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SINGLE COPY, We speakplain fattsGive ear, O! world f five Cents. VOL.'!. RALEIGH, N. ci JULY 7,, 1841. NO. 25. TERMS OJf THE ttASP. The RASP is published every Satur day, at One Dollar and Fifty Cents per annum, payable QJ in advance. Adrertisementg will be insert ed in the Rasp, at the reduced price fifty cents per square for the first insertion, and twenty jive for each continuance. , MARRIAGESrPKO AND CON. We copy the following from one of our exchange papers: Marriage. With all its ilia and evils, man knows no happiness unTil he marries; let him possess a woman of sense and virtue, and of whom he himself is worthy, and he would feel a solid and permanent joy, of which he never was before sensible. For, as somebody says, . the happiness of marriage, like the interest of money, arises from a regular and established fund; while unmarried libertines live upun the principal, and become bank-! rupt in character and respectability, i To be sure, (as the same author tells us,) uninterrupted happiness no man; can or ought to expect. Life is no sinecure; fruits do not spring spon taneously from the earth, as they did in the garden of Eden, nor does manna drop from the clouds, as it did in the wilderness. But as a scheme of solid comfort, matrimony affords to well regulated minds a double share of pleasure in, prosperity, and solace in sorrow and adversity. F&r Contra. rhe following is from Blackwood's Magazine,writteu, prob ably, by some disappointed swain: Marriage. Look at the great mass of marriages that take place over the whole world; what poor contemptible affairs they are! A few soft looks, a walk, a dance, a squeeze of the hand, a popping of the question, a purchas ing of a certain number of yards of white satin, a ring, a clergyman, a stage or two in a hired carriage, a night in 'a country inn, and the whole matter is over. For five or six weeks two sheepish looking persons are seen dangling on each other's arm,lotking at water falls, or making morning calls, and guzzling wine and cakes, then every thing falls into the most monotonous routine; the wife sits on one side of the hearth, the husband on the other, and little quarrels, little pleasures, little cares, and little chil dren, gradually gather around them.' This is what ninety-nine out of a hun dred find to be the delights of matri mony. THE OLD 'UN. Two passengers, coming down the Mississippi in a steam-boat, were shooting birds, etc., on shore from the deck. Some sportsman converse ensued, in which one remarked, that he would turnhis back to no one man in killing raCKoons; that he had re peatedly shot fifty a day, 'What 'p that?' said a Kentuckian; I make no thing of killing a hundred ''coon a day, or 'nary luck.' 'Do you know Capting Scott, of our State? asked a Teimessean by-stander, 'He now is something like a shot. A hundred 'coon! Why. he never p'ints, at one, without bitting him. He never miss es, and the 'coons know it. T'other day he levelled at an old 'un,in a high tree. The varmint looked at him a minute, and then brawled out:" Hallo, Cap'n Scott is that you? 'Yes vf as the reply; Well don't shoot!' says he; it's no use! 'Hold on I'll come gown; I give in!' which he did!' It is unnecessary to add. that this was the iasMmnting story. A safe and sound Sleeper. Jerry Snow very early in the morning, was awakened by his companion, who said, 'Come, Snow the day is breaking.' Well,' said Snow, let it break; it don't owe me any thing.' ' Ladies do yoti hear? Women often lose the man they love, and who loves them. ; By mere wantonness of co quetry they reject, and then repent tbey should be careful not to take this step hastily, for a proud, highminded, gifted man, will seldom ask a woman twice. Absence of Mind. A fellow walk ing with a cigar, and smoking his cane, and not discovering his mis- ; take until he ran against a post. 'What is the matter with that man,. asked a passer-by, as he recognized a fellow lying in the gutter '.He is slewed who slew him? 'old Jamai ca.' ''Patent Sermons of Vow, Jr." pear him discourse upon Dandies. "They are walking sticks for fe- fealc flirts, ornamented with brass meads, and barely touched with the garnish of etiquette. Urass heads, id I say? Nay, their caputs are only plf "pe musk melons with monstrous hick rinds, and all hollow inside,con iaining the seeds of Foolishness, swim ming about with a vast quantity of sap. rfbeir moral erarments arc a double breasted coat of vanity; padded with pride, and lined with the. silk of self complacency; their outer apparel is all in keeping and imported fresh from therdevil's establishment. Tinkered up with broad cloth,finger rings, safety chains, soft soader, vanity and impu dence; they are no more silver than a plated spoon is solid. silver. I detest a dandy, as a cat docs a ivet floor.- There are some vain fools in this Vain world, who, after long incubation will hatch out from tho hotbed of pride a sickly brood of fuzzy ideas, and then go strutting along in the path of pom posity, with all the self importance of a speckled hen with a black chicken. 1 have an antipathy to such people." Gambling away' a Daughter. A few days since, says the Journal do la Meuse,an inhabitant at Void,play ing at billiards, staked the hand of his only daughter, a handsome girl of 18, against his adversary. The im prudent father lost, and the winner has since insisted on payment being made, claiming the young lady, for tune and all, or else a sufficient indem nity. Thedaughter,however, objects tft the validity of the bargain, and gaiming debts cannot be enforced by law. A cat of extraordinary intelligence, says Bentley, was lately seen feeding a kitten with starch,to make it stand upright! This reminds usof the house maid who drank a pint of yeast, to make her rise early in the morning. The Heigthof Fashion. A dandy having his pantaloons cut so tight that he had to take a dose of Brandreth's pills to work them off Truth may be expressed without art or affectation, but a lie stands in need of both. A jailor9 s Veraciti.A sailor one evening, was stopped by a footpad, who demanded his money, when a scuffle ensued; the tar took the robber and bore away his prize to a justice. When the magistrate" came to enquire into the nature of the assault, he told the sailor that he must swear, that the robber had put him in bodily fear, otherwise he could not commit him. The sailor looking steadfastly at the justice, answered; 'He? he put me in bodily fear? No, nor any man that ever lived, therefore, if that is the case you may let him go, for I'll not swear to such a lie." The. greatest wisdom, of speech is to know when, and whaty and where to speak the next to it, is silence. One of the Lowell papers says that a rifan in that place attempted to make a plough, and succeeded in making something resembling one, but it be ing so ugly he chained ic to an apple tree, from which it got loose in the night and killed two Calves, and near ly destroyed an ox carf. A teacher once corrected bisschol Ars, for using the phrase at ail,' and after stating that it was a useless phrase, without meaning, said 'indeed it should never be used at all." A stingy fellow about passing a toll bridge, in company with his gal, said "Come Suke, you must pay your own toll, for just as like as not. I have ye after all!" shan't 1 say, Krantz, what does a fellow look like gallanting a 'gal' home in a thunder storm? D'ye give it up? Like a rain-beau to be sure. Law in the Far West. GentIemen of the jury,' said a lawyer in defence of his client, I say, that ere magnani mous sun shines in the heavens,though you can't see it, kase it's behind a cloud; but you know it, though I can't prove it.. Now, if you believe what I tell about the sun, you are bound by your Bible oath to believe what I tell you about my client's case; aif& if you don't, why then you call me . a liar; and that I'll be squataw'd if I'll stand any how. So, if you don't want to swear false, and have no trouble,- ydu had better give us a verdict
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