THE RASP.
RALEIGH, SEPTEMBER 10.
LZr Letters to the Editor must come FREE of
POSTAGE.
tX" The arrival of the Cars, ia ihis City,
has been changed to 12 o'clock, instead of 5
o'clock.
Edr" For first lime, we looked lipon the
Hon. Juhn C. Calijoun, as he sat m the Me
thodist Church in this City, last Sabbath morn
ing. He is not the man represented by the
various painters. They make him too young.
He looks to be about 60, with a high forehead,
and piercing eye an eye, that seems always
uneasy, and looking aftef something, it can't
find. As a gentleman truely remarked, "them
that sees Calhoun's eyes once, will recollect
them." J
SCENE IN OUR.OFPICE.
Enter Abraham. 'I see 'walk in' on your
office door, and I'm come to beg you oui'n the
last Rasp.' .
Editor. 'Well, sir. Bui you ought to sub
scribe; the terms are trifling.'
Abraham. :I ought, that's a fact; but I take
one paper, and can't afford to take another.'
He takes the paper handed him byZ9ke,and
lakes a drink cf water, and leaVes the Office.)
How absurd this expression, UI can't afford
to take another," when in the very act of re
ceiving another. To beg a paper from the
printer, is preying, vulture like, upon the very
vitals of the Editors family. We pay nearly
three cents per sheet, for every paper we print,
independent of the amount paid the composi
tor for preparing the type, and, yet, we find
those, who "Come to beg the last Rasp."
"What would the man think, who 'begs us' for
a Rasp, w?fe we to ask him to giveus a dozen
eggs, or a peck of potatoes? Why, he would
say, "that man is a fool ! Do you 'spose I
bring iry produce to market to give away!"
The same case with us: do you suppose we
print our paper to give away!
How do've dew these are times boys, any
how! Philadelphia Tom $ Jerry.
Of Jemiriy cheese wax ! Tom,,teil Jerry
we don't cuat all ! at all ! Our Bill's afflict
ed with the hump of awfulness, and we'll e
everlasting squeezed in a mouses' paw, if he
ain't as cross as two sticks. Thai's how we
dew!
We have received several Nos. of the
Wasp, a Mormon paper, printed in Nauvoo
City, Illinois. We pronounce it a lame con
cern, and its followers will go down to Davie
Jones', one of these days, like a streak of grea
sed lightning.
OUR STATE HOUSE.
This is one of the most magnificent build
ings in the Southern States. In fact,we doubt
whether there is one in the United States, to
equal it, unless it be the Capital at Washing
ton City. Thousands of persons have ascen
ded to the lop of our State House,to get a view
of the City below, which is a beautiful sight.
Every stranger who comes to the City, "goes
up," in order "to se what he can see ;w and,
not unfrequenily, we have been amused at the
odd expressions which is made by some who
have never seen 'the like.' A tew days ago,a
gentleman from the backwoods, ascended to
.the top, and took a peep over the precipice,and
immediately threw himself back on the house,
exclaiming, that it was so far down, that it
drew his toe nail off, and, had lie not fallen
tack, wouldliavc drawn his nepk out of his
shoulders.
WHO SAID SO?
: That Mollv wa3 going to be married
soon? WTe hain'teen the wedding prepara
tions moving about. vGuess its all fudge. She
wouldn't have that ugly critter !
t3'1?aul Pry House seems to be closed.
Hallo! Bob! For the want of Cash custom!
Credit custom, too much for these times. '
I4UCY LONG.
Negro Extravaganzas, seem now to be the
order of the day,-with newspapers. A week
or two ago, we published a song,entitled "Lu
cy Long;" but' we have been furnished by a
correspondent with a second Lucy Long. We
give it below Let 1 1 pass for what it's worth:
Miss Lucy she got meiry,
'And then she.sung a song,
And all the people standing by,
Said, go it Lucy Long!
Oh! take your time, Miss Lucy,
Oh! take-your time, Miss Lucy.
Go it! Lucy Long.
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If I had'jt scolding wife, ?
I'd lick her sure as she born,
I'd take hei down to the River side,
And trade her off for corn.
Take your time, Miss Lucy, Scc.
Miss Lucy she was rank and tall,
Six feet without her slipperSj
A most outrageous arm with all,
And a monstrous pair ofgrippers. .
Take your time, Miss Lucy, &c.
Her poor old dad is dead and gone,
The Lord afone knows where,
Aloft, the pious people pray,
Although he used to swear.
Take your time, Miss Lucy, &c.
When lovers found all common speech, .
Unfortunately wrong,
Imploringly, they then beseech,
In the name of Lucy Long.
Take ycur time Miss Lucy, &c.
They seldom failed in their success,
A smile was the reply,
The lady felt inclined to bless,
And breathed a willing sigh.
Take your time, Miss Lucy, &c.
It seemed a charm was in the name,
'Twas on each beings tongue,
The populace became insane,
Regarding Lucy Long,
Take your time,. Miss Lucy, &c.
A SUBSCRIBER.
SLEEPING BY THE WHOLESALE.
A curious kind of a fellow, whose name we
can'f exactly recollect, from some cause un
known, had been robbed of sleep, for eleven
nights in succession. He at length determined
to make up for "lost lime," and accordingly',
' put up,' at a tavern, and rented a room with
eleven beds in it. After the night had clever
ly shut the light in, a company of gentlemen,
who were travelling, called at the tavern for
lodgings, but the good lady of the house, told
them that she could not adcommodate them,
that, true, she had eleven beds in one room,
but, one man occupied the whole. This be
ing the case, the travelling party said they
must be entertained,and accordingly proceeded
to the chamber door of eleven beds,and rapped;
no answer was returned. They essayed to
open the door; it was locked. They shouted
aloud, but received no replyi At last, driven
to desperation, they determined upon bursting
open the door. They had no sooner done so,
than they discovered every bedstead empty and
all the eleven beds, piled up in the centre of
the room, with the traveller sound Asleep on
their top. They aroused him with some diffi
culty, and demanded what in the world he
wanted of all those beds !
'Why, look here,' said he, 'strangers, I aint
had no sleep these here eleven nights, so I just
hired eleven beds, to get rested all at once and
make up what I have lost. I calculate to do
up a considerable mess of sleeping I've hired i
all these beds and paid for them and, hang me,
if I don't mean to have eleven nights sleep out
on 'em before morning !'
We will present our readers with quite.a
comic cut, nexf week.
fO"" There is small chap in these diggias',
who trietl to commit SucA. Side, by sending
a cortstable after a poor debtor. Del laf
53" e haye seen in our time, mad dogs,
mad bulls, and mad brtites,of almost everynlU
cription. bdt have nevVr; "seen a real red eyed
mad nigger. They are always sullen, but
never mad.
WOOD ENGRAVING.
Those of our brethren of the press in North
Carolina, who may want cuts of characters,
can I ave their orders executed at the Rasp, on
moderate terms. They will of course send a
pencil drawing ot what they order.
JCf5 "From the solesoi jour head to the
croiwn ol your feet," blazed away a preacher,
with all the sincerity, as if he had "burnt his
shirt," sure enobgh.
We know a set of honest (?Tellows,
who live oft of what they make at the farro
table. You'd better 'hook,' at once.
DonH Believe Flying Reports!"
MADAM RUMOR SAYS,
That the little man without whiskers, don't
owe as large an amount now, that he did last
year, this time, for liquor. Cause Vy ? He
has joined the Temperance Society.
That our town commissioners have attended
to the streets pretty weU, the present year.
That the public School House, in the Wes
ern Ward, is a specimen of some mens' libe
rality. A certainstreet,in theCiiy of Raleigh, though
new, aud the establishments all ''doiag a good
business," the keepers, can't raise 30 on the
row.
That the Coffee House will do a good busi
ness this winter. Cause Vy? Joe says he'll
have the fixins' there.
That C.Jordan, who left Boon Hill, John
ston, without paying for his Rasp, is driving
the Stage down in Craven County. Jordan,
consider well, and pay the printer.
If Martha don't quit casting sheeps'
eyes at at our boy Zeke, we'll insist on her
explaining.
That somebody took 17 pills at one' time!
Who was it?
WONDERS.
RALEIGH.
What young man it was that remarked in
the presence of certain young ladies, that the
young men abou Ralejgh were in ihe habit ot
eating dirt, old pipes, &c.
Wonder he ai'nt the same chap that wanted
huckleberry syrup in a glass of Soda? What
a green chap, O, crackee! ,
Wonder wtat young buck it was that cut
sich a swell out in the Forest, not long since?
Wonder if a certain man dont think it great
ly preferable to receive a shaving ia Billy
Holmes' new brick shop, than to sweat over a
hard french lesson?
What those young men ride up Hillsboro'
Street every Sunday evening f0i?
GREENSBORO.'
Who it was that went to Salisbury and pass
ed himself off for a young lawyer?
Who went with him, and said he was his
employers partner?
What two chaps looked so" bad in church
the other night, after the pieacher reproached
them for their misconduci?
Who $aidto a ypung lady, the dew would
be aocle deep loathe morning?
Whosaid he saw the 'star girl' at Salem?
Who went out on patrol, and got licked by
a big -?
Who said, the Rasp is like a setinel,always
on the look out? Guess he's been filed!
BUCKHORN.
'If that quack has not acknowledged the or"
igin of the charcoal darkey?
If that old 1 y has abstained from telling
falsehoods? . t
What knock-kneed worthy it is in Piltsboro'
who pretends to hate the Rasp, and yet bor
rows it to the great inconvenience of its sub-
scribers.
Go-Between. There is perhaps, not a more
odious character in the world than that of a
go-between- by which, I mean that creature
who carries to the ear of a neighbor every in
jurious observation that happens to drop from
r the mouth of another. Such a person is a slan
derer's herald, and is altogether more odious
than the black venomed slanderer himself.
Brother Rasp,you have in your CofleeHouse
advertisement, the words Hnterleciual fodder .'
What in the name of Johnson and Walker, is
the meaning of that phrase? Speak,we conjure
heel-r Richmond Aurora,
Well; pick thy ears, O! ninyhammer! We
mean, jus1! such fodder as the Assof the Auro
ra is used to feed on. Any thiog more?
Cukious. DEBT are the initials of Dua
Every Body Twice.' CREDIT are the ini
tials of 'Call Regularly Every Day; I'll Trust.
'Here's health to all good 'lasses, as the
boy said when be licked a stick he bad plung
ed by mistake into a barrel of sperm oil.
A down-easier has invented a patent um
brella, with a 'gutter aound the edge, whteh,
causes the rain to run off at one point.
Id3 Wonder.who it is that sends across the
garden to borrow the Rasp 'i Thai'3 a smalt
trick for the purse proud to be guilty, of.
Wonder who it is that 'wont suffer' the same
paper to be earned to their house,but obtiins it
through a poor ignorant negro man? We are
acquainted with yout names.
flF Single copies of thp Rasp may be had
at the counter of Mr. J. R. Whitakeb.
The Milton Chronicle has completed
its first volume; and the editor says, he has ac
tually cleared six and a quarter cents !
(Roods! Goods!"
IN addition to what I have already advertis
ed, I am now receiving the following arti
cles: f
1 Bbl. brown Sugar, superior quality.
1 Bbl. do. do. common.
Spiders with Lids,
Trace Chains polished,
Gimblets Bolt hinges,
Kncb locks Carpenters dc.
Pad Locks Wire Sieveters, finest,
Wood Screws Patent Shoethread, ; t ,
Large assortment cheap Cups and Saucers
Liverpool do do
Pitchers and Bowls,
Calicoes, verious qualities,
Large lot Cotton Bagging, best qual.
I shall keep constantly on hand, a good as
sortment of the above articles.
Sept. 10. J. R. WH1TAKER.
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