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5 :jW& ?5S opoii, (Edgecombe County, X. C.) Saturday, Septembers, 837 Vol. XIII Xo. 35. nnrw..-jt . . . ., r . "Tttrhnrough ZVv.y," BV OErtKRK IIOWAUI), , pu,lilie;l weekly at TVo Dollars and r;ti Cents per year, if pai-1 in hIvhix-o x. Hnllnri at i lio nilil It'll! of lf i' an yesir, Twrnlu fitt Ctn's per iimnili. UHb-crihcrs aie at ttliMlv to disco.Kia.H- ' 'vtiin, on ffivir.; noiieis iln-rrnf ;inl Hvin5 arrears those resiilina at a U- i.ince niuM '" t ij ............ .,Va responsible reference in llm viriuii v. A IvertiiernenU not exceeding 1G lice in leii'th (or h square) will be inserted ai f,1) rettts the first minion 2 cts. each oHJlinuance. Longer ones at that rat for every square. Advertisements must marked the number of insertions reqtii (rl. or they will be continued until other n'e ordered, and charged acrordinjly. Letters addressed to the Editor must be pst paiJ, or they may not be attended to. Miscellaneous. (V- Till; SLEEPING IN FAN V. llnw calm thy sleep, my little oik ! Gift of a hand divine ! Care hath no wreath to place upon That little brow of thine. Yet on thy cheek are tears of grief, Like pearl-drops on a flower ; Frail emblems of thy sorrow brief, At evening's lonely hour. Yet thou wilt wake to boundless glee When dewy morn appears, Nor e'er remember'd mote will be Thy bitter evening tears. But what are thee thy hopes which share Thy feeble hands which fill ? Thou'rt grasping with a miner's care Thy little play-things still. Come yield to me each useless toy. Till morn's young beams shall peep : 'ay, struggle not! can'st thou enjoy These trifles in thy sleep . Slumber her silken plumes has furl'd Around thy placid brow, And yet an emblem -of the world Thou pictur'st to me now. 'lis thus with man, when old age brings To life's declining vale, He weeps at Time's stern call, and clings To trifles just as frail ! A GOOD FELLOW. There is a great difference be tween a good fellow and a clever fellow; a clever fellow is far from bei ag a good fellow, he is rather a good-for-nothing fellow. A clever lellow is always bustling aboul like a parched pea on a shovel; but a good fellow is as quiet as a mouse, and as easy as an old shoe. A clever fellow has all his eyes about him, but a good fellow ne ver has his eyes above three quar ters open. He takes tiie world as lie fmds it, and thinks "it on the whole a pretty sort of thing, and never meditates pulling it to pie psto make it go better, as babies ('o watches. t clever fellow will be sure to contradict all you say; a good fellow will be sure to agree Willi you whatever you say. A good fellow is u kind of tame bear, dumsv. hut trartsihlp vnn mat: lead him any where, and persuade ''' to any thing. He will tell you 8od stories if you like to listen to ,llfn, and if you do not, he will lis ten to your bad ones. He will wugh at your jokes an,d pity your gnef. He will eat at any table d drink, at any tavern. He will chirp over his glass, and praise the jasiiest wine that was ever bottled. "e will never be the first to break UP a party, but will sit beyond niclnight, kindly oblivious of his ."'fe and children. A good fellow quite in his glory, and at the ve '.V perfection of his goodness, when ;e is half drunk or half asleep. '. )u have wit, you may make hlni our butt; and if you have not J may play off your stupidity "P him, and he will take it for p1. He must care for nobody, ui he at every body's service. bears no resentments, and is jr'g'ng to all the world, except 'lswu family, of whose existence lesppmc 1. II.. fiv ... i bis body, seems to have ac i Jinny aware, nis mma, quired a habit of setting quietly down and confining itself to a plce. He is a man who looks as though he had forgotten yester day and had no thought for to morrow. He is a complete nose of wax, to be twisted or squeezed into any slupe. He has.no men ial or mora! characteristics what ever he is not a good man or a bad man, but he is a good fellow; lie has neither wit nor wisdom, but he is a good fellow: he has done nothing that any one can recollect he has filled no heart with gra titude and no tongues with hU praise, but h is a good fellow. If he (all into trouble (which he is pretty sure to do, for he takes no pains to keep out of it.) his friends pity hirn, it is true; but they have a very queer way of pitying tdm they laugh at him with tears in their eyes. Tivey will not give him a sixpence, but they will say he was a good fellow. A POOH FELLOW. Now, hereby we are brought to the acquaintance of another spe cies of fellow to wit, the Poor Fellow another, and yet not ano ther. A worn out good fellow makes a poor fellow, and so does a done up clever fellow. A poor fellow is a kind of waste butt for superfluous pity, and the dress of sympathy; compassion is not kind ly administered, but carelessly thrown at him. His name is men tioned at tables where once he sat gaily and gloriously; and there starts up at i be sound. of it a vi sion of a threadbare coat of doubt ful color, of a napless hat with a crown that flaps up and down in the wind, and with a flabby brim that will never flap up again -a vision of leaky shoes, of greasy trousers, of lantern jaws, and long grey hair and the guests say, Poor fellow' then they drink their wine to drown the tliought of him thus laying the ghost in a red sea. A poor fellow is like a drone in autumn there is some thing passing melancholy in the slowness of its gait, and there is iu its form and aspect that which tells of a bygone summer of an evanescent brightness a tempo rary flutter and gaiety; but cold winds are come, and heavy clouds hang their damp drapery in a gloo- ,my sky, and the poor shivering drone is creeping to as warm a death as it can find. The pity with which men look upon a poor fellow is as different from the com passion with which they regard a poor man, as the praise they be stow on a good fellow differs from the respect with which they treat a gotfd man. There is something painful iu the familiarity of pity, and the perlness of a half humour ous sympathy. Even the truly generous feel some repugnance in administering to a poor fellow. which they do not feel in relieving a poor man. A poor .fellow re minds you of gay days; and there is a thought, not to be surmount ed, that some mortal obliquities have assisted to form the slope into the valley of adversity; while the poor fellow himself feels more deeply than all the contrast of the present with the past he knows that the past will never be present again, therefore he wishes the present to be past as soon as possi ble Poor fellow! Drop the curtain. From a Paper printed in 1753, Proposed Matrimonial Enact ments. The following clauses are humbly proposed to be added to the late act against clandestine marriages, in case the legislature should hereafter take that subject into their consideration :-r- When thoughtless young fools having no visible way to maintain themselves, nor any thing to be gin the world, yet resolve to mar ry and be miserable, let it be deemed petty larceny. If a young, man marries an old xyoman merely for the sake of a maintenance, let it be called self- preservation. hen a rich old fellow marries a young woman iu her full bloom, ...a,. uc ueam witnout beneut ol clergy. When two old creatures that ran Jiardly hear one another sueak. and cannot propose the least com fort to Chemselves in the thing, yet marry together, they shall 'be deemed non compuj, and sent to the mad house. When a lady marries her ser vant, or a gentleman his cook maid, especially if there be any children by a former marriage, they both shall be transported for fourteen years. W hen a woman in good circum stances marries an infamous man, not worth a groat; if she's betray ed unto it, shall be called acciden tal death: but if she knows it, it shall be made single felony and shall be burnt in the hand. When a woman marries a man deeply in debt, knowing him to be so. let her be sent to the house of correction, and kept to hard labor for three months; and if he deceiv ed her, and did not let her know his circumstances, sire shall be ac quitted and he doomed to beat hemp all the days of his life. When a man having no children marrres a woman with five or six, let the delinquent stand thrice in the pillory, loose both his ears, and suffer one year's imprison ment. It a man marries a woman of ill fame, knowing her to be so, lie shall have a pair of horns painted on his door, or if she be a known scold, a couple of neat's tongues in the room of them. And when a man or woman mar ries to the disinheriting of their children, let them suffer as in case of high treason. "Hie Hens have had a meeting too.,J A countrvman drove his cart on to a errocer s door, and asked him what he gave for eggs ; "only 17 cents," was the reply, Inr the grocers have had a meet -' ing, and voted to give no more." A gam the countryman came to maiket and asked the grocer what he gave for eggs "only 12 1-2 cents," said, the grocer, "for the grocers have had a meeting and voted not to give any more." A third lime the countrvman came and made the same enquiry, and the grocer replied, that the grocers had held a meeting again and vo ted to give only 10 cents. "Have ! vou any for sale," continued the grocer "No," says the country- ; "'"i "cns "ue mtviuig ! too, and voted not to trouble them selves to lay eggs tor 10 cents a dozen." Boston Post. A Veteran Printer. The Edi- j tor of the . Weekly Messenger late ly paid a visit to Harttord, where he records the following interest ing incident : "Since my arrival in this city, I have had a very interesting inter view with the very venerable Geo. Goodwin, who is now, I believe, the oldest practical printer in A merica being in his eighty-third year, but as hale, hearty and ac tive, apparently, as roost men are at fifty-five or sixty. 1 found him iu the same place and at the same employment, that I did when I called on him twenty years ago, viz: setting type for the Connecti cut Courant. When 1 expressed some little surprise thereat, he ob served that he had been setting types for this same paper more than 70 years, and he could not feel contented to abandon his fa vorite employment at this lime of life." A correspondent of the Ohio Register, writing from Cincinnati, says: Our landing w;as yesterday as- tonished by the appearance of a young man from down the river, w,JO when caught a(ul neum; proved to be seven feet six inches high. As he stood m the crowd, his shoulders high above the head of the tallest, he looked around him without the least interruption to his prospect, which was doubt less an extended one, while the pigmy tribes of Adam, your com mon six-footers, were walking round him at a suitable distance for the purpose of seeing his whole lengih, as men walk wid of the house to read a sign board, or to see if the chimney be on fire. 1 afterwards saw him standing on the guards of a steamboat, appa rently surveying, over the top of (he boat, some object on the other side. Of course, this "most del icate monster" was the talk of Front street for the day. Upon inquiry of the captain who brought him up, I found he was a Louis ville hackman, named Porter. His age is only 22 years, and he has not yet ceased to grow! "He is filling up," said the captain; "he'll be quite a large man yet, he's a young fernomenon, aim lie." Be off, Virls! A gentleman formerly of New England, writes from Jackson, Miss, to a friend in this city, who contemplates emi grating to the west this fall, and says: Must bring out a thousand of your industrious Yankee girls; I want a wife, and 1 will find hus bands for a hundred more. How unequally the good things of this world are distributed. 1 will ven ture to say that tweuty thousand New England maidens would meet with a welcome reception by the gallant and noble hearted Missis sippians. I think every one would have offers in less than a year.' Boston Traveller. Breakfast in Alabama. The following conversation is said to I have micpn nl that State. ; iMarni what do you charge for a breakfast here ? . Why, if you have corn bread and common trim mins, it will be two bits (25 cents.) But if you have wheat bread and chicken Jixins, it will be three bits. Let's have the chicken fixins. The way to get rid of the hea then. A ship lately carried out to the Sandwich Islands, eight missionaries Si one hundred hogs heads of ardent spirits for the ben efit of the heathen. JV. Y. Star. - Shockingly Disappointed. The author ot Jack lirag,' narrates an amusing incident which occurred to his hero (an Lnglish cockney) while stopping at a hotel in a vil lage near the sea-shore. The waiting-maid chanced to be a poor orphan, but possessed of unusual beauty. Jack, who was always smitten with every new face, soon conceived an ardent passion for the pretty waiter, and while cogitating on the subject one night some hours after he had retired to bed, the door gently opened, and to his surprise and pleasure Faunv, the pretty waitiug maid, stood uefore him. After a good deal of hesitation and timidity, she informed him that, unexpectedly, every bed in the house was occupied, and she was under the necessity of asking if he would be so very kind as to spare a part of his. Jack, (now fully conscious that he had not overrated his powers of fascina tion) gave his assent with 'the greatest pleasure imaginable,' . when in steps Mr. van Slush, a North Sea trader, who was six feet four in height, four feet six in circumference, and wet to the skhi 'I dank you ver moch, sir, said he to Jack, vor de commodazun; I sleeps zound.' 'I dont under stand said Jack. 'Bot I too,' re- plied Van Slush; 'Vanny ask you ror alf de ped; you zay yes; 1 afl lot zlept dry vor deze dree veeks, von vay and odder, o Vanny pring up my bipe and my bacco. and zom praudy and vater, we'll aff a zwig before I durn in.' Atrocious Aurder. A corres pondent in Pittsylvania couinv writes to us as follows: "On Thursday evening the 10th inst. Doct. Joel H. Echols, residing at the court house, was called on pro fessional duty, to the neighbour hood of Merger's Store, 12 mile's distant, where on alighting from his horse, he heard Mr. William Bennett, (who had previously been employed by the Doctor's father,) engaged, as was Ins habit, in "rais ing a row." The Doctor mildly stepped up -for the purpose of in terposing, and preventing any un pleasant occurrence; whereupon Bennett, incensed at any interfe rence, rashly threatened him. The Doctor, believing that no unfriend ly motive could be attributed to hirn, again interposed, when he was cut across the abdomen with a rough neighborhood made butcher knife of which wound he expired next day. Dr. Echols was in the bloom of life, of good family, and highly respected by his friends and acauaintances.- Bennett has been committed to jail, to await his trial." Lynchburg Virginian. A remarkable instance of cool and determined courage was dis played last week, iu the Valley, near the old Boston road. Mrs. Curtis, who was picking blackber ries for the Salem market, found herself within reach and almost in contact with a Rattlesnake. In stead of screaming, or fainting awa', as many would have done, she took a small stick, and the way she put it over his head and shoul ders was a caution to Rattlesnakes. Having amused herself in this w ay as long as it could be of any ue, she tied a string round its neck and carried it home in triumpii. Salem Gaz. Alarming Flour Combination. The Buffalo, N. Y. Journal of the 4 st says, there is every reason to believe that notwithstanding the immense yield of the grain crops this season, the manufacturers and dealers in flour are busily at work to forestall aud buy up the mar ket. The extent of ramification of this secret combination is incre dible, and their resources ample. The above paper says ; We could uame, we believe, a single bank for instance, eastward of us, which, within a few days, has engaged to make discounts to the amount of at least 3140,000 toi three individuals, for the purchase ol wheal and the agents of which individuals have already passed through this city aud gone west to purchase wheat ot the new crop. We could also name an associa tion of individuals iu another part ot our state, who already own oue bank in Michigan, and another in the valley of the Scioto, Ohio, if not indeed other banks, whose a- gents are in the field making pur chases; to say nothing of the do zens of other large milling estab lishments who have their agents scattered in all directions, aud whose meaus, obtained from a large number of banks, which are completely at iheir control, are of the most ample kind. Aud further, we ihiuk we could designate from seven to ten banking institutions in this slate, whicli are the mere creatures of these monopolists, and three-iourths of whose discounts are either directly or indirectly made to these men, and whose de mands they dare not at any time gainsay. And further still, fve most conscientiously believe that an effort will be made by these mo nopolists to induce the bank cotn- missioners to dal most rigorously with, or, in the words of one of ihem, to "spur up" all the western banks, at least, which will not come into their measures, end min ister to their speculations. Bouncers. There are two young ladies, sisters, now residing in He bron, Ohio the weight of the younger, fifteen ears old, being 2S0 pounds, and the other, seven teen years old, o20 pounds. A. lr. Stor. A Dangerous Experiment. A Fisherman in England w hile in a state of intoxication, put out his tongue to try whether an adder would exhibit the usual ferocity, which they are said to like a Tur key gobler at the sight of a red object. The adder flew at him and bit him in bis gnrrulatory or gan dreadfully so that it swelled up and protruded from his mouth, and came near killing him. Wooden JVutmegs Outdone. A short lime since, a Yankee Ped lar, made his appearance in this county, offering the people, just for comfort's sake, a few pounds of prime northern strained honey. , T Srarre I" ,,e,e! a,rSl CVer' Srocer and ma ny lamiltes, bought and eat. It now turns out this same prime ho ney is nothing more or lejs than a compound mixture of chalk, soda and Molasses, manufactured some) where up in 'Varmount.' JS'otwalc, (Conn.) Chron. The Man who can do without going to bed. A recent author speaking of a well known reporter says, "He possesses a singularly -strong constitution. I have spo ken of his early rising; 1 should have mentioned, that he is also late in going to bed. On an average he has not, for the last twenty years, slept above four hours iu the twenty-four. He is often weeks without goingto bed at all. It sufHceth him, as Wordsworth would say, to have two or three hours' doze in his arm chair, and with his clothes on. In the year 1S34, he was seized with the am bition of performing an unusual feat iu this way. He aspired to ! the reputation of being able to sit up one hundred consecutive nights and days, without stretching him self on a bed, or iu any way put ling himself into a horizontal po sition, even for oue moment. He actually did, incredible as it may appear, accomplish the extraordi nary undertaking. For one cen tury of consecutive nights aud days, as he himself loves to ex- ' press it, he neither put off his clothes to lie down in bed, nor any where else, for a second. Any little sleep he had during the time was in the shape of a doze, as just mentioned, in his arm chair." Whether this hater of Bedfordshire is married, our historian sayeth uot. "Come friend," said a creditor to a. debtor, "I want that money ,n "I haven't got it." "But 1 must have it now." "Well if you gel it before I do, just let me know, will you. C7" Sir, do you mean to say I lie ?" said a person to a French gentleman. "No, sare, I say not dat you lie; but, sare, 1 say dat you walk round about the truth." 'Papa,' said a Jitth boy to his father, the other dav, when a fel low strikes another, haint be go no right to strike back : 'Certainly he has replied the father, 'the law of self-defence sanctions it. Well then, I'll tell you what if is,' laid the boy, 'ihe next time you box ray ears, I'll hit you a devil of a poult under the fifth rib V
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