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FOR THE FREE TRESS. SONG. Ttttff Boblin Jones. When me tittle boy , Den me come from Guinny, Buckra man steal me Bring me to Virginy. Dare me very much work, Great big fence rails toty, British man he come, Give me fine red coty. Hi te rolde da, &c. Captain money give, Very much I tank he, But he soger man C?I1 me dam black yankee; Admiral clever, good, Give me pork and beny, I go long wid him, For to take New-Orleany. Hi te rol de da, &c. When we come ashore, Great big gun we shooty, For make yankee run, Den we get de booty; But dese backwood yankee He no much good nature, He swear he one half horse An' half an alligator. Hi te rol de da, &c. Gincral now much swear, Made de mortar tunder, Old Hickory man for scare, Den we get de plunder; Den wid de pritty gals, We have plenty tunny, Bui old Hickory man De debble a step he runny. Hi te rol de da, fee. Gineral now get mad, Call yankee son a bitchy, Yankee he no care, He dig one great big ditchy; And when de British man ' He go up for stormy, How de yankee shoot he O Lor, have massy on me. Hi te rol de da, &c. Gineral all get kill, Yankee man he shoot he, He give rifle pill, Dis no very good booty; Den de Colonel stamp, Swear like de nation, Dis de debble a way, Make one demonstration. Hi te rol de da, &c. Black man all come off. Much white man lay behindy, Some git good deal hurt, Some dey no could finely; Cuffee dcy bring here, Make sugar in Jamaica, Me wish me was at home, Eating nice hoe-caka. Hite rolde da, Sec. What part of speecji is a Kiss? Said Anna's young suitor, ."a kiss is a noun, But tell me if common or jiroier," he cried; With a cheek full of blushes, and eye-lids cast down, MTis both common and firofier fair Anna replied. TffTTTfr iff i New-York is the empire of aooiuuu. n gives ton to the Con tinent in the cut of coats and the pleasures of the table, as gay and chivalnc France does to the king doms of Europe. From Sandy Hook to Niagara, we are constant ly in a commotion of delight. Ev ery day of the week, find OVrvr veek of the year, the bubbles of iasnion rise in Morv. shirm n moments in splendor, and then uurauug, give place tor other and newer bubbles. We Imvo heat, cold, rain, music, dancing ana soaa water, than any other fctate in the Union. From the south, from the north, from the east, tne weary pilgrim turns hi horse's head to his native moun tains. Fresh from her rice plan tations, the Georgian beauty skin, like a sylph through the cotilli Pt Saratoga and Ballston, and makes the eyes of the Vcrmont'er sparkle with delight and amuse ment. The Carolinian fills our steamers with the most graceful indolence, and th Virginians climb our mountains in cxtacy. From the ultima thule of the Bri tish provinces, the holy bishops, and pious priests of the royal I I . ... ! . A cuurcii pilgnmagu n 10 our great water drinking state. The ninety-ninth removes from royal blood cannot withstand the fascinations of our mountains, our lakes, our rivers, our cities and our steam ers. The Catskill mountains as tonish the Pine Orchard enrap tures Saratoga fills them with water and wonder and Niagara kills them outright. It is but a stop 4o Liverpool. Who should 1 1 L I iV I I . I Tread Wheel An Irishman, who, sometime ago was commit ted to Knotsford house of correc tion for misdemeanor, and senten ced to work on the tread wheel for the space of a month, observ ed, at the expiration of his task: "What a grate dale of fatigue and pothcration it would have saved us poor craters if they had but in vented it to go by stame like all other water mills; for d -1 burn me, if I have not been after go ing up stairs this four weeks, but but never could reach the cham ber door at all, at all." An old culprit was lately car ried before a Justice. The con stable previously informed his wnrshin that he had in hiscustndv iiuvijjuu.. nv uinu.v. " - J wonder if the very fashionable ofj John Long, alias Jones, alias London itself should turn their Smith. "Very well," said the magistrate "I'll try the two wo men first; so bring in Alice Jones. longing eyes to the novelties of the new world! remaps a lew years will fill our rivers, cover our mountains, and delight our Sara toga with the exquisites of Bond- street, or loungers of Pail-Mall. 1 here is no place like New-York on the face of this globe, and that's the piain truth. Noah. Curious anomaly in Nature. About a fortnight ncro. a hrm whn was laying, and a bitch with three! Peace. j w . . . ipups, occupied the two corners oh a cupboard, at the house ot Mr. Hill, Sherwood street. The hen took a fancy to the puppies, and made several attempts to drive elbowed his way. into the ring, with an old rusty Queen Anne's firelock in one hand, and a card of rye ginger-bread in the other, and after picking his teeth with his bayonet, and wiping his face on something that served as an apo logy for a coat sleevejjaddressed one of the company thus: "htell you what it is, Corporal Cowan, I grant that Morse can beat Bur nam in drumming on training tunes, butwhen you come to the real sentimental, i tell you, Cor poral, (and he spoke the words with great emphasis) Tom Bur nam can drum Ben Morse's shirt tail offTJ Appointment. A Miss Marga ret Walters lias been appointed yost-mistress at Lewistown, Penn sylvania, in place of Jacob Wal ters, dee'd. Jt is not long since we announced the appointment of a young lady as constable. W expect soon to see some buxom Miss appointed Justice of the Ovilim. Dr. Rnnsn. n rnsnnr- I 7 " " I I I table physician of New-York, in-the mother away from her ofF- a work recently published states' spring. When the puppies were a fact well known to the faculty, about a week old, the bitch died; that hundreds of females in our large cities are in the daily use of taking opium. "This is neither more nor less than a fashionable; way of getting drunk, and ought to be frowned upon by every hus band and father." Cure for the Asue and Fever. Take half an ounce of cloves, half ounce of cream tartar, and one ounce of Peruvian bark, well pul verized; put them into a bottle of best port wine, tind take the de coction or tincture on the well days, as fast as the stomach willjwcntto sleep, and so completely $10 Reward. RAN AWAY on the even- ing oi the 13th inst. a nesrro woman, named A .l I i ,:i 1 II rn I ! . , n.wl tl,n ; i: i i. ",,u "ei iMiJcri i annua is about iu .w u.ui au .j luifcuuiv 5 feet o or 3 inches high dark ow her eggs, and look the young complexion, stout made, common head progeny under her protection, at- of hair, and about 20 years of age. Her tending them with the same care.cm,d is black, 9 or 10 months of age and that she would a brood of chick- iver Hke,y- Tabiiha had on when she ens, gathering them under hcrT1, whIle1abc JrcsShepotIier i , clothes not recollected. 1 purchased her wings, clucking about them, and of John Crowdl, of Halifax, N. C. guarding them from harm. We miles south of Halifax town. The above saw the groupe yesterday, and it: reward of Ten Dollars, and all necessary certainly presented a curious spec- fxpences, will be paid by the Subscriber tacle; the little whelos played ' for the delivery of said negroes, or if se- rouud the old bird, who seemed cured inAjny JVl1 80 Uf IuSeVh?.n! ,.,.;. tl. 1 . . . . , again. All persons are, hereby forb d mightily pleased with their tricks. Z-u;nn. ri.- . ... , ' "''' wjius uu, ur employing and, alter lapping some milk, they said negroeSuuderthe penalty of the law. ipnuiiy goi unuer tne leathers ana receive it. iV. Y. Ec. Post. Courting. A country Doctor. of homelv breeding, conrtpd n brisk girl, the daughter of a far mer in Connecticut, who was per suaded by her father to marry I'll- mm, ne having a pretty good es tate. Accordingly, tlm dnv wm appointed. But shortly after, spy ing a mare on which the old man used lo ride, and which for her easy gait was much esteemed, he. the Doctor, desired to have her given in to complete his matrimo nial bargain; but being refused. he flung away in a hulK and told the father he might keep his daughter. The irirl was dnlio-ht. ed with this rupture: but soon af ter, the Doctor repented of his lolly, and came again to see her, when she was at home alone. She pretended to have no knowl edge ot him. "Why it is strange " said he, "that you should so soon torget me 1 am your old admi rer, the Doctor." "I cry you mer cy, sir," replied she, "I do remem ber me of such a person; you are the gentleman who came wooinn my father's gray mare. Your mistress is grazing in the orchard, and you may make your address es to her if you please." It is scarcely necessary to add, that this repartee so dashed him, that he never had the face to speak to uer uuerwarus. does the hen cover them, that neither of them was to be seen. London Paper. tJJD J 1 1 71 T T T T 71 T T T r rerson County, N. C. ) Sept. 15, 1S2S. 5 6-4 Notice. TUT C i . , .. ,, r t ci a . i w uummuieu lo tne .Jail ot lia i Judiciary System m Algiers.- fax county, on the nth inst. a run Whenever the Judges are euibar-;auay negro sirl, small size, dark com rassed by contradictory deposi-'plexion,agedabout lSor20years,named dons, a speedy termination is put L YD LI. to the trial, by a general bastinado who says she helon-s toWm. Prince, of administered on the spot to theiSoutnamPlo county. Va. and thai she plaintiff, the defendant, the i;minJwas s,0,cn from said Prince bv his bro ther Littleton Prince, from whom. she made her escape. The owner is re quested to come forward, prove proper ty, pay charges and take said negro away, or she will be dealt with as the law directs. J. II. SIMMONS, Jailer. Halifax, 24th July, 1S2S. 50 plaintiff, the defendant, the coun sel, and the witnesses, Thoughts. The editor of the Middlesex Gazette, alluding to the style of some brother editor, remarks, "His thoughts are like a bag of feathers in a whirlwind, no two moving in the same direction. Figure of Speech. At a train ing in one of the northern coun ties of New-York, several vf:ir since, the professional merits ofi spare made Bay Horse, Morse, drum major, and a very uncertain Ton Burnam, a candi date for the same office, were dis cussed very freely by the soldiers, over a pint tumbler of blue ruin, at u cake and beer shantee, just without the centryrj Some main tained that Burnam was the best musician; others again that Morse had not his superior "in the six counties;" when (a long, lantern jaw'd, freckled-faced chap, stand- .nig some six leet tour inches, I without either shoes or stockings. is 3 Notice. STRAYED from the Sub scriber, at Greenville, Pitt county, on Friday, 5th inst. Blaze face, one of his hind feet white and when travelling drags his hind feet con siderably. Said horse broke his bridle and went off with the saddle on him he was btought from Tennessee last fall, and it is supposed he will make his way in that direction. Any person taking up said .horse and notifying the Subscriber therof, or delivering the horse to him in Pitt county, eleven miles east of Green ville, shall be suitably rewarded. . JJiMES M. DANIEL. ept. 9, 1S2S. 4-3 Blank hills of Sale for Slaves, Sold under Execution, for Sale, AT THIS OFFICE.
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