n._
'iirdays of the season.
’ag'ent of all changes in and about the preniiscs,
Adored unproductive by new inventions, or use-
‘less by changes in business, as no iiisuraiicc-,
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NUMBER 409-NEW"
I
‘ rsellectfts Lute.
" Ivcst side he Bl‘id;;c.
THE Sloop I\;la.ry
‘ ‘A. Selleck, Capt. G ru-
‘ man, will coniincnce
_ ‘ Ii_er \Vcekly Trips for _ L ,.
New York on Tuesday the 16th of March. mid
the Domestic, Capt. i\IerriIl, on the Saturday
following -" 1 N. SELLECK.
Norwalk, March 9,1847.
*‘ 5}: .«:
For Edens? York.
REGULAR TRII’S FOR. THE SEASON.
T .1 H E Sloop I\I.AB.Y \‘.7ILLl'S,
Capt. \Villis J. blerritt, hav-
ing coininonced her regular trips
’ _ for the Season, willloave N(.)l'\\’t!llt,
East. side the Bridge. every Tuesday Evening,
-‘and New York every Sattiirday.
Any one liaviiig business wit.h the Packet
‘Office during the absoiice of the vessel. inay
apply at. the Cabinet Shop of \Vaterbury as.-
Dock.
\VILLIS J. \i.E.R.RIT'I‘.
Norwalk, March 20. 1847.
For were York. 3
TIII-‘. sloop JULIA lias coni-
menccd her regular trips and will
leave the Landing at Five Mile
1' _ _ ~ ‘ I River on Tuesday evening, 30th of
Marcli, and New York on Satui'd:iy, April ‘Id,
and will continue to sail on 'I‘ucsdays and Sat-
l"reightaiid produce will
be conveyed as usual on the most fai'oi'abletoriiis.
For freight or passage apply to the captain on
board or at the store on the landing.
\V. C. SAHMIS.
Five Mile Rivcr, March ‘,3$)tli, I847.
§.l’RlrVi’G' ARE‘; ki'%lGi'E1?E’.ERi"fi‘.
C'o.7imenci'7ig iS'a.‘urduy, ./lfarc/i b172, 1817.
Qiiintard, onthe
13
PO RT Cl?IEC"I‘ER.,-ROCKY NI~ICI(,
S '1‘ A1111-‘ (PR 1) AND NOE ‘W AL ‘$5..
The New and Splendid Steaiii.;oat
J.-ITALINEC, Capt. ClIl'!_i§ Peck, .iI:~.
'\Vill leave New York from the Pier eiist. side
(latliariiie Market Slip, as above every aftpr-
. ‘V I ' ‘ I L‘
noon, at two o’clock, Suiula_Vs. ctxccptul. Ix..-
tiirning will leave Norwalk at scyen o'clo :l-;,
Srmnfm-t] at. 8, Rocky i\eck at half past 8, and
Port. (.‘-hcster at quart'er licforo S). _
Stages will be in rcadiiiess at the Laiiding to
convey piisseiigcrs to \VC.‘:t])0l'f_, S0Uil'_l’0¥‘la 'l‘_‘H-'1‘-
ficld, Bi'idgeport. Daubnry, Ridgolield, i\ew—
Canaan and ‘.Vilton. _ _ . - . _
§3E“‘All perseiis n.re torbid t.rust.mg any indi-
vidnal on account of this bbat or her owners.
New. York, Marcli 6th, 1847.
Pi'ot.cctio:i Eiasi=.r:uice Sizsiipairy
Of HARTFORD, Corn’.
Capital $200.00-=9—~\vit.li privilcge to
inci'ease to Ha I I‘ a M i ll i 0 n.
I.LLIAi\I'J. STRISET, Agent. 0fl'ci's to
I‘! insure Houses, Stores, Mills. l*‘:ictoi-it-.s,
‘Barns and the contents of each, together with
.9,»-ery other species of pi'opert_v, _
flgainst Loss or Dri.-iingc by Fire.
The rates of premium offered, are as low as
those of any otlicr Slinllti1'IiiSfl‘ii1llOil,.2itl(l every
iiiaulias now an opjtortuiiity, tor a ti'ifhi_ig sum,
to protect; himself against this destructive ele-
ment, which often in a single hour, swoops
away the earniiigs of so many years. _
It is incuiiiliciit on all persozis applyiiig for a
',.‘c,,¢w,,]m- policy on buildings, to iiilorni the
that increase the I121’/‘.:t1'(I; or on niacliiiiei'y1'cii-
office is bound by their policy, to pay any inoro
than the cash value of property, at the time of
its destruction.
Norwalk, April 1st, 18 7’.
1-5
At the Peopicvs Store
,\,\,.,-_ ,—\/\/\’/l\f\_,j"-‘.\_/\_/\_‘\ /\/\
Publisliod Every \‘{’e(lnes(iay Iiiorning,
SERIES.
IEOVVAIRE) INS'IIl}A'.\7(']E C0.
Office No. 60 \Vall st., New York.
I-IE Ca pitul, llIl[)ltll't'(l by losses in 1845,
T was filled up in June. ’47 to §§‘259,$0(B,
by the payment of alltlie subscriptioiis in ('(l.$fl.
Insurances against loss by tire and inland nav-
igation, a re made by this Co. on favorable terms.
’ Dim-:c'i‘oii.s: .
R. I-Iaveiis, Najah Taylor,
J. Philips Plimiiix, \Vin. \V. Todd,
\V‘lliam Couch. l*‘:iiining C. 'I‘iic.kci',
John David \Voll'e, Jolin Eailltlii.
M. D. Ileiijziinin, .Ii‘ci'diuaiid Suydam,
_Edwai'd Aiitlioiiy, II. G. Thonipson,
Thus. \\’. I’cai'sall, .loliii Iluggerty,
Ilciiry E. Ilavies, (lalii'icl \Visiu-ii‘,
Ileiiry R. Riiiii.-rcn, (lharles N. Talbot,
Japliot. Bishop, '
Li-zwis PIHLLIPS, Sec. R. II.-xvi-:i~is, Pres.
('.iI‘lOl.‘i IE ST. JOIIN, Aci;.\"r.
Norwalle, Conn.
IE1 1%’-DTINJE.
. IIE -bsci'ibor liaving taken the stand for-
inci'l_v orciipicil by \\'in. Uliiisti-iiul, and more re-
cciiily by W. U. l.iin-liiirgli. as Caiiiiaii and (leisu-
ral I"or\v:iriliiig Age-iit iii l\i;\\' York cit_\_'. takes this
Iii()ili()(l of iiiforiiiiiig the citizens of I"‘:iii‘licld County
gciii-r.'illy,tliat he has rcmovi-il to ilic city. and _i.-'
iiow ready to attend to all ordcrsiii his line. Conn-
try Jlcrcliiiiiis or ;\Iilllllll|CIlll'C.~i xvi.-liing his sin-vice.c
will plea-‘c coiisign their goods or letters t.o his care,
either by Stcaiiiboat or Sloop, and tlicy “ill ri-ceivc
his iiniiicdiaic attention on their arrival. I’ci'son.s
wi.-liiiig tlicir goods shipped to any other port in the
States, may ilcpciid upon having their biisiiicss
done correctly and with all pcssililc (lP.~‘]'!:il(‘ll.
(,‘i,tLIi‘i’ l$.'\.Il'l‘IlA=.\l.
Nor\\':ill«‘., Jilly I7ili, IS-I7. 333
. 5 ,
Dry fireeéis 3
‘ill E siilisci-iliei' liasjusti'cturncd from New
. York with an ciitire new stock ofscasoii-
able goods suitable for the Spring trade, em-
brai-iiig as coiiiplctoaiid desirable assortiiieiit as
ever brought into I*‘:»iirfiiild County.
.Iam receiving daily from my agent. in N. Y.
the most desirable goods in the market, bought
at auction and ofilie importers, which will be
sold on the most favorable I(“1‘liiS for cash.
Please call and judge for yourselves.
‘\V}I. J. I“.I.\'CI"I.
\Vest'poi't‘, Mari-.li fztltli, 1847‘.
'§‘e .-‘;.‘.':iiiiiit"aiit‘=*:*i;'i:i'.~:.' or ltizuzliiiiists.
__,:._ FOR. SALE or T0 L IA SE, a large,
now 3 story building. by 5.3, with a 12
l‘i0i‘;'.o, power engine, boilcr, sliaftiiig, lailics,
ili-ill;.-,vic(=.s and all li(‘.('(‘,.~’f1tll'_‘y' tools for it firs lriili:
f‘.-Iii(‘lill!(} Shop, and well calculated for almost
uni kind of iininiifai-turiiig piirposc. Situated
in lllifl biisiiiess portion ofthe town of Norwalk,
40 miles from New York. and wiiliiii a few rods
of I’ackot navigation and about ii mile from III('
New York and i\'c\v IIavcii Il:iili‘o:id. The
facilities for receiviiig or sending freiglit to or
1';-um New York, either by sloop, stcamlioat. or
.R.ailroad is iiiisiiipiisscil. The building has
been used a short time as a inacliiiio shop.
foundr_v and screw factory.
as 9:-
BUH.E)§;\7G L€)'i‘§, For‘ Sale.
NUi\.Il3ER of line Iluildiiig Lots are now
offered for sale, on Mcrwiii I’laco, situa-
ted liotwocii the two villagcs in IN(|l'\\'illli in
views of the !Rlllll'f);lfl, i\'or'.valk Ilarbor, &.c.
Now is the time to s.cciirc a good Buililing LOI-
as these lots will be sold very low. l‘lliqltli'(’. of
(IIIAS. _lSAA()S.
Norwalk, July 20, ].i':‘.~l7.
LOSE‘.
‘ N St. John's day. Julio ‘.2-lth while ri_di|ng
from Rodihiig to i\oi'walk. in the vicinity
ofthe Don, ii stripr-il silk Still-Slltltlt‘-, lilac and
gi'ccii with deep I“l'lll_;’P... Tlie finilcr‘ will lit-
iznitably l'(‘.\Vtll'tIi".(I by leaving it; at i\lr. tirunian s“
Store in N0l'\\’llll{, or applyiiig to Dr. DODGE. 0!
‘2l3U
A. i..s.i.Lv
‘.35!
ll cddiiig.
“’:i:iiti'el_.
good Blacksiiiitli to occupy (1 now stand.
three iiiilos distant from any other shop-
A good lll('('ll2illlC and one who 1tll(lL'1'Sl:il‘i(lS
well liistradc, would be liberally snpported.——
For further particulars. oiiquire of Alon’/.o Vi’.
ON STANTLY on ha nd a beautiful ass=.ort-
merit of Dress Goods, such as Priiitcd I
I\’1uiSlll1S, Eiiibroidered Lawns, Ifrench, Aiiicri-}
can mid Scotch Gingliains’, Frencli and English;
‘Prints, De Laines and almost every style of; '
. Dress Goods usually called for in a Retail Store. l
Piircliasers can rest assured that all thcgoodsl
offered at the People‘s Store, are of the besti
quality find st_ylcs,,aiid what is more rIosli'al)lo, l
entirely mzw-—-liaviiig no old stock of several ,
years standing to work off, we can take, for our;
motto “Small profits and quick sales.”
ilS$F.I.l. & Moonv.
ULL’S Double, Single, and Children's:
Trusses, for sale by J. A. \Vi-:i~‘.n.
S.\DDLES,Ti.&l§NESSES, &c.
7 I-IE subscriber would respectfully inform
the public that he has on hand
._and extensive assortmciit ofllariicsses, Saddles.
Bridles, l\Iart.iii_9,ales, Trunks. V‘!!!-Sf“-5, Ci||'i‘-Gt-2
Bags, ézc. which are ready niade and on hand.,
Also tl first rate assortment; of Carriage and RI-E
ding \Vhips, which are for sale at a small ad-,
vance from factory prices. I~Iarncss Collars,
wholesale and retail. A good assortmciit of
saddlcr‘s silk. purse twist, enibriiciiig all colors
-and qualities. Every article needed in thelinc,
may be found liero, of the best quality, and will ,
be sold as low as can be furiiishcd by any one,
foot excepting the gt-mmcl_/I001" establishment on '
the other side of the Ilridge. ~ ~
Repairing done at ilie shortest notice, and in
the best. manner. \VM. I3. SVVAN.
Norwalk, June ‘.21. 1847.
l-IARNESSEJS, «Site.
New Est.ablish:ii|eiiil!
fl‘ I-IE attention of the public is invited to the
. new Saddlery Establishment. just opened
Iiylthe subscriber under the Connecticut Hotel.
His stock and workmanship he believs to be ful-
ly equal to the best, and his attention will be
assiduously given to meet; the wishes, and secure
the approbation of all who favor bun with their
patronage. \Vork done at short notice, and pri-
ces moderate. ‘
. A good assortment of Harnesses, Saddles,
Bridles, Whips. Trunks, Valises, Cnrpetbags,
&.c.« will be kept constantly on hand, and for sale
cheap.
Repairing done in a neat, substantial, and ex-
it large*liandsoinely bound and illustrator]-
NO. 1&.
Street, IfIeiir'y' Clark or I)avid Selleck at Sel-
leck’s Mills, \Vcst Norwalk, Ct. of the subsc1'i-
ber, 37 Nassau st. N. Y.
‘2tpd‘l7 DAVID R. SELLECK.
‘II E s_ubscril.ier has just received largo addi-
. tioiiiil supplies of I.l.AR.D\VAIKE, CUT-
LERY, II()LLO\V-VVARE, GUNS, IRON
AND S’.l.‘El*‘.L, I<‘ALi\IER’S U'.I.‘Ei‘S.ILS,
I.’AlNTS. OILS, \VlNDO\V-GLASS, SIC.
which are otfci'e<'l either wholesale or retail at
the lowest New York prices.
\V. C. S'rm-:r.'r.
Nerwalk, March 30, 1847.
,Ncw Books.
‘I ASHIN l’I‘ON and his Generals, by J.
cheap edition;
T. It-Ieadlcy; Tiiyloi' and his Geiierals,
Biograpliics for Cliildren, coin-
lprisiiig Life of Gen. Taylor, Scott, \Vei-th,
]‘lt'0\Yil, Ilonaparte, \Vclliiigton, '\Vashington,
Putiiain, La Fayette, Franklin, ‘\Varren, &c.
Just. rec’d
J. A. \VEED;_
by
Si/I%]'AI‘J'E‘!3l}, A Lad to run of errands and
' to be generally useful. _Apply to
CHARLES SCILIBNI-‘.R.
\Vcstport', July 6, 1847.
E)“. III LL will be happy. to see his
friends, and respond to all their calls in the
way of his pi'ot'cssioii.
—-—IVl:ll'Kf0l'€5 Miiitiilal Iii:s1u':uiir:c 00.
JAMES REED, AGl'2i\"I‘.
At the office of the NoricrzI7c_~_Cf_cz_:;cttc-
SH-\ D.
‘.2 from Connecticut Rivet‘, H'-
S. E. Oi.us'i'i~:.\n’s.
To Close
THE TRADE FOR THE SEASON.
A, IVE. VVAERD
" ILL sell the remainder of his stock of
Printed Miisliiis, Lawns and Berrages,
at reduced prices.
'R'0'l‘lCI3.
June 29th.
A LL persons’ indebted to the subscriber,
whose accounts are of more than 3 montlis
standing are requested to make immediate pay
merit. C. J. GRUMAN.
DOZEN Clai-k’s best Spool (_30l—l0n.
warranted 200 yds——s-lightly imper-
fcct, for sale by the subscriber, at; 2s 611 per
peditious manner. Fmzmziiicx I3nAnLi:r.
Norwalk,_J,une 21, 1847.
25,
,dozen. \Y M.J . FINCII, '\Vestport.
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NORVVALK, ’CT. “WEDNESDAY. SEPT.
‘POETRY.
A BEAUTIFUL BALLAD.
.F:uian'ie’s on line Eteriany Sea.
Ere the twlfglit biit; was flitting,
In the sunset, at. her knitting,
Sang ii lovely maiden, sitting
Uiidoriic:iih her threshold tree;
And, ere daylight died before us,
Ami the Vesper star shone o'er us,
lfitful rose lier tender chorus,
“Janiie’s on the stormy sea."
lVa.i'iiily' shone the sunset glowing,
Sivceily brcatlicd the young flowers blowing;
liartii, with lwziiity overflowing,
Seeincd the home of love to‘ be,
As those angel tones asconiling,
\Vit Ii the scene and season blending,
Ever had the same low ending—
“Jaiiiie’s on the .-.toriiiy sea.”
Curfew bolls reinoti‘-l_v ringing,
Minglcd with that. sweet voice "singing,
And the last. red ray scoured clinging,
Lingeringly. to tower and tron-—
I\'carer as I came; and ncarcr.
Finer rose the notes, and ck-aror,
Oh! ’twas Iii-avcii itself to hear her—-
“Jaiiiic.’s on the stormy sea.”
Elev»-',ye west wiridsl blandly hover
()'er the bark that bears my lover;
Gently blow and bear him over
To his own dear home and me;
For when nixrli* \viiiL“l - I I "ll- '
A , . g . is )L.ll( tio wi ow.
Sloop torsakes my lonely pillow,
‘*.lziinio's on the stormy sea.”
[low couldl lint list, but linger
To the song, and near the singer,
Swcetly wooing heaven to bring her
Jamie from the stormy son;
And while yet her lips did iiamo iiie,
Forth I sprang, my lieait o’orcanic nie--—
“(lrievo no inoro. sweet, Iain Jainic—--
o Heine returned to love and time.”
ins6bLLANY.
RABIBLES IN ENG AND.
BY .7. 'r. IIEADLEY.
i %""°d ‘ieala “ml was very ialktive and some-
15,
_. ‘_ . _..._ _. _...____-.... ..-........._ .._ _-..._ ._. __
‘grew _
b.-wildered me. It ha-'.l nerising swell or
sinking cadence, but monotonous, deep,
and constant, kept. rising every moment
louder and clearer. Ilasteaiiig forward I
came to the further entrance of the 'l'un
nel, and there a man and boy, one with a
violin and the other with a l'iill'p—-IIIC iii-
nocent authors of all the stmngc, indescri-
babe sounds that bad so corif-.ised me.
The endless rcvcibaiions amid these long
arvlies so comple‘ely mingled them to-
getliei'—one overtiiliiiig and blending in
with another, and tl.e whole bounding
l)?lt‘l{ in a mass to be again split asunder,
and tossed about, created such a jargon as
I never before listened to. 'l he sounds
could not escape, :3: in their struggles to do
so—hitiin: along the roof and sides ofthc
Tunricl they at length lost all distinct-
ness of utterance, and became tangled up
in the most astoiiisoiiig manner.
The morni:ig I left Oxford for Stratford
on the Avon was as beautiful a one as cv-
cr smiled over New England. The frag-
mentary clouds went troopiiig over the
sky, the fresh, cool wind sw- pt chcerfuily
by, and the newly waslicd meadows and
fields looked as if just preparing I.heni-
solves fora holdiday, Again I took my
seat On the top of the coach, with two or
three others, and Started away. We soon
[')I(3l{€(l lip illl a(il(Ill.l(in3l coynpanjon, 3 ppet.
ty young \\'0mi1". who also climbed to
1!“? “Wf Of the Coach. The inside was
fllll: “ml 3")“ “W5! Lnow that an English-
”““‘ flew!‘ ».‘§’!"€S up his seat for a lady.
He takes the place he has paid for, and
<3-\'P€Cl5 fill 0ll1€"l‘S, of whatever sex, to do
the same. If it rains, he says it is oiifor-
llllmle, bl-It SUp[)Oses that the lady knew
the flsi-: when she took her seat, and ex-
pects her to hear her misfortune lil-:e a
philosopher.
This lady, I should think, from her gen-
eral appearance and conversation was a
governess. She had evidciitly traveled a
what inqiii.-tiiive. VVhen she discovered I
I intended in my last to go more into
only one or two things.
betli’s Armory are stored all'§he varieties
of ancient warfare. There are the glaive,‘
guisariic, the bill, c-atclipolc, Locaber axe, '
two handed battle axe, liabcred, cross-_
bows, Sac.
Passing over the rooms and instruments.
of torture, let us drop for a moment into‘
the Tower House, containing the regaliaf
Here in a single glass case are gathered"
all the crown jewels, diadems, sceptrcs,'
&c of rich old England. 'I here are five.
crowns in ail, and five royal sceptres,lieav.=y
wii.li gold and fiasliing with diamonds.
the queen’s diudem made for the wife of
James ‘lid is a single circle of gold, yet with
this large‘, richly sctdiairionds and edgings
of pearls, it cost a lialfa million of dollars.
VicLoria’s crown has a large cross in front,
entirely frosted with brilliants, and in the
centre a single sapphire two lllt'llt‘S long,
and blue as lieavcn——-it is the size of a
small egg. There It ans St. L‘Idward’s
staff, four feet and a half long and of pure
gold, and near a my al sccptze radiant with
its own jeweled light. Tlierc, too,are the
Golden Eagle, which holds the anointing
oil for their inostgracious sovereigns-the
anoiiiting sp0on—tlie great golden salt
cellar of state, SllI‘l'0ut'i1leLl with twelve
smaller ones, all of gold--the baptismal
font, in which Victoria and the present
I’rin<:e of Wales were both baptised, silver
hilt, four feet high——aiid the heavy sacra-
mental,platc—t'.vo massive tankards, &c.,
all of solid gold.
“Only six pence a sight,” mid lo! the
eye fcusis on this profusion of diamonds,
and jewels, and precious stones. Millions
of money have been wasted on these bau-
bles, and there they idly flash year after
year, while their worth expended on fain-
isliing Ireland would give bread to every
starving family, or instruction to every ig-
norant and depraved child of the kingdom.
"But this is the way of the world—millions
for show, but not a cent for wretched,
starving men.
The tunnel is one of the chief wonders
of London. This subterrrnean passage is
thirty feet beneath the bed of the Thames
river, and twenty two feet high. It is
thirteen hundred feet long, and thirty
eight. wide, and lighted with gas. One
has strange emotions in standing under
these dark, damp arches. Over his head
is rushing :1 deep river, and vessels are
floating. and steamboais are ploughing the
water, and he cannot but tliitik of the ef-
fect a small leak would produce, and what
his chance would be in a general break
own above.
The Tunnel is composed of two arches,
with a row of immense columns in the
centre. It is designed .for carriages, but
is not yet sufficiently completed to receive
ll1€m- You descend by a winding stair-
case, and passing under the river emerge
into daylight by a similar staircase on the
further side. Little hand printing presses,
fruit and candy tables, and nick necks of
various kinds, are strung through the pas-
sages.
As I was saunteriiig along, suddenly I
heard a low l‘ium.ming sound which started
me prodigionsly. The first ‘thought was
but the masonry above had given W3)’: and
that ringing was the steady pressure of the
down rushing waters——The bare possibili-
ty of being buried up there “as 100 I101"?!-
ble to entertain for a moment. I looked
anxiously around, but finding no one, not
even those who lived there, the least alumi-
ed, I concluded it was-all right, and Vwlllied
details of ilie lower, but I will mention :morl.-ed that she mistrustcd so from my
In Queen Eliza-lc0mpl.:cz'o1z.
was an Amei‘ican,slie very gravely re-
Now it must be remembered
that I have naturally the tinge of a man
belonging to a southern clinic, which had
been considerably deepened by my recent
exposures in the open air in Italy and along
the Rhino. Supposing that all Americans
were tawny from their close rclationsliip
to the aborigines of our country, she at-
tributed my swarthiness to the Int.-"fan
blood in my veins. I confessed myselfsuf-
ficicntly surpris.-d at her penetration, and
humorcd her inquisitivczie:-.-s. She left. us
at Stratford, bidding my friend and myself
good bye with a dignified shake of the
band. We of course regarded this great.
condescending on her part to two Indians
with proper respect, attributing it to the
comparative fluency with which we spoke
English. She cvidcntly thought us savag-
es of more than Ol‘illllilI'y education.
After dinner I strolled out to the house
by JAMES REESE}, at Two Dot: ans Per Annum in Advance.
\/\/\f\_/\/‘x ‘ ’\l" /V‘ f‘lf\.’\I‘f\’\/‘— \'.,~_,-\,-
‘VOLUME 3o-NUMBEain.~
Rf
I847.
‘spinning round so, how he could best keep
her f:OlTi finding him out.
i ‘I-lic—I’ve got it zaci.I3‘,’ says he. ‘Hie.
—Su-Susan knows l’in (liic) terrible f-fond
of main milk. VVell, I'll jest take a big
(liic) swig of m-m-milk, and (bio) that’ll
"fix all right, so (liic) sb’sbe'll never sus-
peci iiotliin’, poor gal.’
lome he went, practising strait walking
all the W=‘_V. and studying how he would
When he found the latch, which was on
iliewrong side of the door, that opened
the wrong way, too, be felt round in the
(lark for more doors than were ever in the
house before, and got imo ever so many
shaped rooms, till he found the pantry
where he expected to get the milk. He
didn‘t have a very clear idea as to where
it ought to be; so, afier feeling about in
every place but the right one, he ‘conclu-,
.led to go up to his room and ask his wife
where it was. The stairs seemed to be
turned upside down, and the bedroom had,
changed places with the cellar liitchen,l
but be made out at last to find the door.’
Aftcr cl.-aring his_ throat, and saying
over his speech so as to make no mistake,
he opened the door, took a lean against
the door post, and listened to hear if his
wife was awake. She was sound asleep.
‘All the better for that,’ thought he to
liiinself.
‘Susan! Susan I’ _says he, very low and
plain.
‘Eli 7.’ says Susan, just waking. ‘Is that
you come home, my dear, so late-—I——’
‘Susan! Susan I’ says Bill, paying no
attention to what; she said, his head being
full of milk——‘Susan l’ J
‘What, my dear?’
‘Is there any milk in the house ?’
‘Yes, d«~ar—but “hat; in the world——--’
‘Susan! Susan !’
‘Wliat, dear I’
“i’\'liei‘e is the milk ‘I’ _
‘In the pantry in the dining room, dear.
.But you had better come to bed now——it’s
so—’
Bill dido’t say a word, but took some
terrible long steps in the dark. He found
the (lining room again, and the pantry, but
he couldn’t find no milk nowhere. ‘After
trying for about five minutes, he goes up
stairs again, and leaning against the door
to steady biinself, asked his wife again.
‘Susan! Susan!’ says he, very particu-
lar.
‘Eli——what. 'I’ says she, rousing up.
‘Is there any milk in the liousel’
‘i told you there was some milk in the
pantry, dear-—-’
Down went Bill again. This time he
felt everywhere, and upset lots of things;
fllillilflg ii terrible racket among the disli-
cs, but not. a drop could he find.
‘Cuss the milk !’ says lic—‘where could
tbcv put it 1’
In a minute he was at the bed room
door again.
‘Susan I Susan!’ says he.
Susan snuflled the snore short offin the
of Shakspeare, a low, miserable affair at
the best, and hardly large enough fortlirec
persons. Yet here the great (lramatist
was born. A ftvr going through it, I went
to the church where his bonesrcposc, and
read with strange feelings, the odd insci ip
tion he directed to be ‘placed over his
tomb.
It was a beautiful day, and I went and
sat down on the banks of the Avon beside
the cliurcb, and gazed long on the rippling
waters and green slopes of the neighbor-
ing bills and greener hedges. Cattle were
lazily browsing in the fields; the ancient
trees beside the cliurcli bent and sighed
as the fresh breeze swept by, and all was
tranquility and beauty.
so pure a sky
clear and bracing, and although it was the
middle of August, it seemed li e a bright
June day at home.
I-low many fancies a man will sometimes
weave, and yet scarce know why. A sin-
gle chord of memory is perhaps touched,
or some sliglit association will arise, fol-
lowed by a hundred others, as one bird,
starting from the brake, will arouse ii
Whole flock, and away they go swarming
iogetlier. It was thus as I sat on the banks
of the Avon, soothed by the ripple of its
waters. Along this stream Slialispeare
had wandered in his boyhood and cast his
dark eye over this same landscape. Wliat
gorgeous dreams here rapt his _\'Ollll'lflil
imagination, and strange, wild vagaries
crossed his mind. Old England then was
merry, and plenty reigned in her halls,
and good cheer was everywlicre to be
found. But now want and poverty cover
the land. Discontent is written on half
the faces you meet, and the murmurs ofa
coming storm are heard over the distant
heavens. _
Farewell, sweet Avon! your briglitr wa-
ters bordered with green field and spark-
ling with light, are like a pleasant dream.
————
HOVV MR. PIPKIN BLOVVED
HIMSELF‘.
Bill Pipkin hadn't been married very
long, and liadn’t quite got out of the habit
of faking a little punch drinking frolicks
with his old friends on particular occa-
sions. He was first rate at making excus-
es for staying out at nights now gpd then;
he was terribly pressed with busiiiess,and
as he took monstrous good care never to
come home crossed legged, his wife never
suspected him, and all went on first rate.
One night Bill got rather more than lie
could carry straight, but he didn’t find it
out till he was on his way home. He
wouldn’t have Susan know he was in such
on. But that strange humming ringing
I had never seen,
in Eiigfand-—the air was,
.a situation for all the world-,_ and he began
middle.
‘Wliat!’ says she—sort of cross this
time.
‘is there any milk in the house I’
‘Yes, I told you I’
‘\\"cll, wliere is ii 1.’ says he.
‘I told you, on the shelf—in the pantry
,—-in the dining room !’ says Susrn, break-
'ing it ell short. into mouthfuls of pretig,
loii(l italic.
'l‘liat. rather frightened [Bill and put him
ofl his guard.
‘Well, Susan,’ says he, ‘is it tied up in
.,myg/mzg, or is it la/.yi'ng about loose .7’
That was cnongli——ibe cat was out of
stlie bag, and no help for it. Mrs. Pipkin
"was bright awake in a minute, and the
iway Bill got a Candle tliat night was
enough to sober the drunkest husband in
creation. He never got corned again,
land it was more than a year before he
could drink milk in his coffee when Susan
lwas at the table-
KISSING THE BRIDE.
The following letter to the Satiirdiiy
.Evening Post, is a rebuke of a most si.ly
and senseless custom, which should be
done away with among all respectable
fpeople. ‘I hat the near relatives of a new
‘made bride, should wish to kiss her after
.the ceremony, is natural and proper; but
jthe universal ordeal, through which the
‘bride has to pass in some‘ parts of the
country, is shameful and di.-gusting.
SIR :—I herewith send a bit of wedding
I am in a very bad humor, I assure
lyou; which you know ought; not to be the
very day one is married. It is not at my
husband, though, dear good_ man he is.-—
Oh! I was vexed beyond endurance last
evening, ']_‘ha_I. Vile practice! VVOlll.(.l 3101]
believe it’! A hundred and fifty kisses!
of all sorts and sizes, and foul, frojn old
and young, from male and female! lsaughl
could any bride endure all that and pre-
serve her temper’! Such a charge of snuff!
such showers of tobacco spitilel Such
fumes of tobacco smoke ! No P00!‘ ma"
covered with vermin was ever more
tli'encl1ed- If this fashion of the Whole
company kissing the bride must be follow-
ed, in the name of all that.’s decent, let
"old grand-daddies burn out their Wiles
before they ofier to poke them under your
very nose. And those whose threats are
at best so many sepulclires, Iwould advise
before they go to a wedding to fill 'lI_l€ll'
pockets with cloves, cinnamon. or corian-
der seed, and commence c_he_wing at least
an ounce before the marriage ceremony
,cake.
talk so Susan wouldn’t find him out. ,.
W0l‘l‘.l, help liwgliing at the spectacle we
begins».
louder and louder, and completely : thinking as well as he could with his head, - Only think of a poor creature standing
up an hour and a half after the blessed
knot was tied only to be nozzled and slob-
bc-retl over by all the masculine gender of
the neighborhood ! Onlytbink of I] deli-
cate, modest. female, standing like a tar-
get, the 0b_](‘ct of all the Iipshots ofa large
corps of militia, and then I thought I
should have droped down with fatigue ; I
verily believcl used an ounce of hartshorn
to keep me frein fainting. Bot vexed as
l was, Mr. E(lllor,I could a )1, to gain the
all made. And you would_have laughed,
too, if youliad been there. .
Only imagine, if you please, the chief
person of the’ group, me Dorothy Daffodil,
at the right hand of my dear spouse; and
a crowd of men, li e a swarm of flies round
a cup of molasses, all pressing forward,
and making up their lips ready for a smack
~and then, one after another poking their
snouts into my very face, and rrie wiping
my face every wliipsticli, to appeara little,
decent. But the most. _ludicrous part of
the exhibition was to see u bashful fellow
go tliroiigli the manmuvres. Like a shy
‘trout venturing up to the bait.—advancing
a little, then darting back among . the
re_etls——you might behold the poor man
with heart beating audibly, coming for-
\\.'at‘(I,\\'Itl] a cautious step, stooping some-
times through fear, or slipping behind the
friendly corporation of seine broad-backed
fellow a little ahead. Having advanced.
‘‘'‘l!““ ‘l .V“Td 0|‘ 80, you, might see him,
as If afmltl his courage would fail by delay,
dart forward from behind his shelter,
Snatch 11 ltiss, and be oil‘ in the twinkling
"“““ eye. But alas! ludlc1‘0_'.J.S as it may
=*Pi>f'=1?» my poor cheek had to suffer in
<‘0|iSL‘i_]ncnce of it, and even now bears the
Wlrli inflicted upon it by Simon Snuggle‘-
tooth. .
' Some of the old fellows must kiss me,
ll“-Y Said, on both sides of my face--and
S0me of them said my breath was as a
V050 in October, and others that it was
fi‘ng'raut as ii load of new made hay. Seine
of the old fellows with one foot in the
grave and the other on the brink, said they
kissed my grandmother and my mother,
and new I suppose they think they have
clapped the climax of their gallant exploits
by nozzling over me as though I was a
mere baby.
I piiied my poor husband, poor man, to‘
be obliged to stand and look on as silly as
21 feel, and see his new married wife gum-
mcd over. I wish in my soul he would
have knocked down .1 half a dozen of his
own uiiadiilterated feelings, instead of
being restrained by the rules of etiquette.
But Mr. Editor, after all my sutlerings and
vexations, here I ‘am alive, and I pray
Heaven I never may be married again, till
the custom of kissing the bride by the
vrliolesalc is done away.
RASCALITY.
One of the most finished pieces of ras-
cality we wot of, has been perpetrated on
a confiding widow lady at D_urien, by a
fellow calling himself Calvin S. Ball.-
\Ve give the following particulars at the
request of the injured one and, hoping‘
the press will pass him round, that otliers
may not be duped by him. '
This Ball came to Darien some time
last Spring, in the capacity of a journey-'
man shoe maker, and obtained work. He
was in the neighborliood but a day or two,
beforc be selected out a widow then resi-
ding with her parents, and worth some
seven or eight thousand dollars, as his
victim. By the aid of a female neighbor,
be soon obtained an interview with the
widow lady, and, by false representations
and prospects, in about two weeks suc-
ceeded in prevailing upon his victim to
accompany him to Port Chester, unbe-
known to her parents and friends, Where
she was married to him. They then re-
turned to Darien,wliere they took board for
a time with the female neighbor alludedto.
B-all now set about converting Mrs. Bulls
notes and evidvnces of debt into cash, by
her consent, under a pretence that a favor-
able opportunity oflizrcd to engage in_ [I
profitable business in the city of New
York. Some four or five thousand dollars
were gathered together, and they proceed.
ed to New York, with a fine horse and
wagon and the furniture, linen, &c. of Mrs.
B. before marriage, and took rooms at No.
26 Downing st. He had not been there
many days before he pretended u disap-
poiiitment. in some of his arrangements,
and proposcd to deposite $3000, Mrs. B.-
bad then by her in specie, in one of the
Banks until such time as it might be
needed. This was consented to, and the
money was taken away by Mr. Ball. On
his return, he said he had left the money
at the Mechanics Bank, but did not bring
back a certificate of (leposite, because, as
he said, the Teller could not count it that
afternoon, having gone out to attend to
the funeral of his wife. Tlie‘next day,.
however, he brought in a Book Book con-
taining an entry of the deposite iii the
usual form, and prevented all s.iispijc.ion of
any wrong. -~ -
This was the 3d clay of July and up to
this time Ball had been all kindness’ and
attention, and won the entire confidence
of his unsuspecting wife. On Sunday (the
4th day of July,) he complained of feeling
ill--his head, he said, troubled him very
much, and, as there would be so much
firing and confusion on the 5th he thought
he would flee from the noise, by going
over to the Jerseys and see if he could
not collcctsome money out of a man be
pretended was greatly indebted to him
there. Mrs. Ball proposed to accompany
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