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1 . " ' ' ; .""V ' : ' j r . i ! -... - J "1 1 .f f r " . "' ' :: i -" ' ' " . . ' ' - , :: '' . I - , I ' ' I .v.i IdUJJfd t F. C. HILL, Editor and , irietor WiltijiriSton North Carolina. VOL. III. NO 36. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21st, 1838. WHOLE NO 140: A TThwrmnr -clajLU f U 1 lmlU; m. m m a m -t -, m v a mm a m ' 1- 1 tc i in- . f PUBLISHED ViSJ r FRIDA Y MORNING .. . i?" . ' Tsnms. -. .-; Three Dollars pfeji' annum, in advance - 1 h ADVEIITISEJIENTS Not eiceelin2 a riqnaT6 inserted at ONE IOLLR the firatiand TWENTVi-FIVE CEN1S for each subse quent insertion. ! , i No S5ubsribers taken for less than one year, 4nd all who permit their subscription to run over a year, without giving notice are considered .bound for the second year, and so on for, all uc ceeding years. ' r No paper discontinued nnlil all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the Editor. . j try- OFFICE on the pulh Je of Market Street, be Vjw the Court JfonR4. j ; r . tOfflije or the Porstroouth & Roanoke R. R. C'4. f Potrsmouth, Va. May 2ijth, 1S3S. Ixrcat Ventral lioiitc -1 . .- . . , : j . ( .BETWEEN THE ! NORTH A XD SOUTII, Via ihc Portsmouth and Roanoke. Rail road, a nd the Chesapeake Bay r ; j Steamboats, THROUGH from fh.lifnv. N f, to New York.- in Pl lR TV ( tintTHSI haim. rP Olirt" II ATIIli Txr A Kit tni , ANY OTHER LINE, and Ik is irithml a ho- menis nigM Iravelitv on railroad south pf Philadelphia, and WITHOUT THE LOSS oLiCcr Anus: 'from Halifax to Portsmouth. Q lionrsl 41 : I Portsmouth to Baltimorn 41- . Hi Baltimore to Phil ulelphia, Pliiladelphia tojNew Yo k' 8 " i Stopp aircsjr 41 . dxy .and Friday,' Baltimore rvt-rv Monday, ' ,-. v cunesuay ana .F riaay, ami Wysmngion eArV WuHnnsHav FSi r f ithyi tl:tifn-v to Phi de,lp4iia including every expense, f m:als. pos tfcr Totbe uulthshr'd until forltid in flip Ancnita Chrojiicle, Savannah Georgian, Cliarlestfih Couierj Norfolk Herald, Baltimore Patriot j& 'American, National Intelligcncrr, XJ. $.G;z Xiv, I'c-nnsyivHtiian, and iNew York otar, and $v counts sent to ine imce ot trie rortsmoutni Roanoke Railroad Company. I 125 it Travellers roin IVbrtli : ! ZD BV.THE AVILMINGTON A RALEIGH RAILROAD i COMPANY'S LINE, A:RE respectfully .jti .'formed, that ' thy will ilJLnnd the route through Halifax, Gary's, -tersburg,Richniond, Washington and Baltimore, the most expeditious, the'tim-J froih Uharlestoi) lo NewYork being by, this line, (through Petersburg, : See.) half a May less, than by any i oi her interkcr route. i j The Petersburg; Railroad Company hare always locomotives, with coaches, &c. at Gary's, ready to proceed immediately for jthe North, upon he arrival of the passengers; and travellers are referred to 'Mr: B. F. HaUey. th -ir tgenX. at Halifax. uptn whose representati ns they may implicitly rely. There ii no uncertainty or detcnijon "em this route. All the Sines nor'h of the Roatibke i run in regular connexion ; anu me engineers being careful, circumspect, und sober, and cvi ry - other precatition takeni lo-render this line sate and comfortable, the attention of the public is iuvjicd : to it. j V" - ' t' An agent .attends at Gary's, and taces "' chafee of all basffae, Sand accompanies theatne,' without trouble to the traveller, all the wj lo Washington i ; Petersburg Railroad Company VOfltee, ) August 22d, 183S. 137 Itf NOTICE TO MERCHANTS. A LL Merchandise, xc. mtendwd to be forT jfiA. warded on the Railroad, musl be sentiber tween! sunrise and eight o'clock, A. M. jny thing sent after that tiijne cannot? be taken on tiliat day. Nothing will be received, "units itisut uip in the most substantial manner. Every thjng must have the owner'sname marked distinctly on it, and a bill'ticcOmpanying it, specifying jthe weight, stat.iwg who it lis from, who it is for, and where it is to be lefi. -j 1 The merchants "will be held rcsponsille in ererv iease. for the freight -o everv thins sentlbv them, j Merchants haying consignments of pro duce, and other articles trom the country, must take them away the day that tSvy arrive, as tht Company will not be 'responsible for any th autfereG to remain at the Uenot all, night. i Articles will be deiiverd at, and taken frtoru thL (ollowin points ion the road, vir. Rofky 1'oint Depot, Water bta,tioh, near Burj2fiv SwamD.and the Depot, nearhauth vVaslii -i w w I m t t t t r-v r- r- . on. Lt. LiJ rl. SAUiMUttW, ' Agent of Transportatiort. Moy 13th, h3. j f -' ; NOTICE. v. To Messrs. Mil Ur Ripley i- CoTJ; XV, Y. Walton, Carson, & Hamitibn, JSyland j Hayden, James Thomas, JiJ, McCdrlcr, and Henry' W. GleasongSc Co of Charleston t I A Bishop A- Co, John JlT, Niolon 4 Co., James H. . Bryant, and Benfn. Exum, of .Camden ; David tla- I gins of Bell Air Lancaster Disttiet S.C. (You and each of you will take notice- thhjt at 1 the .Court House in jWilkesboio', on the ijOrh Hav of SeDtember next, I will proceed to tike the benefit of the act made and providert forfthe re'ief of Insolvent debtors, when and where t'ou xnav attend and object if you have causa so tofdo. VVm. C. EMMl'K Aug- S3. 13t3-3t-iL m se w . m i - . . PROPRIETOR OF 5f7f(? Eagle Distillery, and Dealer in Naval Stores, -rrs orenared to supply orders for ;Spirits of ViTVtroentinc. Bright and Black Varnjish, v i utvn rv it.- i -3. Hi-iZZZ trrh! 24th 1837- 11. t- iMifZLING HOUSES f OR SALE. riber offers for sale that dV- sirable. and pleasantly s mated' HOUSE AND LOT L on the north side of Market Street, between Seteond and Thtid Streets, at present occupied by convenient. Mr.. A. A. Brown. This is a lare, and pleasant, house, and the let;is uiiusuallv hii rge, with every convenience, vacant space at botlk ends Of ihe-houypj a large yard, nnd spot, stables, &c. and situate in the und pleasant part of Wilmington. also, . i anne frarden mostliealthy Thai cohvenienl tand jpleafant BRICK DWELLING 5, with an excellent store under- neath, sirua led near the Town Hall, and adjoin- ini; Mr. J lohn woos-ler s, a present occHpiea oy Mrs.; Laspey re. ! 1 his is a very convenient and pleasant house in exreUenl rtpair, near the convenient to the, business part market, andyery of the town The lot exttnds from Market Street back an Hey . For panic blars, apply to Mr. Vm Vil?on T. H. BYRNE. 133 tf .August 3. fj 1F3S. Eumi mmu i THE Subscriber havingpurchased the'argo of ICS just arrived frjnm Boston in Schr. Splendid, is jiow ready to dispose of" the same in any quantities. The prices! will be as folhows; Families,. regular Subscribers, 3 cts. Der lb. i. i ansientlpurchttsers. Bar RoornS, or quantities of 100 pounds, or over, 2 12 cents per pound J. ! NICHOLS, At Ice House back of -Barry & Brynnt s vyure House. N. B. It sufficient regular subscribers Can be obtained, it wjill'be delivered at tlieir'housf s every miiDvi vn ' i . : Aug. 9th. j : ; : 134 tf i- NOTICE: . u TT HEREBY forewarn all persons from trading M for a Notle of Hand niven by the subscribed to John L.urry, dateo: seme time ir June last, six" months afterdate for tinny dollars, as I am uV tefmined not lo pay said note, as it was fraudu lently obtained against ne. S. W MORSF. 135 tf. Aujrust 13th, 1833 NOTICE. ' criber beingj about to remo've Stattj has place all accounts and , in the hands of. Mr. -Thomas. G. nPflE Stlb fro hi the notes due htm Miller, Attorney, for collectitin. SAMUEL N. CANNON. Wilniinctoh, Aiii;. 14;h. 1838 135 lOvv. . jfou iti;;T. . ;" fJjlTIE STORE north end of Custom House JU. Range, ivitli warehouse back, atid with er without the wharf, is for rent from the 1st of October. If notprc viously taken.it will on that day be rented in public auction. : Appply lo ; r O G. PARSLEY. 800 to lOOO Bushels Oats, and a few bales of GOOD HAYj for site at i ho above place. U. G P. August 29tn, 1638. 137 4w f Une Gent Reward. FOR my npiueiitire boy! WM. FUHPLES. who absconded on the 3tst of August, lb3H. U whs bound to fne to learn the tailors trade,. He is about seventeen years of age, about live feet high, and has a sneaking look when spo ken to. I forewarn all persons from harboring, oi employ ingj or trading with the said boy', undeir the penalty'of the law. ' i : ) j T. G. ERA LEY. r Wilmington, Sept. 4th, 1H38. 138 tf f RATES OF TOLL 7 . i i . - AT NIIE NLW DRIDGK, NEAR HILTON. FOR a Gig, or Su kiy' and Horse, twenty cents, (SOcent) Wagon bnd four Horses, htty cents, (50 cents,) a four wheel Wa on and .two Horses, twenty live cents, (25 cents.) for a Carnage and Horses, thirty cens, (30,cents,) for a Cart and one Horse, sixteen cents, (IB Jcents.) f r a Man and Horse,, ten cents, (10 cents,) for a Cart with Oxen, twenty cents, 20 cents,) tor a four wheel Carriage with one Horsd, 'twenty five cents, (25 cents, for a foot Passenger four, cents, ( 4 cents,) fitr Cattle, Hogf, and Sheep, two cents each, (2 cents,) for Turk'n-s, c ue ceiit each, (1 cent,') for single Horses, four cents each, (4 cents.) . - . . ' j A true copy, from the minutes. ! Witness, ! ; I - .THOS. Fj DAVIS, Clerk. ! Mackerel, Herring:, Flour, OfK BUsi No. 3, V tHjV 5 half Bbls. No. 1, ' Mflr.TrrrT 5 " do. No. 2, f A1A LKLL, ; 10 ar.i do. do- j 40 Boxes No. 1, i ITFT? T?T vVl 40 do. No. 2, HERRING, 20-HalBbh. .(SUPFLOUR, 2 Crates Onions 1000 bunches, 10 Bbls Potatoes, ' I - . , ,5 " Beets, ; . ' f 10 Boxes Sperm Candles, i . 20 Q.r. Casks bweet Malaga Wine, Just received from Boston and New Voik, and for sale by BARRY & BRYANT, s Septernber rtli, 1838. : V8 tf 1 FRESH TEAS, 4c. j A NEW supply of first rate FRESH TEAS, JL pure based from a late arrival in New York, by a good udge, for cash. Also, old PORT WlINt., in botiies. j Apply to ! Wm. A. WILLIAMS, ; No. 23, Market Stree t. -f September 4th, 1838. j 138 3 w JFOtt ICIEST. rpHE Brick Stores near the South East corner ofthe Tows Hall, at present occur pied by Charles Nixon, and Dr. Foy. Possession given Jst October; next Apply thioogh Messrs.; U. W. Brown &lfeonJ to . S, B. EVERETT. J Smithville. N.C, 15th Aug., 1838. 135 tf. ! EXECUTOR S NOTICE. THE subscriber havin? qualified (at Septem ber Term 1838, of New Hanover County Court.) as Executor of the last will and tesla rrtent of MARTHA SUTTON, hereby gives notice to all persons indebted to said estate, to make immediate payment,; and those having claims against the estate to present them, as by law required, or they will be barfed of recovery. ' j , Wm. SUTTON. 1 Wilmington, Sept. lOtb, 138. j 139 t - i - v" " ' i 1- SPRING VILLA ESGLISU SEMIS A R Y For JYpung Xjadirb, I AT BORDENT0WN ,fjPHE duties of this Seminary will be resumed on Monday, tLe 24ih September nxj. .r - 'r The peculiar feafure of thisvestablbh nnt consists in itseing essentia Ily a French Shool, that language being constantly spoken by the pupds.in their intercourse with eack other aid-with their teachers. iThe department of modern Ian.o-nso-es isurjder the charge of the subscriber htniselM T y a y ,ale,y trom 1 rancel , ' (The English tjrptiriment is jentrusted fopliss M. Turner, from Boston, who is assisted bjl M iss E. Lilnt, fropi Portsmouth, N. H. (Music is taught by Mr. EdwaM R. Hansen, from Denmark. , ' f Drawing- Mr. Engstroml, ; Dancing, ' Mr. H. Whafe. For information concerning the charac ter ofthe Institution, the subscriber begs k4ive to refer to Col. J. D. Jones, and Levin Laoe.of Wjl m ngu ri, MrsWindr, of Smnhvillc,;Gcn W m. HJU, of Dupliin county, and John B'uwyn, of Nfwbern, whi tlow have children under his care. A cataloafjie containing terms! &c! may bee had at this office'. For further iiHrtiillars at)lication mav be made either hersnimllvi or hv i4d, to . t - i 1 J A. N. GIRAULT. 133 tf Principal. 7t Printers and l nblihcis. 'JjpHE subscriber Have -just completed their new specimen book of ii lit j fact d botfk anJ job priming tvp s, flowers, and prnaiiients, the contents of wliich are here wit 1 partially Dijvfnorrd, Pearl, nos. and 2, Agate, nos. 1, 2, and 3, Agate, on; Nonpareil body, Nonparei8,'nos. 1; 2. 3, ai d 1, Minionette, nos. 1, and, Al inion, nos. 1,2;3, and 4, Minion oil Brevier body, Brevier on Minion lody, Brevier, rros. 1, 2 3, and 4, Brevier ori Burgepis body , Brevier on Long iPrimer body, Borgeois On Brevier body. Bureois, tvos. 1, 2, 3, a'ncl 4, Buigeoison Long Primer body, Lon Primer, nos.- 1, 3 and 4, Lon4 Primer on Small Pica body, Small 1'iia. nos. Land 2, Pica on Small Pieja body, Pi a, nos. ; ,.", arid 3, f Pica on English body, 1 Great Primer, Pa tgon, Double English, 3 ; Double Paragon, Canon, r ivc imc x n;a t" i ci v, j j Eight line Pica Gothic, condensed to 25, Seven line?and ter line Pica ornamental, 6, 7, 9, 12iand 15,lines Pica shaded, I 18, 10. 15aid 1G Imes antique shaded. Aflso, a large and beautiful collect ion jof flowers, from pearl to serven lines pica, which! are ;not to be tund in any other) specimen, a new assort ment of ornamental clashes, a variety of card boners, near t,wo thousand, metal Ornaaients, brajs.. rules, leads of various. thickness, astrono mical and physical signs, metal and brace dashes, frorf 3 to 30 ems long, great primer find double picil scripts on tnclimd b dy,diam6htl and non parjil music of r various kinds, aiuique liglk and heay face two line letter, full face Roman and Italic nonpareil, minion, brevier, long primer, andpther blacks, nonpareil, minion, abd brevier Grelk, Hebrew and St xon. j Allarge varie;ty of o nainents, calculatetl par ticularly for the Span sh and South American marfcets. Spanish, French, and Portiuguirse ac cents furnished io order, with every other article ma die use of in! the nrintioi' business, irll of which can be fornishtd fat short notice of as good quaftv, and on 'as reasonable terms, as at . any oibelr. establishment.' . t ' ( CONNER & COOK.1 Corner! of Nnssiu and Ann etreeti, , I New York. " Aiigust I5th, 188. il33w fProprittors of neu'spapers pr:rited Within anypart of the-'Uaited States, or the! Cajiadas, whoa will copy the abf ve advertisement three times, and forward a copy containing the same, wiUfbe entitled 'to theirjpay in any type Cast at our undery. provided they take twice the Htnount oi ureir ums in ,iyyv r . i ' : i 1 1 i. I tt" 'r?r TTrrn n, z c a r ?.' T IE subscriber, as Executor! of j Mrs. 'aroh Stune. late of jRaleigh, deceased, will sell t public auction on .Monday and Tiaesday- ihe S9th and 30;;h daysof October nxt.iRt her plaiifation, about ten miles cast of Raleigh, all the cop of COTTON, CORN, and FOD DER, and 4il the stock of HORSES, CATTLEand HO(!iS, and the PLANTATION UTENSILS, c&nsfstingof CARTS, WAGONS, PLOUGHS, &c. ind on Wednesday t ic 31st of QctoWr, all (he NEGROES belonging to said estjate-f-forly six ik number consisting of men, woinenl boys, girlsland children, will be offered for sja'e.f The nrgres will be sold in fa:iii.ies, pursuant jto the directions of die will. ! H " I TERMS. ,1 Tlie crop and plaiAation ulensiis will be soj on a credit of six months, for al sums oyer BIO for SI 0 and under, cash.' A r?i t of th'e-nftgroes, to the amount of about CI), wil be sold on a credit of six months, for nbtes nego liab.1.4 and payable at' tlx. Bank. of thle fcaie of Nort Carolina, in RaleiJh ; and the balance will be sd on a credit of six months. lZj"Bond and satisEictory security will be required lor iee pur chase nioiiev. before the property is changed. ! x D. W. STONE. Rnlei&h. N. CJ Sent 3d. 1838: ! 1191 6w ' flThe Advertiser, Wilmington, Spectator, Newfern, and Western Carolinian, Salisbury, will please publish the above for six weeks, and foiwrd their accounts to ine Standard onVe. I r; ' Pricey .50. ISTRAYED OR STOLEN, A F1 NE looking HcluND SLUT; she is -JL of a bindle or tan, tail-nnd exceedingly fine in helform, her fiice rather gray, indicating' age. I will give any person who will deliver her to me acward of TF.N DOLLARS, i ! ? I 1 : Wm. S. ASHE. September 14th, 1S38. 13U 3w hy said a country clergyman to one of hi? flock, do you always-snore in your pewwnen l am m trie puipit, wniie you are all attention to every stranger I invite? Because, sir, when you grearh Ijaro sure airslright ; bu can't trust a stranger! with out ieeping a good Idok out. J - Aiiikull of the revolution with a, bullet in it has been dug op at Bunker Hill. BUCK, WHITE, AND BROWS From Hood's O rn. Republished by G.Dear ! born, &. Co. New York. All at once Miss Morbid left offsugar. She did not resign it'as some persons lay down their carriage, the full bodied ! kfainily coach dwindling into a chariot, I next i mo u ny, anu in,en into a sedan-j chair. She did not shade it off artisti-l cally, like certain household economists, from white, to v'hitejT brown; brown, and so on, to none at jail. She left it off, as one .might leave off walking on the top of a house, or on a slide, or on a plank with a lurther end to it, that is to. say, slapdash, all at once, without a moment's warning. She gave it up, to speak ap-j pr9prituely,. in the lump. She diopped j it, -as Corporal Trim let fall his hat,- j dub., ! It vanished, as the F rench say, toot ; street. From the 530th of November, 1830, not ah ounce of sugar, to use Mr. Mor bid's expression, ever, 'darkened her doors." ; . ' ? The truth was, she Had been present the day before at an Anti-Slavery iMeet ing; and had listened to, a lecturing Abo liliomst, who had drawn her sveet tooth, root and branch out of her head. Therice fenh sugar, or as she called it "sfjugger" was no longer while, Or' brown, in her eyes, but red, blood red -fan abomwiation, to indulge in which, would convt rt a pro fessing Christian into practical Cdirni-j bal Accordingly Jhe mad; a vow, under j the influence of njoist eyes and refined feelings, that the sang u i n a r y a rt i cle. should never more enter frr lips or!)ier house; and thisprettv parody of tbeiamoua Berlin Decree against our Colonial produce wasj rigidly enforced. However others might countenance the practice of . the Slave Owners by consuming shugger," she was resolved for her oVn part, that "no suffering sable sonjof Africa should ever rise up against her out of a cup of Tea !" In the mean time, thecook and house maid gruiriblt-d in corict'h at the prohibi tion j ihey! naturally thought it very h;ird lo be deprived of "a luxiiry which thoy enjoyed at their own proper cost; and at lust only Consented to remains in the ser vice, on condition that the privation should be handsomely considered in their wages. With a hope of being similarly remem bered in her-will, the poor irHations of Miss Monbidcontmued todnnkthe" warm without" which she administered to them every Sunday, under the' narne of rJVa : and Hogarth would have desired no better subject for. a picture th3tn was presented by their physiognomies Some, pursed up iheir lips, as if resolved that the nau seous beverage should never enter them ; others compressed their Itnouths, as if to prevent it from rushing out again. One took it mincingly, in sips another gulp ed in desperation, l-a third in a fit of "ab sence, continued to s'ir very superflu ously with hts spoon ; and there was one hrewd old gentleman, who by a little dexterous by play, used ' o bestow the fa vour of his smali souchong on. a sick ge ranium. Now and then an astonished Stranger would retain a' half cupful of the black dose in hiC niouth and stare round at his fellow guests, as. if tacitly putting to them ther Very question of Mat thew's Yorkshi reman in the mail coach Codmpany 1 nop or doon V The greatest sufferers, however, were Miss Morbid's two nephews still in the morning of their youth, and toy lilve, far moie inclined to "-sip thejsweets' than to hail .the dawn." 1 They had formerly looked on their Aunt's house peculiarly a Dulce'Domum. Ptior tocher sudden con versation she had been fimous for the manufacture of a sort of 'bard bake, com monly! called Toffy or Taffy, but now, alits ! "Taffy was not fat home," and there was nothing else jto invite a call. Currant tart indeed without 1 sugar, and as for the green gooseberries they al w? lasted as the young gentleman affiirmed. 'like a quart of berries sharpened to a pint." In short, it always required . six penny-worth of loilipops and bullseye?, a lick of honey; a dip of treacle, and a pick at a grocer's hoqsheau to sweeten a visit at Aunt Morbid's. 'To tell the truth her own temper sour ed a little under the prohibition. She could not persuade the Sugar-eaters that they were Vam pyres instead of practising, or even admiring her selfdenial, they laughed at it, and one wicked wag even compared her, in allusion to her. acerbity and her privation, to a crab without the nippers. She persevered notW4tiisianaing in her system ; and to lh constancy of a martyr added something of the tvilfuiness of a bigot indeed, it was hinted by pa trons and patronesses of white charities, that European objects bad riot their faiij share in her benevolence. She was pre eminently the friend of the blacks. How beit, for all her sacrifices, not a lash was, adve.rted from their sable-backs. She had raised discontent in the kitchen, phe had disgusted her acquaintance, sickened her friends, and given her own dear little ne phews the stomach-achef without saving Qnashby from one cut J of the driver' whip, or diverting a single kick from the shins of Sambo. , Her grocer complained loudly of being railed a dealer in human gore, yet not one hogshead the less was imported from the Plantations. By an error common to all her class, she mis took a negative for a positi7e principle; and persbaded herself than by not preserv ing damsons, she preserved the Niggr?; that by not sweetening her own cup, she was dulcifying the lot of all her sable brethren in bondage. She persevered ac cordingly in setting her face agatsnt su gar instvad of slavery ; against the plant instead of the planter : and had actually abstained for six months from I-the for- btden article, when a circumstance oc curred that aroused her sympathies into more active exertions. It pleased an Ame rican lady to import with her a black fe male servant, whom she rather 'abruptly dismissed on her arrival in England. The case was considered by the Hampshire Telegraph of that dy, as one of great hardship the paragraph went the round of the papers and in due tinre attracted the notice of Miss. Morbid. It was pre cisely addressed to her. sensibilities, and there was a " Try Warren" tone about it that proved irresistible. She read and wrot- and it) the course of one little week, her domestic establishment was maliciously but truly described as consist ing of "two white slaves and a black Com ii i p.inion ' j The adopted protege was, in reality, a strapping club clumsy negress,;as uoy as sin, and with no other merit than that of the same colour as the crow. She was artful, sullen, gluttonous, and above all, so intolerably indolent, that if She had been literally "carved in ebony," as old Fuller says, she could scarcely have been of less service .to her protectress. Her notion oi free labor seemed to translate it into laziness, and laking liberties j and, as dhn seriously added to the work! of her fellow servants, without at all roniribuiing to their comfort, they toon looked upon her as a complete nuisance. The house maid dubbed her "a divil" the cook! roundly. compared her to "a mischievus beast, runs on a herd o' black cuttle" and both concurred in the policy of laying all hoosehold sins upon the sooty shoulders, just as slatterns seFect a colour that hides the dirt. It is certain that shortly after the instalment of thejnegress in the family, 'a mortal disease bfoke out with considerable violence, and justly or not, the odium was attributed to the hew corner. Its name was theft. Firt, lhere was a shilling short in some loose change next, a missing half crown from the mantel piece then there was a stir with a tea-spoon ranon, a. piece of wOfk about a thimble. Things went nobody knew how the " Divil" of course' excepted. The cook could, the housemaid: uouhl, and Diana "should and ought lo t ike an oath declaratory of innocence, before the mayor; but as Diana did not volunteer an affidavit like the others, there' was no doubt of her guilt in the kitchen Miss Morbid, however, came to a very different conclusion. She thought that whites who could eat sugar, were cap.i- ble of any atrocity, arid bad not forgotten I the stand which had be n' made by the " pale faces" in favor of the obnoxious ar ticle. The cook especially incurred sus picion for she had been notorious afore time for a lavish hand in sweetening, and was accordingly quite equal toth double turpitude for stealing aiid bearing false witness, lri fart; the mistress had arriv ed at the determination "of giving both her white hussies their month's warning, when unexpectedly the thief was taken, as the lawyers say, " in the manner," and with the goods upon the personl In a word, the ungrateful black was 'detected in the very ai t of levying what might be called the " Black Mail." 1 "And now, you black wreJcb," she Concluded having just given the finishing touch to a portrait of Satan himsel ; " and now, you black wretch I insist orj know ing what I was fobbed for. Come tell me what tempted you 1 I'm determined io hear it? I insist. I say, on knowing what was to be done with the wages of iniquity !" . She insisted, howeVer, in vainj; Tne black wretch had seriously inclined her ear to the whole lecture.grinning and blub bering by turns. The Judge with hi black cap, the .Council and their, wigs, the twelve men in a box, and Jack Ketch hlmsejf whom she associated with that pleasant West India personage, John Ca noe had amused, nay tickled her fancy; the press room. the. irons, the rope, and the Ordinary, whom she mistook for an overseer; had rai?ed her curiosity, and ex cited her fears ; but the spiritualities with out any reference to Obeath had simply mystified and disgusted her, and she was now in a fit of the sulks. Her mistress, however persisted in her question; and not the less pertinaciously, perhaps, from expecting a new peg whereon to jbang a fresh lecture. She was determined to learn the destination of the stolen money; and Jby dint of insisting-, cajoling; and, a bo ve a 1 1,1 h reat n i n g fqf-.insla nee, w it h the whole Posse Cbmlutus she finally carried her point. . - . ' ,' j , , " Cus him money !" Here's fof si" ex claimed the culpiit, quite vorni oat at last by the pexseculion. " Cos' him mo ney f here's a fossi. What meteai for? What me do wid him ? What any body 'tea! him for? Why, for sore to io SUGAR. - ' I ' Toe horror of Emilia, on discovering that the Moore bad murdered her miss- tress. waS'Scarcely-greater than that of Miss Morbid ! She hardly, she said, be lieved her owo senses. You might have knocked her down with a feather If Sh did not know whether .she ttood Ort hr head or heels. She was rooted to lbe spot J and hsr hair, it it had been her own' would have-stood uptight upon her head i There was no doubt in the case. She taX the transfer of n portion of her qwuSLrik stock, from her escritoire into th rigfel hand pocket of her prou-gee She treahi it chink as it dropped down .van's, ahrf was petrified !dumbfounder!tbunderi bolted ! " ariniailated i" She was Vt white as a sh ef,' hut she felt as if oil th blacks in the world had just bldwo th heif face. , - V Her first impulse was to rush upon thd robber, and insist on restitution her ' cond was to sit down and' weep, and her third was to talk. " The opening as usuat was a mere torrent of rjiiculations inter mixed with vitupeTarion but she. gradu ally fell into a lecture with many heads. First, she described all that she had doritf for the Blacks, and 'theh, alasl' all that they had done to her. Next he insisted dn .the enormity of the crime, and anon, she' enlarged on tire native of its punish ment. It was here that she was most elo quent. She tracrd the course of human , justice, fiom detection to conviction, and . thence to execution, liberally throwing dissection into the bargain and then de scending with Dante info ihe unmentioha ble region?, she painted its terror and tortures with all the circumstantial fideli- ty that ceriain very Old Master's, have dis played on the same subject. ' A GENTLB ItEPIlOOF. . 'BV S. fLKKPKR. '. ' " Zacharia Hodgdon was naturally an iil natured'man. It was want of reflection, more than a corrupt and ungenerous heart that led him to consider his . wife in tnt light of an inferior being, and to treat her more like a 5arc.than' on equal. If hte , met anything abroad to ruffle; his temper, . his wile was sure to suffer whett hfe camt home.' His meals were always ill-cook-I'd, and whatever the poor woman did td please him was sure to have a contrary effect.' She bore his ill-humor in silence for a long time; but finding it to increase, , she adopted a methrid Of reproving him for his unreasonable conduct, which had the happiest efiVct. " One day as Zachariah' was going to his daily avocation after breakfast, he pur- : chased a fine large endfish, and sent it home with directions to his wife to have it, rooked for dinner. As no particular modeofcopking it was prescribed, lh ' good woman well knew that whether sb boiled it or made it into a chowder, ber husband woufd scold her when he camfc home. But she resolVfd to pleaSe him once, if possible, and fhere fore cooked portions of it in several different wava. She also with some little difficulty pro cured an amphibious animal from a bropk ' back of the house, nnd plumped it into the pot. In due time her husband came home some covered dishes were placed on the table, and with a frowning, fault--finding look, the moody man commenced . the conversation. ; WTell, wife, did you get - the fish . I bought ? Yes, my Idea r.V f . J i , ' I should like to know how you have cooked it I will bet any thing that ybtt have spoiled it for my eating. Taking ' off the cover,) j I thought ao. What in creation possessed you to fry it I would as leave eat a boiled frog.' j Why my dear, I thought you loved it best fried.' -, : ' You didn't think any such thing. Yoa knew better I: never loved fried fish why didn't you boil it?' ; My dear- the last time we bad fresh fish, you know I boiled ii, and youjaid you liked it best fried. But I have boiled some also.' j - ... . ( ? ' j ' So saying fhe' lifted a cover, and lo l the shoulder of the cod nicely boiled, wera heatly deposited in a dish ; a sight which would have made an epicure rrjoice, but which only added to the ill-nature of bee husband. :. "r A pretty dish this!' exclaimed he. Boiled fish ! chips and porridge I , If you had not been one pf the most stupid of womankind you wo'uld have mad it into a chowder V His patient wife, wiih a sthile, imms- orateiy piacea a tureen oeiorc aim con taininc an eicellcnt bhowder! '.My dear. said she. 1 was. resoirea to please you. There is your favori! dish ..i. . aa a Favorite dub Indeed,' gromoieo tns discorofitted husband. I dare sar it it an ' unpalatable wishy-washy metsr " I would rather have a boiled frog than the whole." This was a common expression of bis, and bad been anticipated by bis wife, who as soon as the preference was expressed, uncovered a large dish bear her hutband, , andtthere wab a iarge butt-frog, of por tentous dimensions, an'd pungactous as pect; stretched out. ai full length I Za chariah sprung from his chair not a lit tie frightened attne unexpected apparition; My dear s!ai3 bis wife in a kind en treating tone, I hope , y oo will at length be able to make a dinner .: v rZachariah could not stand this. His " surly mood was finally overcome; and ho bu r si in to a bea it y . !a u g b. H e acknow ledg ed that his wife was right and that he . was wrong, roc declared that she should never again bar occasion Co read bim such another i Listen and W wasVai good as his word. .': 1' i -
The People’s Press and Wilmington Advertiser
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