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W. WHITAKER, JR. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. VOLUME Ili-NUMBEE 35. RALEIGH, SEPTEMBER 24, 1842 SINGLE COPT, 3 "TVE COME, THE HERJ1LD OF A JYOISY WOULD. rrn tit it7 , .. lllT rm I II HI 111! IIIIIIMI A TERMS. The Rasp is published every Saturday morn iug, at One Dollar ana Fifty Cents per annum payable in advance. Any person sending us six new subscri bers, and the subscription money for one year shall receive the seventh number free ol charge for the same length oi time. .Advertisements conspicuously inserted, at the very reduced price ot b my Cents per square for Ihe first insertion, and Twenty-five Cents for each continuance. A Horse Dealer's dying advice to his son. cIn the first place then, never pay ready mo ney for a 'oss ven you can get him lor a bill ; for a bill arnt recoverable without a haction at law,an'its quite stonishin.how very few peo ple likes to get into the hands o' them lawyer chaps, 'cos they're sure to get plucked by 'em in the long run. Vonce money's paid, its gone; vereas ven a bill comes due, if so be as you means to take it up, you can make out a story o' the 'oss havin turned out badly, aV so get somethin taken off, but nobody thinks o' ie turnin money ven vonce they've put it in their pocket. Always, if you can, buy a 'oss of a gentle man in preference to a dealei; for they knows little or nothin' of 'osses, an' its the easiest thingin the world to persuade 'em as the best 'oss alive has got all sorts o5 defects, and ami worth half what they ask him; vereas a deal er's up to the dodge, and arnt to be done by no sich gammon. Ven you can manage to make a swap;alvays do so rather than pay monty, for you'll be a very poor sort of a dealer, an' I shall consider all the pains an' trouble I has taken to teach you the straight forward principles of your profession as so much lost, if by that means you dont get preciously the best o' the bargain. Varrant every thing, sound or unsound, for, as I said afore, there'e wery few people as dont prefer as unsound 'oss to a lawyer's bill. Besides 'os?es is living animals, and as sich is liable at all limes to diseases, vich in course may occur arter'you ha sold 'em. You under stand me. A varranty's the werry marrow an wirtue ol dealing. Many a gentleman vont buy the best 'oss as ever vent upon four legs vithout von, an so if they're so easily satisfied, poor things, its a pity to spoil a good bargain for vant of 'em. If you varrant a kicker quiet in harness, an' he kicks a gentleman's shay to pieces, you may take him back provided he's a good customer, but not without fust sellin him another for the same price as isnt worth more than half the money. An exchange is no robbery, all The world over. 'Ven a gentleman comes into the yard and wants to look at a ess, Samyui, take care and never shew him von tilt you have learnt vat a price he means to give. Then teil him yotri'. show him the best you've sot, and ahvnvs ht gin with the vorst, by sich means you'il - ,u see if he knows vot he's v.i. h j ' ; . always sell him a oss as you kuws v. , ; him, and say, 'if he's not to your iijimi change him for you with pleasure' laying a great stress on the ''pleasure,' mind. This looks purlite, and gentlemen calls it handsome treatment. Ven the 'oss is sent back, it '11 be your own faulf if you dont draw a little more mqrjeyyaQ' chop for vun as arnt quite so good an'so on as long as the flat will bite, you see! I've wery little more :o say to you Sarxyoi, cept that if you does the best for yourself, and the vorst for your customers, you should al ways do so purlitely. It is vonderful vot a difference it makes in a man that you've got a trifle the best of; if instead of tellin him 'you has got no remedy,aod you may do your vorst,' you say, 'I'm wery sorry indeed, st wery sor ry couldnt have thought it "oss fresh from the country knowed wery little of him take the pick of my stables, sir; or I'll buy y ou ano ther,' and so on, A gentleman as is a gentleman- then says he to hisself, 'this ere's an hon est man and no mistake musf. have been mis taken heself can behave handsome at any rate I'll recommend htm and so you,instead of getting a copy of a writ, or summut o' the kind, vy you sell auother 'ess, and has a chance of another, swap afore long. Always recollect, then Samyul, as 'civility costs nothing,' vich is about the best thing you can say,cf anything and much more than is to be said for most things in this world. 'Take your Time, Miss Lucy. Tiie Mid dletown Sentinel of last week says as 'Miss Lucy Wright, a maid of sweet sixteen, was entering the porch of St. "Stephen's Church, last Sunday, Mr. Abel Bingham, a substantial widower, stepped up to Lucy and said, Will you marry me to-day, my dear?" She blush ingly said, 'Yes, Abel, I dont care if I do.' He took her at her word, &, were married at noon. The Lincolnshire EnglandChronicle says: 'At Kirkbygreen there is now a young fowl, which regularly stumps about on a cork leg. When quite a chicken, it lost its foul in a trap, and a young lady named Wbolfit, very inge niously manufactured a leg out of a long bot tle cork. With partlet's approach to henhood, the leg has become too short, so that either the timber toe must be spliced, or a new one man ufactured. t. RIDING ON A RAIL. Frederick Johnson, alias Steamer.Lcclored.) went through the operation, last week, of sit ting on a rail. He lives on Baltimore street, West of Republican, and has the good fortune to have a wife, who though colored, maintains ari extraordinary character for sobriety, indus try, &c. Such, indeed was the energy of her character, that she purchased the frtedom of her husband soon after they were married. In spite of all this goodness, he does nothing, but drink and abuse her. This became notorious, and raised up such indignation, that a few gave 'Steamer' a considerable ride upon a rail ihe other evening. (Bait. Sun. THE JOURNEYMAN PRINTER. A mental lamp hung out by life's wayside, Unnoticed; yet his unpretending ray Shines clearly on man's intellectual ray, And proves to pilgrims an unfading guide. He hath within a worthy sort pf pride, And knot's his worth, t io' some allow it not; A heart and thinking mind, above his lot 'Monz men are his. Kis coffers ill supplied, Yet want and virture seldom ask in vain: N"? is his life exempt lrom various pain; ?re f. is;:b e rose thatfreshly bloom'd )d"s cheek assumes thehue of death ' i v. ithia him soon consumed, years and ten he yields his vital Or. h dav Tin? loquacious exultation cf anticipated success is often a powerful obstacle to its attainment. A calm at sea resembles that artificial sleep which is effected by opium in an ardent fever; the disease is suspended, but no good is deri ved from it. 'Husband, I don't know where that boy got his bad temper not from me I'm sure. No my dear for I dont perceive that you have lost any. Care to our coffin addsanail no doubt, But every grin of laughter draws one out. A NEW SONG TO AN OLD TUNE. JobniTyler. sir, my Jo John, When we were first acquaint, You did pretend to be a Whig For Harry, sir. you went ; But now you've got in power. John, The cloven foot you show A curse upon all traitors "John John Tyler, sir, ray Jo. John Tyler, sir, my Jo John, The Whig's they fought the gither, And raony a canty day, John, They had with ane aniiher ; But you have them betrayed, John, And why did you do so? A curse upon all traitors, John, John Tyler, sir, my Jo. John Tyler, sir, my Jo John, When Natue first began To try her canny hand, John, Her master work was man ; But when she turned out you, John, She swore it was 'no go ;' You proved to be but journey-work, John Tyler, sir, my Jo. John Tyler, sir, my Jo John, Why will you be a fool, You're sneaking round the Locos, John, Who use you as their tool ; They're laughing in their sleeves, John, To think that you'll Veto The only bill can save you, John, John Tyler, sir, my Jo. John Tyler, sir, my Jo John, I wonder what you mean You talk about per se1 John, And conscience for a screen; But now you're found out, John, And downward you must go And sleep wi' Matty at the fit, John Tyler, sir, my Jo. John Tyler, sir, my Jo John, The higher monkies go, The more they -show their tails, John, You know it's altvays so; Then get ye out the While House, John, And homeward do you go, And make the people happy, John, John Tyler, sir, mv Jo. WAGSTAFF. as fo slav DEATH BY VIOLENCE. On Friday, the 9th instant, Mr. WTiIliam Martin was deprived of life by his overseer, a Mr. TiLiy, near his plantation mihg northern part of this county. The reported circumstan ces cf the murder may be briefly summed up ows : Tilly was engaged, with Martin's es, in procuring some timber, and -Martin having gone out to examine the operation, some misunderstanding or altercation tookplape between,lhem, which resulted inTilly's knock-, ing Martin's brains out with the butt of a gun; No other person was present, except, the ne groes alluded to. , Tilly has been committed for trial, but says be acted in self-defence. , We. however, learn from a gentleman who arrived at the fatal spot before Mr. Martin's body was removed, that the appearance of the implement of destruction, leave a strong im pression against the perpetrator of the deed. Salem Gazette. Obadiah says that courtships should be rank ed among the deeds of brave and chivalrous men, because they are knightly acts. It is certainly the pari of prudence to trust nobody; but, whether for good or evil, God f made us all anything but prudent. A Quaker having bought a horse which proved unsound, of a man named Bacon,wroi to inform him of it, but received no answer He shortly after met the man and requested hi-rn to cake rack the beast, which the otber posiiiveH refused to do. Finding his remon strances of nu avail, the quaker calmly said, Friend, thee has doubtlessly heard of the devil entering the herd of swine,andI find that, he sticks in the Bacon. Good morning to thee, fuend. In 1819 there was a little unscrupulous news paper published in Petersburg called " The Day Light," edited by Solomon Sunshine. Mr. Sunshine on one occasion gave this toast 'My paper may the man that takes and wont pay me for it, never have money to buy a paper nor a friend to lend him one. but live as ignorant as old Growley, who never knew where Pochahontas bridge was.' WhifF. A GoloejCalf. The following excellent passage occurs in an article in Frazer's Maga zine, entitled 'Courtship and Love-making. 'I certainly blame no lady who has beeo accus tomed to ordinary elegancies of life, for re fusing to marry a poor man, but must beg my sweet friends to recollect that, though a man withoutmoney is poor,a man with nothing bu money, is poorer still.' An exchange paper has these pertinent re marks Many a man sees the poor starving around him without a sigh; and when his day of departue draws near, gives his whole sub stance to some foreign charity, which, to say the best of it,is calculated only to lay the foun dation for knowledge among a bloody, bigoted and unthankful race. Give us theliving,eyery day charity; that which springeth froni the well of the soul, and not that mean, miserable, deferred charity, which comes from the cham ber of death in weeds of mourning, and causes the heir to curse the parent for; bis liberality ere he is laid in his narrow chamber for ever A Suffering tiove. -'Oh, mother,' said a young boy, 'Mr. S does love Aunt "Lucy He sits by her, he whispers to her,and hehugi her.' 'Why, Edwaid,' exclaimed his mother 'your aunt don't sufler that does she4?' 'Suffer it .n replied the child 'yes, mother! she likes it I' CREDIBLE STORY. . A late Germanpaper gives the following credible narrative: In an imperial city, lately, a criminal was condemned, who had a singular itching to play at nine pins. While his sentence was pro nouncing he had the temerity to offer a request to play once more at his favorite game, at the place of execution, and then, hesaid,hesnouid sobrait without a murmur. As the last prayer of a dying man, his request was granled When he arrived at the solemn spot, he found every thing prepared, the pins being set up and the balls ready. He played with no little earn estness, but the sheriff at length seeing that he showed co inclinatidn to desist, privately or- dered the executioner to strike the blow as he stooped for the bowl. The executioner did so, and the head dropped into the culprit's hand as he raised himself to see what bad occcurredi He immediately aimed at the pins, conceiving that it was the bow) which be grasped. All nine falling, the head loudly exclaimed, 'I have won the game!' The Emperor Augustus inflicted pun ishment upon every citizen who was notmar rid perhaps, as is suggested by an old bach" elor, by compelling them, to get married! I
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