gives these examples of the good re
sults of graft ing :
"On the first of June, of this year, I put n
scion of the Cms Marokinr a the root of u wild
vine. It has now (June :50th) grown about
two feet. I have hnd scions grow, when put on
strong roots, full fifteen or twenty feet in one
summer, and invariably produce good crops the
second year. A white grape from France, tho
name of which 1 do nut know, worked on the
root of the vigorous growing lox grape ofotir
woods, produced abundantly the second year,
while cuttings of the same grape, treated as cut
tings usually are, grew very slowly, and were
five years in coining to a bearing ttale. The
delicate foreign varieties, I have invariably
found to be wonderfully strengthened by being
worked on the roots of our strong native kinds,"
What you keep by you, you may change
and amend, but words once spoken can never
be recalled,
(here U no appeal but to force, the vital prinriplo
I'n. Siiluitlny, August a, 1S13.
Duelling In F.iiftlnnit.
The fatal result of the recent duel between J
Colonel Fnwcett and Lieutenant Monro has
made a great sens it ion in Loudon, and once '
more stimulated the public journals to tho dis
cussion of plans tor the absolute suppression of
the inhuman practire. The circumstances of
the case were peculiar, and invested it with a
peculiar and melancholy interest. The gentle- by their selfishness on a national scale, and
men were nearly related by marriage, bavin;.' th. ir repulsion of alien elements, rcMstiny rve
nmrried sisters ; and there is this sad conse- ry assault from without, in the shape ofho-tilc
queneo nttending their crime, that tho wife of invasion, and from an overpowering national
the survivor can never clasp the hand of her ' pridc f.rbidding the introduction of new and
husband without remembering it is the hand foreign customs, we should not see so mitrh
which made her sister a widow, and that wid- ' miracle interuovon with their e.vistonre. Hut
ow can never rellcot upon her sister's wedded this is not their state far from it. They are
happiness without remembering how and by neither an united nor independent nation, imr a
whom her own Ins been destroyed. Tho oti- parasitic province. Tiny are peeled and seat
gin and nature of tho quarrel, too, were miser- : tered into fragments, hut like broken globules
able inadequate to its unhappy termination. Du- of quicks, her, instinct w ith a cohesive power,
ring the absence of Col. Fawcett in India, ' ever claiming affinity and ever ready to amal
whenee he had recently returned after a dis- ' gnmatc. Geography, arms, genius, politics
tinguished ami honorable service, Lieutenant and foreign help do not explain their existence;
Monro had managed some property in which time and climate and customs cquully fail to
the sisters weie jointly interested. He had em- unravel it. Nunc ol these are, orcan be, springs
ployed n real estate broker to sell a house at of their perpetuity. They have spread over
Hrightrn, and piid him fifty pounds commission every part of the habitable globe; have lived
for his services ; but the sale was not consu- um.Vr the i. ij.ii of eery dynasty; they have
muted, owing to some delect in the title, nnd
the fifty pounds wore lost. On Col. Fawcett's
return, a meetina' was arranged between him
and Lieutenant Monro, at the house of the for
mer, to examine and adjust the accounts ; ami
Col. Faw cett seemed to be much annoyed about
the fifty pounds, lamenting the loss with undue
acrimony, and even going so far, in the height
of his vexation, as to insinuate that to charge
him with half of the sum was a trick a piece
ofdishonesty. Lieutenant Monro is represen
ted as behaving with great f abearance taking
no notice of his brother-in-law's intemperate
language, and apologizing fur his agency in the
misfortune.
At the tea-table Col. Fuwceti's vexation a
gain broke on'. Lieutenant Monro, wearied
and provoked at the Colonel's pertinncity, an
swered with some asperity, and Col one t Faw-
cetr, starting up in a rnge, called a servant and , They are the oristoerncy of scripture, let off'
ordered him to kick the Lieutenant out of doors, j coronets princes in degredntion. A Babylo
This was a great and unpardonable indignity ; nian, a Theban.a Spartan, an Athenian, a Ko
but Lieutenant Monro preserved his temper so man, are names known in h story only; their
well as merely to say that he would not compel shadows alone haunt the world and flicker its
Col. Fawcett to use a measure so violent, after ! tablets. A Jew walks every street, dwells in
which he left the room nnd the house. I every capital, traverses every exchange and re-
Feeling himself grossly insulted, he sought lieves the monotony of tho nations of the earth.
advice from the Colonel of his regiment a
fentleman of discretion as well as of honor
w ho recommended that he should write to Col.
Fawcett inviting an apology, hut without any
design or intimation ofa hostile meeting. The
advice was doubtless well meant, but its effect
was unfortunate. The note was written and
sent ; and Col. Fawcett, after reading it, inqui
red of the bearer, a Mr. Grant, what wssto be
the alternative ofa refusal to apologize. Mr.
Grant said he was not prepared lo anticipate
that question. "Well, then," answered the Co
lonel, "I am. The alternative is a challenge.
I accept ; and so you tuny inform Lieutenant
Monro." The rest is known.
Now it is obvious that here was no cause for
mortal combat, even under the falsely called
laws of honor. Neither ol the gentlemen lay
under any necessity of proving hiscourrge, lir
both had proved time and again, on the field of:
battle. Col. Fawcett undoubtedly insulted his ;
antagonist ; but the insult was one which un
der proper advertisement he would probably
have atoned for by an amply apology, and if he
had not it was one which Lieutenant Monro
might well hive borne, resenting it only by
suspension of intercourse. It was an insult, but
it inflicted no stigma on the character ofthe re
cipient. He might have afforded to let it pis
unavenged, fir, in the estimation of all truly
honorable men, it was more disgraceful to the
giver than the receiver. Discreet friends, du-
U imnressed will, a sense of'tlir-ir dotv i.fi.J
and man, would never have allowed ti,is nnar-
rtl to end in murder. As we have said, the oc
currence ofthis duel his once more put the
w riters in the newspapers on the nlert to devise
means for effecting n total suppression uf the hi
deous practice. They use the strongest and
moat emphatic language in its condemnation.
Coiiuih rciul .'lit rlist r.
An Fditok in tub Si us. Mr. F,. Perry
Howe, editor of the "Democratic," p -dilinhe.l at
Oxford, Mississippi, thus harmoniously describes
some of his labor :
We have been particularly engaged during
most of this week, cutting up douicsiics into
slips of suitable size and id i ape, and otherwise
domestically amusing our.'elt j in consequence
of which interesting philosophical diverlise
inent, we are unable to issue but half a fcheet to
day. Fine buy ; fat nnd suuey j very image of
his pappy weight 'i pounds astonishing
babe; ale a quart bowl of mush first day, and
squalled for more lively us a Colt grow a
pound a minute; doing tolerably well; fo's ti
mammy t hi pe our subscribers will cx;viso u
Dou't happen tul ence a year."
an.l immediate parent of despotism. Jarrnnso.
Vol. 3Xo. .l-Wliole IVo, 152.
7' he Jt-wa,
The present physical, moral mid social con
dition of the Jews must be a miracle. We can
Come to no other conclusion. Had they con
tinued from the commencement nf the Christian
era dowito the present hour in some such na
tional state in which we find the Chinese, wall
ed oil" from tho rest of tho human family, and
Urcd eveiy t.'iii'U.', a;
The snow s ()? liplan 1
of Alr ea senre' ed 'i
the Tiber, the T'l'ui.-
I lived in every latitude,
ha ve chilled nnd the suns
in. Tio y have drank of
, :.:.r .1 .r 1 in, the Mis
sissippi. In every c'.iMiiti v, nnd in every de
gree of latitude and longitude, we find the Jew.
It is not so with any other race. Empires
the most illustrious have fallen, and buried men
that constructed them, but the Jew has lived
among the ruins, a living monument of inde
structibility. Persecution has unsheathed the
sword nnd lighted the fagot; Papa! sunersti.
,iol, nlll M,,..,.,,, barbarism have smote them
' wj,, unsparing ferocity ; penal rescripts and
deep prejudice have visited on them the most
ungi nerons debasement and notwithstanding
all they survive.
Like their own hush on Mount Horeb, Israel
liBscoulinned in the .lames, but uneonsumed.
The race has inherited the heirloom of immor
tality, incapable of extinction or amalgamation.
Like streamlets from a common head, and com
posed of wuters of peculiar nature, they have
flowed along every stream w ithout blending
with it, or receiving its flavor, and traversed
the surface of the globe, amid the lapse of ma-
ny centuries, distinct alone. The Jewish race
I at this day is perhaps the most striking seal of
the truth ofthe Sacred Oracles. There is no
possibility of accounting for their perpetual iso
, lation, their depressed but distinct being, on
( any ground save those revealed in the records
; of truth. Vrr' Magatine,
1 Goon Anvirr. There is much gom sense
. in the follow ing, which although o'd, deserves
I to be repealed once a year :
"If anything in the world will make a man
Icr l badly, except pinching his fingers in the
; crack o a door, it is, unquestionably, a quarrel.
I Nu man ever tails to think less of himself after,
' than he did before one it dcrades him in the
eves of others; and, what is won e, blu. Is his I ,,!,rk ,"-,,t' he M1 om the wharf, and wan
sens.lnlity disgrace ou the one hand, and in- j k'""' 0nJ tl,C 'lde con,in:r in ttron?' il flcat
I rroM-nJ ti. - n,i , ;-;..,it.. !''" over to Charleston, and he was drown-
' J
' on I he othr
IT I ! frillr Id tlin mnrit riiu.it.ti
...
i ii ii i . ,
nnu peaceniey we an gei on, inn netter llie
; better for ourselves, tho better for our neigh
bors. In nine cases out of ten, the wisest
cniirso is, if a man cheat you, to quit dealing
! WiU' hil ' 1,6 1,0 u,,,",ivC- I"'1 ,,is C'P"y i
! 'fl, ,,"n,l,'r '""' ,akc '"'"l" ,0 ,iva s0 tl,at n
body will believe him. No matter who he in.
i or how he misuses you tho w i.-est way is jut
i to let linn alone tor tliere is nothing better
j lhan this eeol, calm and quiet w ay ot deuling
I with the wrongs we meet with.
A Vii.it.a r I.voii vi
lii.'i-di llmi-e uf C in
-A member of tho
, one n.'iijuniii
( hap:i,;i,
u:i the- r;
rl,i ,j u.,v 'he wrong wn
!i li!e.-iioii, iu At day "defined bis
position," in the followi'iy unique card :
"1 wish to explain how I came to vote in
the ii.njerity hist night. '1 full nsleep some
Unit In f., re ti.e division took place, and on
my being awakened by p.aue meniVrs as all
the enposit.im meiiilu rs had nheady retired to
their lobhvi and as I saw a largo crowd going
out of tltrj duor leading to the old lobby, I
tht'iigl't the house hnd adjourned, and did hot
perceive inr mistake until it was tco Inte to re
turn. lie who it of a surly and unyielding dispoti
tion never fails to excite trouble even among
relatives and friend.
lUIJ.ua.i.'JIlL.
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A Louisiana. Ioafrrt
During the hardest of tho storm thedny bc
fore yesterday, wc took a lounge down to th
steamboat landing; while standing on the brink
ofa deep gulley that emptied its torrents ot
woter into the liajoi', our attention was attrac
ted to the bottom of the gulley, where & drunk
en loafer wb3 stemming the torrent holdingoil
to a root last anchored in tho bank. The poot
fellow, not knowing any one Was near liima
was combatting his fato manfully, and in calcu
lating his chances of escape, gave utteranco ta
the following 5
"Haynt this a orful Bitivation to bo placed ii
nohow t If I was ft steamboat, a rail, or a wooil
I oile. I'd bo better worth flHv
lar than I'll ever bo again. Unless I'm a gone
cn'c new, there haynt no truth in frenology.
I've weighed all tho chances now like a ginc
ral, and find only two that bears in my favor ;
the fir t is a skunk hole to crawl into, And tho
second n special intcrpersition of Providence ;
and the best chance of tho two is bo rlim, if I
only had the chance I'd give a premium for
the skunk hole them's my sentiments. If I
could be a mink, a muskrat or a water snake,
for about two minutes, perhaps I wouldn't mount
the first stump t'other sido ofthe Bio, and flap
my wings and crow over everlustin' life, skien
tifically preservated. But what's the use hol
din'on this root! thcro haynt no skunk hole in
these crc diggings, the water is fitting taller
about a feet, and if my noso was as Ion? as king
dom come, it wouldn't stick out much longer.
Oh, Jerry ! Jerry ! you're a gone sucker, and
I guess your manri don't you're owl ; poor wo
man ! won't she cry the glasses out of her spec
tacles when she hears her darlin Jerry has got
the whole of Buffalo Bio for his coffin ! What
a pity 'tis some philanthropis, or member oftha
humane society, never had foresight cnongh to
build a house over this gutter, with a steam
engine to keep out the water ! If they'd donu
it in time, they might have the honor and gra
tification of saving the life ofa feller being
but it's all day with you Jerry, 'and a big har
bor to cast anchor in. It's too bad to go off in
this orful manner, when they knows I ollera
hated water ever 6ince I was big enough to
knowjit 'twant whiskey. I feel tho root givin
way, and since I don't know a prayer, liere'j a.
hit of Watt's Doxologcr to prove I died a chris
tian :
" On the bank where drocp'd the wilier
Lorn lima ago.' "
Before Jerry got to tho conclusion, he was
washed into the bayou, within a few feet of a
large flat that had just started for the steamboat;
his eye caught the prospect of deliverance, and
he changed the burden of his dirge into a thril
ling cry of "Heave to ! passenger overboard
and sinking with a belt full of specie ! the man
what saves me makes his fortune !" Jerry was
fished ashore by a darkey ; and to show his gra
titude, invited Quaehey to go up to the doggery
and liquor."
A StroS'o Vramcr. About the commence
ment ofthe present century, a black fellow, who
had lived at tho North Fud of Boston, suddenly
disappeared, and it was thought that he had
drowned himself. Accordingly diligent search
was made, and at the end of two days his body
was f Hind in a dock in Charleston. As is usual
in such cases a jury was called ; and as the
story goes, (which is true for all we know,)
they were all 'men ob color.' After some de
liberation, they brought in a vcrtlict bome
tliing n3 follows: 'Dat, gning homo one bcrrv
...I . .1,. .1. - .1 1 1 1 . .1 1 t. .
' r ii . uu i io w t-iu er UL'iiii urrrv coin, up ii ozi
I 0
i 10 at nut !
The Coroner, who was very wag;-
gi-di, notwithstanding the solemnity ofthe oc
casion, slid, 'yoti may as well add, tlicJ in the
wool r
I A CpttU: IJl.NT.-An uncle left in his will
; eleven silver spooiis to his nephews, addin-,
i .ir t l,n.. nt tr.0 il... ,1a, I, a U. i,
j reason." The nephew haJ some time before
stolen one from his relative.
We have aeon a stone erect d i:i meumy c f
an old and valued Dog, a natne tt" te s city,
horn which wecopy the tbllowit.g terse a;d per
tinent inscription. An aninia! that has been
tuithiul and sagacious nny he a-- worthy of corn
me!Turaiioii as many of the 'lm:, uf Creation,'
whose monuments oro proof rather of t' r par
tiality of their friends, than of theirmvn merits.
Xftrnrk Daily Advertiser.
K l II I X (1 I
biKo.Ji-tf S9. 1S43.
OnlnUin and monarch Death alike will call
Dnjs hi.'ve theii i'v, and Spun his h id his fall.
Doctors by ha.Mng lawveia, biting, thrive :
S.ri:ii could do both ; both could not make him livt
Kiom hum in u; pi. ha had g.fi apart,
Tiny, lnMiile.-. souls, mid ha a aoules heart,
They, doomed to future life, rneer death with f ar(
Hut he, more happy, tUepa forem bare.
Why is a man throwing away money when
he buys a shilling's worth ot perfume at a
time ? Because he gives a hhilliug for ft (a)ccot.
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