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Number 160, New Series-
‘THE NORWALK GAZETTE
IS PUBLISHED
EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING,
BY
James Reed, Jr.
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Executed at the Gazette (Mlice.}
ENTAL Surge:-y.—A. Ilill, Dental
Surgeon, offers his services to the public
in every department of Dental Surgery.
Office as heretofore. in Burrall's Buildings.
Refcrencss-—J A. M’Lea.n. M. D; lra Greg
nry, M, D; lion. '1‘. B. Butler; Hon. Benj.
Isaacs; l{ev.Dr Mead; Rev Edwin Hall; Rev
G. N. Smith. Norwalk. Ncltentinh Pcrry,M. D.
It’z'c/arr;/ielcl. R. B. Bottsford, M. D. Danbury.
Dr. Ho vv-ll Rodgers, Colcchcstcr. Wm Witter,
M. D. lVi£limanlic, Ct.
G. VI’. Raymon, Draper dc Tailor.
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_ Olutsted's Building, east sideofthe. Bridge-
is ready to give attention to all orders in ltis line
at short notice, on favorable term . and
in (Its ‘Best and Blast Fas/tiorr.aI2.!c style.
From his experience in the business. lte feels
confident irt his ability to give entire satisfactiott
to all who may favor him with their patroitage.
All garments made to order are warranted t: fit.
Particular attention paid to Cutting.
The subscriber has on hand a good supply of
Cloths, Cassimeres, Sattinetts and Vestings.
which he will make up to order irt a manner to
challenge competition.
Pilot and Beaver Cloths for Overcoats. with
superior Trimmings.
Also, a fine assortment of Stocks of various
styles and patters. at the lowest cash prices.
Fall Faslttotts received.
' Persons wishing garments of any description
will find it to their advantage to call.
Norwalk. October 1841. 49
TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT.
HE subscriber would respectfully inform
his friends and the public in general, that
lte has opened a shop over the store of Wm. &
B. Lockwood. recently occupied by M. Bartks.
where he would be happy to receive all orders
in his line. He feels confident in saying front
the experience he ltas ltad in New York as a
Cutter, that whoever will favor him with their
custom can depeudon havingtheir work manu-
Norwrrlk. April 20. Josr-zrrr E. CORK!-'.R 23
NEW DRY GOODS.
HE subscriber has just received a new
supply of seasonable Fartcy and Staple
Dry Goods,
purchased at unusually low prices, which will
be sold as cheap as at any establishment in
town.
The following comprise a few ofthe aricles
received : Ladies and Misses Tuscan Hats, of
all qualities. A great varicty»ofFlow.erstaud-7
Hat Ribbons. Rich English, French, and
American Prints. Mouslin De Laines,_.ne_w
patterns and very Cheap. Ginghams and Prun
ted Lawns—some beautiful patterns. A frtll
supply of bleached and unbleached Muslins
together with most articles usually called for in
a Dry Goods Establishment. CHAS. N. CLocK.
_ For Sale—A valuable tract or
Z_‘ Land, consisting of about 50 acres.
' situated in this town. at West Rocks,
'_4_,,__ so called, near the residence of Jon-
athan Camp, Sen. Said tract is well appor
tioned into plow, meadow. pasture and wood.
and will be sold in one or more parcels as will
best suit purchasers. on accommodating terms.
E. J. ST. Jurm.
Norwalk, Sept. 5. 1842. 36
EW B00ks.—-The American infillgypt,
’ by J. E. Cooley; The Two Admirals, by
J. F. Cooper; Uncas and Miantinornah, by VV.
L. Stone; My Native Village, a Temperance
Tale; Emma. orThe Lost Found; The Great
Secret. or How he Happy 3 Elle" i-49Sl€f- and
many other new and entertainittg books,just
feceivved J. A. WEED.
Sept- 27. 1842.
V lIAl)—In half bbls, for sale by
L July, 1842. '1‘ L & J R Pecti-
The subscriber offers for sale his
well knowtt establishment for the
manufacture ofOil Dressed Leather.
—' e -‘ The [treatises contain about 12 acres
of good land, on which is a. good Dwelling
House. Barn, Shop, and other buildings—a good
water power, and a fine orchard. It is situated
on the Danbury road, three miles from Norwalk
landing. A further description is deemed un-
D°““-SS!1ry- KLEBER WORLEY.
Norwalk. Aug.1e, 1342. 33
500 lb“ 3"Perior quality of Madder.
500 “ Logwood.
400 “ Ftrstic.
500 “ Alum.
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4 ALL 'l‘l'ade.—-We have lately returned
from New York with a large supply of
Goods. wlticlt. added to our former stock. makes
tnuclt the largest stock in market, and most of
our goods we purchase with cash which enables
us to sell very low. We invite the public to
call and see if we do not sell very low.
\VA'rcrrr:s.—We ltave Gold andSilver lever,
Lepine and common \Vatches constantly on
hand. Some ofthose articles are 25 and 30 per
cent less than former prices. \Vatclres of all
kinds carefuly repaired with our own ltands and
warranted
Jt~:wt-;Lnv.—-VVe have almost all knirls of
Pins from 6 Us to $6. Rings of all sorts, Silver
and German Silver Tttimbles. Gold artd Silver
Lockets and Straps. and every tlting in the
Jewelry line. Gold artd Silver Spectacles
made wholesale and retail.
CL(tCIx's.--we have a variety of patterns and
very low. We think they will rise in'pricc—
mark that.
Loornse GLASSES front $7 to 14 cents, a
variety of pattemg_
Sroo.\'s.—-Silver and German Silver and
Plated Spoons of all kinds. I/Vc are willing (ha!
our Spoons should be compared with any other
as (0 price and quality.
FANCY Goous.—()ontbs, Tr-otlt and Hair
Brushes, a variety of Razors, Pentnives, Steel
Pens. \Valletts, Soaps. Straps. Purses, [lair
Oils, Scissors. Teapots, Candlesticl-‘s. érc.
Cnxs. E. DISBROW.
FAR1VIERS—-LOGIC AT TIIISI
For sale a Farm pleasantly sltua-
,. ted on the main road leading from
. ."_‘,- New Canaan to Ridge-field, and
* ‘ Lewisboro.containing 76 acrcs.suit-
ably proportioned in Meadow, plough. pasture,
and woodland. with a comfortable two story
House. Barn. and Corn House; fences general-
ly good. payment mttde easy to suit a purchaser.
The stock. farming utensils, ltay and grain, (if
desired) vtill also be sold with the farm. and
irnntetliate possessiort can be ltad. Further
particulars is deemed unnecessary.
LEANDI-ZR HOTT.
New Canaan. November 8. 1842. ’*.3t46tf
I-‘0R_ S.-lI'.‘E at a_ Great
‘ '» B:u'g:un.—lhe subscrtberollers
' for sale a small farm situated in the
-'-’s‘-—"=% western part ofthe lmvtt ofNorwalk,
about a ltalfa mile from Five Mile River har-
bor. consisting ofabout twenty five acres offirst
rate land, well divided into meadow, plough,
and pasture land, and a good orchard of grafted
fruit, with a dwelling House. Barn. &c. thcreort.
This place will be sold at a great bargain. and
is a very desirable one for a farrrter or mechanic.
for tertns which will be made easy, apply to
the subscriber. Tnos Rtrr-:9.
Norwalk. Nov. 8. 1842. 46
._ FARM For Sale—Situated
- in the towtt of \\ ilton. Hurlburt st.,
so called. withintltree fourths of a
. _ trtileoftbe Episcopal Clturch in said
Wilton. and a public road leading front Rctlding
to \Veslport ttrttl Nttrwalk, and another from
Ritlgefield. to Bridgeport. a school house with-
in a few rods of the _bot,se, and a dry grocery
close at hand. The homestead consists ofabout
60 acres of as good land as lies ottt of doors,
fenced olfinto small lots suitable for plowing,e
mowing or pasture, with sufficient fruit for the
use ofa family. all well watered. with a large
two story house, nearly new, a new barn and
a fine grainry aml wagon ltouse. and a two
story hat shop with plenty of water fixtures.-
Abont forty acres of Timber land. l_\ing in
what is called Iloney Hill Den. :1 part of wltich
is pretty well timbercd.
The above property will be sold at a bargain
and a good title given. Any persons wishing to
purchase it, will do well to call on the subscriber.
34 \Vilton, Aug. 19,1842. \Vttt Gm-:t-:N.
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Grooorzes,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
At No.’ l Burall’s Buildings.
HE subscriber has availed himselfof the
opportunity offered. by the unusually low
prices of Groceries in New York, to purchase
for Cash at the lowest rates, a new supply of
First Rate Articles. He is now confident he
can furnish to his old custotners. and others, at
the old Stand No. 4 Burrall’s Buildings, for
Cash, prime articles as Cheap as they can be
purchased at any other store irt Fairfield Coun-
ty—not excepting those whgrrclcnd to receive
their goods from first hands. Please call and
satisfy yourselves that this is not pujing, but
Trullt.
His assortntent is now complete,and embraces
among others the following Articles:
A Lot of Very Superior Sirup Molasses, by
the Hhd. or at less quantity, likewise a lot of
very excellent New Orleans Molasses by the
Hhd. or at Retail. cheap.
3500 lbs St Crox & Port Rico Sugars
2500 lbsN O brown and Havana do. j
500 Old Java Coffee
300 Lagttira do
Clover and Timothy Seed.
A quantity of Bunclt M uscatel Raisins in whole
ltalf and quarter boxes—cheap by the box or at
retail.
Nutmeg by the pound or at retail. cheap.
Canal Flour by the barrel or at retail, écc.
N. B. Persons wishing to purchase, are re-
quested to call at the store No 4, andjudge for
themselves. JOHN BURRALL.
Norwalk. April 17, 1-942.
IlURNS.—'I‘lte Premium
sale by C.
cheap
for cash
g Very cheap.
Churn, for
ISAACS.
REDIOVAL.~JOHN BURRALL has
removeil hrs Grocery Store. to No. 1
Burrall’s Buildings.next‘door to Chas. N.Clock's
Dry Goods Store. where may be found a good
assortment of Family Groceries.
Joux ButuutLt..
5.00 " COPPGTBS. for sale cheap by
W E Bissau.-
Norwalk. September 1. 1842.
Pencils. Gold and Silver Chains, Gold and Gilt,
NORWALK, ct. VVEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1342.
POETRY.
THE WIND.
So wistfully the wind doth moan,
What does it want of me ‘.7
It sweeps around the house with mournfu! tone,
As if it fain would flee .
From its wide wanderings sad and lone :-
Come woful wind—I will love thee !
Swiftly, swiftly the wind is blowing— .
Wildwandering wind, where art thou going '7
I know not where,
I go on forever-
I’ve no toil or car ,
Yet rest I never.
Ab, woful wittd—thon art like tne—
Dost thou not strive from thyself to flee?
From the New York American-
Sad heart, that sighest as the parting my
Of life’s enchanting vision fades away. -
Tho’ all things bright of earth must die.
Glory eternal decks the sky.
Lone heart that moumest ’neath the cypress gloom,
VVhere love lies buried in the silent tomb,
A voice celestial from above .
Tells thee of H_e:tven’s undying ‘love-
Despondent heart by disappointment worn,
By hope betray’d that moancst her forlorn;
Though oft rlelusive in its ray,
Hope still to heaven doth point the way.
Forsaken heart, whom broken faith hath left,
Of all, unless the wish to die, beref't—-
Look then to Heaven, poor child of dust,
Nor fear in God to put thy trust.
Poor sinful heart, low sunk in guilt attd shame,
\Vlten mat1’s cold mercy doth reject thy claim,
Hear thou whatartgels say to thee-
“Rcpent, andjoy in Heaven shall be !”
In I s "C E LMLHAMN
AMERICAN N()'I‘ES.
BY CHARLES DICKENS
New York.
The beautiful metropolis of America is,
by no means, so clean a city as Boston, bttt
many of its streets have the saute character-
istics; except the houses are not quite so
ll't‘Sl] colored, the sign-boards are not quite
so gaudy, the gilded letters not quite so gold-
en, the bricks not qttite so red, the stones not
quite so white, the blinds and area railings
not quite so green, the knobs and plates upon
the street doors not quite so bright and
twinkling. There are many bye streets
almost as neutral in clean colors, and posi-
tive in dirty ones, as bye streets in London;
and there is one quarter, commonly called
the Five Points, which in respect of filth
against Sewn Dials, or any other part. of
lamfil St. Giles’. '
The great promenade and thoroughfare,
as most people know, is Broadway; at wide
and bustling street, which, from the Battery
Garden to its opposite termination in a court-
try road, may be four miles long. Shall we
sit down in an upper floor of the Carlton
House Hotel (situated in the best partoftbis
main artery of New York.) and when we
are tired of looking down upon the life be-
low, sally forth arur-ir.-arm, and mingle with
the stream?
Wartrt weather! The sun strikes upon
our heads at this open window. as though
its rays were concentrated through a burn-
ing glass; but the day is in its zenith. and
the season an unusual one. Wastherc ever
such a sunny street as Broadway .7 The
pavement stones are polished with the tread
of feet until they shine again; the red bricks
of the houses might let yet in the dry hot
kilns; and the roofs of those ontniibuses look
as thottgh. if water were poured on them they
would hiss and smoke, and smell like half
quenched fires.
No stint ofontnibuses here! Haifa dozen
have gone by within as many ntinutes.—
Plenty of hackney cabs and coaches too;
gigs, ph:etons, large wheeled tilbnries, and
private carriages—rather ofa clumsy make,
and not very different from the public vehi-
cles, but built for the heavy roads beyond
the city pavement. Negro coachmen and
white; in straw hats, black hats, white hats,
glazed caps, for caps; in coats ofdrrrb, black,
brown, green, nankecn, striped jean and lin-
en; and there in that one instance (look
while it passes or it will be too late) in suits
of livery. Some southern republican that,
who puts his blacks itr uniform, and swells
with sultan potnp and power. Yonder
where that phaatort with the WP” clipped pair
of greys has stopped-—standing at their heads
uow—-is a Yorkshire groom,_who has not
been very long in these parts, and looks
sorrowfully round for a companion pair of
top-boots, which he may traverse the city a
half year without meeting. Heaven save
the ladies, how they dress! \Ve have seen
more colors in these ten minutes, than we
should have seen elsewhere in as many days.
What various parasols! what rainbow silks
and satinsl what pinking of thin stockings,
and pinching oftbin shoes, and fluttering of
ribbons and silk tasscls. and display of rich
cloaks with gaudy hoods and linings! The
young gentlemen, are food, you see, of turn-
ing down their shirt-colars and cultivating
their whiskers, especially under the chin;
but they connot. approach the ladies in their
dress or bearing, being to say the truth,
humanity quite of another sort. Byrons of
the desk and counter, pass on. and let us see
what kind of men those are behind ye: those
two laborers in holiday clothes, of whom one
carries in his hand a crumpled scrap of pa-
per from which he tries to spell out a hard
name, while the other looks about for it on
all the doors and windows.
Irishmen both I You might know them.
if they were masked, by their long tailed
blue coats and bright buttons. and their drab
trousers. which they wear like men well
used to working dresses, who are easy in
noothers. It would be hard to keep your
model republics going, without the country-
tnen and countrywomen ofthesetwolalzorers.
For who else would dig, and delve, and
drudge, and do domesfic work, and make
canals and roads, and execute great. lines of
and wrctchednt-ss, may be safely backed,
jinternal improvement! Irishmen both, and‘
sorely puzzled too, to find out what they
seek. Let us go down and help them. for
the love of home, and that spirit of liberty
which admits of honest bread, no matter
what it be.
That’s welll VVe have got the right ad-
dress at last, though it is written in strange
characters truly, and might have been
scrawled with the blunt handle of the spade
the writer better knows the use of than the
pen. * Their way lies yonder, but what bu-
siness takes them there? They carry sav-
ings; to hoard up? No. They are broth-
ers. thosernen. One crossed the sea alone,
and working very hard for one half year;
and living harder, saved funds enough to
bring the other out. That done, they work-
ed to‘ ether, side by side, contentedly sharing
hartllabor and hard living for another term,
and on their sisters came, and then another
brother, and lastly their old mother. And
what now .7 Why, the poor old crone is rest-
less in a strange ltnd artd yearns to lay her
b6tics,she says among her people in the
grave-yard at borne: and so they go to pay
her passage back 2 and God help her and
them. and every simple heart. and all who
turn to the Jerusalem of her younger day
and have an altar-fire upon the cold hearth
of their fathers.
This narrow thoroughfare. baking and
blistering in the sun. is Wall street, the
Stock Exchange and Lombard ‘street of
NeTv York. Many a rapid fortune has been
made in this Street, and many a no less ft”-
pitid ruin. Some of these very merchants
whom you see hanging about here now,
have locked up money in their strong boxes
like the man in the Arabian nights. and
opening them again, have found but withered
leavt-s. .
_, Below, here by the water Side, where the
botvsprits of ships stretch across the footway,
and almost thrust themselves in the windows,
lie the noble American vessels which have
tnade their Packet Service the finest in the
world. They l'l‘t\'8 lrought hither the
foreigners who abound in all the streets:
not perhaps that there are more here, than
in other commercial cities: but elsewhere,
they have particttlar haunts, and you must
find them out; here, they pervade the town-
We must cross Bt‘0tl(l\\‘tl_V again: gaining
some. refreshment from the heat, in the sight
of the great blocks of clean ice which are
;being carried into shops and barrooms: and
the pint‘-'tpplt'S and water melons profusely
(llSf.»‘l:ty9tl for Sfllt‘. Fine streets and spa-
cious houses here, you see l—-‘Val! street
has furnished and dismantled many of them
very often-—and here a deep green leafy
tsquure. But sure that isa hospi'al house
lwith inmates to be affectionately remember-
ed always, where they have the door open
and pretty show of plants within, and are
children with laughing eyes is pr-eping ottt
of the window at the little dog below. Yott
wonder what may be the use ofthis tall flag-
staff in the bye street, with somt thing like
Liberty’s hr-ad-dress on its top; so do I.—
But there is a passion for tall flagstaffs here-
nhout, and you may see its twin brother in
five minutes, ifyou have a mind.
Again cross Broadway, and so passing
from the many colored crowds and glittering
sbops—into another long main street, the
Bowery. A rail-road yonder, see, with two
stout horses trot along, drawing a score or
two of or-ople and a great woodr-n ark, with
ease. The stores are poorer here; the pas-
sengers less gay. Clothes ready made, and
meat ready cooked are to be bought in thrse.
parts; and the lively whirl of carriages is
exchanged for the deep rumble of carts and
wagons. The signs which are so plentiful,
in shape like river bouys or small balloons.
hoisted by cords to poles. and dangling there
announce, as you may see by looking up,
“Oysters in every style.” They tempt the
hungry most at night. for then dull candles
glimmering within, illuminate these dainty
words, and make the mouth of idlers water,
as they read and linger.
\tVhat is this dismal-fronted pile of bastard
Egyptian, like an enchanter's palace in a
melo drama !—a famous prison called the
Totnbs. Shall we go in .7 .
So. A long, narrow, lofty building. stove
heated as usual, with fottr galleries. one
above the other, going round it, and cont-
municating by stairs. Between the two
sides the gallery. and in its centre, a
bridge for the greater convenience of cross-
ing. On each of these bridges sits a man :
dozing or reading, or talking to an idle com-
panion. On each tier are two opposite rows
ofsmall iron doors. 'I‘bey look like furnace
doors, hutare cold and black, as though the
fires within had gone out. Some two or
three are open, and women with drooping
beads bent down. are talking to the inmates.
The whole is lighted by a sky light. bttt it
is fast closed : and from the roof there dan-
gle, limp and dropping, two useless wind-
sails.
A man with keys appears to show us
round. A good-looking fellow, and in his
way civil and obliging.
“A re those black doors the cells?’
. ‘Yes.’
‘Are they full .7’
'VVell, they're pretty nigh full, and that’s
a fact, and no two ways about it.’t
Those at the bottom are unwholesome
surely .7’
‘Why, we do only put colored people in
them. Tbat’s the truth.’
‘When do the prisoners take exercise .7’
‘Well, they do without it pretty much.’
‘Do they never talk in the yard .7’
‘Considerable seldom.’
‘Sometimes, I suppose .7’
' \Vell, it's rare they do.
pretty bright without it.’
‘But suppose a man were here for a twelve
month. I know this is only a prison for
They keep
criminals who are charged with offences,
volume ‘XXV.—-Numiber 49,
while they are awaiting their trial, or are
under remand, but the law here a‘fford_s
criminals many means of delay. VVhat with
motions for new trial, and in arrest of judg-
_ment, and_ what not, a prisoner might be here
for twelve months, I take it, might be not '1’
‘Well. I guess he might.’
‘Do yott ntean to say that in all that time
he would never come out at that little iron
door‘, for exercise .7
‘He might walk some, perhaps, not much.
‘Will yott open one ofthe doors .7’ it
‘All, if you like.’
The fastenings jar and rattle, and one of‘
the doorsturns slowly on its hinges. Let
us look in. A small bare cell, into which
the light enters through a high chink in the
wall. 'l"nere is a rude means of washing. a
table; and a bedstead. Upon the latter. sits
rr man of sixty; reading. He looks for a
a moment; gives art impatient dogged
shake; and fixes his eyes upon his book
again.’ As we withd rew, our heads, the door
closes on him, and is fastened as be-fore.—
This man has tnttrdered his wife, and will
probably be hung.’
How lone‘ has he been here .7’
‘A month.’ ,
‘When will be be tried .7’
‘Next term.’
‘When is that .7’
‘Next month.’
‘In Englahd, if a man be under sentence
of death, even. he has air and exercise at
certain periods of the day.’
‘Possible?’ '
VVith what stupendous and untranslate-
blc coolness he says this. and how lounging-
ly he leads on to the women’s side; and
making as lte goes, a kind of iron castanet
ofthc key and stair’-rail!
Each cell door on this side has a square
aperture in it. Some of the women peep
anxiously through it at the sound of footsteps,
otb-rssbrink away in shame. For what
offence can that lonely child, often or twelve
years old he shttt up here? Oh! that boy .7
He is the son of that prisoner we saw just
now; is a witness against his father; and is
detained here for safe keeping, until thetrial:
that’s all.
But it is a dreadful place for the child to
pass the long days and nights in. This is
rather hard treatment for a younr: witness,
is it not .7—VVhat says our conductor .7
‘Well, it an’t a very rowly life, and tltafs
a fact!’
Again he clinks his l'll.°t:tl castinet, and
leads us leisurely away. l have a question
to ask him as we go. ' .
‘Pray, why do they c.tll this place the
Tombs?’
‘Well, it’s the can’t name.’
‘I know it is. \Vhy .7’
‘Some suicides happend here, when it was
first built. I expect it come about from that.
I saw just now, that the man’s clothes
were scattered about the floor of his cell.—
Don’t you oblige the prisoners to be orderly,
and put such things away .7
VVh«-re should ll]+‘y put ’em .7
Not on the ground surely. V\'hatdo you
say to hanging them up.7
‘He stops ,and looks around to emphasize
his answer: ’
Why, that's just it. \Vhr‘n they had
books they would hang tbemst-lves.so they’re
takrn ottt of every cell, and there's only the
marks left where they used to be!
The prison yard in which he pauses now,
has been the scene of terrible performances.
Into this narrow, grave-like p'ace, men are
brought out to die. The wretched creature
stands beneath the gil=bet on the ground :
the rope about his neck; and when the sign
is given, a weight at the other end comes
rttnning down, and swings him up in the
air-—a corpse.
The law rrqnires that there be present at
this dismal spectacle, the judge. the jury.
and citizens to the amount of twenty five.-—
From the community it is hidden. To the
dissolute and bad, the thing remains rt
frightful mystery. Between the criminal
and them, the prison wall is interposed as rt
thick gloomy veil. It is the curtain to his
bed of death, his winding sheet, and grave.
From him it. shuts out life, and all the mo-
tive to unrepenting bardihood in that last
hour, which its more sigltt and presence is
often all-sufficient to sustain. There are no
bold eyes to make him hold; no ruffians to
unhold a rnffian's name before. All beyond
the pitiicss stone wall. is unknown space.
A Large T/‘zroat.—'I'he Morning Star,
published at the Cincinati; relates the follow-
ing anecdote of a young gentleman of the
south who had expended a large fortune-
money, land, negroes-—every thing in a
course of intcmperance and profligacy.
He has just paid his last years’ grog bill
of $800; one day he was walking in the
street very leisurely, when seeing a physi-
cian on the opposite, he called out to him
saying he should like to have him comeover.
Doctor, said he I wish you would just
take a look down my throat.
I don’t discover any thing sir, said the
doctor after looking very carefully.
You don't, said be, why that's strange;
will you be kind enough to give another look’?
‘Really sir,’ said the doctor, after a second
look, I don’t see any thing. ‘
No? wby doctor there is a farm. ten
thousand dollars, and twenty negroes gone
down there!
A gentleman being short of funds, wrote
a laconic epistle to a friend, requesting the
loan of some money, adding, that as his
friend wasiat once the best and most lucky
man in the world, the probability was that
he would get the money again. His friend
immediately complied with the request.
-. Prudence and love are not made for each
other; in proportion as love increases, pru-
dence diminishes.
Albany Ifolice.-—A Curious Case of Fe-
male deception.-—One of those strange and
almost unaccountable cases of deception
which we hear of once or twice in an age
was developed at the Police Office Saturday
afternoon. A person who has for the last
fottr years followed the business of 3 tinker
and teamster alternately in this city, and
who is well known to many of our’citizens,-
was brought up before Justice Osborn.
charged with hanging out false signals--be
ing not exactly what outward appearance;
to believe—-sailing under false colors. ,
About two weeks since this person was
married to a very respectable and hardwork-
ing girl, \\ ho by her industry had laid up’;
considerable sum of money. The poor girl
found in a few days that all is not gold that
glitters—tbat appearances are dect-’itful—in
short, that her dear husband was a woman!
This fact being fully established to the sat-
isfaction of all parties, the faitlrless swain——
or rather deceitful jade, was arrested, exam-
ined at the police, and sent to jail. Acrowd
olthe curious followed her ladyship to her
new lodgings, making many original and
spirited remarks, called’ out by the novelty of
the case.
No other reason can be assigned for this
strange marriage alliance, except the desire
on the part of the husband to possess lrinrself
olthe money which the object of Iris affec-
tions had saved up from her hard earnings
and unwcaried industry.—-Albam/ Citizen.
IVanled.-—Vl7e want a neat, healthy,indus-
trious white girl to make a wife of. The
more ntoney she has the better. Commu.
nications post. paid if from adistance.
Reasons for taking this desperate step :—
firstly, contemporaries are continually
throwing it up to us that we are a bachelor.
Secondly, we have no time to go a-courting,’
for as soon as we are done writing editorials
we have other business to attend to in our
office. Thirdly, the eastern papers sac that
a very cold winter is corningl Foui-thly,
we shall be thirty-two years old on the 17th
day of January, 1843, precise hour not recol-
locted. Lastly. because’ we can “do the
thing.” N. B.—As many editors as possess
one spark of liberality are requested to copy
this without mutilation, and give the proper
credit.-— Cincinrtati Sun.
Dangers of Electz'oneerz'ng.—Tbe N. O.
Picayune rejoices in the possession of a live
Yankee, as a cotr spondent, who having
wandered as far south as Louisiana, peddling
notions, has settled down some where in
Caddoo county, or some othe r undiscovered
region of the State, and there concludes to
run for Congress. The following extract
from a letter tothe editor of the Picayune.
describing one of ltis electioneering tours, is
a specimen of the luck he had in this dc-
lighful business: ,
‘Well, I put up with a first rate good na-'
turcd old fcller, that I met with at a billiard
room, artd when we got to his house ’twas
just dusk. We went in, and I was intro-
duced to his wife, a fine fut woman, that look-
ed as if she got it on larffin, her face was so
fllll of fun. Artcra while, arter we had
talked about the garden, and so on, in come
three or four children larflin and skipping
along’ as merry as crickets. There warn’t
no candle lit, but I could see they was fine
looking fellows, and I started for the saddle-
bags, in which I had put a lot of sugar can-
dy lor the babies as_ I went along. Come
here, says I, you little rogue, conte along
here and tell me what your name is, the old-
est came up to me, and says be, ‘my name's
Peter Smith, sir.’
And Wl1al’S your name? says I to the
next one.
‘Bob Smith, sir.
The next said his name was Bill Smith.
and the fourth said his name was Tommy
Smith. Well. I got. ’em upon my knees
and kissed ’cnt over and over again. and gin
’em a lot of sugar candy, and old Mrs.
time. Mr. Smith looked on, but didu’t say
much. Why, said I, Mrs. Smith. Iwouldn't
take a good deal for them four boys if I had
‘em-they're so beautiful and sprightly.
‘No’ says she, larfiin, ‘I set a good deal by
’em, but we spile ’ern tu much.’
0, no, says I. they're ra’al well behaved
children. and by grashus, says I, pretending
to be started by a sudden idea, what a strik-
en resemblance ’tween them boys and their
father I and I looked_ at Mr. Smith; I never
did see nothing equal it, says I—your eyes
mouth, forrard—a perfect picture on you.
sir, s-tys I, tappen the oldest on the pate. I
thought Mrs. Smith would die IEITIIIII at
that; her arms fell down by her side, and
her head fell back. anrfshe shook the hull
house larffin.
‘Do you think so, Curnel Jones .7’ says
she, and she looked towards Mr. Smith, and
I tho’t she’d gone offin a fit.
Yes, says I, I du ra’ally, now.
‘Ha, ha, how---w—!’ says Mr. Smith,
kinder half larffin, ‘you re tu hard on me
Curnel, with your jokes.’
I ant jokin at all, sat s I, they're handsurn
child ten, and they do ook wonderfully like
you.’ . ,
Jest then a gal brought in a light. and I'll
be darn’d if the little brats didn,t turn to be
mullatos every one on ’em, and their heads
as curly as the blackest triggers! Mr. and
Mrs. Smith never had no children and they
sort 0’ petted them little niggers for play-
things? I never felt so streaked in my life
as I did when~I see how things stood. If I
hadn’t kissed the nasty things, I could got
over it, but kissing on ’em showed that I
was in earnest, (though I was soft sopin on-.
’cm as I tho’t all the time) and how to get
out ofthe scrape Ididn’t know. Mrs. Smith
larffed so hard when she see how confused I
looked thatishe most suffocated. A little
would lend honest and unsuspectiii‘g~-perso’na
Surith was so tickled that she larffed all the:
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