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\ mtckknbtt Iclfmoivijm. JOSEPH W. HAMPTON, .“The powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the People of the United Stajos, may be rcsuiiKd by them, whenever perverted to their injury or oppression.”—Madison.. VOLUME 2, i CHARLOTTE, N. C., OCTOBER 18, 1842. -Editor ami Publisber \ NUMBER 82. T E It 31 S Tlic " M'- 'klcnburg Jt'ffcrt^oiiian'^ is publisao'l weekly, at 7Vo Dollars and Fifty Cents, if paid in advance; or Three DjUarsy if not paid before the expiration of three MONTHg fp.ni the time of subscribing. Any person who will procure Dubscribcrs and become responsible for their subscriptions, phul' Have a copy of the paper "ratis or, a club of ten sub- p.Tib rs may have ttie pap« r one year for Tvccnty Dollars in a’lvanc."!. No paper will be discou';::l^''d wuik' the subscriber owes any ' :;ns, if ht i3 able to pay; a failure to notify the Editor of a wiwh to discontinue at l-.ast onk month before the expira tion of thi- time paid fcir, will be considered a new engagement. Orig.nal yabscribers will not be nllowtd to discontinue the paper before the e:s;]plrati.ju of rlie first year without paying for a full year's subscription. A'icertl^eweids will b . ' jiii'nously nnd rnrrc'c'ly insert- ,1 at One Dollar [hjt stjunr;; fur tii'* first insertifni, and Ticcn- ij fire f'>r Lacii continuaiici'—pxccpt Court and other : I iii;ial advrtisijui-nts, which will be charged tirciity-fn'cper - i.t. highe r Uian tiie ab«jve rutf.s, (owing to tlie delay, gene rally, aicendant upon collef’tions). A hb 'ral discount will be • >ade to those who advertise by the year. Advtriisemcnts sent •n for publicaiion, must be uiarkrd with the number of inser- t . "/nsdesin^fi, or th;'y will be publ:oLed until forbid and charg ed accordingly. Letters to the Editor, -inless containing money in sums ,f l^ire I-^!jilar‘^, Or ov( r, mu.st cume free of postage, or the in-.'unt paid a* theolVi-o hi-re will be charged to the WTitep ; ■v ry instanc-', and cullecitul as other account.^. A. BETHUNE Begs leave to inform his Iricnds and the pubhc, thni heconfiniies to carry on the TAILOinXG ncsixuss, ill the SGillh-cast wing of {Spring’s brick liouse, where lie will be ready to accommo- ilate those who may favor him with their patronage. Being regular in the receipt of the ?v(nv York and Phiiadciphia b’asliiuns, his sJyIe siiall not be ii;i‘Tior to any at the .Suutli. Fall add Wi'itcr Fashio/is f-r 151*2-3 u t rrccii'c'l. ( harlotto, Sep!. ;'7. I !3. Siass (2)1? SilESSSIBS RVMMXL\G in the Post-OJice at Lincoljiion, N. C., on the Isf of October^ 1842. A....James Abernathy, S. W. Aderhold. A. 6c 11. Brevard 2, R. T. Brumby, Benj. Beal, Alfred Black, John Bradshaw, John Bird, Dr. C. D. Bobo, John Brown, Gen. Joseph Barringer. C....John Oolvard, Abner H. Custon, Adaline B. Cauble, Jacob Criscoe, Michael Carpenter & J. liovis, Levy A. Carver, Joseph Carpenter. D....Barnard Dougherty, Daniel Dellinger, Jr.. Michael Davis, Peter Deck. E....Jsaac Erwin, B. M. Edney 2, Joseph B. Eng land 2, James Elleott, Poliyan EdvVards, Nathaniel Edwards. Flower, David Friday. G....H. W. Guion, Dr. Wm. J. Gunter. Ephraegm Goodson. H....John Houver, Ann Ilambright, Jacob Haus, Abm. Haviner, John Haynes, Catharine Haviner, Henry Hope. J....F. J. Jetton, Mrs. Mary A. Jetton, Wm. Jenks, Eias Jarrelt, Michael Kock. L....lMessrs. Leonard & Boyden, James Long, Su - Sana Liiihartt. M....Rev. Samuel blurry, George Mosteller, A. McCoy, Maj. A. McLean, James Myres D. McI3ee. N....Joruon Noc. O....Dr. Jeremiah OIear\. P....John J. Perkins. 11....Peter Keep, William O. Rciii, John H. Rob ertson, Jr.,Margaret O. Riley, John Ramsour, Cath arine lludesil H. R. Revels. 5....Ezikel Sullivan, Peter A. Summey, L. Stev/- ard, Samuel Sain, David Summey, Abram Smith, Jo.seph Sowether, Soloman Stroup, Jas. Sanders. T....Jolm Tucker. L. E. Thompson, Editor Lin coln Transcript. W....N. P. Woody, Margaret Wilson, Jame^ W^il- son David Whetslim Si, Jacob Helms. C. C. HENDERSON, P.M. Lincolnton^ N. C., Oct. 1st, 1S12, 81....tf. =£31 M1SCEI.L.ANY TKAVEIiLERS, TKiiV. :'(jTICih TIMOTHY JJ. lirOHE. H A \ ING obtained tlic ?\IANSION HOUSE for pub i • ai'cjiinnodation. inlbruis his frientU anrl fi»o pub. I- tr.Mirrally, tliat hi' i.s now prepared to receive and i''!Tiain all who may favor him with their patron- ;"‘0. Hit^ TABLE shall ahvays be well and pleniifully H.plied wiUi every tiling the country utfords, to -i:'nse nnd satisfy the palate even of an epicure. II is JjAII will he found furnishoii with a choice (‘lection ot’ Liciuors, Wines and Cordials, both for- ;gn and domestic. ii is STABLES s-!inll he constantly attended by fiithful and .attenlive hostlers and supplied with biindanf provernier. B. The Stage Oliice is kept at the Mansion I 1- ISO. Dr. J, M. llappoldt HAS removed to the Office directly op posite Maj. Joseph Smith’s Ilotel, where he may be found by his Iriemls and the public, and consulted at all times, unless professionally engaged. A report has been industriously circulated for relative to his charges. They have been pronounced extravagant. He takes this opportunity to state to the public, that he holds himself ready at any time to compare charges, and weigh his service with any of the Faculty. He washes it to be dis- inctlv understood, that his CHARGES shall Ui all 4o...lI Jan. 4, 'hatiottr, N. May 2:i, ISl' Cas*olina Inn, IIIARIOTTE, ?;ORTlI-CMlOLJ?A. State of North Carolina^ I\ I E C K L E N B U R G COUNTY. County Court of Please and Quarter :Sessio7is, July Term, 1842. JOHN ERWTN F.S. CARTER CRITTENDEN Attachment levied in hands of Joshua Trotter, and him sinnmoned as Garnishee. I H IT appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, thai: Carter Crittenden, the defendant in the above case, is not an inhabitant of this State: It is order- ii„ \ THE r;!' VO l''stabjiisiimcnt, silua M ted OM tiiaai north of the ('lourt Hfffl cd, that publication be made for eix successive w'eeks in the “Mecklenburg Jetfersonian,” notifying^the said^ defendant to be and appear at the next Court of Pleas and duarter Sessions to be held for the Coun ty of Mecklenburg at the Courthouse in Charlotte, on the 1th Monday in October next, then and there to plead or replevy, or judgment final will be ren dered-against him, and the property levied on con- denmed°to satisfy the pla intilf’s demands. Witness, Charles T. Alexander, Jr., Clerk of our said Court at office, the 4th Monday of July, 1812. C. T. ALEXANDER, c. c. c. Prs. fee .^5,60. j ^ Houso, in the Town of Charlotte, N. ^is Htill kept ('])en by the undersigneil Ibr the ac- •'oniniuiintion (^f liio public. Th' ])roprietor feels con- . b-nt of his aliility to give entire satisfaction to all may patronise his House. Tlie travelling pub- will lind at the Carolina Inn every conitbrt, con- v-;“i’i=*nce and attention necessary to'refresh and re- Mgorate both man and horse. I’articular pains vil be bestowed on the Table, Bar, and Beds— ihai evf'ry thing shall be in the most sumptuous and • ■•atordi'r;—aud tliu Stables will always be sup plied wiih ub iniiance a’ld a'temled by taithful, ex- i'cri'-'nced Hostlers. In short, the subscriber is de- .’•‘rinined to keep up the accommodations at his House in a style unsurpassed by any .similar Cotab- shmi'nt in the interior country. All he asks from thepublic is, to give him a call. Drovers can at all times be supplied wilii convc- iiient and well enclosed LOTS, on moderate terms, :’id furnished wilJi grain at a low pric*. JENNINGS B. KERR. 03...T Caution! cautioned against trading for The public arc two notes of hand given by the subscriber to Thonms McGee, of Lincoln county. One is for two hundred dollars, due the 25th of December next, and dated the 7th of February, 1842; the other is for seventv’^-five, dollars, due in June, 1843, dated as the first. As the property for which said notes w'ere given has proved unsound, I do not intend to pay Them, unless forced to do so by law. RICHARD RANKIN. Lincoln countj’’, July 2G, 1842. 73...5\v Notice. (OFFER for sale the PLANTATION on which I now live, lying on the Providence Road ten - il'-‘s from Charlotte, in Proviilence Settlement.— riii; tract contains O N E II U N D R E D AND r F. L V E A C R E S of good land, on which are good improvements. Those wishing to buy can -It!; an opi'ortuiiitV of lioing .-o by calling on the ibficriber. A?>IBilOSI*^ !\I. REA. September 13 1^12. 79-3 T Forwarn all persons Irorn trading for a note giv- 1 en by me to George Ciemor, for about one hun dred and twelve dollars, and dated the IGth July, 1812. In a w^ord, it is the only note I have out pay- ;ible to a man of that name. He resides near Beat ty's Ford, Lincoln County, N. C. Cremor is reques ted to come and take the properity and bring my note, as the property I bought was unsound, and I do not intend to pay the same unless compelled to do so by law. THOMAS K. CURETON. Cureton's Store, S. C., Aug. 15, 1842. 76...tlstJ VALUABLiE LAXD AT prnvvn: Subscriber v.l.-hing to sell a par* of his anils, now oilers for sale a valuable Tract of rpilE Land, with good improvement;^, ( OyTAljMyO 423 ACRES, of which there is 150 acres in cultivation, of which there is 50 acres in Cotton, and the balance timber ed land. Also, is on the lands a new GRIST MILL and COTTON-GIN propelled by water power. The abovo land is situated in Mecklenburg County, on Mallard Creek 7 miles Northeast ol Charlotte, and inferior to none in this section ot the country, for the production of Cotlon, grain, &c. As to the location of tlie abovx described lands, as respects the abimdancc of good water, health, and b'rtility of soil combined, it cannot be exceeded in the '^uiitry. As 1 am determined to sell, I 'vvould res pectfully invite those who wish to m«\ke a purchase ■1 such as is above described, to call and view the I nrt iind judge for thcms*lves. Terms of payment ‘■'‘leeasy. M. S. ALEXANDER. Notice. I INTEND, at the next session of the Legislature of North Carolina, to apply for the liberty of dis posing, by lottery, ol the Jamesville, or Harris Gold MiniiJg LANDS, on the waters of Clear Creek in Mecklenburg county and elsewhere. WILLIAM A. August 25, 1842. HARRIS. 07--tml Notice. APPLICATION will be made to the next Legis lature ot North Carolina, to repeal the law abolish ing Juries at the January and July Terms of ^leck- lenburg County Court. ^ August 9, 1S42. 4...tmi Notice. Mny‘dl 1812. APPLICATION will be made to the next Legis lature of North Carolina, to amend the Patrol Law of Lincoln county, so as to have the Patrol appoint ed by the Captain’s of the several beat companies, of the county. . Oct., 1842. Notice. Application W’ill be made to the next Legis lature ot North Carolina lor a division of Lin- From the New York Plebeian. THE HEBREW STRANGER Every benevolent and disinlerested act, is so much added to the capital of human, kindness, and so far as it goes, insures a richer dividend to the stock holders. 'Phis is the moral of my true story. j Within two years, a Christian lady and her only j son, a stripling of twelve summers, were travelling j in a Mahometan country, and subjected to a!l the dangers and privations that the narrowest ignorance, incited by the most inveterate bigotry, could throw around a stranger. The better classes, the rulers and princes of the country, were, it is true, liberal and polite, but the impolitic, and often ridiculous, assumption on the part of the consular families, had steeled the hearts of the natives against Christians. W’^herc they could not venture to despise, they hated. One day the lady in question was so imprudent as to stray unattended except by her little son, into a | retired street. The heat of the day, and a desire to ! enjoy an unimpeded view around her, induced her I to throw back the heavy veil that shaded her face. ! This thoughtless action drew around her in a mo- j ment a group ol ragged boys, who had never be- • fore seen a woman’s face uncovered in the public- j street. They gazed in astonishment at this violent j departure from their ideas of propriety, and one of! them went so far as to attempt to spit in her face. ! Her boy, a freeborn son of the United States, una- j bio to control his indignation at this insult to his j mother, threw himself upon the saucy Moslem, and j before he could be prevented, bore him violently to i the ground. The barbarians raised a shout of an* j ger, ana in another moment would have wrought serious injury to the fearless young republican, had not a door immediately behind the combatants open ed suddenly, as if the wall had parted, and a ven erable old man, clad in a loose blue robe, and a snowy beard descending to his girdle, appeared for an in stant, seized the young Christain by the arm, and releasing him from his infuriated assailants, hurried him through the door, which closed behind them as suddenly as it had oppened. The agitated mother followed her boy, and w’hen the massive door was secured behind them, looked anxiously around for some explanation of this t»mely interference. They stood in a neat court or central apartment, which in those countries is. never shut in by a roof, paved in brilliant mosaic; and embilished w'ith gay flowers and a sparkling fountain. Opposite the entrance within the lofty archway of the carved and gilded door, stood a group whose mean and enforced garb of servitude made a strange contrast with the luxu rious elegance of their dw’elling. They stood in ;^«nful timid silence, as if awaiting with fear and v/emblmg me uiuveaK... , moment the lady comprehended iri« t misfortune. She had brought danger, perhaps f death, into that houseliuld. In that land of fanati- I cism, it would be deemed a crime worthy of death for a Jew to touch the child of a Moslem in angre, and it w’ould be easy to prevent the interference of the venerable Hebrew so as to appear in that light. She turned sadly to the old man, and asked why he had risked his life for a Christian. “ You are a stranger, and we are the children of one God,” he replied, in the Lingua Franca. The Christians repaired at once to the office of the Cadi, or city Judge, and told the whole story. “ We are strangers,” said they, “and claim the hospitality commanded by the Koran; we are obe dient to your laws, and demand their protection; we are the children of a people at peace w'ith your Sul tan, and expect kindness, yet we are insulted in the streets of your city; and when a son seeks to pro tect his mother from insult, his life is endangered ! What, O Judge, shall be the reward of that citizen j who, at the hazard of his own life, rescued the j helpless strangers, and saved your city from the dis grace of their blood ! Shall it be death V' Noj by the shadow of our lord the sultan—may | it never be less. Let the son who denfended his i mother, and obeyed the law of Cod, be honored . Let the untaught reprobates who assailed him, be j fined a thousand dirhems,* and the money be given j to the just man w'ho feared not to do right.” “ Your decision. Cadi, shall be told in a distant land, and the sons and daughters of my country shall know its justice. But the man whose cour age saved us is a Jew.” “A Jew!” exclaimed the Cafli. “ Wonderfull! a Jew save the life of a Christian, and no hope of reward—most wonderfull I” Favor and protection however, w'ere accorded to the household of Rabbi Moses, and the lady depart ed, satisfied that this unexpected kindness had not resulted to his disadvantage. Within a week, an old man, whose long beard and strangely-fashined dress marked him a foreign er was walking in the streets of this Christian city of New York when some men, (I trust that there is few' such among us,) followed bun with words of scorn and insult, such as a lady once heard in that far African city; but there it was poor uninstructed Mahometan boys, w^hile here it was wt.ll clad, en lightened, Christian men, who meanly assai.ed the | way-w'orn stranger. The old man passed on in i calm nobility. In his eye and on his brow were written legibly high virtues. Patient thought, wise experience, and iron fortitude were his; and count ing the senseless clamor that pursued him unwor thy of note, he kept on his way. Not so a w’oman who by chance was walking near him. She '’vas indignant that even in this free and tolerant country^ guileless manners and sacred age were not efTicicrft safeguards from the coarse attacks of ignorance and grieved that our boasted religion and law hau pro duced such imperfect fruits. Filled with such ! thoughts, she turned her eyes again towards the i venerable foreigner. They rest with increasing ' surprise on that peculiar cap, and that placid brow’. | Can It be that he comes from the land of the Mos-; lem ? She approaches and her doubts are changed to certaintv. She extends her hand, and repeats the words he used to her. “ You are a stranger, but wc are the children df one God.” A Judge had arisen that knew him not, in the city of his adoption, and injustice and persecution had made him poor,and an exile. Ho hoil kindred in the New Wo* Id. He had heard, too, of the lib erality of its people, and turned his steps I'itherward to find a rf“fuge from despotism, and, as he vainly hoped, the sympathy of congenial blood. Sorrow, disappointment, and want met him at the threshhold, and despair laid her icy hand on his bruised and broken heart; but we hope to unclasp its withering hold, and teach the Hebrew stranger that, of w’hat- ever clime or failhj we are all the children of one God.’ ' ANTOFIA. From the Greeusborough Patriot. A certain member of the Washlnston Tempcratice Socicty of this town has ‘ time immemorial’ been known by the rx k- nameof Gads. Up to the period of this excellent reforma tion Gads had been a most mcorrigiblc tippler; and, drunk or sober, he is an incorrigible poet. The pieces which follow are productions of his pen—the first was written under the inspiration of the ‘ O-be-joyful ’ and printed in the newspaper of the peace in 1330'; the others are the ofTsprin" of Gad’s muse in its sjber and more healthy state.—Eds. Pat. coni conntv. [Sept 8, 1812. 70-tm! A dirhem is equivulcnt to sts ccnts. D tl A M D RI N K I N G G A D S—ISZO. Gads is an independent man, And never drinks behind tiie curtain; But buys his liquor where he can. And when ’tis bought he drmks it—certain ; And pays his cash for what he drinks, Which should concern no one, he thinks. This Gads believes : a morning dram Will never make a man a sinner ; And all to keep his passions calm He takes a drink before his dinner; And, when bright Phcebus loaves his tlironc And sinks beneath the horizon. When silent night with sable bands Creation’s vast extent doth fetter, An evening drink he understands Will make him sleep more sound and better ; For horrid visions of the night Alone do sober men affright. He hears that ‘ temperance ’ gentlemen Can scarcely go to rest for thinking ; And when to sleep they fall, ’tis then They dream of nothing else but drinking; — When half asleep and half awake They sometimes make a grand mistake! But not at all on purpose done, Because their conduct is too sainted ; But of their number scarcely one But makes his pillow well acquainted With jugs of brandy filled complete, While spice and onions hide the cheat! Such scandal must be false, my friend, For when they join they all grow richer; But still they must confess they send Oftimes for eider in a pitcher And some believe, (it comes so handy,) They mix thc‘ir cider well with brandij. p^U NKENgaD S-1 $30. Three times a day Ga«» drink To give him appetite for eating. But shortly he began lo thinlr What harm could be in his repeating'? For some he saw take si.x or eight, Yet able still to navigate ! He thought himself strong as the best; . Of moral courage bless’d with plenty; He therefore patterne’d from the rest, And drank, some days, as high as twenty ; Then totter’d home at night most gracious— Ab wise as Solon, rich as Croesus ! The gods avers—sometimes he’d stay Till late at night amid the splutter ; Then stagg’ring homeward, miss his way And take up lodgings in the gutter. Ah ! drinking’s a ‘ queer thing you know,’ It makes one drunk ‘ all over so!’ Ten years he did devote himself,— But found, in fact, he grew no better In reputation, health, or pelf; He therefore tbo’t he’d quit the ‘critter/ And sign’d the pledge, and now js clear Of whiskey, cider, wine, and beer. TEM P ERATE GADS-1812. A temp’rate man Gads may be thought, But claims his ‘independence’^till; His liquor now’ remains unbought— Or those who buy must pay the bill; For he will keep his cash—he thinks—- And lay it out for meat not drinks. Each morning, now,he finds,’tis true, He saves his sixpence—leaves his dram ; And dinner makes the number two, His passionf still remaining calm; And when daij^ shades do intervene He fTnds he’s saved his pistareen. And when the hour for sleep arrives He tranquilly retires to rctt, And quiet slumber seals his eyes, For sobej days are spent the best; No frightful dreams give discontent, For guilt alone fears punishni jnt. Ho hears intenop’rate people soy At sober inter«3ls—enough They of their clfsh have thrown uway Upon the health-destroying stufi; And oft resolv’d, and often sworn To ta.^te the burning draft no more. But others say, a dram or two Will do no harm ; they take the cup, To drink no more than what will do To raise and keep their spirits up; 'Tis their design then to forego— But, lo! they're drunk the first they uncx. In \hpfirst glass there lies the charm That binds the drunkard without fa;!; Leave that—the ‘ critter ’ does no hanu 3Iorethan old Adam’s limpid ale. Untasted, all the fiery gas Lies moveless, harmless, in the glass, yov:, frailty hangs on mortal man : And Gads believes he’s one of those, Weak as the weakest of the chn ; How far his firmness could oppose His appetites and habits too He frankly owns he never knew. This maxim safe you’ll always fiind— To govern all your actions by it: So©n as coiiviction shows the nfV. A thing is right—than promptly try Nor for to-morrow lay away Th: tilings tiiat can be done to-day. “To-morrow !” is a Syren song, Enticing man to his undoing— A will o’th’ wisp that lures along The tho’tlcss crowd to meet their ram—* A fairy form—a gay deceiver—• That flits the grasp-—is gone fjrcver. VILLAGE BARD. Greensboro', July, 1642. Plain Diet.—This is what children ought, on every account, to be accustomed to, from the fust.— It is vastly more for their present henl'ti and com fort ILan il. Jou Iltlle nice things with which Jond pn.- rents are so apt lo vitiate their appetites, ani i* will* save them a great deal of niurtitication iu after life. If you make it a point to give them ih^bistjl of every thing; to pamper them with rich and sweet meals, sugar plums; if you allow lo say with a scowl, •• I don’t like, this,” eat that,'’ and then go away toast, or ki^l a chiclttn for the| pend upon it, you are a doing tl not only of denying them cheek, but ol forming habits that they cat ter life. Whenthi^ not, half the time, fina an^ thus you will prepare tl bling along through life,*^ the world.—Dr. Humph) Irish Wit.—The late Ea it of keeping an Irish A person w'as asj[uU^J The Earl ‘ ^ of his favor, sent letter along wards hq: bac fore, of the b ^ better ord'e Far be you, sa you. As soon a the letter, he call were half a dozen faith, says Pnddy found them in the le the basket. An Experiment.—I employed by his fath( small stones which, fror ground, had accumulated' house. He was to take ih« over into the pasture across.^ 1 *; I . , Ol picuing iftem Up of on the bank to try to devise accomplishing his work; he at leng adopted the foli^ving plan : He a narrow board for a target, or, as it, a mark; and then collecting neighbot hood, he proposed to t| which boys are always ready fof^ I need not say that the stores of ui streets w'ere exhausn*d, the boys leader when they supposed they were otTTy finding amusement for themselves. He now is experiment ing on the mind; the production of useful effort with rapidity and ease, by the intervention of prop er instrumentality; the conversion, by means of a little knowledge of human nature, of what oiher- w’ise would hav»i been dull and fatiguing labor, in to a mere animating spoil, giving pleasure lo twen ty instead of tedious labor to one. It docs no good at all.—A genilernan in the city who was in the habit of d.inking his brandy and water, moderately of course, Lad a negro servant who was a model of sobriety. Butaf-w days ago, the gentleman came home and found Jim very drunk. The next morning the ofltnder was called up for an explanation. He came forward with a peculiar ly distressed and mournful look, and when inquired of what this meant, he replied, “ Why, master, I see when anything troubles you, or you fee| bad, you ahvays drink brandy amazingly. Well, yes terday 1 broke one of your china platters, and knevv you would be sorry, so it troubled me. 1 felt very bad indeed, and I thought would take some brandy too; so I kept drinking and drinking, and I got drunk before I thought. Hut it did no good at all. For I feel just as bad about the plaiicr, and then I am mortified to thifik that I shoulJ gei drunk. It does no good at all to drink when you are in trou ble:^ The gentleman said that iio was so struck with the honest simpiicit}* of the negro and the good sense of the conclusion, as well as with ihe evil in- fktence of his own example upon those beneath him, that he was determined to banish his brandy forev er, and is now fully convinced that it does no good at all.'^ — Teetotaler. It is, says INIrs. Ellis, a most painful spectacle in fimilies where the mother is the drudge, to see the u...'ii:hters elegantly dressed, reclining at their ease, with i.heir drawing, their music, their fancy w’ork, and their reading, br guiling themselves of the lapse of hours, days and weeks and never dreaming of their responsibilities ; but as n necessary consequenco of the neglcct ofduty, growing weary of their use less lives, laying hold of every newl^'^ invented stim ulant to rouse their drooping eneregies. and blame tlu-irfate when they dare not blame their God, for having placed them w’here they are. 'I’hese individuals will always tell you w'ith an air of affected compassion—for who can believe it real?—that poor dear mamma is working herself to death.” Yet, no sooner do you propose that they should assist her, thaii they declare she is in quite her element—in short, that she would never be happy if she had only half as much to do. A Fish Story.—The Detroit Advertiser of tho 17th uIt. says:—A Frenchman caught a catfish yesterday with a hook and line in the river near this city, which weighed 187 pounds! It was doubtful for some minutes whether the Frenchman—it was pull catfish, pull Frenchman—but the Frenchman triumphed. It nuist have beca rare sport to thoso tvho i: We “ were not there to eoe."
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