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1 WOULD TELL I1KU I LOVE HEK.
Iw-yM it'll her 1 love her,
Did I kn nv but the way,
Could iav Hps but discover
ii it a leer should say;
T!i 1 swear to adore her,
Every moruiiig I rise,
Vet win n once I'm before her,
Ail my eloquence llies.
0 ye gids! did you ever
Such a simpleton know?
I'm in love, and yet never
Have the heart to say so.
TIwuv; plucked up a spirit,
One mo.Misliiny night,
Thlit I, Til defer it .
Till t j-morrow's daylight.
But ab! the pale moonbeam
Could not frighten me more,
For alas! by the sunbeam
I was dumb as bet". re.
Oh ye gods! did ye ever, &c.
LONG WEEDS.
A disconsolate husband in the West publishes
the obituary of his wife, followed by some
verses ur.d his signature in flaming capitals!
Here are, two or three stanzas :
Come my dear friends, and mourn with me,
In my afflicted state;
I am bcreav'd, as you may sc,
Of my dear loving mate.
My los is great to lose my mate,
I am like a lonesome dove;
I'll go alone and sigh and mourn,
yiy dear, my absent love !
My children cry, no mother by
To dandle on the knee;
The breach is great, it dotli create
Much grief as all may see.
roii the TAUEono tress.
THE SOAP ANECDOTE.
A matter of Fact.
Koos McGilvery, is a square built ath
letic man, with a rough agricultural exte
rior, with eye of dark unme ruing lustre
and a look of sell bvlief. He had been
recently promoted in the army or in
other words', had, after going through the
interior grades of his company, heroine a
subaltern in ilic Rtgm't of E
militia. It was funuv to see Rous, when
first ia military costume; his Chapcau, or
military hat and feather, sat stiff and for
mal on his brow his stock or covat.
uniike that of any other being, tvas a
simple lie it girded his neck as tight a
evc?r girt or circingle did a horse his vest
was of striped homespun, which barely
met his yellow nankeens his hose were
klue, seamed with a strip of red fl.innel
boats he had none, but a pair of uucleaned
T;ire toed shoes appeared to be append -tJ
to an enormous pair of feet a blue coat
of singular cut, hanging comically on his
shoulders, completed his dress but down
l''S hack, hung a dazzling silver epaulette,
6'ittei ing in the sunbeams, and in the Ian
guage of one of our most gifted bards,
"It hunr dingl'i dangle,
Like a huge tallow candle,"
To the no small edification of a troop
l cake gipsies, who had drawn up their
Phalanxes near the parade cround.-
1 lie detail would be endless, were I to go
!'o the particulars of this extraordinary
'"uivKJu.ii. liis military pace, was cau-
l;ous and precise, though always incor
feet he kept lime neither with drum, flute
r',fir bugle always too fast or too slow;
"Hen his left foot should he down, it was
variably up. If you ever were at a co
1 1 Ion party, and green hands on the car
l3th perhaps you may have some idea nl
n'e military exactness of our worthy su
tahem. An Ensign, in the back settle
mets, is no inconsiderable personage, I as
ure you he is the military hero of his
'mediate vicinity he is the war liisto-
"an and chronologer of his military dis
inct can repeat the battle of Lexington
heart, has read the Indian wars, and
perhaps has been to a general muster.
Having given the en-scmble of the per
aVirAomu,
onal and military bearing of Ensign Koos,
I cannot conclude without giving a Coup
de Grace, to a portrait so full of incident
and marvellous anecdote. I 1824 or 5,
Koos McGilvery, being weather wise and
keenat trade, mounted his steed and struck
a small path across his new ground-got
mto ihe unin thoroughfare and proceeded
i tlie village of Th, to purchase
some goods of the merchants of that place;
hut finding every thing extremely Ai'Wi,
remounted his Bonnets 'O iL t..
f 1 ll """-I
wended his way slowlv slmvlv I civ v...
. ... - . j j
Hie V 3f'P rurnnpiliA... I... I . ic .
led .i,h, ..; ' - .7. 7'. ' r'"vy ,rcl-
ooker on, seemed to remain, like a ship
becalmed at sea -but not so; Koos, alter a
teuiousand protracted journey, arrived at
the town of Sparta, nine short miles from
the metropolis of the county. Here Mc
Gilvery dismounted, tied his filley to a
swinging limb and walked into the nri.w.-
J I w ii , il il ll
pal store; and after gazing awhile at tin
different kinds nf mnii i. ...
. ...vuuKnur-j UrfUII IU
ask the prices of many articles, but ronld
not buy all too high could get them 25
per cent, cheaper in Th had just V
en mere i,o mistake goods cheap as
dirt preferred trading here, because it
was more conweuienl must have goods
at low water mirk, else would'nt buy. The
clerks soon knew a thing or two, if they
could think on it and finding thev
could'nt drive a trade, gallantly resolved
to give him a burster. The honor i.f exe
cuting this manoeuvre, devolved on young
Mr. C , who in person was small iu
stature, prim and starc hy in dress; and
with a black mischievous eye, possescd
the gravity of an ecclesiastic. What are
this, spake McGilvery, o Mr. C? Soap,
sir shaving soap at your service; a supe
rior article cheap, fresh; selling below
the invoice, sir. f Ah' imh. fwm.rl.M
McGilvery, your puce only 12J els. nei
cake, sir cheap, going going sir, for
less than a saw dust pudding How m:in
of this superior beard preserving
soap, shall I place to your account, s i i f
A hem one, sir, replied McGilvery; tho'
high, shave 1 must before our battalion
muster and tother side of this, I have to
wisit my kinsfolk on llardburgaiu branch.
1 wo days alter this memorable event, we
find MeGilvcrV at his luilet. wilh "nmr
keen as ever was seen" ready to shave
Ids black and savage chin but lo! his soap
failed to lather, not one particle of foam
rose in his shaving box he could not pro
reed lime n, w swiftly at 12 o'clock ihe
battalion would be firmed ilwas past 10;
had not shaved had 15 miles to trot his
black mare. A hem fall iu, men form
battle array on vour left wheel fix l:ir.
e
nils look more to your guns, and less
at the gals march hall handle cat-
ridge box - shoot. Such were the stilled
order of McGilvery's commands, during
this scene of perplexity. Gripes mount
flying Childers, and speed over to Parson
rauuch s and Sq lire Timhertoes, anil bid
them be here in a twinkling. The parson
and the squire were soon at the gate; big
w ilh curiosity and sweating w ith toil.
Walk in jontlemiti, sq-ieek'd McGilvery
Squire, to what circumstance am I indebt
ed for this hasty summons, fiieud McGil
very r by, I have some comical soap
here, may it please your worship, replied
AkU. it neither lathers nor washes, and I
am somewhat bothercated in the matter:
here it is, your reverence, have you sich
at tlie parsonage." INo, replied the parson,
I call this chocolate and not shaving
Miap it is to bull. Jesu Maria, exclaimed
McG., and alter leaving word with his
ook, vaulted in his saddle, and settincr ofl
in a brisk trot took the road leading to the
review he arrives on the field unshaved
and stung with bitter reflections on the
events ol the day. His military dutv dis
charged, he remounts his steed and hastens
like a true cavalier to reap the bitter fruits
of chagrin and disappointment:
"Raccoon went to simmon town,
To choose the rotton from de soun.'
Thus singing, McU. wended his way
O W
home, joyfully anticipating the luxury
which awaited nun at his irugat ooarcl
Nightfall found him seated at the table
ready and anxious to wipe OU nis mor
nine's disgrace. The cook having boiled
the chocolate with greens.it was served
- o licit iiiiui 1 ll uuw.
up a la ham and greens; but so hard and Pursuing this inquiry, it is, in the first
r.M tunc line rlir.inlnlo linm f lk r. t III I .1 IT" I
5M J TTi IIIIJ lllULIIiaiC IKIIII) IIIUI II
slipped about his mouth like a cake of sha
ving soap.
The ear rolled around, and our hero
... n inllla (lie QPInilnl !-. nncil'nr.tii
w'cm iu seme un wui pusiuYcnigcemoerj jocw, averageu y,uo,ioi.
declined paying for the chocolate; an
never did, affirming that he would stand
law
suit in every county in the State; and
could not get rid of it, he would re-
to the Supreme Court of Virginny.
if he
peal
ttTlioonTlh ?.n nlanpts flrnnntl the sun
Still dance; nor will their dance be done,
Till nature in one blast is blended,
Then may we say, this joke is ended."
QUIRK.
fLcom&e County, JT. C.J Saturday, June 30, 1838.
COMMERCIAL CONVENTION.
The Virginia Commercial Convention
assembled at Richmond on Wednesday,
I3lh ult. Jas. Caskie, Esq. of Richmond,
President; Wright Soulhgate, Esq. of Nor
folk, Vice President. A numerous body
f delegates from Virginia, and one (Col.
Asa Biggs, of Martin county,) from North
Carolina, took il
A committee. rnnsisiinrr nf r.o man,Kn.
"O iiihiiuci
from p:.rl. l0l,: . , .
ut'anuii, as iipuoiuieu to
r
P"P3tc a The chairman, Dr.
Mallorv nf FJivnhait. r., .
ed an elaborate report on Thursday. This
report, alter considerable discussion, was
nhdrawn by Mr. Mallory on Friday. On
Saturday the Convention adopted tlie re
port of the Committee appointed under
the resolution of Mr. Baxter. It concludes
ilh a resolution that a committee of mer
cliailts ue appointed to nrenare. after the
adjournment, an address to the people of
irginia, setting forth the practicability
and advantages of a direct trade with for
eign countries.and recommends as auxilia
ries to the attainment of the great object
an increase of banking capital and a judi
cious system of internal improvements.
Ihe Convention closed its labors on
Saturday, after agreeing lo call another
Convention to meel in Norfolk, iu Novem
ber next.
The Richmond Delegation invited the
other members of the Convention and se
veral gentlemen, to partake w ith them of a
dinner at "Racon's Spring," on Saturday
evening, at which numerous spirited toasts
were drunk. The following is the
u -
REPORT
Of the Committee on Commerce.
The committee to w hom it w as referred
by the Convention, to inquire into and re
port, whether the merchants of Virginia
, ...w.w..-.. v. i.iina
can imporl goods from foreign countries,
on as pood terms as the merchants of anv
of our sister slates; aud secondly, how the
f r r I r w o n i - . .1 II I .1
foreign trade of Virginia is affected bv the
want of capital, and in w hat manner the
l
inconvenience uuner vvnicti it labors mav
be remedied, submit the following report;
1 hat the time allowed the committee
for the consideration of a subject so com
prehensive and interesting as the foreign
commerce of the stale, has been altogether
too limited to enable it to perform iis duty
in a manner satisfactory to itself.. There
was not time for many inquiries which be
long to such an investigation. The causes
lhat have operated unfavorably lo South
ern Commerce, and denied to it the rela
tive importance w hich w as to have been
expected from the enterprise and abundant
elements of foreign trade of the South,
could not be explored in a few hours of
hurried consultation. The question espe
cially addressed lo the committee, and to
which it has been under the necessity of
confining its attention, has respect to the
capacity of Virginia to maintain a foreign
import trade. And if it shall appear not
only that we can maintain such a trade,
but aie possessed of advantages which
would enable us to enter into successful
competition for it; the enquiry, how we
may recover that trade, is the one imme
diately affecting ihe interests and business
of the State.
The question propounded in the resolu
tion, namely, whether the merchants of
Virginia can import from foreign countries
on as good terms as the merchants of any
of our sisler states, may be answered con
fidently iu the affirmative. They can so
import. The markets of foreign coun
tries, and the agency by which foreign
traffic is performed, are as freely opened
to Virginia capital and enterprise as to any
other. From no part of our country can
the operation of purchasing abroad, and
Ul Ul Ml 2 Q VTV 'v I 1 V 1 lilt U 1 1 1 1 IllUiC
(jespalch or at cheaper rales. This being
of bringing home, be performed with more
t i m
conceded, as from the obvious nature of
the proposition il must be, the question
Lr tin ctnlP tn Tnetpr nroi Ptirnnrnrro 1 At
arises vvutuier i is me iniereui anu policy
Lt rnmin imnnn iro
l place, to be remarked that Virginia has a
large export iraoe, large wnen compared
n'lih ihp nrrnrrpfate exnort of nil ihp Sinioc
uor ornnns fnr thrp vpq onrlimr alii.
t t f fin I 4t- . -
d This, of course, gave her that amount of few comparatively is adequate to its bur
a foreign capital, ready to be employed in ken; and the exigency resulting therefrom
d .L.inA..a. mn,(A rM.nflnl-.1,. Il as n O t 11 i t h P r t n hppn itipI nnrl nrnvidprl
whatsoever mode that was profitable.
Yet, whilst she had it in her power,
En ough the medium of her exports, to ob-
tin uugu ui uiwuiuui vi vaiuiu, iu uu
min directly, and at a reduced cost, the
r n4...i;nna rlomnnrlnrl I, u -
lOreigll pi ouucuuua ucuiuuucu uy ucr COII-
sumption, the course of trade hitherto has
been to obtain those productions in north-
em cities, thereby receiving them through
a circuitous .....ol o.n.i ..i
W1U.1.IV.I Mil II Ul Ull t. II II il 1 1 1 I U
cost. The average import for the period
a circuitous Hiiiimoi -..nl oi ....
just referred to. has been less than one
seventh of her exports; and assuming lhat
the difference between those two amounts
has been expended in procuring at the
north those foreign supplies, which her ex
ports would have enabled her to procure
directly from abroad, and assuming fur
ther that the augmented coal of the for
mer operation is equal to fifteen per cen
tum, and w e detect an annual loss of about
.$700,000 incurred by the Stale from her
neglect of the import trade. But that
sum is far below the actual annual loss; for
fifteen per centum is an under estimate of
the addition to the charges upon the for
eign supplies coining through the indirect
channel referred to, and the sum assumed
to be invested iu those supplies, is below
the actual amount. The loss to the con
sumer of foreign supplies, so obtained, is
equal at least to fifteen per cent, upon the
amount ot n is purchases.
Now if any thing be needed lo rouse the
citizens of our State from the supineness1
which could overlook so enormous a tax
upon its industry and resources, or recon
cile them to it, it would' seem to be ihe
consideration lhat it is with their own ster
ling money ihe importation is made, which
they submit lo receive at second hand at
so ruinous a sacrifice. Again the tonnage
which is employed in carrying on the ex
port commerce of the state would be more
i han adequate to the importation of all
the foreign supplies demanded by our
whole consumption. Dot, through the
neglect of the import trade, the important
advantages resulting from the employment
of that tonnage have been lost to the state,
and appropriated by those who have had
the sagacity and enterprise lo enlist it in
their scrvicci The amount of which loss
isnoi to be estimated simply by the sacii-
uteoi Dcm ins w inch would accrue to us.
.from ihe employment therein of domestic
apital and labor, but by the sacrifice in
....i:.: i' .i . . .
t
cupations that always attend upon the sue-
cesslul prosecution of anyone important
.luuiiiun oi ine associated trades and oc
I l.flM.'ll r. f I . . c I r t c
""'lull I UUJIlllIOi
t mally, for your committee must be
content to suggest some of the prominent,
..if
rather than attempt to develope the numer
ous, reasons which commend the import
trade lo ihe favor and patronage of our
State, another, and not ihe least consider
ation w hy a vigorous and persevering effort
should be marie to secure it, is lhat it will
have the effect of recovering the state from
lhat dependance on Northern markets,
which has exposed us to suffer by their vi
cissitudes without any direct participation
in their prosperity.
Upon the first view of the subject, the
causes of the disparity between the amount
of our export and import commerce, may
not suggest themselves lo inquiries gene
rally. The former being large, as we
have seen, involving all ihe facil'aies which
are needed for making purchases abroad;
the tonnage which carried out our staples
being at hand lobe employed in bringing
iu the productions for which it is to be ex
changed; and the simple operation of bar
ler being the natural and cheap mode of
effecting lhat exchange why is it lhat, at
great pecuniary loss, our people rely upon
others for productions that they could pro
cure better by themselves! To answer
this question fully, would lead the commit
tee into an investigation, which ihey have
not time to pursue. Out among the most
prominent causes that may be assigned, the
capital required by the import trade, being
greatly more than the capital necessary
for the export trade, may be instanced
as not the least influential. The export
merchant, through the system of advan
ces lhat universally prevails, has a large
proportion of the capital employed iu his
purchases speedily restored to him, through
the medium of a sterling bill. Which he
is permitted to draw upon his consignee.
The like rapidity of purchase and return
is not enjoyed by the import merchant! He
is exposed to the more tardy process of
uTeclinga sale; and lhat sale is upon lime.
It is manifest, therefore, that the amount
of capital requisite for the successful pro
secution of the latler description of com
merce is greatly beyond the capital which
will suffice for the foraier. This conside
ration, in a great degree, accounts for the
comparative languishing condition of the
import trade, and the reluctance of our
merchants to engage in it.
The capital of
kas not hitherto
for by the granti
lIes which a lim
anting of those banking facili
timelv and earnest anneal In
j ri
our Legislature would doubtless have ob-
Italnpd. And thU hrinrrc tlip rnmmilloo in
- -- iu
ike consideration of the second resolution,
l is the opinion of your committee that
Vol. XIV Xo. 86.
, an increase of banking facilities, so that
Li... . . . .
me iuj juiuui interest which l hev now s?t
to recommend lo general and spirited sup
port, would readily obtain the accommo
dation of which it stands in need; accom
panied by a patriotic determination of all
classes of our citizens to support a course
of domestic industry so auspicious to pri
vate and state wealth, comlort, and inde
pendence, and accompanied also by a ju
dicious system of internal improvement, so
lhat every section of our extended terri
tory may be accommodated and their rich
resources developed, would secure to our
stale an extent of foreign commerce that
would be the source of untold benefits to
all classes of our people, and of power and
consideration lo our commonwealth.
The resolution of the committee, as
amended in the Convention, was as fol
lows :
Resolved, That a vigorous aud perse
vering effort be made to build up and sus
tain a large and increasing foreign import
trade; that a committee of merchants be
appointed, to sit after the adjournment of
the uonvention, lo prepare an suldress to
our fellow citizens, unfolding ihe impor
tance ol such a trade and the ready capa"
city of Virginia to obtain it; staling the
support the trade will derive from un in
crease of bank facilities, under such restric
tions and modifications as the wisdom of
the Legislature may devise, and from an
addition lo the banking ; capital, ir the
addition authorized by existing laws shall
be found, afier a sufficient trial lo be inade
quate to sustain and support the various in
terests of ihe commonwealth; and stating
the aid the trade will derive from a judi
cious system of internal improvements; and
that the Legislature be respectfully re
quested to meet the advances of any neigh
boring state, who may have enacted laws
to transport her products and merchandise
into Virginia.
Cousin Sally Uilliard again. Our
readers doubtless recollect the humorous
siory, puuiisned some time since, respect
ig "Cousin Sally," related by the Salis
.... " '
bury watchman. Ihe same paper, has
given us another chapter of her history
w hich is equally amusing :
Mredding Extra !! Married at Chalk
Level, Pittsylvania county, Virginia, by
Jos. Ilice, Esq., commonly calltd Capt.
Kice, Mr. Moses Harriss, commonly called
our Moses, to Miss Saran Ddliard, com
monly called "Cousin bally." In this
wedding things were managed a little dif
ferent from common aff;irs. After .ihe
parties were agreed, cousin Sally waited
on Old Tom Harnss, (our old friend tmd
w itness) and after a due quantum of pala
ver and circumbendibus chat, she made
known the Slate and condition of hrr's and
Mose's hearts, and that, they had come to
a elusion to marry, if so be tlie old folks
were willin. Old Tom pulled up his
breeches by the waistband and squirted ihe
tobacco jidre through his teeth. He said
"the crap was smartly in ihe grass, but how
somever as it teas she cousin Sally Dilliard,
she might have Mose. What was the
most singular of all, was the fact, that in
coming home from ihe wedding, Old Har
riss, his w ife, Mose and Cousin Sally Dil
liard, all waded the big swamp. Tempora
mutanturl
Dreadful Famine in India. The over
land despatch from ludia (via Marseilles)
arrived in London, bringing intelligence
from Calcutta and Madras to (he middle,
and from Bombay to the end of March.
The accounts of the progress of ihe famine
in the western provinces are most hon ible;
the inhabitants of the Agra are compelled
to forego their evening drives on account
of the intolerable effluvia surrounding the
station. A small river, near Cawnpore, is
said to be literally choaked with the corpses
of the multitude starved to death. A relief
fund has been opened at Calcutta, aud on
the 15th of March the subscriptions
amounted to above 40,000 rupees.
OThe Sacristy of St. Patrick's Churcl
Fell's Point, Baltimoie, was robbed o
on
Sunday night, J7lh inst. of the silver cha
lice, and tour silver piatea candlesticks.
Stiching Machine. 'A stick in time
saves nine,' according to the old saw, and
Mr. Biggs' Stiching Machine which we
saw in operation this morninrr. not nnlv
stiches in time, but saves 20, if Dr. Frank
lin s proverb 'time is money be true to the
mechanic. To the sadler his invention is
a valuable one, as it enables the workmen
to stich a tug in an hour, and no hard tug
either. The machine is simply contrived,
is not liable lo get out of repair, and is ap
proved by those who have tried it. It is
of the true labor saving kind.
Cleveland (Ohio) Herald.