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4oojr again with a bang. M Dinner, dinner!" j bawled the children, ana rushed out of the room before us. We followed, and the father placed me at the tabic between his two sprouts, telling me they, would amuse mo in a thousand different ways. A great spaniel immediately began pawing me to be? something of me, and a starling jum ped down on the table, and hopped from plate to plale ; while the Judy handed Die a napkin, which would have been white but for the service it seemed to have rendered to more than one predecessor. Mamma hclncd to soup, which proved too little ealted. Papa took notice of this in t le fo! lowing polite remark: "My Julia is as sparing of her salt in her soup as in her words." Julia was accordingly obliged to rise from table to fetch the salt, which had been forgotten. She excused herself, say ing, that her servant had been away all day attending a sick mother. " I hat s a tin, cried Charles, " we have not had a servant these three weeks." A smart ran on the knuckles with a spoon rewarded his com ment he began to bellow: and would not be quiet till mamma gave him a bit of su gar-candv. which he sucked instead of soup. u You must excuse our fare," said the lady ; then turning to me, and offering me a dish of vegetables with a fried sausage in it, .. I did not know my husband inten ded bringing a guest home but he is al ways playing me such tricks." I colored up to the eyes. " Hey ! what ! said the hus band. " O friends will make allowances ; Herr C will, I know enjoy this famili ar dinner." The lady answered him with a most angry glance, i The family dinnner consisted of a thin, water soup, thickly powdered with saffron, some radishes, and a littlo bit of butter, so Pinal 1 that the children clamored in vain for their allowances of it to their bread ; next followed beef, in which my eyes looked in vein for fat ; then appeared the sour-krout, warmed up for the second time with a sin gle sausage ; and at last a dish in which I could discover nothing but sauce. " This is a fricassee-chicken," said my amiable and agreeable host, " my wife has no equal in cooking it." I rejoiced at first in the hopes of getting something I could eat ; but after fishing a long time in a sea of li quid, I could only bring up one chicken's drum-stick. My host kept urging me to drink, with the assurance that his wine was not strong, but had a very jrich flavor,, and was perfectly innocent. I took his word readily enough for the last qualification, as the taste led me to suspect that my econo mical landlady had made two bottles out of -inier-" '""" "My charming little neighbors annoyed me not slightly during the dinner. Charles amused himself with kicking my shins un der the table ; and Louis, with impcrturi ble coolness, wiped his fingers upon m clothes. The catastrophe of the family par ty at length approached: Charles, in en deavoring to take a bone which his brother was knawing, knocked down his own plate and spilled the greasy water, which was substituted for craw, over my new blue r'4HUMaininajaatead..U8isUi)gjne..bc. ffan to bewail her broken plate, ana ran after the child to beat him, while he took refuge behind his father: the father rose to appease his wife the dog -howled Louis grinned: Charles screamed the la dy scolded and the starling quietly perch ed himself upon my head, and began pick ing my ha:r. At last my friend resumed his soar, and said laughing; " This you sec, my friend, is my way of life ; and I feel myself more happy under my lawful roof than a king in his palace." He asked me if I was accuston:- ed to take coffee after dinner; for though there was none ready, he had a machine which would make it in five minutes. I thanked him, saying that coffee made mc ill, that I had taken a most excellent din ner, and was obliged to go. " Farewell, then," said my friend: " I hope I shall sec vou again soon. You know the- way to my house now you know my family, and the fashion we live in as it is to day, so id is every day f I hope you will often come ahOaKe ly know what I said in return ; but I hasti ly seized my hat, muttered some compli ments, ran out of the door and shudder still at the racollection of the Family Dinner." Lon. Lit. Gaz. "We beleive a good many of our cili zens have been served with a notice by the milkmen of an Intended rise in their lactial compbund. We should not mint the price of milk; but the idea -of piyirg eight cents a quart for water is horrible We do not see why milk should rise, unless it be to keep company with every thing el but newspapers." NEW YORK! Great City Columbia's boast and pride, O'er land and sea, thy name spreads far and wide ; In ev'ry clime thy stately barques appear, And distant shores resound thy seamen's cheer, Thy merchants, too, unrivall'd honors claim For enterprize, have earned a deathless name Though rich at home, to foreign lands they stray, For foreign gewgaws trade their wealth away, Safe from the winds, and crowded to the shore A thousand vessels wait t' increase thy store ; And splendid steamers catch the admiring eye, And o'er thy sparkling waters gaily fly. It was thy Clinton, whose aspiring soul, Bade Erie's flood to noble Hudson roll ; Who wav'd his hand, and Mountains lowly bow'd The rocks divided, and the waters flow'd. Go on and may thy classic temples rise, And lofty domes ascend thy temperate skies; Thy matchless name shall sound from pole to pole, Till Hudson's kingly waters cease to roll. There Is a very useful and appropriate philosophy in the following from the Bos ton Transcript. Rich men in general do not think enough of the miseries of the poor. Theirs is a hard lot, and the rise in prices, and the depression in trade which sweep harmless by the former, fall upon the latter with relentless severity. " The rich man may pay as exorbitantly as he pleases for luxuries peculiar to the rich, but if he be a good citizen he will not pay exorbitant prices, in time of scarcity or wicked combination for the luxuries of tho poor. He may pay, if he please five dol lars a bottle for wine, and his humble neighbor is not effected by this extrava gancebut when he pays eight cents a quart for milk, he both by example and en couragement injures the poor man, to whom milk is not only a luxury, but as a cheap sustenance a necessity especialy if he have a family of children. " It is right that we should think of thi?. We heard a father complain that the two cent rools were so small that his little ones could hardly see themy and to diminish the size of the milk bowl, would vex their stomachs tapst tmib!y. ON TALKERS. There arc as many varieties of talkers as there fere of tulips; to classify them would require the nice discernment and patient perseverance of an ethical Linnaeus. But the most insufferable class, are the ex clusive talkers. One of these will under take to talk for all the company present. If you impatiently throw in but one little word, it is like flinging a large atone into a quick current it disturbs, but cannot impede it, and rather impels it still faster onward : or like striking' a spark into a barrel of gunpowder a fresh explosion of words spreads a hubbub and confusion all around it. though he tells you every thing you already know, you cannot tell him- any thing that he does not know. He can tell you what a new book contains tint is to come out next I ucsday, as well as if he was himself Wednesday; or anticipate the merits-of a great picture on the. easel, ... If you mean to see the new tragedy, he has seen it, and he destroys all the delight you would have in its newness, by repeating the best points of it, and by unravelling its plot. If you set out with an anecdote, he snatches it out of vour mouth, as- a cov etous dog would a desired bone from his best boon companion and dearest puppy- friend, and tells it for you. You object that yours, was a different version of the same story, and. gently pc sist in telling it your own way lie knows the other version as well as you do, and re-relates it for vou, but thinks his own the. LcsU If you per sist, after all, in telling it for yourself, he will insinuate to-morrow that you are in your anecdotagef and1 declares that jm tire the worst teller of a good thing since Gold smith. You could not have done a worse thing than start an anecdote in his hearing, for that one is too sure of reminding him j of a hundred others; and the last one of that first century of good things is so near ly related to the first of the second centuiy, that ho cannot choose but relates it, and you dare not choose but hoar it. If you commence a favorite quotation, he takes up the second line, goes on with it, and ends by quoting twice as much as you intended. This invariably leads him to recollect a nothcr poem by the same author, which no doubt you have heard,' but 'Mrs. Jones, who is present, would perhaps, like to hear ; and then he begins it without further pre ludc, and you can, if you please, go to sleep ad interim, if you have no fear of his re proach for want of taste, fcc., before your eyes, to-keep them open. You have been to Paris, and he informs you of your ex penses on the road i or you are going to Scotlandand he narrates most pathetically tlie miseries "of ".'"a German "ihn Of all talkers these are the worst. OFFICK A few doors romtk Court House, South St. GREENS BOR 0 UGH : FRIDAY rtORTTIXG, OCT. SI, 1830. The PRKSIDKNTIAX. BXECTION will take pter'thrulftot the State Thar day tle 10th day of November. MICHIGAN. From Michigan we learn that at the Conven tion assembled at Ann Arbor on Monday the 20th ult to decide on the question of assent to admission into the Union on the terms proposed by Congress, the proposition to admit Michigan on condition of her assent to the boundary line as fixed by act of Congress w as negatived by a majority of seven votes. Michigan, therefore is not a State; and here therefore several votes will he lost to Mr. Van Burcn, which were thought safe.. The Surplus Revenue. The Secretary of the Treasury has published an official statement, showing the money in the Treasury on the 1st instant, to amount fo 141,283,564; and the a mount "standing to the credit of disbursing offi- cers," Hjy),;cw,47U iV ; making in ail 540,010,- 130 79. Under the head M regularity of the mails," the Mobile Morning Chronicle says that on the 27th ult, they received complete files of the! Balti more papers from the 31st of August to the 7th instant inclusive ; and adds, " this now is a straight forward way of doing business let the same system be adopted generally, and we shall not have to go to the post office more tlian once a week." THE EIJ2GTIONS, . In Pennsylvania great interest is manifested in the resul? of the election; the Whigs are however going ahead, it is thought. The city of Philadelphia has given a considerable major ity against Van Riren. ' In Maryland things " won't work right some how," one of the 19 refractious Vannites had returned, and it was hoped, if not expected, that at least two out of the remaining 18 would give way to reason and follow his example. In Georgia the Whig cause is almost every where gaining ground. Michigan Delegates. Austin E. Wing, An drew Mack, and Robert Clark, are appointed delegates from Michigan to repair to Washing Ion durin the session of Congress, for the pur pose of sustaining and guarding the rights of Michigan. I SMALL MATTERS. It is certainly amusing, though it should rath er excite pity, to view the pleasure and seeming satisfaction with which some persons will em ploy themselves for hours, for days, and perhaps even for weeks, in the accomplishmeut of pur poses, many times the most low and degrading, and, so far from reflecting the least credit on their author or inventor, affix upon lain a stig ma of reproach not easily cast olT,4ind debar him perhaps the society of respectable individuals. Thatsuch conduct bespeaks a weakness of mind a mind unrefined, not actuated by any of the higher attributes of human agency groveling in darkness, and delighting in low and vulgar pursuits, is no less true than that there are such characters in existence. A specimen of some such person ingenuity, has recently come un der our cognizance-through the post office in the form of a communication, the author of which if he has thought in the least degree to discom pose us by his mighty production, has widely failed in effecting his object we look upon all such trash with as much scorn and contempt as we do upon the miserable wretches who can pos sibly kill time with such employment. The au thor, notwithstanding he may think to the cori trory, is not entirely unknown to us; and to him beware, lest we " should say that The Louisville, Charleston, and Cincinnati Rail-Road. The Hon. John C. Calhoun, m company with Co. Gadsden recently spent some eight days in examining a route across the Al- eghany, about 35 or 40 miles to the northwest wo would say of the Rabun Cap; and from the account given, he would be sorry fur. would appear to present even less obstacles than those of cither of the other routes which have As we anticipated, (says the N. Orleans been examined. It appears that the elevation Bulletin of Thursdav,) Indian difficulties to Be bvcredme is Tiot greater on this route than ar,j iikcy to-wwe on oar -.Western borderer & or 3U tect to me mue, ana oy piercing me rrwir n, ArtBn-Q, fminfl ;, n ridge with a tunnel not exceeding aw yarns, v. j- i . . , t.r , f, -, cessary to call out the able bodied men it i,-rviill rrii'n n hpflllt iflll run of In milfs iifiarlv I ' - - ,, . - .t t r- i- r..- evel on the eumrtiil or the Allojrhaiiy. This w H-lH.tn.Wgimiiui partial examination, will probably result -in a companies for the protection of the inhab- full explanation of tho route, and perhaps it may nanta, from some threatened proceedings .... LATE AND IMPORTANT FROM EUROPE, Dissolution of the French Ministry. An express has reached Liverpool from' Paris, an nouncing the dissolution of the French cabinet in consequence of a difference of opinion relative to a direct intervention in Spain. The proposi tion was supported by five of the ministers and opposed by Louis Phillipe, owing to the remon strance qf tho Northern Powers. The affairs of Spain are in a veryconfus ed state skirmishes were'taken place. Accounts from Constantinople of Aug. 3d, state that an insurrection was discovered just on the eve of breaking out, and that it was suppressed with appalling severity. . So much only had transpired, that a num ber of officers of high rank, among whom arc (Jencrals and Colonels, have suddenly disappeared. LATEST FROM EUROPE. By the arrival at New York of the Sam son, Capt. Chadwick, from London, whenco she sailed on the 12th ult. and the St. An drew, Capt. "Thompson, from Liverpool, sailing on the 10th, we have European pa pers to the day of the ship's sailing. Tho French have succeeded in forming their ministry as follows : Count Mole, Peer of France President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Af. fairs. M. Persil, Member ofthe. Chamber of Deputies Keeper of the Seals and Min ister of Justice and Worship. Vice Ad miral Do Bosamcl, member of the Cham ber of Deputies Minister of the Navy. M. De (iasparin, Peer of Prance Minister of the Interior. M. Guizot, Member of the Chamber of Deputies Minister of In struction. And M. Duchatel, member of the Chamber of Deputies Minister of Fi nance. Count Mole, if we remember correctly, is not regarded, as a strong man- " . be the one finally selected. CON- on the part of the Creeks and Cherokees, who have recently emigrated west of the Mississippi. We fear that wc hav&just entered upon our Indian disturbances, and until the Govern- nient acts with energy and promptitude in western trontiers bv proper Anecdote qf the Mayor of Tiverton. Du ring the time when Wesley anl White- field were gaming so many converts in ma ny parts of Fngland, the former came one day to Tiverton. This created great ex citement in town, and the mayor, fearing some riot might ensue issued a proclama tion commanding Wesley to desis, as it was dangerous to the peace aud good order that he should preach in that place. On being remonstrated with, he made the fol- owmg laconic reply ; "I can t see what reason there can be for any new religion in Tiverton ? Why do wo want another way of going to heaven when there's so many already ? Why sir there's the Old Church, and the New Church, that's one religion: there's Parson KiddelPs at the itt meeting, Parson Westcott s in Pter street, that's three ; and old Parson Terry's in Newport-street, is four. Four ways of going to heaven! if they wont go to hea ven by one or the other of these ways by they shan t go to heaven at all from. iverton while I am Mayor of the-town. Mile insists on our publishing the fol lowing, although we tell him the ladies will be in our hair for it. Why are the majority of women like fticts? Because they are ' stubborn things.' SALISBURY INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT VENTION. According to previous notice, tins Doily as- embled in Salisbury on the 10th instant, and as we leirn trom Hie vt aiennian, continued in ess ion three days. IUrtkktt Sinpr, Eq., of securing our i incolnv was chospn Pjesiilent, and Jam Ood..k and W aerkm V im,w, rqs., were ap- Western and "South ''WeVtcVir'SutesTasTn pmntcu rceremje. delegates to the numncr f 131 were in attendance from 19 counties. As neither of the Salisbury papers have as yet fur mtica tun accounts 01 me proceedings, wc nave T1C (.'eoruia mners announce the death not been able to procure them for this weeks pa- Lf Gc Jon Coffee, a Representative in T. '- - ...... 1 1 . n ............ .. . . I ' .... . , I Congress from that State. The Governor ry or nourisn, oui mucn scnmoie uiscussion, ana ... , . many Hound statistical view, were taken of the haa ordmd an Action to be held on the various matters submitted. "The members," "th of November to fill the vacancy in Con- says the Watchman, " seemed to have come to- grcss jrether with a fixed determination to act : and the impression made, we think, is most favora Mr. Green's immense balloon, containing 70,000 cubic feet of gas, went up from auxhall on tho 9th of September, cam ing nine persons and 330 pounds of ballast. After remaining about an hour in the air, the adventurers descended in safety at Clif- fe, m the county of Kent. I wo of thim were ladies. The king of Naples has sailed fromTou. Ion for his own capital. Previous to his departure he had an interview with his brother, the runaway prince of Capua, at a post-house near Avignon, and a perfect ie conciliation took Iplace ffbctW'epn them. . The prince was not accompanied by his Irish princess. The iron steamer Tigris had been rccof cjred, and found to be not m uc h i njurcd. The expedition was expected "at Bussora toward the end of June. OOt" Tliere is nothing particularly interesting this week from cither Florida or Texas such as we have, however, we have given. Sec other columns, ... . vicinity of worse than volcanic erup tions. THE GREAT EXPRESS MAIL. Tl, f.,11. I. 1 .1 1 ble to the hopes of the friends of Internal Im- , , ' 1 'T " . ., f4, . . or iruui, aim we cannot but believe, that with nrnmin ho a irrrM nr flio nrntmot inn in rn. I ' cnminnnil flip tlirnp iimis ami f ivo fifths nrinri. I 1 J ' pie for the adoption of the Legislature, was most .tf.thb "If"' the apeed of tho principal Biimal and complete : without the least haul tin or hesitation, one hundred and thirty, among the most sound and respectable gentlemen of 19 Counties, selected from all political parties of j the State, gaVe the proposition a full, sonorous," and unanimous AVE." - - ,,.yL, I no rouie lor me Kau-noau uxedupon is, from Fayetteville to the Yadkin river about the stage routes might well be increased to ten miles per.our, which would certainly we think, be preferable. ' ' The Erjtrrss Wc -learn from Washington that the express mail may be expected to start in about a month, to leave Washington at 4 IV M. and arrive here at 2 P: M. of the next dav. Thn Vrnra mail will therefore travel at the furious rata T t I' I " warrows, ai wmcu ii is ro orancn, one roaa run- r , ! . i . i ' I OI tell IlllleS nr n r nml rnmn tl.-.w.!. ning direct to Wilkesborough, and the other to from Washington to New York almost as intcrscci at some point with the Cmcmnatti rail quiek as the reirular lines with n,iMPn road, when finished. Maj. McNeil, engineer, Taking the delay incident to sorting at the who was a member of the Convention, highly Post OlJiee into account, we shall "still bp approves of the charter, and is decidedly favora- able to get our despatches by the passenger ble to the undertaking ; anu lias nimseii onereu uncs iwo nours sooner titan they would to take stock to a very liberal amount The I reach us by this famous express a word Mr. McC'ullocVs Gold Mill. During the past week we treated ourselves to a ride of some eleven or twelve miles south-west from our town, to view the operations of an extensiv e steam gold-mill, built by Mr. McCullocli some few years back, and which has since been quite successfully and profitably employed upon the ore of the neighboring mines. TImj engine is of a very large class the ore is first crushed ly large circular stones, propelled around in beds of solid rock, and after being thus literally ground up, undergoes the usual process of wash ing with quicksilver. Mr. McCullocli gives it as his opinion that by this process of cleaning, but a small proportion of the pure metal is sa ved ; and in order if possible to obviate this, lie intends introducing the process of smelting the ore in furnaces. The preparations at this es tablishment are very extensive, and it is only to be hoped that tho mines will prove sufficiently rich to warrant its enterprising proprietor fully to complete his undertaking, and repay him for the vast trouble and expense he has undergone , Our visit was necessarily a short one, and wc were not ablcvin the few hours we enjoyed the hospitality of the worthy proprietor, to make any particu far examination of the xre or the mines worked. Report made to the Convention by a committee Dy lnc way which, if it should continue to I meeting in July for le u.srd a3 11 nas bc?n lately, will, soon he appointed at a Rail-Road that purpose, throws rays of light on thia matter and is well calculated to inspire our citizens with confidence, and induce them to engage freely in this great work great for the prosper ity of our State. We are favorable to all works of the kind, but especially interested in this cen tral Rail-Road, which cannot possildy fad to be of immense benefit the invigorating effects of which will be felt throughout this, as well as in neighboring States. considered a mere nickname, and some oth er word must he manufactured to mean "go ahead." Wc learn that the contract south are also at the rate of ten mil an fasur. The whole mail mio-ht woll ricd at this rate Journal of Commerce. NEWS FOR THE "EXPRESS MAIL!" Mr. Kendall arc you not ashamed of yourself, to let an Oyster Cart beat Uncle Sam's swift line? Read this from the Rich- African mond Compiler, an honest print: Expeditions for Africa. The Repository announces two expeditions for We learn from the Wheeling Times Y" '.L I. ..... f. il . . .. V . I .1 . .1 ' Ainca, wnn emigrants mr tnc present anu mat the oyster season has fairly befmn next months, one from Wilmington, N. C, that place, it only requires fortu..nine iTi .T i i a I. ? lorioeria, in movemper, oy me American hours to convey fresh oysters from Balti Colonization Society ; the other from Cape more to Wheeling, and strange as it mav TV. 1 t r 1J C - i .t- I .1 . . i annus, vy me iuarymuu ouviciy,- on me i seem, me oyster carts beat Uncle Sam'i 15th instant. I mail. RAILROAD ACCIDENTS, i Wo notice frequent Very serious rail-road ac cidents of late, and it is truly deplorable to per ceive that in most cases they have been caused by a reckless carelessness on the part of the su perintendent, or some person concerned, failing properly to attend to his duty. The two follow ing, which occurred on the Columbia Rail road, in Pennsylvania, will serve to show the danger and the injury which may be expected on Rail rdads by inattention, which otherwise are in the general quite free from danger. Fahiview, Sunday, about 3 o'clock. This afternoon, as the train for Lancaster was approaching FairvieW, the axle of the forward car, or car next to the baggago broke, which immediately precipitated the body of the car upon the railway, the frag ments of the axle ripping up the bottom of the car in which was a Mr. Gibson of Phil adelphia, bound to Cincinnati with his wife and child. His wife and child fell through and nearly the whole train passed over her body. I cannot picture to you the heart rending Scene that ensued when Mr. Gib son was called to the spot where his wife lay a mangled corpse, with the child, about 18 months old, by her side, covered with the blood of its dead mother. Tho top of her head was, cut off, and the brains lay On both sides of the rail ; the bod, feet arms
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