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NEVY ARRANGEDIEN1‘.
?'NllIl.“flIIlII lllllllllill llllll.
I HE subscriber having purcliased the Mar-
- ble Yard recently owned by Messrs E.
Price & Son, wouid iespectfully announce to
all who may be disposed to favor him with their
patronage, that he is prepared to execute orders
for Jllonumental Sculpture, and Grace Stones
of evory descrip_tioii in a superior style, of Aiiier-
ican and Italian Marble, which will be furuislied
as cheap as can be obtained at any other estab-
lishment in the State. A share of the public
patronage is respectfully solicited.
J. M. SMITH.
Notiee.—\Ve the undersigned having trsns-
ferred our hlarble Business in Norwalk, to J.
M. Smith, cordially recoiiiineiid liini to our
former friends and customers in Fail-field
County. E. PRICE <3: Son’.
Norwalk, April 13, 1848.
‘RANDLE & R.-kYIVIOND’S
Hat and Cap Store,
VVEST SIDE THE BRIDGE.
THE subscribers would inform the public
. . that they havejust received from _t;_he city
one of the largest assortinents of Silk Hats and
‘Caps of every description, cver brought into
this town, which they are prepared to sell at
prices wliioli will give entire satisfaction. \Ve
would also call attention to our assortment of
Palmleaf, Straw and Panama Hats for -sum-
uner wear. Also a large assortment of Fur
‘Hats of our own making, which we warrant as
very superior. Those in want of a Hat will
«lo well to give us acall. Any person buying a
hat of us can have the same Ironed over at any
time free of charge.
Norwalk, April 18, 1848.
16
C. LOCKVVOOD dz SON,
Mercliant Tailors,
AT 'riii«: OLD STAND,
Bows Building, Main-Street,
EAVING just added to their former stock,
i .a large and well selected assortiiient of
fashionable Spring and Suminer goods, coin-
prising all the varieties new in use for Gen-
:tlemen’s Wear‘, would invite the attention
of their customers and the public to the same,
assuring them that all Garments made by them
-sliall be done in a superior and satisfactory
manner.
Particular attention paid to cutting for others
‘to make up.
Norwalk, April 3, 1848. 14
N ORVVA LK
!llllLOIllNll ES'l‘llllilSlllllIlN’l‘.
E. CURTIS,
ERCHANT TAILOR, No. 10 Main
. st. Olmstead’s Buildings, would take this
opportunity to return his thanks to his numer-
ous friends for their liberal patronage, and solicit
a continuance of their favors. He would also
-invite attention to a large and well selected as-
sortment of
BROAD CLOTHS,
Consisting of French, English, German and
American Manufacture.
_ .CASSIMERESa
A large. assortment of French, Doeskin, plain
fancy, and Tweeds Cassimere.
SERIES.
For coiitiiiuaiice one quarter,
Published Every Vvedncsaay Morning, ‘by BYINGTON & lIOY,'l‘,'at Two Dollars Per Annum in Ad
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lllnctry.
For the Norwallc Gazette.
HAPPINESS.
BY THE “HPPPY MiNs'rt:EL.”*
0 why should I be lone and sad ? ‘
Why should my soulin sorrow pine ?
\Vhen blooming health is_on my cheek,‘
And “ hope’s bright visions” all are mine;
VVhen genial fi-ieiidship, youthful loye,
\Vitl'ijoy my tlirolibiiig heart insplres
And all around. below, above,
Bids sadness from my soul retire.
The “king of day" the “ inoon’s pale oi'b"—
The st arry hosts txliatiiiglitly glow.
The changing seasons, “eve and morn.”
All Nature’s grand harmonious flow,
Sweet. singing Warblers. fragrant flowers,
Hills, va llcys, woodlands, gleus, and streams
Make earth as bright and beautiful
As is the golden land of dreams.
Then will I bid a long farewell
To sorrow and its sad’niiig sway,
Arid live for liappiness alone,
As tiine unccasing rolls away.
And while I linger here below,
A wandci'cr through the “ vale oftears,”
C'0ntcntment shall the future greet,
And crown with joy its unknown years.
VVlien I may ‘linger here no more,
l’ll give with joy the pa rting liand,
Hoping beloved ones all to meet;
In the delightful spirit-land.
New Canaan, 1848.
[* We made ratlier a ‘ bustliiig” error in the last
contributioii of our l'rieiid—for WIIICII we cl.-.iiin his
pardon.]
For the Norwallc Gazette.
SON N ET.
Earth scarcely presents a fairer sight
Than a beautiful Girl, with her eyes so bright,
And her pulses bounding with pure delight.
Her peuc'il’d brow, and her fore-head fair,
Her pearly teeth, and her glossy hair,
H er buoyant step, and her graceful air.
Her laughing eye, and her Witching smile,
(That bewilder your brain, and your senses
beguile,
That you know not what you are doing the
while,)
Have a power oe’i' the heart—and complain as
we will,
One cannot help looking. and loving her still.
And when from those windows, the soul from
within,
So free from the stain and corruption of sin,
Looks out on this beautiful world ofours,
Witli its singing Birds
And bleating herds,
And endless changes ofplants and flowers,
It seems like :1 Fairy, that flutters away,
Or a beautiful insect ofmid—suminer-day.
“ Sin .”
v
TRUE FRIENDSHIP.
That one alone I count my real friend,
\V1io gently censures when he can’t commend,
\Vho friendly counsels when he sees me stray
Froin virtue’s path in folly’s tempting way,
\Vith whom reproofs from hatred never flow,
But from a heart. that feels another’s woc—-
Tlie generous feelings of whose noble soul
No sordid views of interest control,
And who his trust and constancy preserves
\Vho ne’er deserts the sacred cause he serves,
\Vliose mind alike bestows the tender care
\Vhen poverty my doom, or weiiltli my share,
\Vho will stand by when enemies defame,
And envious, strive to hold me up to shame,
\Vho, sympathizing, holds my fainting head,
\Vhen, worn by sickness, languishing in bed,
VVl'io shares in all my woe or happiness.
Pleased at. my welfare, grieved at my distress.
If such a friend could crown my humble lot,
\Vere I exiled, neglected or forgot,
H is soothing words would grant me sweet relief,
Console my cares an:l smooth the bed of grief.
filififtllflllg.
TH E GOLDEN CLASP,
OR
THE PERJUREI) GOLDSMITII.
BY 1’ROFE3SOI{ J. II. INGRAIIAZII.
PART I.
A modest, and exceedingly pretty young
girl, plainly attired, entered one of the
goldsmith’s store’s on street, and
seeing that a gentleman was engaged with
the proprietor, she timidly shrunk aside
near the door until he should be at leis-
ure. The assistants were also occupied
with customers whose dress and appear-
VES TI NGS,
A large and splendid assortment ever brought
?into Norwalk.
The above goods will be sold as cheap or
-cheaper than can be be bought: elsewhere.
The subscriber pledges himselfthat; all gar-f
.-ments made at this establshment, shal be supe-,
aim‘ in style and workmanship to any thing in
town.
Cutting done as usual.
Spring Fashions Receivecl.
Norxvalk, March"22, 1848.
Removal.
1 HE subscriber has removed his stock of -
Groceries, Paints, Oils, &c. from the
"Bridge to Centreville, about midway between
zthe Bridge and South Norwalk Landing, oppo-
-site his dwelling house. He intends to keep a
:good assortment of family groceries, flour, &c.
Also, of Paints, Oils, Glass, Brushes, &c. &c.
.A share of patronage is respectfully solicited.
Joiiiv S. SAMMIS.
. Centerville, (Norwalk,) Oct. 18, 1847.
IEEADY IVIADE CLOTIIIING,
"JUST received a good assortment of Spring
0 and Summer Coats, Vests, Pantaloons,
Hip Jackets, Shirts, Overalls, &c. which will
the sold cheap for cash by
'Cl-IAS. T. LEONARD.
Norwalk, May 1st,',’48.
1
ERFUMERY——a small lot very nice.
, Also, fine hair "oils and poniatum, at
DISBROVV 65 CO.'S.
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mice showed them to belong to the class
of the rich, and so she was suffered to
remain for some time standing there be-
fore she could be attended to. The gen-
tleman, who was a fine, noble looking
person, with a remarkably polished ad-
dress, seeing her waiting, courteously
stood aside, and said to the goldsrnith—
“Do not occupy yourself with me now,
Mr. Broochard. I can examine these
watches by myselfwhile you see what
this young person wants who has been
waiting so long and patiently, to get an
opportunity to address you.”
“ VVhat do you wish, Miss '!” asked the
goldsmith, with a look which conveyed
a reproof to her for interrupting him
while engaged with a customer of more
value to him.
The girl hesitatingly approached the
counter, and taking from her bosom a
small gold clasp, bent over to him, and
said in a low, trembling voice-‘
“I wish, sir, you would be kind enough
to keep this a few days, and let: me have
seven dollars on it.”
Low as she spoke, her soft trembling
-tones reached the ears of Col. McHenry,
- the gentleman who was present, and he
turned to observe her face, and hear the
reply of the goldsmitb, to this timid and
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painfully uttered request. The goldsmith
took the clasp scornfully between his firi-
gers, and then throwing it down, said
sharply to her——
“ This is no pawnbroker’s shop, girl;
mid if it was. that thing is not worth two
dollars.” ,
“It is of inestimable value to me, sir-
indeed, it is the only thing valuable that
I have,” answered she earnestly, and her
cheek slightly flushed at the rude manner
of his reply.
‘‘I don’t know what you value it at,”
he answered, with a cold laugh, glancing
at Col. McHenry, whom he saw severely
observing him, ‘‘I \v0uld not like to give
you six shillings for it.”
“But, sir,” plead the girl, unconscious
of being overheard, “ I must have seven
dollars to-day, and I have no other way
of getting it, and I was in hopes, sir, that
you might let me have that sum on it;
for I certainly will come back and take it
up again.”
“I tell you,” answered Mr. Boochard
angrily, “I keep no pawnbroker’s shop.
Go to the Jews.”
“They wou’t give me but two dollars,
sir, and I want seven.”
“ And so you think to get it out of
me .7”
The young girl was about to speak
again, but as if not knowing what further
arguirient. to urge, hesitated and was turn-
ing slowly away, when she checked her-'
self, and again spoke to him—-“Sir,” she
said, in a low, thrilling voice of earnest
eiitreaty, “my mother is lying very ill,
and our rent is due at twelve o’clock to-
day, and the persons we sew for having
disappointed us in our pay, I have no otli-
er resource but this!” Oh, sir, will you
take this clasp, only for a few days, and
I will repay you .7”
Mr. Broochard felt that Col. llIcHenry’s
eyes were upon him, waiting an answer,
and as he wished him to think himia man
of business (which meant. in his notion a
man without a heart,) he answered
promptly and steriily, “No. Do you
think we are simpletons here to throw
away money’! If you have nothing more
to so please stand aside for customers.
VVell, Colonel, what do you think of those
watches’! Latest importation—-full jew-
elled, and warranted in all points. Iwill
sell you the one you just laid down, for
$175.
The gentleman, however, was not heed-
ing him, but watching the young girl
whom he saw leave the counter and with
a heavy, drooping step, approached the
door. Her face had struck him for its
sweet intelligent loveliness, and her mod-
esty had to him an irresistible charm ;
but her plea of poverty, and her eloquent
appeal to the tradesman, deeply interested
his feelings and enlisted his sympathies
in her behalf. He had silently observed
the progress of her interview with him,
with emotions of contempt for the one,
and pity for the other.
Her hand was on the nob of the door,
when, advancing towards her-
“ You asked, I believe, for seven dol-
lars,” he said with a gentle interest in his
tone that at once awakened hope in her
heart, and brought the light; to her eyes
and the hue to her cheeks, as she diffi-
dently answered-
“ Yes, sir. I would not have been so
bold and urgent—”
“None too much so.
dollar note—-—I have no smaller bills.’
he placed it her hand.
“ Sir, you are too kind—”
“ Not a word. I am happy to be able
to do you a service.” -
“Take the clasp, sir; though I am
ashamed to offer it to you, since the gen-
tleman says it is so valueless. But to me
it is valuable as life, and I foolishly
thought it must be so to others.”
“I do not want it, chili,” answered
Col. McHenry, feelingly, putting the hand
aside that urged it upon him.
“Indved, sir, you must take it, for I
shall feel in some degree less under obli-
gation to a stranger. Besides,l wish to
call and redeem it. Vllill you give me
your address, sit!” and as she spoke, he
still declining the jewel, she laid it on the
show case.
“ Oh, no matter—but if
United States Hotel.”
“ Thank you, sir, you can never know
the blessing to others that will follow
your kindness to me to-day. Thus speak-
ing and looking upon him with an expres-
sion of gratitude in her tearful eyes, she
left the shop, forgetting the clasp which
she laid upon the show case. “ Will you
look at one of those watches now, Col.
McHenry '!” supersciliously asked the
goldsmith, without lifting his condemned
eyes.
“ No, sir,” answered the gentleman
sternly. And taking his gloves and cane
left the shop of the avaricious goldsmith,
who, too close to risk a trifle to relieve
the wants of a poor family, probably lost
a large amount by the purchases his
wealthy customer might have made, as
well as his own self respect, such as it
was; for avarice always shrinks into its
shell before the broad sun of benevolence
“ Now there goes a man who throws
away money upon vagrants, because ‘I
keep mineto support my family,” said the
goldsmith, looking after‘ him, “he thinks
me a miser, and I think him a fool. Oh,
here is that clasp after all. She left it for
him on the show case, and he was too
proud to take it away if he saw it. Seven
dollars! It is not worth more than
five!”
There is a ten
’ And
you insist—-the
,.
NORWALK, CT. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16. I848.-
He opened it as he spoke, and taking a
sharp instrument, he began to try the
firmness of the gold.
“It is good old Mexican gold. It might
have cost once twenty dollars. Ah, what
a star of d,i-auionds within it! he exclaim-
ed, as in working about Will] the point of
the steel he discovered a cavity. Twelve
large diamonds of the purest waterl This
is indeed valuable!
are worth at least five hundred dollars!
What value to ask so much! No, no, she
could not, either, for she would not have
let it go for so small a sum, or else asked
for nearer its value. I suspect she was
ignorant of the cavity, which I discovered
only by accident, she has probably stolm
it, and will never come for it. Ali, uh,
Abraham Broochard, thou hast made a
good morning’s work of it,” he said ex-
ultingly to himself.
Then looking round among his shop
boys to see if he were unobserved, be
carefully, yet with a cheerlcss air, locked
the clasp in his private drawer, and talciiig
the key out, placed it in his pocket. He
had hardly done so, when Col. Mcllenry
re-entered, and without speaking or look-
ing or even looking at him, cast his eyes
upon the show case for the clasp, which
he recollected, after Ooingyut, the young
girl had lain down, Ibbiit did not take it up
again, and so he turned back for it. A-
braham Broochurd was very busily engag- “
ed in replacing the watches, in their doc-
skin coverings, and preserved silence and
ignorance. At length Col. lllcflenry
spoke.
“ That young person laid her clasp on
the case, sir, which I neglected to take
up. It were a pity it should be lost, she
valued it so liig;lily.”
“ The clasp! I have not seen it sir. She
took it up again.”
“Did you see her 1”
“ Yes, oh yes! I had my eyes on her,
and said at the time, you’d never see
your ten dollars or the clasp again.
Iihe gentleman eyed him steadily an
instant, and then glancing round the show
case again, as if in search of it, he quit
the shop. I
PART II.
Several days had elapsed, and Col Mc
Henry had quite forgotten the circum-
stances just narrated, when, as he was
passing down Arch street, he felt his
sleeve suddenly pulled by some one whom
he had heard running behind him, and
looking round he beheld, with a cheek
glowing from the pursuit, the young-
girl he had seen at the goldsmith’s.
“ Oh, sir; Iam so happy to have found
you,” she said, at once addressing him,
as he stopped, and with pleasure listened
to her. ‘‘,’I was at length enabled to get
my pay, and by other work have earned
enough to repay you the ten dollars you
so kindly gave me. You don’t know the
good you did, sir—tlie stiflering you re-
lieved—tlie evil your timely aid adverted.
Here is the money, siix’,
“Nay my good girl, I do not want it. I
made you a present of it at the time, and
did not expect you to return it. I am
however glad to find that you li:ive had
the disposition to do so, and that I was
not’ deceived in my estimation of you.”
“ You must take it, sir,” she said with
ingenuous earnestness. “I should be
distressed to be longer under pecuniary
obligations to an entire stranger. e-
sides, sir, I would like to take my clasp,
if you please.”
“Did you not take it from the case
where you laid it down 1” he asked with
surprise, and justly directed suspicion.
“No, sii'—-indeed, sir, I hope it is not
lost. It is of countless value to me. It
was given to me by—”
“ By a sweetheart 1” he added smiling.
“He is now—derzd sir, she answered
with oveiflowing eyes.”
“You do well to value it. Idid not
take it up, Are you sure you left it
there 7.”
“Yes sir; hoping you would take it
keep it till I paid you.”
" Well, my child, I have not got it; but
I believe that the goldsmith has. Let us
go and see him.”
On their arrival Mr. Boocliard denied
ever having seen it since she went out,
and_that he saw her take it with her and
place it in her bosom as she left the shop.
The young lady turned pale, and was in-
conceivably distressed.
“Corne_with me, I will find the clasp
for you,” said Col. McHenry, offering her
his arm and leaving the shop with her.
“I do hope I shall find it, sir,” she said
as they walked. “It was Rup_ert’s last
dying gift. It was given to him in Cuba
by a rich lady whose life he had saved by
rescuing her from the water. He was a
sailor, sir, and had but little to leave me
but his memory, and my poor clasp. Oh,
sir, if it is lost, I shall never forgive my-
self for oflering to pledge it. But, sir, our
extremity was very great.”
Col. McHenry stopped. with her at a
justice’s office, and clearly made his com-
plaint, and in a few minutes Mr. Abraham
Broochard was brought by an oflicer into
the presence of the magistrate. He ap-
peared to be in great trepidation, and was
pale as ashes; for he had suddenly been
taken without warning from behind his
counter, leaving his shop in charge of his
astonished assistants. Col. McHenry and
the young lady being sworn, deposed that
they both had seen the clasp on the show
case when each went out and left it, the
former further deposing that be had not
gone three steps from the door, before lie
Let me see-they.
vance.
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returned and found it missing, and no one
in the vicinity but the defendant.
The gold:-mith was then called up to
be sworn as to his knowledge of the facts.
I-le approached the stand where the ma-
gistrate held the Bible, and laid his hands
upon it wiili a perceptible tremor of his
whole body: but love of money was
stronger than the fear of the law, and he
‘took the oath. It appeared as if he would
have sunk through the floor when he did
it; but the moment. it was done he recov-
ered his audacity. At this moment an
officer, who, at the suggestion of Col. illc
Henry, had been privately dispa-‘.ched by
tliejustice with a search warrant to the
shop of the goldsuiitli, now entered, and
placed something in the iiiagisti'ate’s
lldlltl, after whispering briefly to him.
“ Did you ever see this gold ornament
before!’ asked the iiiagistrate, holding
up the clasp before the young girl.
“ Oh, it’s my clasp!” she cried, spring-
ing forward.
“ Yes—it is the same clasp,” answered
Col. McHenry.
demanded thejustice, sternly, holding it
in the direction‘ of the guldsmith, who had
seen it at first, and was appalled with fear
and consternation. Instead of replying
lie uttered a wild, hysterical laugh, and
fell in convulsions upon the floor.
He was a few weeks afterwards taken
from prison,aiid tried and condemned for
PERJURY; but his reason forsook him and
instead of a gallows, he is now raving in
a marl-house. Thus was avarice and par-
simony and indifference to the sufferings
of others punished in thislife; the acts of
this selfish man showing to all how that
acquisitiveness wrongly directed is fatal
to its possessor.
Col. McHenry proved to be a bachelor;
and though a little turned of thirty, his
heart was keenly alive to all the finer
sensibilities of our nature-.~ He could feel
for the down trodden poor, and sympa-
thize with the unfortunate. To this truth
none could more positively attest than
the young friend of the “ GOLDEN CLASP,”
for ere two months had waned, she rejoic-
ed in ilie eiiplionic title of Jlf-rs. Col. Mc
Henry, surrounded with all the appliances
of wealth that a grateful heart like hers
,could enjoy hr even desire. Her poor
iafflicted mother was well provided for,
iwhen she soon recovered her health and
:happiness, and prosperity smiled upon
‘all.
[\Ve do not know but the following story has
been told before, but if it has, it is one of th‘a‘t
class which will bear repeating]
“ Cuteness.”
A raxitizn IN cmnrr DISTRESS.
A few days since, a raw-looking genius,
,carrying a cheap hair trunk, made his ap-
fipearance on board a sloop which plies be-
itwecri New York and a small port on the
|Connecticul: coast, and inquired for the
Captain. I-Ie hailed from Coos county,
.Nc\v I-Iauipsliire, and presented in his ap-
lpearance a perfect specimen of a fresh-
l(3Z1llgl'lllY{lllI{C(5. He wore a mixed coat
iof liome-made fabric, with short square
lskirts such as are usually called “ bob-
ltail,” lead buttons, and sleeves about six
finches too short at the wrists. Ilis pan-
Etaloons were striped, and ‘his legs were
ltllrllst a long way I.lirougli them leaving
lthe interval between the legs of the trow-
’sers and his heavy laced boots arrayed in
;a substantial pair of pepper-and-salt yarn
istockings. On a head adorned with a
lluxuriant growth of coarse sandy hair, tal-
lowed to a nicety, was perched a hat much
worn but in an excellent state of preser-
vation, with a narrow brim, and a huge
bell crown, serving the purpose of a trav-
elling valise in addition to other uses of
that article of wearing apparel. An im-
mense collar, rigid with starch and erect
to the ears, supported by a cotton ciavat
of variegated yellowand black, completed
the adornment of his outer man. He
seemed about twenty-five years of age,
was a lean, cadaverous looking individual,
standing six feet when erect, butliaving
a stoop of the slioulders which reduced
him to about five-feet-nine. A small
pinched-up moutli,peuked nose,high cheek
bones, sunken cheeks, prominent chin,
and a pair of bright twinkling eyes, of an
indescribable color, gave an air of extreme
“cuteness” to his physiognomy.
This was obviously his first visit to the
salt-water; but as he stood upon the
sloops’s deck uhistliiig Yanks-e—doodle,
his arms thrust into his pockets up to the
elbows, one leg thrown forward, his eyes
cast upward scanning the rigging with the
air of a connoisseur, he seemed as much
at home as though he was a veritable
“ocean child.” In reply to a question as
to his business he drawled out—
“ Capting, what’ll you charge to take a
feller to York city '!”
He was informed that the fare was one
dollar and fifty cents.
“I s’pect you mean to charge a feller
that Wilt’ ri you /ind him; what’ll yeou take
a feller for, when he finds himself I”
The price of passage without board, he
was informed was seventy-five cents.
“ Then I shall have to foot it tu York;
yeou see Capting, I'm scant on’t for funds
—and I must have a lcetle somethin’ left
to feed on arter I get there; can’t get
along without victuals.”
“ Can’t help it,” replied the captain;
that’s our lowest; . we han’t but one
price.” _
“ Neow just take a‘ feller for half a dol-
lar, Capting; come, neow; if yeou will,
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ml hell? dtl up the chores while‘ for
aboard.” T
_“ No, sir‘, I can‘t take you for that price,"
said the Captain.
f .. O'_
fhe green-liorn squirted u long stream
of tobacco Juice upon the deck, resumed
his tune of Iankee-doodle, shouldered his
hair ti°unk,,a,nd walked off. In about an
hour, he returned, and with a grin nddreiew
ed the captain: ~ '
‘_“Neow, look .o"heré cgpting, I’m in
aistress; l posi-zz-L-ely ham t got but two
dollars in the world; I must get tu York,
or I shall staive; I can’t get nothin’ to
do, here. Neow dn, Capting; l’ve alg
ways beam tell that you sailors was geri-
erous chaps.” ,
This appeal to the Captain‘s professional
pride had its effect; and he agreed to
take the rersevering mendicant for fifiv
cents, provided he would supply himself
with provisions, and render such assist-
ance as he could in managing‘ the vessel.
The passage was unusually long, being
delayed by contrary winds nearly a week?
beyond the ordinary time of starting.
On the second day the Yankee run out
of provisions and the Captain, as an act of
of charity, furnished him from the vessel’s
stores. About thirty-six hours before
iheir arrival, in the exuberance of his
exnltation at having outwitted the Captain,
be disclosed to a fellow passenger that he
had “lots o’cash,” and he made quite a‘.
display of loose change. This soon get’
to the ears of the Captain, who was so
indignant at the imposition which had
been practiced upon him, that he was
about setting the tricky custorrer ashore,
to “foot it to York” the best way he
could; but on reflection, be concluded
that it would be a worse punishment to
keep him on board, stop his rations, and
put him to hard work. From this time
until their arrival, the Yankee’s situation
was no sinecure. Furnished with a cloth
and a bucket of sand, he was set to scour-
ing the anchor! Being inured to labor,
that did not trouble him much; but to
work on an empty stomach for tliirtv-six
hours, and endure the curses of the euro-
ged Captain, and the taunts and jeers of
the passengers and crew, and all for the
small matter of twenty-five cents, he
thought was paying rather dear for the
whislel Great was his joy, therefore,
when they hauled into the slip at New
York; and before the sloop’s side had
touched the dock, he jumped ashore.—-
Leaving the little hair-trunk to be removed
after he had satisfied his hunger, he hast-
ened to the nearest place where food
could be procured. This happened to
be a huckster’s stand at the head of the
slip; where among other edibles, were
displayed some fine-looking boiled lob-
sters.
Our verdant genius had often heard lob-
sters spoken of as excellent food, although
he had never tasted any-——this seemed a
good opportunity to satisfy his hunger,
and at the same time to enjoy a rare lux-
ury ; so after bargaining awhile, and
beating the old woman down in her price
some three or four cents, he bought three
lobsters and as many Boston crackers,
with which he returned to the sloop.
Meanwhile one of the passengers, a wag
of the first order, having been up into the
city, returned on board and noticed the
Yankee at the heel of the bowsprlt, seated
on his hair trunk, and “going into” his
bargain tooth and hail. It was a greedy
spectacle! I-le wrenched the jaws and
claws of the lobster apart with unneces-
sary strength, drawing out with voracity
sharp splinters of the meat, and biting
them off close down to the sockets which
held them. Such a smacking and crack-
ing was never before heard. Carelessly
sauntering within hearing, the waggish
passenger gave the Captain a wink, and
remarked:
“ This is a horrible business, Captain!”
“ W’/lat is a horrible business '!” asked
the skipper.
“ Habit you heard the news’! All the
papers are full of it. Some Jersey fishing
smacks have been taking lobsters on the
copperas banks off Barnegat, and have
sold them all over the city. Every person
who has eaten of them is poisoned. Fifty-
three have died since morning ; there is
a tremendous excitement about it! As I
came downl saw an officer arrest the old
woman who keeps a stand at the head of
tie slip, for selling some of the same
lobsters.
The Yankee, who had already devoured
one and part of another, paused at the
narration as if suddenly paralyzed; then
dropping the fragment which he held, with
the untouched prize into the water, his
mouth filled with cracker-and-lobster,‘ his
enormous palms extended over his abdo-
men, his face _pallid with terror, be ex-
claimed ‘: ~ _
“ Oh, gollyl what shall I do! What
shall 1 do! I’m a dead man! Darn York I
Cuss the lobsters! what shall I du! I
‘wish I’d staid tu hum! Oh, my beow‘-'
cls !”
“If that green-horn liasnit been
eating some of them! run for a doctor !”
exclaimed the Captain.
Some one started ashore for ‘a’ physician.
In the mean time the Yankee continued to
ground and lament, attracting a large
crowd of spectators by his cries :—
“Oh, Suke! ifl had only taken your
advice,,aiid kept clear of this tarnal York
city! vI’m dyiug—l know" I am! My
mouth tastes just like a rusty cent! The
, doc.tor’ll charge an all-fired price to cure
me, l’spect. 'I'here~! I'm spitting green"-1
that’s the copperas. I shall die before
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