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V & J, B. WHITAKER,
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS:
VOLUME II. NUMBERS.
RALEIGH, FEBRUARY 12, 1842.
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MAN OVERBOARD.
A man yesterday morning fell overboard as
lie was walking on the plank to the steamship
Natchez. In an instant, a crowd of draymen,
Dutchmen, Irishmen, negroes, boys with luci
fer matches, and yellow, women with chick
ens, were gathered together.
Omnes Man overboard! man overboard!
Drowning man. Guggle, uggle, bubble,
cutchunk, caw-hash!
Boy. There, all my matches is spilt in the
water.
Omnes. Jump in! Hand him a rope, or he'll
drown.
Da den! He's gwyne down de fust time
two times more, and he's a gone chicken.
Yellow woman. Yes,but w hen de 8 o'clock
-firoc hie ornll will Hnct n n rlpn hp'll rlc fr te
surface of de river.
Irishman. Pipe ov Paul! but I'd be in afther
him mes&lf, if it wasn't for the calomel that's
in my bones. .
Dutchman. Yesh, dere ish ga'omel in mine
pones, too,and te water is nix goot to te me.
dicine.
Drowning man. Oh-ah! save bughunk !
, -.vflubble fl-u--b-b-l-e flub-cutchunk.
"Til- - n a -m
( 4 Uranes. l here, he's down again. Jumpm
-''Somebody, and save him.
Negro. Dai's two times he's said cutchunk,
' and wen he says it for defrird time, he's done
"ywid dis world sartin.
.v Sailor Bloody my eyes! Here, ye landlub
. Ibers, hold this sky scraper of mine, and mind
the tobackky that's in my monkey jacket.
Handing his hat and jacket to a by-stander,
'in he plunged, seized thediowing man by the
''hair, and in a moment the gallant fellow and
; ".Hiis burthen were on the wharf. A clerk, who
I Mias with much apparent difficulty unbuttoned
V his coat, as soon as he sees the man on shore,
looks wildly at the water k beneath him, and
'J clasping his hands above his head, exclaims in
a loud voice, Til save him, I'll save him.'
Omnes. Yes, yes., "we'll all save him.'
Sailor (turning his quid) Oh, yes, you're
-'. all d n willing now, as the skipper said to his
hands at grog time.
Clerk. It was lucky that you told me, for I
- was just about to make the awful plunge.
Irishman. Ob, hould your fly trap, ye spal
peen! Sure its rneself that was on the varge
ov savin his life.
Dutchman. I wash j ish agone to plunge in
mine self, when de sailor made de plunge him
self. Negro. If I had'nt had my Sunday trousis
on
Sailor. Belay, belay there, you d n black
-4 pooped galliot, or I'll fetch ye up with a round
turn T T p r o mv Iioarf v ( fn thp man inct cavad
who sat shivering, and dripping with water,on
an iron chain) come, give us your flipper, and
help me to splice a main brace, taut and taut
made of old Jamaiky and sugar.
Man saved. I'm a poor man, but
Sailer. Now, now, just coil up your jawin
tackle and come aft, will ye? I'v got two bitts
in my locker, and cut me up for a swab if you
shan't have one of 'em.
A Merchant. Noble fellow. Let's make
up a subscription and he who owned thou
sands, picked a picayune cut of ihe handful oi
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silver change that he held; but strange to say,
at the word 'subscription,' every individual be
came remarkably industrious and each one re
marked, that 'the days were getting short, and
that he had a great deal to do,' and in a min
ute afterwards the crowd had 4ipersed.
A PUZZLE.
If from six you take nine,
And from nine you take ten.
Take forty from fifty,
There will six remain. Chicago Dem.
The following is worked by the same rule:
I and prother Honse, and two other dogs,
was out hunting next week, and we drove
nine wood chucks into a stone heap, and kilt
ten cut of the 9 pefore ley got in. U. Dem.
We see no difficulty in extending the rule to
this:
An eloquent son of the Emerald Ise once
said of himself and his dear home, 'My friends
I was born at a very early period of my life;
and if I ever live to see the day of my death,
(and the Lord only knews whether I will or
not, my soul shall see sweet Ireland before
it leave Philadelphia.' Plain Dealer.
We heard a Frenchman once sa y to bis Val
et de Chambre: Vy you not do vat Franklin
say: You know vat him? he say; navar leave
off dis day var you vill do to-morrow.
Bait. Republican.
THE BOOT-BLACK AND THE COL
LEGE PRESIDENT.
TWO SCENES FROM REAL LIFE.
Some score of years since, the president of
a well known College in Kentucky, was one
morning, while silting in his study, astonished
by the entrance of a singular visitor.
The visitor was a boy of some seventeen
years rough and uncouth in his appearance ;
dressed in coarse homespun, with thick clum
sy shoes on his feet, an old tattered felt hat on
his head, surmounting a mass of uncombed
hair, which relieved swarthy and sun-burnt
features, marked by eyes quick and sparklirg,
but vacant and inexpressive from the want of
education. The whole appearance of the youth
was that of an untaught uncultivated piough-boy-
Qiy
The president, fi1fable and a veneiable
man, inquired inlo the business of the person
who stood before him.
'If you please sir,' said the ploughboy with
all the hesitancy of an uneducated rustic. 'If
you please, sir I'd like to get some larmn. 1
heard you had a college in these parts, and I
thought if I would work a spell for you, you
would help me now and then in gettin' an ed
ucation.' -Well, my young friend, replied the presi
dent, I scarcely can see any way in which you
might be useful to us. The request is some
thing singular
4 Why 1 can bring water, cut wood, o- black
your boots,' interrupted the boy, his eyes bright
ening in his eartnestness. 'I want to get an
education I wanMo make something of my
self. I dont keer how hard I work only so as
to git an education. I want '
He paused at a loss for words to express his
ideas. But there was a language in the ex
pressive Hp, and glancing eye; there was a lan
guage in his manner, in the tone in which the
words were spoken, that appealed at once to
the Professor's feelings.
He determined to try the sincerity of the
youth.
'I am afraid my young liiend. that I can do
nothing for you. I would likt to assist you,
but I see no way in which you can be useful
to us at present.3
The President resumed his book. In r. mo
ment he glanced at the pioug -uoy. vhc. silent
and mute, stood holding the handle of theddor.
He fingered his rough hat confusedly with one
hand his eyes were downcast, and his upper
lip quivered and trembled as though he were
endeavoring to iepress strong and sudden feel
ings of intense disappointment. The effort was
but half successful. A tear emerging from the
downcast eyelid, rolled over the sunburnt cheek
and with a quick, nervous action, the plough
boy raised his toil-hardene'd hand and brushed
away the sign of regret.
He made a well meant but awkward mark
of obeisance, and opened the door, had one
foot across the threshold, when the President
called him back.
The ploughboy was in a few minutes hired
as mau-ot-all work, and boot black to the
College.
The next scene which we give the reader,
was in a new and magnificent church, rich
with ihe beauties of architecture, and thronged
by an immense crowd, who listened in death
like stillness to the burning eloquence of the
minister of heaven who delivered the mission
of his Master from the altar.
The speaker was a man in the full glow of
middle age, of striking and impressive appear
ance, piercing intellectual eye, and high intel
ligent forehead.
Every eye is fixed on him every lip is hush
ed, and every ear,with nervous intenihy,drinks
in thn eloquent teaching of the orator.
Who in all that throng would recognize, in
the famed, the learned, the eloquent President
of College, Pennsylvania, the humble
boot black of College in Kentucky.
MELANCHOLY MISTAKES.
Among the melancholy mistakes that men
are constantly makingj may be noted the fol
lowing. Persons in trade are daily sending accounts
to debtors, most absurdly anticipating payment
of the same.
Money -diggers are exhausting their energies
endeavoring to rake up specie out of bank
vaults, instead of going more sensibly to work
hunting for needles in haystscks.
Mouths are used for eating, speaking', and
KISSING, &c, instead of distilling tobacco
jace. as nature intended.
Noses are also shamefully abused, being em.
ployed as simple heralds of surrounding odors,
instead of dust holes wherein to stow away
stuff.
People go to church, and actually sit listen
ing to the preacher, instead of taking notes a
bout new fashions and other odd matters a
round them, as food for chat and scaudal in
the evening.
Playgoers have positively given up eating
peanuts in the theatres, thereby deny ing them
selves a choice and refined luxury, just because
Theodore Fay unce said the munching was an j
annoyance. How absurd.
It is very common now-a-days for men to
imagine that estimable characters may walk
about m shabby coats, a mistake that must put
all philosophy to the blush. Picayune.
IN INCIDENT.
On merry Christmas day, at twelve o'clock,
we seized our hat and cane, and sallied foith
for a walk. As we entered Broadway, our
attention was attracted by a lovely being who
carve walking rapidly down the street. Her
face was one of angelic sweetness her form
that of a fairy her every movement full of
grace. Still there was a look of care ofansi
etv settled upon iier brow, and from the hur
ried glance we obtained, we were impressed
with the conviction that some afflictive calami
ty had fallen upon her. Her remarkable beau
ty and the singularity of her manner excited
our curiosity, not less than our admiration
and we determined to follow her.
' Swiftly she hurried on, nor stopped to look
around. As she neared St. Paul's she cast one f
hurried glance upward at the clock,and gather-
ing her shawl more closely around her,piessedf"
onward with still greater spee,d. .
Poor thing1. She was alone, and unprotected
and the rude, rude blast of winter bad no
mercy upon her frail .form. Could it bej that
one so young, so lovely,was alone in the world
without a friend or a protector? that oij mer
ry, merry Christmas,' while all around were
rejoicing in the possession of peace and plenty ,
she was excluded from participating ir the
geneial enjoyment? We sighed to think it
possible.
She turned a corner, and shortly after halt
ed in front of a store A man of rough exte
rior wasstanding at the door, and as the fair
creature approached, he regarded her with cold
hearted indifierence. She reached the stems',
and raised her soft blue eye to hisand with
a look we shall never forget a look in which,
sorrow and disappointment were sweetly,
though mournfully blended, the fair being ex
claimed, -Sam why dtd'nt you fetch along
them onions?
On such a subject, who could help shedding
tears'? N. Y. Aurora.
A Turkish Beauty, and how to procure, a
white alabaster skin. enjoyed the pleasure
this morning of being introduced ' to a very
handsome Turkish lady, in order to give mean
opportunity of witnessing a perfect specimen
of oriental beauty. After a good deal of per
suasion, she allowed me to copy her profile.
Her eyes and eye-lashes were intensely black:
though I suspect the latter were stained of a
deeper die than the natural one. Her com
plexion was beautifully fair, with the slighest
tint of carnation suffused over her cheek. Her
lips! sweet lips! that make us sigh even to have
seen such. Her glossy hair, which was hung
with a kalemkeir or painted .handkerchief, re
presenting a whole parterre of flowers, fell in
loieujJrjonJir shouldersand, down her
back, she wore a short black velvet jacket,em
broidered with gold lace; trousers of sky blue
silk; an under jacket of pink crape, and one of
those beautiful transparent shirts, which ravisli
the beholder, and 'half reveal the charms they
fain would hide.5 A magnificent Persian shawl
Encircled her waist, which had nature's own
form. Her feet were in the slippers, and two
or three ugly riags deformed her white and
slender fingers, the nails of which were died
with henni. Around her neck she wore a dou
ble row of pearls, from which hung an amulet.
Her skin was very white and beautiful; the
constant use of the dry vapor bath having re
duced it to a fineness which I can only compare
to a highly polished marble, and it looked as
glossy and as cold. She was well pleased with
the drawing I made, and on rising to go away,
she put on her yellow boots orer.the beautiful
white foot and ancle which it was asin tocon
ceal; then donning her cashmack and cloak,
she bade us adieu with a grace and elegance
which few English ladies could equal. No
Wonder the Turks sigh for Paradise, when
they believe heaven to be peopled with houris
such as these. Auldjo's Visit to ConstantU
nople.
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RALEIGH, N. C.
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