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THE RASP. RALEIGH, MARCH 25. ALL Letters to the Editors must come FREE of 9C5- Mr. J Ames S. Stiles, is our authorised Trav elling Agent, for this State, to receive subscribers and give receipts. We do not know, personally, the nin nyhammer of the Shullz-ville Journal ; but, enough is to be gleaned from H's sheet of the auui insi. 10 convince us ot His stupidity and the world of his blackguardism. In attempt ing to be witty at the expense of others, our selves among the number, he displays in bold relief, his own contemptible character, with out even scathing those against whom, he lev els his battery ot vulgar railery. His fustian on paper, sounds so much like the gasconade of a street loafer, that we know of no epithet suitable for him. As to "rustling out change" for any story he' can write, it is idle for us to think about iV-If HE can wntehis name, it is more than would be expected from the com position he has dedicated to us. GO IT LITTLE 'UN. A chap about eight years old lately stepped into one of our oyster houses, chewing his quid like en old tar, and squirting his tobacco juice in very direction. Strutting up to a ta ble where a gentleman was indulging in a dish of boiled eggs, he said, 'stranger, I'll take a lttle of that salt.' 'What do you want with it?' enquired the gentleman. 'To eat with one of VOlir eT!S ' 'Well, mv little char whn'c J J J w - w V mm J II M A V your father?' 'My father! why he is thegieat est man in the county; he can whip all the bul lies, and mamma can lick him just as slick as that,' said the chap, who suiting the action to the word, gulphed down the gentleman's glass of beer. His mamma knew he was out. No danger of his starving in a free country. This is the boy who stopped at our office door and called out to Zeke: 'Mister, can't you give me a drink of water? I am so hungry, I dont just know where I shall sleep to-night!' DEEDS OF CHARITY. There is no cloak under which a hypocrite may pass unscathed with better success than the cloak of Charity. Charity, we are told by divines, is one of the great ingredients that constitute religion; hence it is, that the man, who, lor the sake of popularity, practices char ity to such an extent. In our devoted City, there are a great many of the charitable order, who believe it an honor to do good, by giving unto the poor, but as to paying their honest debts, they are strangers. What think you of the conduct of that man, who will neglect his home and leave his domestic concerns to suf fer, in order to practice the game of charity a broad? 'Charity should first begin at home,' and then after the wants of your family are all supplied, if there be any thing surplus, "it will appear good in the sight of the Lord, to give it to the poor. Q,uere? How long, and will that destitute woman, living on gallows hill, want another load of wood? SC We have had some beautiful nights, during the present and past weeks ; and we have'heard some excellent serenade music. The music on Friday night of last week, was first rate. Our ydung men know how to ap preciate apleasant season, and there is nothing more charming to the fair sex, than to be a roused from their midnight slumbers, by the soft notes ofthe German FIute,and the screak ing of sdme welltuned violin ! ! We've just made bad, worse! . . No Go! The man ofthe Rasp, at Raleigh, N. C. challenges as to an argument about the greatest morality and so forth, of his town and our place. We knocks under to him in that particular. Raleigh can rally more temperate and good folks than Hamburg, beyond a doubt no dis pute. So we does'nt bite at that bate, friend fVhitaker. Go it on the egg or owl line, and we'll be into ydu light ofi ! Hamburg Journal. That's what we would call an acknowedg- ment of incompetency. We expected from the! tone of your "6ae" paper on former occasions, that you were fish enough to catch at any bail, even if it had been a pin hook baited with a grub worm. Well, if you can't, we must ex excuse you, provided, you promise to let the hen's nest keep their own. But, friend Yar borough, as you took us to task not long since, for the appearance of a typographical error in our columns, allow us to ask you, if the word 'bate' don't mean, according to Walker, 'to les sen, retrench, sink the pr;ce, remit.' Now, if you ildoesnV feel bad, then we give you over as a child lost to all sensibility. THE RASP WONDERS If a certain benevolent man continues to fur nish ihe destitute female on gallows hill with wood and if he is good enough to have it cut up. Whether the stinking fish have been taken out of a certain grocer's cellar. If Hard Scrabble has'nt become a remarka ble place. Why Mr. Blusterer dont write a speech of some sense and commit it to memory, and quit his attempts at extemporising. What two young men those were, who ex extended their walk beyond Mount Misery last Sabbath. If it is lawful for any person to erect a Shuf fle Board within the corporated Iimils of the City. A LOVE-LETTER. The following letter was handed to us by a gentleuaan, who says that it is a true copy of the original. Be that as it may, when we read the precious billet deux, we wept like a Go liah when Sampson talked of cow-hiding him. If there is a young man who can read it without doing likewise, let him come to us, and we'll throw in his eyes a handfull of red pepper. this Septender the 1849. North Carolina My Dear Sir lean in form you on thhe first we cold not Read your Letter but we under stand A Little of it so we Must Rite from the few words that I under stand And some that I O to you, Deer Belove I can inform you that I Red your Letter with Joy deer belove I am at a Lost jo Rite to you With out I cold of un der stood the Hole of your letter but I will rite to you that i do love you better than I everdid der belove My tong can not Exspres the love I O to you. deer belove you Role to Me that wold ful fill yo.ur promis, deer belove I wont you to Come down and see Me as sune as you Can for I cannot Rite to you haf as good as I cold tork to you. , Deer Belove I call you deer belove Bekaus I love you Sore good deer belove I do not want you to De Ceave me if you do it will Near about Brek my hart And so may God Bless you. Dier belove 1 am not A sham for I love you So Well I dont uo When to Stop Riting To you deer belove you sed something a bout my sister gitting mared but when she get marred you shall no it, But that is all a folly deer be love I love you so well that I cannot sleep for thinkin of you of a night when this you see remember me tho many miles We disdunt be. And deer belove I dreme a bout you every nite of my life and I dont want you to deceave me if you please so God bless you, Notice Been thare is one thing I had for gottiogjhat is xkuse my bad Rite ing. Cr VVe would direct the attention of the reader to the advertisement of the "Lady's World of Fashion," We have not seen a No. ofthe work yet, but those of our brethren who have, speak in glowing terms of its worth. The editors will please send us the March No. of the work. ? - Ctr" We would also call attention to 'Nich ols' Weekly Arena.' ilr We must decline the publication of the Machine Poetry from Newbern. t, We have received in the file of our exchange papers, a spirited little paper from Raleigh, N. C. called trie Rasp- It has about the keenest edge of any paper we have lately seen. Selma Ala. Free Press. fd3 The woman who was burned in Pitts burgh by her husband, has since died. He has been committed to prison to await his trial for murder. The press of matter this week, has crowded Uncle Hal. out until our next. f'l'm even mi7y-er than Sampson," as the man said wbenhe stuffed a chunckof animat ed cheese in his mouth. 'lEf The lobster-jawed looking chap, living at No. , main street, never borrowed a news paper from his neighbor no, neyer. He's a soft one. 'We're growing old,' as the beau said to his betrothed, after a courtship of twenty years. There is a man in this city who is so far gone that his own wife can't see him. 'What assurance,' said a lady yesterday to a nurse, who was slapping her child, ,Yes madam.' said the nurse, (who goes to the thea tre sometimes,) 1 am like Lady Gay Spanker about now.' 'Grand ma,'said a little girl with rosy cheeks to an elderly dame, 'whatmakes it thunder and lighten?' 'Well, my darlin', I 'spect the light from the blessed sun gits lodged in the clouds, and when a snag on't gits together, it gits afire and busts. The streaks that fly out is the lightnin', and the bustin' is the thunder.' The editor of the Boston Post says, he don't know why ladies wear false bosoms, unless it is to cheat the children poor things. Why is a drunken fellow supporting him self against the wall of a house like the law for the protection of carpenters and masons? Because he is a lean on the building. 'Well, my dear, what is it?' 'Didn't you tell me this world was roundV 'Yes.' 'Then I'd like to know how it can come to an ends 'My child, how often must I tell you not to talk when vou are eating?' There is a shoemakei's sign in New York, bearing the following inscription: "Second handed boots made and repaired." Why, upon the spirit of retaliation, should you pick the pockets of a man who has paint ings for sale ? Because he has pt"cfMres3 (pick ed yours!) 'Bobby, what is steam?' 'Boiling water.' 'That's right; compare it.' 'Positive, boil; comparative, boiler; superlative, burst.' 'Dick, when does a man feel like a monarch?' 'Like a monarch?' ;Yes, a monarch.' (Dick scratched his head.) 'When he's a-ching, (a king,) you gudgeon. A Judge once said in a court of law, 'Keep silence there! it is very strange one cannot have silencel Here we have been deciding Gcid knows how many cases, and have not heard one word of them.' 'Why don't you hit one of your own size?' as the tenpenny nail said to the sledge hammer. 'You're too hard upon me,' as the corn said to the tight boot. 'Ccrne in out ofthe wet,' as the shark -said when he swallowed the nigger boy Which are the worst of all waiters? Hag-gra-waiters, (aggravators.) " " Why is a manf cogitating mischief like the devil when half starved ! Because he's a thin king of evil. 'You are a great deal too fast, as the stage coach said to the steam engine. "And thatTt(Raleigh) contains some of the prettiest misses, is Ta ".fact that we can establish by making an appeal to brother Wiley of the Oxford Merc ury. i?ap. You are at liberty to bring us to the witness stand at'any timV. v We can .really swear and we havesome 'experience in? the3e'mattersthai to the "best of ouV kno wledge and belief there 'are some as handsome, sweet; amiable and in telligent Jaaeirflndiofpaksas'are to be found any where: and we further depose that the aforesaid ladies have made a deep impres sion on our hearts, and the, image of their sweet faces is engraven on our memory in fade less hues. It may perhaps, be considered a weakness in us to be too fond an admirer of beauty; for our own part we think ' differently and we can, when called on, demonstrate, to the satisfaction of any intelligent man, that he who has no relish for the enjoyment of female society," "Is ready for treason, stratagems and spoils. The motions of his soul are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus." Our chief happiness consists in the contem plation of beauty; at the head of all beautiful objects, the ladies shine forth incomparable and pre-eminent, and at the head of the ladies are ranked the fair daughters of Carolina,and chief among these are the sweet gills of Granville and Raleigh. God knows we love them, and we intend to tell them so. We will do it by word of mouth in Raleigh some of these times, Oxford Mercury. The Christmas Bonnets. A city maid-of all work, having bought a new bonnete with her 'Christmas boxes,' resolved to wear the same on her next 'Sunday out,' and asked the servant next door to accompany her, as some protection from persons in the street, who in variably noticed any new gear she chanced to wear. Accordingly, the two girls set out for St. Paul's, where, chancing to enter at the moment the choir were singing the Hallelujah chorus, the girl in ther new bonnet darted out ofthe church, crying to her fiiend: 'I told you how it would be they were all crying out to me 'hardly knew you!' (Hallelujah!) 'hardly knew you!' (Hallelujah!)' 'You don't pass here,' as the counter said to the bad shilling. 'Pitt's full,' as the Earl of Chatham said after dinner. 'Your pen wants mending,' as the shepherd said to the stray sheep. MARRIED In Christ Church, in this City, on Tuesday morning last, by the Rev. R. S. Mason, D. D. Peter Hines, Esq. of Edgecomb, to Miss Em ma J. Snow. In this county, on Wednesday evening last, 16th inst. by Thomas Hicks. Esq. Mr.John Gill to Miss Sarah Hicks, daughter of John Hicks, Esq. In Wake county on Thursday the 17th inst. by the Rev. P. W. Dowd, Mr. John Stuart to Miss Martha M. Brown, daughter of Henry Brown, Esq. P O S TSCR1PT. Edward D. Martin, who wa$ convicted of Murder, at the late term of Richmond Superi or Court, escaped from the County jail, in Rockinghau, on the nigbt of the 19th inst. Gov. Morehead has issued his proclamation, offering a reward of $200 for his apprehension. A. NICHOLSON, Architect and House Carpenter, RALEIGH, N. C. FFERS his services to jjie Citizens of Raleigh, and the suirounding Country, on terms, to correspond with the hardness ofthe times. He flatters, himself, that, in every branch ol his business, he will be enabled to give entire satisfaction. - March 25, 1S42. 9 tf. NOTICE. The subscriber would respect fully inform the citizens of Raleigh, that he has taken a room in the two-story bouse on the corner west of the Bank ofthe State, where he is prepared to make and repair coarse shoes online most liberal terms. WM. D. PATTERSON. Raleigh, March 25. 9 3t
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